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I know this is a popular preconception and it feeds into all our biases about lazy youth that just needs to get off our lawn, but any teenager will readily out-

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• dylan604 5y ago
  whoooaa, you're being very generous there. "any teenager" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. i have the unique experience of being one at one point. of course i'm being sarcastic, but some of the dumbest shit i've ever done (hopefully will ever have done) was as a teenager. a toddler does things because "they don't know any better". a teenager does things even though "they should know better". i've seen medical people talking about the brain still not fully finished baking until the 20s. so with that unfinished gushy frontal lobes and all of those raging hormones with that natural teenage angst, it's a wonder we survived as a species at all ;-)
  • jjk166 5y ago
    There's a difference between wisdom and intelligence. Teenagers tend to lack the former, not the latter.