Well, when I was 17 in the early oughts, I had the benefit of medically accurate sex ed, i.e. not getting fucking lied to by adults about, like, the most important thing for a young person to know. So that’s definitely different than 17 year olds now...

I’m also on the side of finding teenagers not terrible. I mean, they say and do ridiculous things. Mentally, they’re kinda like puppies who have adult-sized ears and feet but nothing else.

When I was 6, I walked up to my mom and very firmly said, “I’m never getting married, and I’m never wearing lipstick!”

My most dedicated students were almost always teenage girls and I think it’s because I made myself available to them while letting them solve their problems themselves — other teachers would have made a big deal out of something I could read as a distraction and not a good thing to bring into the limelight, like a…

the unresolved quotation mark is killing me too, people. DAMN YOU, KINJA.

Being a teen fucking sucked as well. Couldn’t pay me to go through that insecure, hormone riddled, anxiety filled nightmare again.

Cosigned as a college writing Prof.

I don’t think adults do understand anymore. Our emotion and our control parts of our brian are in wack. Our risk reward process are complete. We have a weath of social experiance cusioning us - along with amny regrets and mistakes. Adults rarely remember what it’s like, or even understand wha tit’s like, to have less…

I would be the worst 2015 teen.I would be THAT teen.

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA, holy dark!

I gotta say, a part of me admires your mum for treating you like an intelligent autonomous human being and being completely honest with you (at least according to the way she saw things) at that age. Maybe take it as a compliment she thought you were intelligent/mature enough to handle it?

shake your mom’s hand for me

I can only speak from what I’ve noticed by having so many college freshman pass through my classes, but yes. Every college freshman loses their confidence by sophomore year, then starts rebuilding themselves in their own way and works it out. It’s a really cool/fascinating time to be in someone’s life. I teach a…

Their bodies are almost fully developed, but their brains? Not even close! That’s why they are so crazy! I love them.

The summer before my Freshman year, I broke and dislocated my shoulder. I couldn’t go anywhere. I felt like my friends abandoned me, like they didn’t care.

I remember feeling 100% rational and reasonable and totally cool to make my own decisions about various situations. In retrospect, I had a lot of fun and really awesome friends, but man I did some stupid shit.

My niece is 16 and has a really good head on her shoulders. When she talks to me about ~feelings~ I remind her that the people she’s obsessing over won’t exist to her in 2 years, and that even though everything feels really intense and deep it’s not and it will pass.

The teenaged children! They terrify me. They’re all bigger than me and their brains don’t work right.

I mean I hated teens when I WAS a teen, you know?

I definitely don’t know what being a teen on a mega popular hit series and having every dumb thing my brain shoots out my word hole appear for everyone in the world to read, hear, and comment on. Considering how little brain to mouth filter I had at the time, I cringe to be her in about 5 years when her maturity…