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Originally Posted by Zizu
Agreed 100% today’s 18 year olds are the equivalent of 12 year olds back in the day ..
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Doesn’t mean I agree with actively infantilising teenagers in a patronising way (not trusting a 17-year-old who’s doing their A-Levels, going to parties and sending off UCAS applications to stay home alone for two hours in the evening because the law says they’re still at least a partial child). Teenagers below 18 are yet to reach full legal adulthood and you’re still developing for years after but 17 isn’t 7, either. Some people take it too far and treat underage teenagers like actual little kids.
At 16 to 18 you’re far from fully developed but you’re not actually a child. I say kid but I say that colloquially, not literally. A lot of people see it literally and expect people to still almost believe in the tooth fairy until the day they turn 18, as if they’ve never experienced what it’s like to actually be a teenager.
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