1. You are generously awarded with no new privileges.

2. For yet another year, you are forced to inform others that you are still unfortunately a teen.

3. Those beautiful, inspiring articles about “how to make your 20’s awesome” or “10 places to travel in your 20’s” don’t apply to you.

4. You never know if you’re supposed to shop in the juniors or women’s section…so you have to bounce between both.

5. At 15 you got your permit, at 16 your license, and at 18 the gift of calling yourself an ‘adult.’ At 19, you get nothing.

6. You are still two looonnngggg years away from being 21.

7. When you ask your parents for more freedom (maybe a trip to Mexico with your friends?) they can use the “you're still just a teenager" excuse.

8. You don’t really get to grow up until you reach the milestone 20 age point.

9. Surrounded by 20+-year-olds in college, you are pretty much always considered a young grasshopper.

10. Your 20’s are full of endless possibilities and unexplored territory – you have already been-there-done-that with your teenage years.

11. Your 19th year of birth is hardly noteworthy.

“OMG Happy Birthday! How old are you?”

“Thanks! “I’m 19!.”

“….oh.”

12. But on the bright side, you are able to go clubbing in Canada! Ohhhhhh Canada – thanks, but no thanks.

13. People will assume you’re older than you are, and when you finally break the news you are only 19, you are forced to listen to, “Awww, you’re such a baby! How cute!”

14. Being trapped in the teens is holding you back from your innate, true potential.

15. As a super young adult but wizened and experienced teen, you’re just an awkward individual.

16. You’ve got 99 problems, and being stuck at 19 has to be one of them.

17. You keep finding yourself crushing on elders - probably based on your subconscious desire to join their ranks.

18. Your next birthday is 20, which similar to this coming of age, is benefit-free.

19. You have to remind yourself everyday that life is short and that each day spent being 19 can be just amazing as the days to come.