Thread by @ElijahSchaffer

Teenagers are fake. It’s not even real

You’re either a kid or an adult

It’s a social construct to infantilize adulthood

Create divide between age structure

Mistrust, dismissing the wise as irrelevant

Delays development & maturity

Profitable for companies to target

& no, this has nothing to do w/ arguments about consent etc

I’m just pointing out that the creation of a third intermediary state of development has little social benefit

I’ve noticed that the age of adolescence has developed into a person’s late 20’s

It’s getting worse

Have you ever noticed that all of pop culture caters to this group?

Then the image of our society is romanticized into a delayed adulthood

Where adults never act mature but remain acting like teenagers

Then they feel lost and like they don’t fit in

Because they don’t

That’s why they have an inflated ego

They think they’re some sort of pseudo adult that doesn’t get understood by real adults

But are too mature to relate to children

Creates a sleuth of life long mental issues

Personality flaws as well

Net negative effect

At 18, the common age of adulthood

You should be expected to transform into an adult & stop acting childish

But the childishness doesn’t stop because our culture has no way of welcoming a kid into adulthood

So they stay acting like kids w/ the rights of adults

& they vote

This idea of staying young forever is toxic

It’s pushed by the media and Hollywood

Written into social structures

And it makes for a weaker populace

That’s why the goal post keeps moving

Adults not getting married, pushing teen years in 20s even 30s

Tragic

It infantilizes the population because adolescences becomes a marketing trap that few escape, and in return few are left to actually confront the real problems

They instead want to be provided for by daddy government because they are incapable of providing for themselves