Teenagers Are Adults

(not sure this is an opinion. it’s biological fact. but peeps get VERY Angry when I write it)

So a 13 year old person is an adult? I can see how that opinion is unpopular because it’s just wrong.

Many 13 year olds are still pubescent. None are children. Nature turns children into adults. There is lots of individual variation.
What turns a kitten into an adult cat? Puberty. What turns a puppy into an adult dog? Puberty. What turns a child into an adult human? Puberty. This is not difficult.

That’s not how any of this works.

That’s exactly how all of this works. It is in fact #BasicBiology

You can do all the #ScienceDenial you like. Won’t change the facts.

I guess its not practical to define a 14 year old as an adult when most people dont feel like an adult until they are like 30 or something.

People tend to use school and university vs jobs and mortgages for example as a barrier to adulthood.

I think it makes more sense to go with what people believe in general rather than to bog ourselves down with technicalities.

There are clear obvious scientific facts at work here. They are not technicalities.

How I feel does not make reality real. If I feel like a dog, I am still human.

Nature makes us adults. The process is called puberty. There are several visible objective secondary sexual characteristics which make pretty damned clear who is where in the process.