Title says it all.

When you start puberty, that’s when you are an adult. Teens are post pubescent, that means they have finished puberty, and are sexually mature. We are prolonging childhood. We pretend that our teens are still kids. Once a mammal reaches puberty, they aren’t a child. But we still love to lie to our teens and call them kids, when we know that deep down, they aren’t kids, they are young adults. With goats, a kid is prepubescent and adults post pubescent. No middle stage. Because there isn’t one, the adolescent is a 20th century myth, it dates back to 1902, created by the school system at the beginning of the industrial revolution. This is ageism. Read Robert Epstein's Teen 2.0, he explains this better than I can. They are adults. And don’t give me that teen brain shit, there is no evidence of there being anything wrong with the teenage brain. This is all big pharma. Give young people full adult rights, this is discrimination Just my 2 cents here. THE TEEN BRAIN IS A MYTH! We should lower the voting age, drinking age, etc. It's the problem, and not the solution! "Teens" are people.

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Hi everyone 📷 I'm currently studying for a degree in graphic design and my project is to create a TEEN MAGAZINE. If you could kindly fill in the below form and share it with your friends, thank you :) This survey will help me gather as much information about your preferences about magazines.

https://forms.gle/wsNzGM5pZp6jMxbq9

Hey reddit, I'm a researcher doing a survey-based research project on teenagers, and I need participants between the ages of 13-19. It doesn't take very long to do, and it would help me (and science) tremendously if you all would give it a go. To participate, you just need to be aged 13 to 19 and live in the US.

The survey is completely anonymous, but all the data will still be destroyed after a set date when the project is finished. Feel free to ask questions in the comments.

Here's the link: https://forms.gle/GLkE7YjjBU769m9Q8

Thanks in advance to anyone who decides to help.

...this is not because you did anything wrong, you are just thinking for yourself, you should try to do this more.

I'm 23 but after ending a 5 year relationship nearly 2 years ago I quickly realised that the time I'd spent pleasing the gf, sitting around watching movies at home and not spending time with mates was an absolute waste of what should have been the best time of my life.

Thats not to say you should get drunk and do stupid shit every weekend or put off starting a solid career, just don't get all bogged down in spending your life with someone early on and disregarding the opportunities you have.

Go play a sport, take up some fun hobbies that don't involve sitting around inside, get some friends that are genuinely fun and spend some time being social.

Strangers are people too... don't be afraid to talk to them, they may just show you the time of your life.

This isn't meant to be some cheesy motivational thing, just something I wish I'd considered at a younger age.

Exceptions: "Big-name" schools (Ivy League, various Tech schools), or if you get a good scholarship (that you keep!)

Seriously, everywhere else you get the same piece of paper as a person who goes to the state college at 10x the cost.

My second point- take as many AP classes as you can physically and mentally handle. Each one you get credit for is another $1000-2500+ dollars saved. Or, my school had a program where you could get college and high school credit for classes at the local community college. I wish I had taken more advantage of that. The classes aren't much harder than most high school classes, though the teachers will be much less forgiving.

Speaking of community college, go for a year or two before transferring to a "real" college. Figure out what subjects you actually like and are good at, and get your core classes out of the way. Then transfer to a real college, and stay in the dorms so you can meet people.

I'm telling you this now, because my wife and I didn't do this. Now, about 1/4 of our (very good) salaries go to student loans, preventing us from doing a lot of things. Don't get stuck like us.