Teal_Tiger

Toddlers have child brains. Teenagers have adult brains. Puberty does that to a person. People learn and grow with experience. Legally and socially preventing young people from experiencing anything retards their growth. History is full of examples of 16-year-olds doing great. but in 2023 we make sure that no one believes that's possible, because stupid brain myth, or vague nonsense about "mental maturity"

What are "kids"? and what "extreme" are you talking about?

People these days constantly say that teens are idiots or that everyone under 25 is stupid AF. You yourself spread vile lies about "undeveloped brains" in order to propagate the myth that young people are mentally deficient.

Forcing young adults into a years-long artificially extended childhood where they have zero rights and their sex lives are criminalized is not giving them a better life. It's creating a kind of hell for them. That's why they're depressed as hell and killing themselves in record numbers.

Completely irrelevant. The point is they shouldn't be barred from socializing with other age groups, in fact they would gain a lot by interacting with people older and younger than them.

by the way, "mental maturity that occurs well into most people’s 20’s or later" is a stupid urban myth. Literally nothing backs up those ridiculous claims. It's just pure bigotry against a hated demographic.

Quite the opposite. Teens got much more respect in the 1980s than they do now.

This problem has gotten much worse over the last few decades, and the teen mental health crisis is a direct result.

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Sorry, but it's ridiculous to talk about "mental maturity"... just a stupid abstract thing that nobody could ever possibly measure, so any bigot who wants to hate on this or that group pulls the old "mental maturity" card. It used to be Blacks and women who were mentally inferior. Now its the under 25s. Same nasty bigotry, backed up by the same junk "science"

Teens are working much less now than 20 or 30 years ago, and many of them aren't even bothering to get a driver's license. Our society now openly refers to them as children and verbally abuses them incessantly, often using just science about brains to imply that they are morons and will be for many more years.

Teen suicide, depression, and self-harm are off the charts. They've skyrocketed. Whatever we're doing it is a catastrophic failure. Baring teens from socializing with people over 20 is not giving them "time and space to learn in a more comfortable and safe way" it is forcing them to remain in a years-long artificially extended childhood, which is frustrating as hell, and prevents them from gaining the experience they need to learn and grow. In this particular area we did MUCH BETTER in the 70s than we do now.

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Our bodies and brains never stop changing. There is no point of "fully developed". and even if there was, it certainly wouldn't mean that people are mentally incompetent before that magical non-existent point :-D

Our brains are largest at age 13. We perform best on several types of cognitive test around that age too. From that time on our brains decay.

Cherry-picking one portion of by-far the least understood organ in the human body and saying "Yeah, well, this cortex thing changes a bit even in your twenties" does not mean that childhood ends when you're 30 :-D

The VAST MAJORITY of brain development happens ages 0-3 and 9-13. We get adult brains along with our adult bodies during puberty. That's just basic scientific fact.

I made a video about this. It's quite long but it outlines the way we perceive lots of the social interactions around us.

https://kraut.zone/w/vetZGvKLfGC1c1UKZbExFC .

The Popular Brain Myth says that adulthood begins at age 25.

Let's think about this.

Our society prevents it from happening (as we should), but it is quite possible for a 12 year old to have a baby who grows up to have a baby at 12 years old and so you get a 24 year old grandmother. It's a bit less likely to get a 24 year old grandfather, but also biologically feasible. The claim that these people, who can literally be grandparents, are in fact children, is laughable :-D

Why does our society not only tolerate but even encourage such heinous bigotry against young adults?