Since recently turning 18, I’ve been thinking about Halloween a lot.

This is my first Halloween as an adult, what rules have changed for me, will my parents let me go out, can friends come over, things like that. I’ve been wondering, but have no answers to yet.

Especially whether or not I should go trick or treating.

Now, obviously, I’m 18, I don’t need to be out trick or treating but I know maybe younger students or middle schoolers could be trying to figure out their own answer to that same question.

Last year, I went trick or treating with my sisters but I was more or less just walking around with them and eating their candy.

As I walked around the neighborhood, I noticed that there wasn’t a kid over the age of 12 at best, I was definitely the oldest one walking around besides parents.

I honestly felt embarrassed and a little weird, like that feeling when you convince yourself everyone’s staring at you when in reality no one even noticed you were existing.

I think I felt this way in that moment because no one told me I couldn’t and there’s no Halloween trick or treating handbook saying that at this specific age kids have to stop trick or treating.

Although all ages celebrate Halloween by dressing up, partying, hanging out with friends, going to haunted houses, watching scary movies, carving pumpkins or even handing out candy to trick or treaters. We tend to only see kids up until middle school age trick or treating that night in most cases.

It wasn’t until I was in eighth grade that I truly felt odd or too old to be trick or treating but of course no one ever said anything to me, it was just me seeing everyone that seemed to be younger than me or appeared to be younger than me.

I think the question of what age you should stop trick or treating is what I consider a universal question.

Everyone, at some point in their life, has thought of this question, not only for themselves but also maybe for their kids or a loved one.

Since turning 18, obviously many things have changed but one thing that hasn’t is the questions in which what age someone should stop trick or treating.

At first, I had a straight-forward answer, kids should stop trick or treating at the age of 15 but when I sat back and thought about my answer and how it would make sense, it really doesn’t.

One could say that 15 in agreeable because that before kids tend to get their drivers license, they’re usually entering their sophomore year of high school and could maybe even be looking into colleges ad future careers.

I truthfully have no idea when I actually stopped trick or treating, I think it’s one of those things you just grow and mature out of and then one Halloween, trick or treating just doesn’t really matter to you because you rather stay inside and watch scary movies or go to haunted houses with your friends.

All in all, I don’t think there is or should be a definitive answer to the question of at what age kids should stop trick or treating.

Deciding when one should stop trick or treating should be a personal thing rather than a sort of rule written down in a book as if it was law.