Lux AlptraumHonestly shocking to me as both a one time high school sex educator and a one time teen how many of you don’t believe that teens deserve privacy
Teens are not children! They’re simply not! Are they adults? Nope! But they’re in an in between development stage and they deserve an age appropriate amount of privacy and autonomy in order to practice our being adults.
“But what if they fuck up?” Yeah I mean that’s how people learn shit.
This is also why I hate when people feel like they have to infantilize teens in order to argue that when teens date adults there’s a higher likelihood of abuse. It’s not because teens are children! It’s because they’re *not fully developed adults*! There’s a difference.
Evan Urquhart 🏳️⚧️@luxalptraum My first job out of college was working with teens, and I also fostered a couple when I was still married living in California.
They're really their own thing.. They can reason basically like adults, they can make and execute long term plans/goals... but they are hilariously naive and open and vulnerable, and even incredibly smart ones just happen not to know a lot of very basic things because they haven't lived long enough to learn them.
Roadskater, Ph.D.@e_urq @luxalptraum "but they are hilariously naive and open and vulnerable". This explains the various people I knew in college (esp. the first year or two) who changed their religious alignment, because the churches were actively recruiting on or very near campus.