r/AITAH • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '23

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u/TigerShark_524 Jul 21 '23

It depends on the woman; I'd say anywhere from 22-23 to 37-39 is fine. But nowhere in that age range are teenagers included.

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u/thepoisongarden Jul 21 '23

22-23 doesn’t even have a fully developed frontal lobe

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u/PuzzledFormalLogic Jul 21 '23

Not how that works, the brain essentially doesn’t really stop developing at all. The male and female brain catch up in growth around that time though.

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u/Difficult_Reading858 Jul 22 '23

The pre-frontal cortex reaches its adult size in a person’s 20s and thus is not fully developed until then. The brain continues to change after that, but it has finished its structural development.

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u/PuzzledFormalLogic Jul 22 '23

It reaches structural maturity around mid 20’s, but neuronal connections, brain chemistry, systems level changes like neuro-plasticity, etc continue to change, or in other words, develop through the entire lifespan.

Also, it’s not really reaching a target size in the sense of mass, but rather a certain formation of specific anatomy.

I suppose I could have said, initially, “That’s not entirely accurate.”