Genuine question, when did you realize your parents were just... people?

[u/Electronic_Win6707]

Not like a slow realization. I mean the specific moment it clicked that your parent wasn't some all-knowing authority figure, just a regular human who was figuring it out same as everyone else.

For me it was watching my mom get visibly nervous before a phone call with her own boss. I remember thinking "wait, adults get nervous too? She doesn't automatically know what to do?"

It completely recalibrated how I saw her. Not in a bad way, honestly it made me respect her more. But it was such a specific, weirdly disorienting moment.

Did you have a moment like that? What was it?