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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things)
One of the wise people of antiquity once said that everyday experience is a collection of mistakes accumulated by a person throughout their life. A person learns from some mistakes, some they simply try not to repeat, and some of these mistakes they alas repeat all throughout their life.
Recently, the so-called "Letters to Myself" genre has been very popular on the internet, where famous and not-so-famous people describe different mistakes they made at a young age and tell what they would do differently taking into account the knowledge that they have now. Unfortunately, in one's teen years, it is difficult to believe and accept some of the life facts that seem so obvious later.
A few days ago, a question was asked in the AskReddit community directly on this topic: "What are teens today not ready to hear?" As of today, the resulting thread has about 44.2K upvotes and over 26.7K various comments, where people in adulthood and older tell which life lessons the youth should definitely learn.
Yes, the thread looks a bit boomerish, but the ancients didn't say in vain: "Forewarned is forearmed." Bored Panda has put together a list of the most popular comments from the original thread for you, so please feel free to scroll to the very end, mark the submissions you like the most and of course share your own life lessons in the comments.
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Playing music on your speakers in public areas makes you look like a complete douchebag. Nobody likes it but you.
And talking on your phone on speaker in public falls in the same category.
There are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen.
In the adult world, getting into fights doesn’t make you look cool, it just makes you look stupid.
And always remember lol, no matter how much of a badass you think you are, there is always someone that is either more of a badass than you, or some One that might not be a badass but uses its head and it Will knock you the f**k out.
To the ones who ride the public bus in my city, specifically: nobody else wants to hear whatever TikTok you’re watching. Buy some headphones.
It's not your duty to judge others. Just take care of your own s**t.
You won't 'feel' different when you're older, or have kids. You'll just be you, it's weird.
Yes!! I'm 51, but still feel like tgat awkward teenager, it's just that now, SOMEHOW, I've managed to hold down a respectable job since i graduated, and have a house and mortgage and husband and kids. I don't know how that happened! I'm still that nerdy kid! It's just, my knees hurt now.
as much as you want to be unique, outspoken and be able to be you 100%, its just not that realistic.
as a queer poc millennial it took me a long time to learn that you gotta learn to pick your battles, read the room, and know that not every space is a space thats made for you.
Putting every aspect of yourself online is unsafe. Nobody needs to know your list of triggers or your address or your blood type
Nothing in my social media is relevant, my adress is wrong, my phone Number os wrong, i don't have any pictures of me or my family, my académic level is wrong and só is my job, you want to " know " who i am, meet me or PM me, my life is mine Alone and i only Share what i think its relevant in a certain context.
The older you get the faster it goes.
That sure is true, my dearest son got 30 last week and t feels like only a short time ;)
One day you too will be old and uncool.
And it'll happen faster than you think.
Social media will give you too much of a superiority complex and hanging around people who enable you will f**k you up later in life.
Not everybody can be an internet sensation, somebody has to drive the dump truck
And driving a dump truck is steady work and steady pay. Trying to be an “influencer” is a huge risk that could turn out to be a total waste of time and money—-YOUR time and money.
It is perfectly fine to not know something. It’s OKAY to not know! Stop shaming and bullying people because you learned about something before they did. Social media is not the real world and acting like it is will only make people not want to be around you.
EDIT: I am not talking about ignorance. I’m talking about laughing when people ask a question in class, the “How do you not know that?” crowd, the mocking of people into never asking another question out of fear of ridicule and humiliation.
You guys know how the attractive and wealthy kids at school seem to just get life handed to them on a silver platter?
Get used to it.
Yep! Focus on you rather than putting energy into being angry because someone has it better than you do...because someone ALWAYS will have it better than you.
Jobs aren’t meant to always be fun/your dream, sometimes you have to work a job you hate to stay afloat.
And try them out i was a " puddle jumper " when it come to jobs, i tried a lot of stuff untill i finally found something i loved to do, and get ready to be shocked i love to work " retail "
Social media is not reality and your entire life should not revolve around it.
School has a system in place to keep you from falling behind, life doesn’t
Also, you can't ace life without effort even if you could do so with school
You need to learn the difference between normal teenage neuroses and mental illness.
You're not "mature for your age." Anyone who says that to justify wanting to be with you is a creep.
As you get older you just keep realizing how dumb you were last year.
10 years from now, no one will care about how many viewers you had on tiktok
Today's eyebrows are yesterday's clown makeup and tomorrow's regret fodder
Ok, hands up every woman that never dyed, plucked, permed or whatevered her brows? *up*
Stop self-diagnosing yourselves with mental illnesses
Um, ok, but what about the kids who are literally barely hanging in there and no one is listening when they need help because they're being "dramatic" and "over-reacting"?
My mom says there's nothing wrong with me but when I did some research on math dyslexia (dyscalculia) my whole life of struggling with time, directions, numbers, basic math made sense. Sometimes, if you see a persistent pattern of extreme levels that everyone else refuses to look at because they just want you to "try harder" finding that answer really does help.
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Self diagnosis can be valid. Especially if you cannot afford to go see a professional or you are under age and no one believes in your struggles. Of course, as soon as you can, go speak with a professional and get evaluated.
Yes this! And if a professional will not diagnose you, ask them to include in your chart that they do NOt diagnose you with whatever condition you suspect you have. When something is written on a 'permanent record' medical professionals are more likely to take it seriously since misdiagnosis or missed-diagnosis makes them look bad and can lead to investigations/suing or whatever is common practice in your country
Load More Replies... It's one thing if you really feel like something is off and you're looking for possible answers. It's quite another to purposely taken on the stereotypical traits of a mental disorder and go around claiming that's what you have.
*slowly closing 14 browser tabs of Google search results for "why am i sad today?"*
Top 4 most likely reasons: 1. You didn't sleep. You need deep sleep to truly rest and reset your neurotransmitters. Every emotion (and symptoms of everything in the DSM-V) will be amplified by lack of deep sleep. Do you snore, get sleepy during the day, wake up with headaches? You might have sleep apnea. We're you playing on your phone all night or have the TV on, or the dogs in bed, fall asleep using alcohol or 1st generation antihistamines to get to sleep? That will mess with your sleep, too, and give the same symptoms.. 2. Did something sad happen? Sad is a human emotion. It's okay to be sad sometimes. 3. Are you young, or female? Agree: shifting hormones can sometimes cause sadness when there doesn't be a reason to be. 4. Are you sad more days than not? Do you no longer find joy in fun activities? Is your concentration crappy? Do you sleep too much, or not enough? Is appetite way up, or way down? Do you have any feelings of guilt? Could be depression.
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Self-diagnosis is valid. Adopting traits of mental illnesses and flaunting them to get attention is not good.
I agree to a certain extent. But if you think you may have a mental illness its worth talking to a doctor and then following up with a psychologist or therapist. Anxiety and depression is handed down through genetics in my family, I was extremely agoraphobic for many years and still find it hard to be outside my house.
"cutting" is only an epidemic because people saw it on TV or read about it online. I'm nearly 50 and no one was proudly displaying razor thin scars on arms and legs 35 years ago. Stop giving people ideas for attention seeking behavior and just give children some ATTENTION. This garbage would stop.
I'm the same age as you. People were definitely engaging in self harm when we were school kids. You may not have known about it, but it definitely happened.
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Well sometimes and for many people it's the only option, because they can't afford a private practitioner and going to a state funded one is risky, because they don't have the time to care for patients and all they usually do is prescribe tons of drugs or force people into institutions, where they'll knock them out with drugs. Getting help for mental issues is very difficult.
Can't fully support this one. Any athority can and *does* get things wrong. The right answer isn't to roll your eyes and telling a patient to 'stop self diagnosing themselves. The right answer is "Why do you feel like you have x?" It's a bit different, but my family has had several situations where we asked doctors if our health issues could be caused my X (based on family or personal history.) and were reassured it was not. The doctor's refusing to check for a milk allergy was reasonably innocuous, the doctors denying that my mothers sickness could be caused by her heart nearly killed her. Doctors can be wrong. Your opinions are valid (if not always correct.) Find a professional who has the respect to listen and check in on what you have to say.
I agree to an extent, I self diagnosed myself with depression after a year of research, which is common enough that I felt it wasn't a reach. And it wasn't, I was diagnosed with it a year later. With BPD, I took into account that my mother has it, and that I have a chance to have it while also remembering that many personality disorders teens have, they grow out of because it wasn't actually a personality disorder.
I've worked in mental health for about 25 years. I can assure you, diagnoses are actually about as arbitrary as a bunch of people walking around, grasping in the dark (psychiatry/psychology as a profession) could be expected to create. It's all rather archaic and not at all representative of most peoples' experiences.
So true, nowadays it seems that everyone has some kind of condition, most of the times its just a poor replacement for their lack of personality
I didn't know I had mental illness until I was in my 60s. I just thought I was a crazy, irrational person who was always ruining every relationship I had. Guess I wasn't paying attention and wasn't looking up stuff on the internet.
It's a bit hard here, though. Teen-age IS pretty much a mental disorder per default, and I don#t mean that as insult or anything. But teenagers' brains are in disarray, they have to deal with a rush of new emotions and hormones and the realization that they have the urge to reproduce and have a new way of reacting to how people see them. Insecurities galore, body-issues - suddenly there are hairs where never used to be ones, breasts that bounce when they shouldn't, unwanted erections or unexpected periods. A teenager is basically in constant mess and it takes a while for people to solidify. So a lot of things that in an adult would be a sign for a mental illness is just normal re-adjusting for a teenager and people might therefor be dismissive about things that are out of the norm. It is not maliciousness on the parents part necessarily - they might just remember how awful life seemed to them when they were teens and think their own child is just going through the same things.
While I understand and respect where you are coming from I have to politely disagree, teen years can be difficult because of hormones but being an angsty teen and having mental disorders, I dealt with horrible mental health disorders in my teenagers years, I was depressed, anorexic, and more and it was hell, people told me I was just being an angsty teen but I wasn’t, there was a giant difference. Mental illness is surprisingly common in children nowadays, after Covid hit and people went into isolation in their homes kids disorders like depression became more common because people had to spend time with only their family and spend to much time alone and on social media. After dealing with mental illness in my teens I learned that teenage years are supposed to be happy, maybe a little difficult due to hormones but you shouldn’t want to die constantly and always be upset. There is a large difference between teenage years and mental illness. Hope this can help someone somehow!
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Actually don't. You know yourself better than a Dr you might see once a yr, or parents or a significant other who thinks you're "fine"
Because of the idiots faking panic attacks and anxiety disorders, my girlfriend can't even get her anxiety meds without jumping through hoops.
Stop discriminating people with real illnesses, reaching for help and struggling everyday with such people like that.
I would argue, to not be like me. Convinced that you're normal and everyone experiences horrible depressive episodes and then feeling like you're on top of the world and unstoppable. I was later diagnosed with bipolar.
This isn't every teenager tho, it's a select few SOME of which can't get to a professional for one reason or another
Kidding around about “my ocd” or “you’re SO bipolar!” when you’re fussy or cranky trivializes the real disorders.
Says my parents back 25yrs ago 🙄 Then years later I was diagnosed with bipolar, panic attacks and depression at 23yrs old. Now 42 and I do not take meds for them anymore not since I was 27. I learned to know when I'm about to have a panic attack and when my bipolar starts to kick in and will go to an area with no one around either I will smoke a cig or vape delta 8 to relax myself.
This is kinda incomplete advice. You should add “if you feel like you have a mental illness, seek help. Even if your family may not believe you. Talk to a counselor at school to get help. Go to a local clinic. Find a way to talk to a professional.”
People need to understand how harmful self-diagnosing can be to yourself and others. If you think something is wrong, go to a professional WITHOUT BIASED!!! Don't walk in there saying "I think I have depression", say whatever you are feeling and how it's impacting your life. People who self-diagnose tend to get stuck on that particular thing when it might be something completely else
It's always bad to self diagnose. If you think something is wrong, talk to a professional.
It's always made out to be the most terrible thing ever and while it is risky and obviously not fully reliable, it can help people who have it harder to get a diagnosis. I'm currently fighting for my ADHD diagnosis, knowing full well something is missing. Knowing full well I've learned to mask most of this b******t that's me but also not really me. So no, I will not stop until I finally get my actual follow-up diagnosis
Okay so what about the ones who are sitting in the bathroom stalls cutting themselves or the people about to jump of the schools roof but get stopped from their friend. I don't think people know how many live like this. It's like a network of suicidel kids. I was ignorent to my own mental problems and gaslighted my self to think i was fine but some do know that they need help but get ignored when they ask
nope. i understand if you mean some happy, high schooler who wants to be "special" or whatever but not kids who need answers to why they feel depressed or anything else that might fit in the category of mental illness. in this case, help that kid to find someone who can help them
While I think it's easy to read a list of symptoms and think you have everything from Australian pimple pox, to zinc oxide poisoning... I wouldn't dismiss feeling like there is something wrong, that's making mundane things more difficult than they should be. It's okay to look into potential conditions, but verify with a competent medical professional before accepting
I feel called out I self diagnosed myself with insomnia since I can't sleep for more than five hours at a time
Other way around. It’s better to think you have a condition and get it checked out than to do nothing. That’s how my ADHD, anxiety, and whole host of other problems got bad. Always see an expert, though.
My niece regularly watches tick tock and has diagnosed herself as autistic and dropped out of college. It’s frustrating because she seems to be using the diagnosis as a crutch despite being incredibly bright. It’s not my place to diagnose her either way but it’s frustrating to see her faith in tick tick videos and the seeming social cache of this diagnosis vs actual engagement with medical professionals about the condition, if accurate. Seems to belittle the severity of those who have suffered from the condition legitimately (unless hers is legitimate, which maybe- but having known her her whole life, seems to have manifested recently)
I don't like that you suggest autistic people are not "bright", but yes she definitely should not be using it as a crutch or a way to prove she is discriminated against. You can't even use the excuse that she was medically diagnosed and it will effect her for a little bit, it is not okay to fake it or diagnose yourself from common things everyone does.
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Well, maybe if the mental health field did a better job diagnosing instead of lumping everyone into the bi-polar or depressed categories, we wouldn't have to rely on self-diagnosis. As wild as this sounds, not all of us fit in either category.
I expressed concern once in my teens that I had insomnia and depression, and my parents blew me off; I learned not to tell them since they had no interest in listening. Age 25, I learned that I had been right all along.
Amen if you want to go to a do ter gobutstop self diegnosing I saw a vid that was like if youdothiyouhae adhdnann. An idon HELP MY COMPUTER GLITCHING
Isn't that why we have 'friends', so we can all diagnose each other's psychoses?
Yes, people can't get a proper diagnosis a lot of the time, but self diagnosis should be always taken with a grain of salt (if not a whole lot of it). I'm myself self diagnosed with dermatillomania, it's pretty straightforward, and my only option is to find support groups and sharing tips on how to deal with with the picking. More complex and/or invisible disorders that require particular treatment shouldn't be self diagnosed, since they are not very well defined and info online could be wrong or misinterpreted, not to mention that medicating has to be taken seriously. A lot of people self diagnose completely wrong on media and it also tends to damage how people with the actual disorder are viewed. Like the "I'm so neat I have OCD" people
At least as many times as not, the self-diagnosis is incorrect. Adults who think they have ADHD suddenly are in the rise. Most of them aren't sleeping (either just don't, or have undiagnosed sleep apnea). Many didn't have ANY symptoms as a kid. Everyone thinks they have low T if they are fatigued. Most don't. Over half are, again, not sleeping, not moving, not in the sun, eating c**p food. Is very hard to diagnose correctly when pts won't answer the questions in asking openly, and continually try to steer the conversation back to their desired diagnosis. I'm asking those questions to rule out things in the differential. Your refusal to talk about those things makes it impossible, and I can't do my job.
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We adults are mostly just winging it, hopefully learning from the TONS of mistakes we make, but still winging it.
When the nurses handed me my first child (as we left the hospital), I said "Are you serious?""
Someone somewhere cares about you deeply and loves to see you to be happy
Condoms are for stds too even tho there are other ways to avoid pregnancy.
Australia is having a Syphillis outbreak in under 25 s at the moment who don’t seem to know what they are for
In 15 years you’re going to think the kids have gone too far and they’re going to think you’re old-fashioned.
Might have been fair warning 15 years ago, I'd be better prepared now...
Everything you do as a teenager will be cringe to your children
You're closer to being the "older" person in any given setting than you think. And by "old" I mean like 30. Got nieces and nephews just starting kindergarten? Haha. Blink and they're starting college.
That heartache you're going through? It consumes everything now but it will be nothing but a footnote in the future. You'll rarely think about it later - & when you do, it won't hurt you.
It's hard to hear that your pain isn't the worst in the world when you're feeling it. But it does help to know that it won't mean as much as it does in this moment.
At 54, I've had more than "my share of GF" but, unlike some, I've only had 2 heartbrakes. I remember them as if they were yesterday. Heartaches of other kinds, maybe you can mediate them to a soft roar but they're there.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Cut back on the sugary s**t now. Take care of your teeth now. Start working out now. You don’t have to be a bodybuilder and look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, just be active.
Now is the time to get out and do a bunch of crazy s**t but at the same time remember that whatever you do now you pay for 20 years later somehow someway. And this can be taken in a good way or a bad way. Don’t want to take care of your teeth now? Have fun dropping $30,000 on your teeth like I had to.
Not exercising or eating right? Have fun with that quadruple bypass that my father just had. My girlfriend’s parents are older than my parents but because they do those things they haven’t had nearly as much hospital visits as my parents have. By comparison my parents are falling apart and they’re only in the 50s. My girlfriend’s parents are in their 70s and objectively are healthier. The big difference? Early in the morning, every morning those two are downstairs working out hitting the weights and machines for a solid hour or two.
Do you want to speed and act a damn fool on the road? Have fun when you have to pay for your own insurance and nobody wants to ensure you to drive a f*****g Honda Civic for no less than $350, like me.
Even my f*****g car, it was my dream car and it still is the car I would be driving today had just taken care of the goddamn thing. But no it started leaking oil and I didn’t keep up with it or take it in and now I have to drive a goddamn Civic when I used to drive a Lexus.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Most often, being naturally proactive is a healthy approach to life. I have, however, encountered a number of people who have so "prevention'd" themselves out of their life experience that makes me sad. Be aware, cautious but... always curious...
Not everyone needs to go to college. High school is probably the easiest thing you'll do.
Follow your particular talents instead of letting someone else dictate what you should do for a living. Were you always the kid who could take broken things apart, fix them, and put them back together? There are countless types of jobs where people do just that. Were you the kid who was always building stuff? There are jobs for that too. Same goes for every talent and ability a person could have. Just take a moment to think about it, and figure out what you’re really good at, then research the variety of jobs requiring it. If you’re a total whiz at math and want to have a career where all you do is math, but your parents want you to be a doctor, sit them down and outline just how important and respectable, as well as lucrative, your chosen career is. Could change their minds, and stop the pressure they’ve been putting on you to go to med school.
Your metabolism won't last forever. Practice and develop healthy exercise and diet habits now before it gets harder and with more consequences later.
I'm just about to turn 30 in a couple weeks. I am 100 lbs heavier than I was in high school (to be fair I was super tall and skinny to the point of slightly underweight), and that's after losing 25 lbs since the start of July. I have high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol. I am a father of a 2 year old that doesn't want to die in the 40-60 range. I also want to live as a good example to her.
Another 35 lbs and I'll reevaluate what my body type is like and reset my goals from there. That would be 240 lbs, which I was about 4 years ago...but it would also be a more muscular/trimmed 240. I'll determine where in the 210-240 range I want to end up and what my body and lifestyle will be like.
Running is still hard, but using the elliptical is easier on the knees than it was 25 lbs ago. I want to eventually be able to do the Broad Street Run (10 miles through Philadelphia) even though I hate running. If my knees don't like it, I'll do something else as an equivalent.
As an added bonus, my sex drive I think is improving but nowhere near what it was when I was in the 220-250 range. I don't think it's 100% related, but maybe it's more than 50%.
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How about “Your parents shop at Walmart, not because they don’t care about employee treatment, but because it’s practical. Chances are, you’ll give up more and more ideals as you get older for practicality, so hold back your judgements”.
This post...felt sorta hateful. Like the whole world is against teenagers. All of us can't be grouped into a single category. We're still different people. And we don't have it as easy as you'd think.
not really, it's just giving advice we ourselves ignored as teens and now see the point of.
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Some good tips there for everyone, I think. Also, I'm of the opinion that teenagers generally, are underestimated. Obviously they don't know everything but they might surprise you if you give them the chance. In my limited experience, a constant stream of advice is worth much less than a lesson learned firsthand.
A lot of these give off the idea of "You kids and your mental struggles /derogatory". So sorry that a lot of us are self-diagnosing, it's just that therapy is hundreds of dollars. Sorry that everyone reacts to heartbreak severely in the moment, a lot of us are hanging on by threads and every little thing can be the thing to make us give up. Sorry that everything is so much harder for you as adults, but if you keep complaining to us, some of us might end up thinking that it's not worth living to adulthood.
The fact that this post makes you angry is your problem, most of this is ppls reflections on their own lives. And don't you dare try to tell people in any kind of veiled or open way that if you do something drastic it's their fault BC they offered some constructive criticism. Find an adult in your life you can talk to and I wish you the best. Just remember that this phase of life is incredibly short, the ball keeps rolling
Load More Replies... Most of this article wasn't even helpful, just telling kids to get their heads out of their a*s. It felt spiteful and hateful. I thought it was going to be more stuff like the heartbreak one that can ACTUALLY HELP or the condom one that can ACTUALLY HELP
At some point after hitting 30, you'll realize that your 20s was just your late childhood. It's a shame we realize that so late.
Any person who breaks up with you isn't the only one you could ever love and now your life is over. To the opposite extreme, dropping a good relationship to chase a new flame is stupid and selfish. Consider that you don't necessarily know what it is to be in love and it's not infatuation. That does. Love lasts. Two opposite tips here. Don't despair from heartbreak but don't steal someone else's spouse or ditch your own BC so and so is so attractive to you and you're sure you love them. You don't.
Come back in 15 years and tell me you still feel the same way. While not everyone can be lumped into any one category, the best advice given is straight and to the point. Often times teens think they have a firm grasp on life and while some have a better grasp than others and don't need this advice nearly as much, some will hear this advice with good intention to follow and still have to find these things out the hard way. The life experience just isn't there and unsolicited advice will always come across as this person thinks they know me, thinks they know better than me. They don't know you, by they do mostly know better because they've lived it. Either way, like someone above said, you either get it already or you have to live it and find out for yourself. If any of it doesn't seem to apply to you, it probably doesn't.
you have been fed a lot of stereotypes, much like advertising. teens are supposed be like XYZ. NOT TRUE. that kid you were when you were 5. 7, 9, 11... you WERE a great kid. you still are, YOU ARE A KID. those thoughts and wonderings you now have are just as valuable as "why is the sky blue?" people want to take the short route explaining why everything is the way it is. you deserve to know the why. 90% of my day consists of explaining to kids why I make the rules I do. 100% of the time there is a reason, usually safety. you will be adults soon enough. I hope you get as many chances as there are days before you become an adult to feel childhood, learn as you go, and become the person you want to become. be kind, be considerate, be ok with being the one that's still learning. learn, grow, be a kid when you are a kid. if you need help, ask, if you can help, do. you are not a stereotype.
You're boss was a wise man 😁 Working in a hostile-free environment is worth gold 👍
I can sense all the millenials and gen x's on here from the comments :)
How about “Your parents shop at Walmart, not because they don’t care about employee treatment, but because it’s practical. Chances are, you’ll give up more and more ideals as you get older for practicality, so hold back your judgements”.
This post...felt sorta hateful. Like the whole world is against teenagers. All of us can't be grouped into a single category. We're still different people. And we don't have it as easy as you'd think.
not really, it's just giving advice we ourselves ignored as teens and now see the point of.
Load More Replies... Some good tips there for everyone, I think. Also, I'm of the opinion that teenagers generally, are underestimated. Obviously they don't know everything but they might surprise you if you give them the chance. In my limited experience, a constant stream of advice is worth much less than a lesson learned firsthand.
A lot of these give off the idea of "You kids and your mental struggles /derogatory". So sorry that a lot of us are self-diagnosing, it's just that therapy is hundreds of dollars. Sorry that everyone reacts to heartbreak severely in the moment, a lot of us are hanging on by threads and every little thing can be the thing to make us give up. Sorry that everything is so much harder for you as adults, but if you keep complaining to us, some of us might end up thinking that it's not worth living to adulthood.
The fact that this post makes you angry is your problem, most of this is ppls reflections on their own lives. And don't you dare try to tell people in any kind of veiled or open way that if you do something drastic it's their fault BC they offered some constructive criticism. Find an adult in your life you can talk to and I wish you the best. Just remember that this phase of life is incredibly short, the ball keeps rolling
Load More Replies... Most of this article wasn't even helpful, just telling kids to get their heads out of their a*s. It felt spiteful and hateful. I thought it was going to be more stuff like the heartbreak one that can ACTUALLY HELP or the condom one that can ACTUALLY HELP
At some point after hitting 30, you'll realize that your 20s was just your late childhood. It's a shame we realize that so late.
Any person who breaks up with you isn't the only one you could ever love and now your life is over. To the opposite extreme, dropping a good relationship to chase a new flame is stupid and selfish. Consider that you don't necessarily know what it is to be in love and it's not infatuation. That does. Love lasts. Two opposite tips here. Don't despair from heartbreak but don't steal someone else's spouse or ditch your own BC so and so is so attractive to you and you're sure you love them. You don't.
Come back in 15 years and tell me you still feel the same way. While not everyone can be lumped into any one category, the best advice given is straight and to the point. Often times teens think they have a firm grasp on life and while some have a better grasp than others and don't need this advice nearly as much, some will hear this advice with good intention to follow and still have to find these things out the hard way. The life experience just isn't there and unsolicited advice will always come across as this person thinks they know me, thinks they know better than me. They don't know you, by they do mostly know better because they've lived it. Either way, like someone above said, you either get it already or you have to live it and find out for yourself. If any of it doesn't seem to apply to you, it probably doesn't.
you have been fed a lot of stereotypes, much like advertising. teens are supposed be like XYZ. NOT TRUE. that kid you were when you were 5. 7, 9, 11... you WERE a great kid. you still are, YOU ARE A KID. those thoughts and wonderings you now have are just as valuable as "why is the sky blue?" people want to take the short route explaining why everything is the way it is. you deserve to know the why. 90% of my day consists of explaining to kids why I make the rules I do. 100% of the time there is a reason, usually safety. you will be adults soon enough. I hope you get as many chances as there are days before you become an adult to feel childhood, learn as you go, and become the person you want to become. be kind, be considerate, be ok with being the one that's still learning. learn, grow, be a kid when you are a kid. if you need help, ask, if you can help, do. you are not a stereotype.
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I can sense all the millenials and gen x's on here from the comments :)
