<p>Maybe we’re talking about outliers on both ends? Because I certainly go to class dressed, and am always there on time, and it takes all of 2 minutes to get there from my dorm. (I think Freshman get bad reputations for going a little extra-wild being away from home for the first time)
But occasionally I feel different from my boyfriend because he lives at home. But less mature isn’t even the right term I’d give it. We just haven’t had the same experience of being away from home yet. His mom still feeds him and does his laundry and he hasn’t had to grapple with a lot of the problems that being away from home shoves in your face. So he’s not emotionally less mature at all, we’re just in different social stages of moving into adulthood? This was especially frustrating for the first month, when I was having so many problems and issues that went along with being away from my family, and having the whole idea of home disappear, but he had no way of understanding what I felt.</p>
<p>So yeah, it’s not that people think those who live at home during college are less “grown-up,” at all, it’s just that we lack the immediate shared experience of living away from home, maybe?</p>
<p>I hope none of this came off as condescending, I’m just trying to think out loud about why it might be the case?</p>