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Beatlebug said

lovelyritametermaid said

It’s really sad that so many kids in my generation are already acting like they’re 21 at the age of freaking 13. Girls are wearing clothes so inappropriate for their age in middle school nowadays– I’m all for expression through style and clothing, but that doesn’t mean act and dress like a college-age girl when you’re not even in high school yet. Younger high-schoolers are so entitled too– using arrogance and know-it-all personalities as defense mechanisms and to come across as more mature, even when they just come across as rude and immature. Kids are growing up too fast because of pressure to be like their idols (social media influencers and the like)– it’s saddening, really. And the worst part is that at my high school you get picked on for acting like a normal 14-year-old and for exploring yourself and your interests and listening to your teachers and entrusting your older peers for help. No one in high school can be vulnerable until they become a junior or senior, because you’re last two years are when your fellow peers have stopped giving a s**t and your younger peers start to look to you as remodels. 

Hahaha kids have been doing this for ages. I think we’re just old  

Yeah, I don’t think this is unique to any particular generation. It’s a classic thing for kids to want to appear older and more sophisticated than they are, I remember my sister and her friends being 13 or so and acting like they were 21, and that was over a decade ago now. 

Beatlebug said
If I sing in a forest and no one hears a sound, do I even exist?

Your existence is not based off other’s perceptions of your existence it’s based off your own. People like to say that “the world doesn’t revolve around you”, but it very much does for every person. As far as you know, your perception of reality is the only thing that exists. 

50yearslate said
Because they like it. If you don’t that’s fine but they do and that’s also fine. I have no problem whatsoever with people pursuing “childish” interests or whatever, people can do what they want as long as it’s not hurting other people. Which is why i take issue with the pony lady Ex Tex was talking about, because her obsession took precedence over her LIVING CHILD and that’s not cool.

Well like I said earlier, somebody who puts collecting children’s toys over caring for their child probably wasn’t a good parent even before that. It might have been good for the child for the parent to completely give up, because now they are with their grandparents who (hopefully) are giving them all the love and attention they don’t get from their parents. 

50yearslate said
Yeah, but imagine growing up knowing your own mother willingly gave you up in favor of a bunch of plastic horses. 

I’m not saying it’s a good situation, just possibly better than the child staying with their mom. Being both neglected by your mom and not taken care of is much worse than being neglected by your mom but taken care of by your grandparents.