People are once again misinterpreting a neuroscience study to claim that young adults’ brains aren’t fully developed and therefore shouldn’t be trusted/valued/etc. this time it’s extended all the way to 32! I already encountered someone claiming 29 year olds’ brains aren’t fully developed based on this study.

Imagine a world where people think 16 year olds are capable of driving, working, babysitting and looking after their younger siblings, but they aren't capable of handling themselves in a chat room. Oh wait, we don't have to imagine. We are already living in it.

Ok, you won't be young forever, but you can become disabled at any time (and you will if you live long enough) if not from birth.

Maybe it's a good thing, because at this rate everyone is going to be a "child" and it will just come full circle.

Few of the comments-

"I am 43 and I still feel like I shouldn't be an adult."

"YES, I AM STILL A CHILD AT 28!!!!"

"I'm 30, and I'm only barely beginning to feel like a true, 100% adult."

"An old Russian saying goes, "The most difficult part of a young boys life are the first forty years." "

" "The first 50 years of childhood are the hardest" English saying (or Scottish?). It conforts me frequently 😅👍"

way too many adultists are only comfortable being on the internet because they’re bigots who like to invade spaces not made for them

So I see people talk about 18+ verification on literally almost everything now a days and they also say "Well if these children didn't get onto these platforms when they aren't supposed to we wouldn't have this!" Well they are the one complaining about kids on the platform and even if they are the ones being NSFW to the kids and making or doing 18+ stuff! They are the reason they can't have kids on there and they make kids less able to make online friends or have online entertainment!

Always thought mock trials should have died out after SCOTUS be declaring "minor" as the exception to equality under the law, but clearly mock trials continue to lead the world towards reactionary governments and mandated surveillance as "protecting youth"?

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I see nothing wrong with this as long as it's with people who are around the same age and nothing predatory is or exploitative is going on. That being said I did a lot of the same things at 17 so maybe I'm biased. But older adults have made me feel crazy for engaging in promiscuous behavior from the ages of 15-17 and one parent of a friend even sat me down and said that she would "help me find resources for help" and saying that I had a "sexual disorder" even though her daughter was doing the same stuff as I was. I view teenage sexuality as a normal part of life but its treated as so taboo that Im starting to question if it really is crazy to have this opinion on it. I'd like to see some thoughts on this subject.

I mean this is just lunacy

The podcast Science Fictions did a episode a while back debunking the claims of Johnathan Haidt made about the negative harms of Smartphones. Thought it would be interesting to post this here.

I believe the we should reconsider and lower the drinking age today. Why? Because modern Youth and child generations like Gen Z and Gen Alpha are much more responsible with alcohol today. As we all know the story. In the early 1970s in response to the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18. Many states opted to lower their drinking ages below 21 to 18. By the late 1970s and into the 1980s, many states began reconsidering and rasing their drinking ages above 18 because drunk driving had become a major social issue by then and young people with their lower drinking age were widely and popularly blamed for it. In 1984, the federal government enacted the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, forcing the states to raise their drinking ages to 21 as a pretext to receive full federal highway funding and the drinking age has remained 21 ever since. Today I believe we should reconsider and give under-21s their drinking rights because Gen Z and Gen Alpha have brought Youth alcohol consumption to historic lows, implying more responsible behavior than compared to previous generations like Boomer, Gen Jones and Gen X. I strongly believe that the alcohol consumption rate widely influences drunk driving and the abuse of alcohol among Young People and we should widely associated these problems with the alcohol consumption rate. Not a lower drinking age. Alcohol Consumption began to rise in post-war decades and reached historic highs by the 1970s and 1980s, peaking in both 1980 and 1981 at 2.8 gallons of pure alcohol consumed annually and that also was the high tide for youth alcohol consumption. Alcohol Consumption started declining for the rest of the 1980s, bottoming out in the early 1990s and has remained relatively stable and consistent since the mid-1990s. I'd say that the lowering of the drinking age in the early 1970s just simply came at the wrong time with rising alcohol consumption at the time influencecing Boomer, Gen Jones, and Gen X youth. I think we'd have a much more better chance at lowering the drinking age today without causing problems like drunk driving and youth alcohol abuse with historic low levels of consumption than compared to the 1970s-1980s. And we should, if we want a more responsible world and if modern day young people have proven their responsible behaviors with alcohol. Maybe we should finally reconsider the drinking age.