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God it feels like he's staring into my soul.
ikr xD
Matt M He is.
I'm glad I sold mine.
100 likes, Matt! YEAH WE DID IT! It took 6 years but it was worth it. Good job, everyone!
Stop staring into my soul
OMG HE BLINKED
CrazyEmoProxy I SAW THAT! ONCE! IN THE ENTIRE VIDEO, BUT IT HAPPENED AND HE CAN'T TAKE IT BACK.
time stamp it man
Lies
@@Black-St0rk 04:30 - 05:00
Also at 1:49!
The fact that you and Rainn Wilson are friends just made my day.
Rainn and Ze look like two hosts of an old 90’s kids show that educates youngens on the importance of washing your hands, or being polite with silly songs and in-your-face info that’s portrayed in a dramatic manner, therefore making it seem to be incredibly more interesting to young audiences.
DWIGHT!!!!!!
i wuv dat name damnit...
Michael Scott that's what I was thinking :D
RAINN!!!!!!
No way, is that special agent Michael Scarn?
Literally thought the same thing
I think anyone at any age can be idiots
That is a fact. Also teens are kinda idiots... How do i know? I see them, i talk to them and most importantly i was one.
Davis Ellwood Thats a stupid comment
That is a fact. Also adults are kinda idiots... How do I know? I see them, I talk to them and most importantly, I am one.
But at 56 when I act like an idiot, we say I am acting like a teenager. :-))
Are you talking about me again?
This is why adults need to be empathetic. Because we’re not fully developed and overly sensitive, we need to be understood. It’s like this... when you hear a loud noise it’s annoying, but if you hear it when you have a headache, it actually hurts. It’s not damaging or dangerous or a big deal, but the pain you feel is still genuine. It’s important to remember that.
It's also important to remember that it isn't actually doing any real damage, even if it feels like it
@@_Stormfather but it does, do real damage I mean. Atleast potentially, because if not properly guided and understood impulsive teenagers can seek comfort from their sorrows in places that could lead to a bad life, or even if they don’t do that it can lead to mental health problems.
So yeah, just saying “I know it feels like it really hurts but there’s no real harm being done” is not a helpful response to a teenager in crisis
@@karebushmarebu233 the correct response to a teenager "in crisis" is to help them learn that it's not actually a crisis. That's part of the maturing process, and is why adults see teenage issues as inconsequential. If a person never learns that fact, they will act like a child forever.
@_Stormfather
Adults telling, talking, and
guiding (how?)
… just ask questions of the teens , about their perspective, why it feels like it is huge and overwhelming to them. Try giving them a long attentive uninterrupted listen. Ask questions to help them think and feel their way through, to where it becomes a welcome discussion between you. Yes, thus takes longer, but children’ are our investment in the future, theirs and ours. I hope that my former teens give me compassionate listens and feels when it is again my turn to be confused and scared in my final transition, if that happens.
You know, teens who saw this when it first came out have probably now gained the experience and maturity to fully understand it. *mind blown*
Yeah that’s me lmao
yep that's me
That's so true lol. The timeline for the full development of the brain matches almost perfectly. (Age 13 + 9 = 22) on average, the brain is fully developed by the time you reach age 23.
@@Frosty_tha_Snowman
This video just had it’s 10 year anniversary 6 days ago. Yay!
Well I'm adult
Is that Dwight from the office
no, it's Santa Clause
Ruth Colato ok ms sarcasm
1964waynesworld It is Rain Wilson. He plays Dwight.
Nick Rise
Fine. From now on, you'll just be known as "Nick, from the internet".
See how it feels, Internet Nick?
Nick Rise
Too late. You've been type-cast.
Wilson: "I would, right now, show you my butt."
Ze: No reaction (except a twitch)
1. Never mistake someone's age for authority.
2. Teenagers do think creatively and can change the world, but rarely are they given the chance to take the risk.
3. Adolescents are not fully rational beings. No one is ever considered fully rational with their way of thinking.
4. You can't teach a child Calculus... but you can inspire the children to learn it themselves.
5. Efficiency doesn't promise effectiveness. (Formal education, i.e)
6. We should learn to question everything and even ourselves.
This is very true
No.
They should be acknowledged as thinking beings, not “they know nothing and I know everything”.
#2 is spot on!
This makes me feel like I'm failing as a person by not using my teenage years to develop talents and instead using them to watch UA-cam videos on how I should be using my teenage years to develop talents.
It's never too late to do awesome things. My dad has learned 2 languages on the last 5 years, he is 60yo, and now languages are his passion! :)
Thats because the video is partially bad because it relies on biased science to try and make a good point
How are you doing these days GoddessError? I know that my late teens and early 20s were my most productive. In my entire life. I got so much done and was able to accomplish many dreams. It came crashing down on me at 8:28, but before that it was awesome but lotta hard work. I wonder how things went with you.
It's fine buddy, you'll do just fine, you can always pursue it later in life. Some people are just lucky enough to be interested with something important at the right time.
I bet you turned out alright 😊
STOP LOOKING AT ME!
both the meanest and the nicest people I have ever known have been teens. maybe it's cause I'm only 18 and so consequently I am around teens more. I have known many adult's who don't give 2 shits about you or your problems. (this dosent apply to all adults just a slight majority).
AMEN to that brotha!!!!!!
........"the severity of feeling is sometimes out of line with the reality of the problem".......
The closer I get to adulthood and leaving my teenage years behind, the more I understand what they're saying but I still have objections.
I will honestly 100% stand by the fact that those people and those things that happened, don't matter. I look back and those embarrassing moments and some of the crushing moments are so insignificant. I do think adults should focus partly on helping teenagers deal with these things properly so we can learn effective coping skills.
When teenagers don't deal with these things efficiently, it can cause deep emotional wounds. Wounds that hinder their relationships for all of their adulthood.
Am I making any sense? I hope my point got across.
All of what you said makes complete sense. Those crushing moments seem BIG because at that point in time, our sense of life is limited, meaning our perspective is narrow. If only we were told that it's just a phase that will pass & how to deal with that phase, then life would've been more peaceful. At least you seem to know how to look at life. The force is strong with you :)
I've been an adult for years. Question EVERYTHING!
Ginger Kline been 5 years. Whoever I was when I wrote that sounds so much smarter...no idea what I’m doing as a real adult lol
@@SamanthDarling I'm an adult, really s l o w .
Yup. I work for the Ambulance & the fact that young people are not being taught coping skills is glaringly obvious. They call because their drunk friend is vomiting, is hungover & vomiting, is having a panic attack, have a minor cut, got scratched by a cat, have a toothache and don’t have Panadol, they have a cold & their Dr gave them AB’s that day but they haven’t kicked in yet, woke up with an earache, used a cotton swab & found a bit of blood etc. And they’re quite often screaming & crying when they call the ambulance for these situations, and demanding it hurry up & get there straight away! Then when there’s a real emergency, there’s often a whole crowd of screaming crying teens who can’t listen to potentially life saving instructions because they’re panicking.
These are all true calls! And verified as to what the difference (or lack) is between the original call & the actual case.
Ze is a perfect person to explain other people things. I mean, those eyes, just looking through your eyes into your brain and burning the information inside your brain.
'The severity of feeling is sometimes out of line with the reality of the problem."
REMEMBER THAT FOREVER OK
Though it is somewhat important to talk to teens on an equal level, in my opinion. Specifically, not to dismiss a child's or teen's stance just because they're younger, and to actually consider it.
Wow. That's some real insight, Pinkie. Surprising for a pony like you.
Will Bassman I got it from listening to too many of this guy's videos and hearing so much of his beautiful voice.
Pinkie Pie I see.
Will Bassman *Flies Over Your Homeworld In A F-22 Raptor* *Bombs It Completely To The Ground* Anti-Pony Bombs Kick Ass.
True.
I think about this video allot. I remember watching this when i was like 13 or 14. Im almost 20 now and i recite this shit all the time. In high school I'd repeat "teenagers are stupid our brains are just really sensitive" im so happy i found this video again. Such an important video.
If I know something from my really bad childhood that was full of violence and verbal abuse from both my father and mother until I was 17, that with love you can create wonders in a boy/girl heart I see it every day and I don't feel it.
But, to let them ruin or better you ruin your life for a mistake they did, it will back fire easily don't punish their negligence by getting bad grads or damaging your self, this self that you have is the one thing that for sure you will live with, so nurture it, look after it, take care of it and most importantly love it like a baby.
I hope I helped.
That guys Eyes seem to be boring into my mind...
I think an aspect to take into consideration is the fact that as a teenager, not only are emotions high because of -insert scientific development symptom here- but because it is the first time they are experiencing intense emotions and have no idea what to do with them. Falling in love, feeling undermined, feeling bullied, or frustrated and not know how to express that feeling so it can be understood or reciprocated, are powerful emotions on their own. More so powerful when it's the first time. Like eating chocolate for the first time. You wig out, It's heaven on the tongue! Then once you get used to the flavor it's like, "meh, it's still sweet but not as great for some reason." Same thing. Practice comes with the age at that point.
all I can focus on is how those books are so perfectly arranged so that there is no space between them and they stand straight up.
As a former teenager, I appreciate the thought and sensitivity put into this video. Thank you.
This video truly does touch on some things that I think if adults and teenagers watched together, it would allow them to understand each other a whole lot better.
Now I'm not sure if I should of started with this or not, but, I am 17 years old, soon to be 18 on March 15th, and as a child even younger than 13, I was always the kid saying, "I don't think that's a good idea." Or "I think I'll sit this one out."
And in my teenager years, I was always avoiding the kids smoking, or the kids getting into trouble.
I did make a promise to my self saying I would never drink, smoke, or do drugs (unless I broke something and needed to be medicated) and I have lived up to that promise from when I was 12, to now, and I will continue to keep that promise till I am dead.
And to just make the picture more clear...I always think about whether something is a good idea or not, should I take the chance and do something if there is a chance it could end bad?
I always look at my options and my paths and I decided wether if something is possible to go bad or not, and make a choice on wether I should go through with it or not.
Basically I was the kid who was the "limo dick" with my friends.
Does this mean my frontal lobes have developed "faster" or is there something else going on inside my brain.
Sincerely
Aaron W.
Commenting to see how you're doing now?
@@niravsavla1470 strange to see a reply all these years later. I’m doing good, 26 now and my promise is still going strong. I can still I have never drank alcohol, smoked anything or done any drugs! Haven’t broken anything either haha!
My circle of friends is small, I tend to focus on my jobs and house life. Been in a relationship for almost 7 years now. Got my first house late last year. So far, my lack of risk taking when there’s a potentially awful outcome has served me well. Don’t get me wrong, I take risks, but just try to avoid financial risks, or even daily risks when driving.
I’m sure there’s more to update in that regards, but yeah! Thank you for randomly commenting :)
What is Dwight doing here?!
"The severity of feeling is sometimes out of line with the reality of the problem."
I'm a teenager but I agree with these adults.
One might argue that is reductive, someone's experiences could contribute greatly to the material reality of the problem, that's why sexual harassment or corporal punishment against children is wrong. The intention might be one thing much lighter in their mind but the real world result was giving another person trauma they'll need time and money to first recognize and then heal years down the line.
I, as a teenager myself, will now go through the comments, saying "Exactly!" To every post I believe is by a teenager, and say "Not at all..." to everything I believe was written by an adult. Though, truth be told, I honestly do agree with some of the things my un-like-minded not-peers have to say. I mean, while I do find it depressing and irritating when I'm greatly underestimated, and find it daunting and terrifying when I am overestimated. I think what's happening is that neither party listens to the other. Teenagers are convinced that they are geniuses and are totally new and abstract beings that should be treated as such. No. And adults seem to be under the belief that anyone who isn't married with a stable carrier, or at least a PhD, is totally helpless and needs assistance, wisdom, and guidance in every. Single. Task. Also not true.
I will not summarize this post simply because it would place me in a position that I would not like to be in: having a clearly labeled side as to who is right and who is wrong. Make of this post what you will.
J
So it's been 6 years and you probably aren't a teenager anymore. Still feel the same?
@@peterw1534 probably. It was well said.
Exactly!
Hey, it's been 7 years, how do you feel now?
Aah I hate being a teen and having people just assume I am self centred, stupid, that I don't think of others and that I can't and don't think things through. sigh, it is hard to find people around that aren't like that at my age. They are constantly jumping to conclusions, assuming things, not thinking about how much in debt they are to me, so much debt.
Debt is something you apply to monetary things. Unless they were aware that they would owe you at the time, then they don't owe you anything, you made the choice to do it.
However if you did mention that you'd like them to return the favour one day, and they don't or refuse you should probably start hanging out with other people.
They do know they owe me, the reason I have supported the main person who is draining me is because we are best friends and have been for 5 years. His entire family left him and went to Singapore and he isn't mature enough to sort himself out. I helped him to get a job and he passed the interview and got the job but he fucked it up somehow and I don't know how. He has a pretty shit life so that's why I've been there for him. He is family now even my mum sees him as family. Anyway I've stopped lending him stuff he doesn't need to survive but I still feed him whenever he needs it and he is very slowly starting to give back. If I stop hanging out with him then I'll never get that money back, he will die and I will miss him. so I think I'll keep hanging with him. The other guys are fine now, they have paid me back in full with favours and dinner and that kind of stuff.
Trust me, it doesn't go away. Adults are still like that, except they are more stubborn about it. I'm sure you've realized this by now, though, since this comment is 6 years old 😂
i think i skipped most of the teenage angst by maturing so late and fast.
I found this channel a whole 2 days ago. I want to know the history of this channel, and that delightful, funny, intelligent fellow that creates it. Holy Quacamoles! How have I missed this wonderment for so long?! I have seen in comments that this channel -and this young man- have evolved over years, including his great delivery. I would love to know his growth with this. The "Human Tests", his critter vids, everything. I feel as if I have just stumbled onto the best thing to keep me happy on the worst of days and make the best of days even more fun.
I would die if I were sitting next to Rainn Wilson
Me: Casually watching, sleep deprived 13 year old.
When Dwight appears. I may have had a fangirl attack,
I remember being a teenager, with a lot of emotions on 100%. This video always helped me stay calm, and not to take myself to seriously.
i feel offended...
Am I supposed to be offended?
I'm not sure... I think neutral is our best bet here, dude.
*****
Remove the comma, come on :)
Joshua Barendse The comma is grammatically correct, fellow UA-cam person. =) You see, if I wrote that first sentence like this: "The comma is grammatically correct UA-cam person." ...it would be grammatically incorrect.
By the way, I like to eat oranges, apples, and red grapes. However, that comma right after the word "apples" or anything in a list right before the word "and" is optional, but it is more sophisticated in writing to add the comma.
Interestingly though, when I wrote "You see," near the start of this comment it would've been grammatically incorrect without the comment. And the same goes with when I had written "Interestingly though," as well as when I wrote "By the way," and whenever anyone writes it like that x)
Also, that comma I placed after the word "also" was furthermore correct, indeed, as was the comma after the word "correct" and the word "indeed," too. Plus, this is a grammatically correct list: to, two, and too, too. That list was correct because it was like me saying the same as "blue, red, and orange, too."
But don't forget "their, there, they're, it's, its, who, whose, whom, and a bunch more." ;)
(And did you know; it's grammatically fine to start a sentence with the word "and", and that this sentence is also grammatically fine: "the correct grammar he had had had had a huge impact on how everyone saw him."
One last thing in this comment, I promise; everything that I just wrote in this comment is grammatically correct to my knowledge and to Google's grammar correcting abilities on my mobile device with an exception of the emoticons I aubergine placed within the comment.
Happy Belated April Fools!! What you mentioned prior to this paragraph regarding what was mentioned being the last thing I'd mention was indeed a trick, for although wveythrign else was true, I still have a bit more to write. This is called an interrobang?!
"!?" is in fact called an interrobang and is also grammatically correct, as is the little spaces I've put at the start if almost all of the paragraphs in this comment. And this is just 0.009 on Lesson One on English Grammar! ;D
The internet has a LOT to learn... Jeez, I'll be here for years 😂
Natalie Procopio
I have corrections to my own comment. They are the following:
"...near the start of this comment it wouldn't be grammatically incorrect without the **comma** ..."
"...on my mobile device with an exception of the emoticons I had **placed** within the comment..."
"...what **I** had mentioned prior to this paragraph regarding..."
"...for although **everything** else was true I still..."
"...as is the little spaces I've put at the start **of** almost every..."
I apologize for the inconvenience and/or distress for fellow grammar police members or spelling OCD people. =)
Natalie Procopio
Aaaaaaah!!! Oh my god, okay.
I thought that i was right but never mind then..
But keep in mind, I am not English, I am Dutch. And I do my to learn english, becouse learning the english grammar is hard. And I am 14 you know, I still have a lot to learn! ;)
So... Thank you for the huge school grammar text thingy. :D
Obviously theres a large possibility of me being bias here, I can't really say.
Still, being a teenager, I really don't relate to what's in the video. I'm not mature, nobody my age is (especially those who say they are) but I'm not dumb.
I don't think I've ever done anything embarrassing or regrettable before, and I don't associate with the "badman alcohol beechez" personalities.
I'm just a nerdy kid who enjoys playing games and watching Japanese cartoons and eating chocolate. I don't do dumb shit to impress other like some, what I like to call "yolosapiens" do, you know those kids who show off and have a profile on every social media imaginable and do stuff just to be seen as hard or funny in front of their "friends".
Rambling a bit here, but you get it. I feel that people shouldn't bunch every teenager into the dumb/stupid/alcoholic/smoking/badman/do-stupid-shit-to-look-funny sort of stereotype.
Nobody did.
Alex Ander Sorry? I don't get it...
***** ok
I agree.
Ambidextroid I completely agree. nobody necessarily see's the full image and from what they've gathered they place possibly the worst stereotype you could have on a large group of individuals. and although I don't like this judgement, stereotype's are loosely based on what the majority of those people act, do, say, etc. the way you put it as "yolosapiens" is also unfortunately the most accurate of the stereotypes.
speaking as a teenager myself I do sometimes expand those problems I have to irrational proportions but I control them instead of spitting them into everyone's faces. I believe adults should make connections on how crappy we feel because they've been a teenager so why can't they? some super self-conscious kids are told to go to counselors but they aren't there to help because they can; they're there for money. there's no type of complaint box tailored towards counselors so how could they get fired?
it's starting to sound as though I was traumatized or are devising some sort of secret plan to overthrow authority or something but don't worry I'm not either of those. I just really dislike society's view on all teenagers and find this as a subject people never take the time to reflect on it. I should stop. I could ramble on for hours with this but i'd eventually get tired and well I don't think anyone would read a comment for even more then 30 seconds really. I comment rarely so take this as a- well nothing really; just something to think about I guess.
I miss the ashow. It helped me through a lot of shitty days. If you read this Ze. You should try to bring it back.
( I haven't seen the whole video yet but I would just like to add-)
"...spend more time helping us through [our problems]" (
If I understood you, your point of view is that what the original prompt wanted was a video that told other adults to teach teens _how_ to cope with emotions, instead of adults telling teens to figure out themselves how to cope with emotions.
I see a few problems with that:
- Nobody formally taught those skills to most of previous generations. At best, each current adult collected a few optimal coping mechanism from each adult in their life and then grew up to be remarkably calm people. That’s best case scenario and they don’t know how to teach it because they weren’t taught, just shown.
- Most adults have terrible emotional coping skills because they just cobbled together any system that worked. Adults often cannot even model good coping skills consistently, much less articulate and teach such a thing.
- Teens don’t listen to advice from each other, much less from adults. If an idea doesn’t come from us it might be interesting but it doesn’t stick. Until a crisis hits and we begin to realize our unwise choices have had undesirable consequences. At which point adults are frustrated that we demanded to make our own mistakes but still expect adults to help us clean up our mistakes.
You don’t believe me?
Adults have been told for decades to eat healthy and exercise. Most adults demand that others stop judging them for their food choices or sedentary life (I’m an adult I can do whatever I want!). And then they reach 40 or 50 and the doctor tells them: tests reveal your body is breaking down early, just like you were warned might happen if you made unwise choices. Suddenly, a bunch of adults stop taking health for granted and actually follow good advice.
In conclusion: teens give adults too much credit for knowledge they don’t have, adults expect a lot from teens, and teens expect too much from adults if they’re supposed to help us clean our messes _and also_ not get frustrated about it or feel their own feelings.
As a teenager who gets the whole "You're just a teenager, life goes on, your problems aren't as important as they seem" sort of idea thrown at me frequently, I can say that it probably has something to do with my lack of experience in the world at large. I will have to pay bills and maintain a career some day. That day is not today, so let me flip out about school for a while, as it is, at the moment, more overwhelming than anything I've ever dealt with, not helped by the newly onset depression.
And with that, these two gentlemen have called about 95% of their audience complete and total idiots, in a way that only 10% of said audience was able to understand. Well done.
Ever since I was 11 people told me I was mature and I only got along with older people rather than kids my own age, I wonder why?
+Cool Cat because you have telekinesis power
Bears. Beets. Battlestar galactica.
IMPOSTER!!
To all the teenagers upset by this video and posting their own experience as some kind of counterargument, There are some things you should consider. These two gentlemen are indeed out of touch with your experience. They admit it themselves. They talk about scientific data which provides a good explanation of the global trend of teenagers being unreasonable in their behavior or reactions to stimuli. You should also keep in mind that no matter how many teens comment to say that they are mature, the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'
While I respect your comment, I would also like to point out that they really didn't answer the question asked of them. The question was "Shouldn't our elders spend less time telling us that our problems are small and more time helping us get through them," not, "Why do teens seem irrational?"
@@bananaz572171 Because if they just answered the original question the video would be too short. They'd just say "no" and teens would walk away offended. Loving adults already help their teens thru the important problems and try to instill perspective as kids deal with the less important ones on their own. There's no need to treat every teen problem with the gravity they feel. It stokes unnecessary drama. Besides there are somethings that teens just have to go through themselves. If mom and dad come to the rescue everytime you get the basement dweller phenomenon.
@@massiveheadwoundharry6833 No. They would direct adults to say something like, "I'm sorry you feel bad because of X." Maybe extend with an anecdote. Like they exemplified in the video. They do give too much credit to adults to understand the subtext. It doesn't mean they can't learn.
@@bananaz572171 - What I saw in the video? Was not adults saying teen problems are small, or avoiding answering how to help teens get through their problems.
Problems are not the same thing as the emotions we feel about those problems. Problems have solutions; feelings do not.
Nobody can solve our emotions for us, or help us solve them, because feelings themselves are not meant to be solved.
The best that other people can offer are videos like this one, with perspective and guidance, but each teen (and adult) has to do the hard work of experiencing emotions and do it alone in their heads.
In this video I see adults saying: teen emotional response is overwhelmingly big. And adults cannot take away your pain or fix it. You have to survive the pain of your brain finishing growing up -
But! It also says, here’s hope: that pain _will_ get less intense each year, it _does_ have an end in sight when your brain stabilizes, life will _not_ always hurt as bad as we feel as teens.
I see a video that offers hope and guidance. This _is_ adults helping teens through experiencing adolescence. It’s even a reminder to adults to be more patient as teens make their way through growing pangs of the brain.
What this video is not, is validation of teen anger against adults that is caused by adults not being able to reach into our brains and take away the pain.
and there comes the dead "grown" brain. Data data data data data. everything data, everything measured based on our extremely limited viewpoints. Pathetic.
This video made me recount my earliest memories. I remember as a sperm looking at that egg. I had to fight all of my brothers to get in there because of how much I wanted my own space. Well, I did get in there and got that whole thing to myself.
It's all been downhill ever since...
I've thought about this a lot, & decided that when I grow up, I never want to lose empathy for how it feels to be a teen. Hopefully I'll be able to pull through on that decision.
I notice people who think that teenagers are naturally idiots were actually idiots themselves when they were teenagers and want some way to justify their own idiocy. People who were intelligent as teenagers tend not to view teens as being inherently idiotic.
+Comrade Danny But, doesn't that depend a bit on the teenager you're dealing with? ...
Those teens you talk of were those quiet teens that sat there and wished they were a part of the cool crowd. Nobody remembers or cares for those types.
Nobody should care for the types that don't care about those types either, because they are borderline sociopathic.
Comrade Danny I was an idiot teenager. I was really really stupid but I don't think teenagers are stupid. My job is to teach adolescents and most of them are very good at reasoning. But this is just my subjective opinion and not a scientific one.
@Talsong Kingslayer
To your first comment, everything after "I studied hard," doesn't really apply to the level of one's intelligence. Many idiots can respect their elders, smart people can & do do illegal things (they can just be better at not getting caught sometimes). If we're going based on your list, then both adults and teens are, as you put it, "absolute morons."
To your second comment, you're making the base assumption that said cool crowd is composed of purely idiots, or even one of them... Which, honestly, sounds more like the typical movie version of the "cool crowd." I don't know about your school experience, but at my high school, the cool kids were really just those who were well known and probably had money (by comparison, at least) as well. Of those kids, I found that a lot of them tended to be in more AP classes; meaning, at least in the academic sense (which adults constantly push, even when not needed), they weren't morons. Generalizing and assuming that what you said was the base for cool kid crowds isn't necessarily accurate, nor helpful.
The quiet kid in the back of the class could simply just want the popularity and amount of friends that associated with being a cool kid, which again, isn't inherently a bad thing that leads to a shitty future.
Is this fucking Dwight Schrewt
I explained a shortened version of this to my daughter when she was going into the pre-teen years. It was really helpful for her to know that different parts of her brain were growing at different rates, and that there was a reason why things were so intense and confusing sometimes. It helped her feel OK with coming to me and talking about what was bugging her, and we could discuss it from a place of science and biology.
Dwight!!! I'm a teen, pretty inteligent and so on and I can't say ive ever really felt those downsides, many peopl e would agree im wiser than most
Same here, as narrow-minded as it may sound to some, I also feel much wiser than the majority of people around me, my councilor also tells me that she has to remind herself of my age, its a little annoying too. : )
You can tell everything you need to know about a nation by the way they treat their youth.
"The severity of feeling is sometimes out of line with the reality of the problem"
well resumed indeed
Im a big fan of Ze Frank, all things ted really but him in particular, but I think this video is disappointing. I remember people telling me "I know this doesn't mean anything to you now, but it will change." They were right, it did change, but they were also right to say it wouldnt mean anything to me at the time... IT DIDNT. Telling teenagers that "you know they cant understand" is not the same as leveling with them, it only goes to further the distance between you and them, because they really really cant. Don't say "I know you cant see it now but,..." say "I know how you feel, and I'm so sorry." They don't want you to answer all their questions and solve everything, even if you did they cant recognize it until their brains grow in, they want you to love, accept, and empathize with them.
snailspuppydgogtails that’s always what I wanted from my mom, was empathy. Even when I did something completely idiotic, I just wanted her to simply level with and understand why I chose to do the things I did (and in the process understand myself) rather than tell me I was wrong and I get my punishment and that was that. I just wanted things to be more mental so I could have help understanding myself, but I was left feeling frustrated and helpless instead.
Why does my brain work the way that it works. What makes me so different and why am I so different. How can I rewire myself so that I can become better? But ig even the adults don’t have the answers and maybe they never took the time to understand their younger selves, since it’s all in the past. I still get adults that say they have yet to discover who they are well into their adulthood, even if they have what they call a successful life. It’s all just a game of life I suppose, and you just land wherever the dice falls and you pick whatever card you can afford.
The most simple way I can address what I think is unfair about claiming that the teen shouldn't expect to understand now because his/her brains are still developing goes like this: Sub-optimal speed of synapses does not mean no synapses. In other words, of course teens can think about consequences. What they may need is the occasional reminder to make an effort to remember that. Not that they should just wait to think about consequences. Practice, not just patience. It breaks my heart to think of a teen who can go through max level suffering but minimum level understanding, with Patience - of all things - being the best advice from an adult. Also, what better way to teach the ability to consider consequences than to demonstrate? In conclusion: You get nowhere by belittling their brains. Same goes for kids, really, but teens can - unlike kids - deal with most anything you tell them. So when teens ask, do your best to do tell them everything.
I curse anyone who urge the teen not to think. And I curse anyone who tell them to lay off of thinking until they're adults. And frankly, that's the main message I got from this. I'm sure you meant it differently, but you didn't articulate it very well, so I felt I had to write this in reply.
I miss this so much. I wish Ze weren’t so busy and could have A Show daily or weekly. 😭😭 I’d take something like Shark Week. 168 hours of non-stop Ze therapy sessions.
anyone else watching this in 2019?
2020
2021
HOLY SHIT IT'S DWIGHT SCHRUTE!!!
20 year old, just the right age to be a part of this but be aware at the same time I feel. I legit remember in vivid detail all the emotions going through my head when I would fail a class or get stood up. I think that as you get older, these feelings dull a bit. When feelings dull to the point of triviality you feel like these feelings always were dull and trivial. I guess what I'm trying to say is that while you're freshly experiencing all these things, opening up to wonderful and terrible possibilities that could happen, older people have seen them more times than they would like to admit.
Today's word is plasticity, the brain's ability to change to be more efficient. Children's plasticity is at his or her at it's highest at any time in life, it eventually slows down as we get older, but its mostly to keep our brains working properly. Adults have a little of that, but it takes MUCH longer for the brain to change.
Eva Aislinn Hey, thanks for supporting me there.
Nathan Dam
No prob.
John Herring How about you help the rest of us out and follow your own advice?
Hey I didn't wanna be that guy (or girl in this case) but I reported the comment. I'm really glad there were people defending and supporting each other in this instance, but that kind of stuff happens all too often. I know it makes the responses a little confusing to anyone else, but one less comment is one less comment.
I've always known about people fighting rudeness with rudeness as if we're in a world where rudeness is effective against itself. What I find unreal here is the sense of camaraderie here, the apparent pride of doing good deed and the apparent gratitude of receiving it. Being rude to someone who was _rude first_ is now accepted as a good deed implicitly... It's as if we've lower the standards of good deeds.
Is that dwight shrute? xD
I think this is an important video, although it was made years ago it still holds 100% true. I’m an old lady now and survived my teen years, but I remember how devastating things could be, and seeing no way out! It’s important to receive a little love and praise during those years, even when discipline is required, an adult could show understanding and empathy.
You didn't answer the question, which asked, simply, "Why do adults focus on making our problems seem small instead of trying to help us through them?"
Instead, you answered the question of "Why isn't the teenager understood by others?"
CreeperOnYourHouse I was thinking the same thing. It seems both sides need to have more of an open mind to me. You should never stop learning or helping others to learn.
well 4 years later now what do u think?
@@nilsmuller5006 nice one bro.. hahahaha
Speaking as an adult- we want you to see your issue from a different perspective. And by "helping" you see that it's not so bad, we can help you realize that it's not the end of the world; helping you to step back and breathe, calm the f down because you're making our own inadequacies rise to the surface and making us question our life choices!
Do you see how it all escalates sweetie? :)
Also: if we have been through the same scenario you are experiencing, we can help. If not, we do our best to help you through it. Parenting sucks! There is no manual on how to raise well adjusted children! It's all a crap-shoot! No matter what we parents do, you're gonna end up in therapy somehow....
I can't believe this commenter took this seriously. It's meant to be comedy, not an actual advice show. 🤦♀️ Bet this person is named Karen.
This got so boring after 2 minutes. Must've been my teen brain not being able to focus. :P
Seeing this one, now, like 7-8 years later, I have so much more insight and now have another tool to talk to my kids about one day.
But why is it, that in our "dumbest" years, the years when our brain is literally changing completely, we have to make all the important decisions? We have to learn, be responsible and take all the important steps for our future? I get it, that the younger you are, the better you learn. But I just don't understand, why the government is forcing us to make the most important decisions of our live during that hormonal and fully crazy time?
I hope my point gets across, English isn't my native language.
*is 13 years old*
"teens don't have access to the front of their cerebral cortex"
me:.......i don't?..........
*Googles what the hell a cerebral cortex is*
This is what i got....
"the furrowed outer layer of gray matter in the cerebrum of the brain, associated with the higher brain functions, as voluntary movement, coordination of sensory information, learning and memory, and the expression of individuality."
*Voluntary Movement, i can move.... Check
*Coordination of sensory information, i can see/hear/smell/taste/feel... Check
*Learning and Memory, i can learn new things and recall events that have happened to me... Check.
*Expresses Individuality,i create a comic strip for more whole school if that's not a tad bit expressive of my individuality then i don't know what is.... Check.
Seems like i have plenty access if you asks me .-.
Clarification on the "cerebral cortex" thing:
I think what they meant to say is that you do have access to your cerebral cortex, but it's not fully developed yet. Your brain is still developing to make your neural pathways more efficient, up until your 20's (like what the video said).
So yes, you have plenty access, but for more complex processes (sensory and motor processes are a bit lower on the complexity hierarchy in the brain), it's still a bit... weird. Of course you have learning and memory, which will get better up until your brain starts degrading (so strengthen it while it's still developing), and as for expressing individuality, while it's true that you have this, life experiences will change your individuality as you grow older and your neural pathways change as a result of that.
Long story short, they're not saying that you don't have access to your cerebral cortex, but that you'll change as you develop across the life course.
(Sorry for the long post. Here's a potato.)
You aren't fully developed, is what they meant to say. The potential for higher thinking just isn't there during teenage years.
Natalya Marie I would rephrase that as "there is yet more unexplored potential available as you pass the teen years". The current statement sounds like teens don't exercise higher thinking, and we're all clear that they do.
This pops out after I binge watch this channel, and it surprises me how much this channel has changed! It’s still really awesome though
I hope I stay a teen forever.
Am I the only person in their twenties who thinks back on their teenage years and sees nothing except safe, conservative choices? I think most of this "teen brain" is cultural and dependent on external factors like:
a) You move out of home (I went to high school and university near home. That's what you do in Australia, everyone lives with their parents)
b) You have your first relationship (I went to an all girls school, most guys in uni weren't that great, so didn't date until I was like 21)
c) You join the party culture and get drunk on weekends (For some reason this just wasn't my scene)
d) You believe that you have to become a teenager to fit in (I hated the idea of being turned into an idiotic teenager so I just refused to become one. I was fairly nerdy in high school and didn't really care much about popularity.)
etc.
If you don't go through all those cultural changes during your teen years, you don't end up being a stereotypical hotheaded teenager. True story, bro.
I didn't do any of those things either (moving out, getting drunk, partying, etc.) but I still have those teen choices that I look back on now and think, what the heck was I thinking? Family conflicts that don't seem that bad now felt like....well, like the world was ending. And I can't help but wonder if I would have chosen to start a career as tough and competitive as music if I had the perspective that I have now. I decided to be a musician when I was 13, started conservatory at 17, and now that I'm older and wiser, I've invested way too much in music to forget it and get a less competitive career. Haha it's great that you have no regrets, though.
I was roughly like you, I cared more about "important" intellectual pursuits. I never wanted to move out of my home, because I knew I couldn't afford it without a job (though if you had asked me if a minimum wage job was enough I'd have said yes, and have since learned that it isn't.)
I wanted a relationship, but was too geeky to find one.
I partied alot, but didn't do it as much as others, like, I never skipped school for it.
I still was hot-headed, opinionated, and couldn't think things through enough (though perhaps more than others my age).
I'm still the intellectual, and I still party, but my life is well on track into my adulthood. And most of the hardcore party crowd is doing fine or better. So apparently it doesn't matter too much.
I also was never any of those things, but I was lucky enough to be very self aware as a teenager. I could feel all of those self-destructive tendencies in my brain, and made a point not to fall victim to them. The strings exist. I was just a puppet who could see the strings.
This video is also a broad generalization. The video isn't about you. It's about everyone. An individual can be anything. Just because you or I have been really lucky, that doesn't mean that there aren't tons of people who this video is relevant to.
Guys, man you really nailed it. Extraordinary facial expressions, very riveting. I was a really screwed up teen in a screwed up time 80s 90s with a beat nut dad and hippie mother, both feminist, strict (protestant) entrepreneurs. We had a lot of ups and downs and I was shown all of the many faces of humankind. Scary, overwhelming, I feel so fortunate and am very grateful for my beautiful life now, with my wife and three amazing children. Now I get to be the parent, my two girls yikes, my son the oldest, is just way too cool! Thanks gentlemen great video!
They're a bunch of adults these guys. They don't get it because they've never thought much on the subject. They don't want to because they're adults. They have priorities. That's a main difference between adults and teens. Adults have already pruned all the unnecessary neural pathways because that's what makes them efficient. They've become close-minded for the sake of efficiency. Teens still have trimming to do, and what they trim is ways that don't work, possibilities that aren't worth exploring. That's why adults will think they understand teenagers, but really, they're just being facetious.
Er, wait, who are you talking to?
I'm a teen and i don't fucking understand what's your goddamn point, ahego
KIDshadow I'm a teen and i understand lol... but nvm
Echo Xerk I'm a teen and I don't. And I don't see why you couldn't take a few seconds to explain if you're willing to drop a comment. Unless you were trying to be intentionally aggravating.
Ragnarok9x Yes, it's just you. I'm not sure that it *is* a hentai profile picture, and even if it is I'm not sure how it's relevant.
Let me see through this, As much as it seems we teenagers are not idiots!
To my point of view, it just seems like were idiots because we have not taken every concept of being responsible and being prompt!
We vary in many ways because of how our parents raised us, and what influence we have. Take example of an over protected teenager who has seen what he/she can do to his or her parents.
WE are the new generation of you guys. WE hold the future of humanity's man made needs. WE act how our parents acted or wanted to act. You cannot say we are idiots because we may become more than what we are capable off.
I am a 13 year old 1st year asian girl talking like this to guys!
I guess you also didn't care to wait until the video finished to comment. And the fact that you're thirteen, asian, and a girl doesn't add to your point.
***** Ahh, good point. *changes profile*
You’ve done a beautiful thing with this video Ze. The first time I saw this I was 14; on one side of this conversation. Now at 20, on the other side, I’ve become the adult who lives in the other world, looking back on the one I left.
"you're just an adult, you couldn't possibly understand the complexities, and struggles of a teen, because you where never a teenager yourself and couldn't possibly have any sort of comparrison between being an adult and being a teen. whereas i know exactly what it's like to be both a teen and an adult at this current moment, and am a far more adequate judge than you. #thestruggleisreal"
and because some fuckwit is STILL gonna miss the obvious sarcasm, i have to literally say it.
***SARCASM***SARCASM***SARCASM*** I AM BEING SARCASTIC, THIS IS MEANT TO BE TAKEN IN JEST.
I'm studying psychology and I can easily tell that this woman is lying. 1:25
Bethany Dunning No need for sarcasm, I am an expert.
It's more likely she just happens to have a number of awkward facial mannerisms.
How can u be an expert if your still studying..a professional psychologist wouldnt make assumptions in just 1 look and 1 event..
MidnightFUn12 I can tell she's lying by observing various non-verbal behavior that indicate that's not telling the truth. And professional psychologists DO make assumptions at first sight. It's part of the training and we're paid to do just that. You clearly have no idea of what psychologists write in their notebooks while talking to a patient LOL
Once again Ze recommends reaching out to some one you can trust with your questions and concerns, this can be a trusted teacher, parent, grandparent, or even a friends parent if you trust them.
Mental disability? Really? -_-* My sister has a mental disability so just shh.
A mental disability because they lack the ability to apply severity and importance to their actions. Like your sister is. You do know mental disability is not a specific diagnosis but have levels within it right? Well of course you do. Because like you said you sister has a mental disability.
this is the point where you feel stupid and think you need to respond so as to everyone else don't catch on. You should ignore those urges. (aka Shh)
._. well okay then. Being a teenager just doesn't seem like a mental disability, and I was not being rude to you
How would a teenager understand how they lack an ability they will not obtain until they reach adulthood?
It would be like a baby deciding not to cry just because he lacks the ability to communicate in that crazy noise the others are making. Because he understands he will learn to understand it later.
some things you don't or can't understand until you get there. no matter how hard you try to. But take solace in knowing that EVERY adult you meet was a teenager once. Something that it seems teenagers quickly forget.
It is an ancient dance of kids thinking their parents "just don't understand" and Adults thinking teenagers lack the ability to understand that how their feel right now as a teenagers carries no importance in their lives.
It is like a mental disability because teenagers have all the emotions thoughts and feelings with none of the context. Or the ability to handle them. So though you think you have a good grasp on reality. Your perspective is skewed. And it is in a way that can be very detrimental without guidance.
You said "so just Shh" because you didn't understand the context of the statement. that was kind of rude. maybe not to me. but still rude.
Thank you! Because mental disability is diagnosed, and being a teenager is a stage of life, like being a catapiller...
true. But the difference is the caterpillar doesn't look at butterflies and assume they have the whole flying thing down. And she said it is LIKE a mental disability. Meaning if this was happening in an adult brain it would be. And a diagnosis is just identifying a problem.
Im 17, and i feel like the generalized statements made in this video cant apply to all. The way they describe how when they where teens they where idiots, should not, and does not mean all teens are idiots. The segment about emotion also made me question their reliability. I for one only worry about real problems, like if my family where to find out that i am gay, i would be disowned and thrown out of my house, even though i make 30% of my families income. handling emotion is something that can be taught and isn't something that you can only develop over time with out any thought. While the part of brain development is true, i have always been prepared for all consequences, and those thoughts have limited what i do in a daily basis, keeping me for making the wrong choices, and i have done this since i can remember.
Natt I believe you're misinterpreting the point of the video. The video is not saying "all teenage problems are stupid and totally out of proportion to real problems", it's that because teenagers think in a different way than people with fully matured and developed brains, they often feel a certain amount of severity to things they have been taught matter, that don't matter so much. The 'preperation for consequences' you mention is not really relevant. Plenty of teenagers know that their actions have consequences. But the thing that makes them so different is that they can't accurately relate to their future selves, because of the fact that the pre-frontal cortex is still undeveloped. This results in people's brains not accurately interpreting consequences, and the brain just can't actually 'predict' the consequences in the same first-person way that it does other things. That's what I've got. Hope it helps.
sometimes making them realize that thier problem are small is actually the best way to help them through them.
Could it be that the “teen brain” is also fueled by the severe lack of real emotional support when its needed most coupled with the fact that all elders will hate or mock them for something?
In many tribes around the world, the “teen brain” doesn’t exist and the majority of the traditional negative teen emotional experiences dont happen the way it does in other places.
I am in the firm belief that we as a culture have deemed teenagers to be a the black sheep of the age groups and have given them a very negative situation where they can relate to no one and have no one to take their feelings seriously. Even young childrens feelings are given more respect and patience than a teens.
Teens are expected to behave like adults, yet are treated like small children. Its no wonder they try to rebel against the systems placed against them in reckless and dangerous ways!!! The unfairness makes them angry and they have no real way to express their feelings without them being trivialized or change their situation! Its maddening!
Adults expect teens to act grown up but then act like children themselves. It's not easy being a teenager. Yes some of our problems are petty and insignificant to older adults with more experience than us but we have to be given the chance to proove our abilities before being judged.
“The severity of the feeling is sometimes out of line with the reality of the problem” -ZeFrank
Commenting this so it’s easier for me to find in the future when I need it.
DWIGHT
I’m a 64yr old, (in no particular order or degree of success) father, grandfather, artist, teacher, designer, businessman and my still existent “teen brain” is my greatest asset and my gravest flaw. It’s the amazing bronco that never quite stayed broke.
The science stuff was interesting… Thanks.
I am a 14 year old and I've never had a real "teenager" moment. It might help that I am gay and genderfluid and have accepted that I'm different from many people.
why at these videos so much of dump commentaries? just... no.
Natalie Wong Yes I am, thank you for noticing. I hope you have a good day.
Typo Def Thanks for noticing, yes I'm gay, but I don't see why that should matter to you.
I beg to differ. You said you're gay. Therefore I assume you've engaged in dating. Figuring out your identity is a BIG "teenage moment". Many of us teens like to think we're not teenagers. We like to think we're already adults, but we're going through so many changes we barely notice.
And smoking marijuana when you're a teenager can result in you having schizophrenia for the rest of your life!
Just thought I'd leave that here!
Not really. Those statistics are about as good as the ones that say oxygen leads to cancer because 100% of cancer patients breathed oxygen.
pricemac Do some research. I have. All the studies I've looked at have found reasonable evidence to support the idea that, at the very least, it has a very strong chance of activating schizophrenia-related genes in individuals who probably wouldn't have had any problems with it under normal circumstances.
Snowskeeper Ferenczy Interesting... I've researched many studies that show no correlation, and in some cases, a reduced chance. Try cross-referencing the way they smoke it? I've seen many reports that correlate aluminium pipes and such causing increased Schizophrenia. Also consider the source of the study. If it's by "Marijuana: Causes Cancer" Research Associates you might want to be check other sources.
You do have a much higher chance of getting schizophrenia if you smoke marijuana as a teenager when you're genetically predisposed to getting schizophrenia. You can also slow or alter your brain's development if you're drinking copious amounts of alcohol or taking drugs while you're a teenager. You can end up in a state of arrested development that can last your whole lifetime. It's actually pretty common knowledge at this point.
THIS IS ABSOLUTE FUCKING BULLSHIT.
L I E S
There is absolutely no evidence to support this. This is straight up propaganda
He's blinking! He is blinking! HE IS BLINKING!
To look at the general idiotic attempts made at "depth" by teenagers all one has to do is look at Tumblr.
Or reddit. Or 4chan. Or the internet.
TheZombieJC Or, y'know, outside.
*Snap*
Yep, this is going in my cringe compilation
Or you know. Maybe you should stop generalizing an age group by its most embarrassing members. Picking the weakest link as an example for the whole chain is willfully ignorant.
As a 19 year old college student, I can't say I relate. When I was a young teenager, I hung around 20 somethings; I thought that my peers were morons (which they were). I was discussing concepts like the ideal of communism, solipsism, and nihilism at the age of 14. I attribute this to my choice of peers. Teens as a whole are dumb ,but they have great potential if their energy is focused in the right ways.
Your iq was probably higher than others, i understand what you're saying and sometimes it does suck when you cant talk to other people about important things rather than irritatingly superficial things.
I agree and disagree there are more idiotic kids than others but the science is still true to the whole mass of adolescents
Oh shut up
Not to be offensive, but almost every teenager thinks that way. We all like to think we're smarter than the rest of our peers just because we discuss more "advanced" topics. We are egocentric and selfish. We always think "Yeah, teenagers are morons, but I'm not like them. I'm better", but it's not true. I know fifteen year olds who go to college and hang out with 20 somethings. Doesn't make them any less teenage-like. So with all due respect, lose this "holier than thou" attitude. Arrogance leads to ignorance.
JuanDVene In my experience, teenagers are REALLY STUPID. One of my classmates in my senior class tried to drift a corner in his camry, hit a tree, and died. Another one was stupid enough not to use contraceptives and got pregnant. I'm talking about people that couldn't hold an intellectually involved conversation for more than 5 minutes; either because they were mentally incapable or because they didin't know the words I was using.
How has it taken me ten years to find this???
This... is SO controversial.
It's a fight between the hormone filled teens with a heightened brain function.... or the mellowed, conditioned adults who's brain masses are shrinking by a gram each year after the age of 20... however have more life experience and access to a less clouded thinking/ reasoning to that of a bias, hormone driven teen.
Let the battle commence XD
The brain loss is extra unused connections being weeded out. It's more a 'filtering out misinformation' than a 'loss of good information' process.
you mean let the battle continue...as it has for thousands of years
It’s both annoying and inevitable. You too shall become an idiot (again) in time.
It is not as simple as this. The argument of "nature vs nurture" always seems to leave out the effects of socioeconomics. In the last 50 years, people have become too busy "making a living" than "actually living". One allowed more time for developing bonds between parents and their children while the other saw them separated for the majority of the days.
I think it's lazy to simplify teen behaviour to this claim to hormone as if this stops producing after the teen ages, like many are trying to push. Cultural development is a way that societies maintain lessons gathered as a group and is used to teach their children how that society handles matters as a group. We don't have cultural development anymore. Instead, we try to maintain other's culture and content ourselves with the idea that "culture" exists. But we do not development any. At least none that teaches out children positive human development. The only form of cultural development we have these days is "money is success", "work hard, get rich", "the more you own, the more successful you are" and when none of these fallacies prove to work, then it turns to "it's because others are stealing your jobs" or "they want to destroy us"...
Change for the better starts with teaching your children, not only your own values, but also teaching then how you reach to your values and develop their own. If you don't teach your kids these, do not be surprised when they find someone else to teach them something and do not be shocked that the values they leaned are different from yours.
Wow, a four year old comment filled with a lack of knowledge, a bad perspective, and an insultingly trite concept of biology.
So... what's going on neurologically with all the supposedly rational adults who voted for Donald Trump?
Those would be the ones that are mentally stunted.
i guess the same retardation that would cause one to vote for hillary
Or any other main candidate. And what's going on neurologically with the supposedly rational adult who makes that kind of comment in the first place?
Isaac Taylor Why aren't we more focused on the parts of government that actually make decisions, to me, the president has always just seems like a figurehead
The thing is, some people have the potential to become smart, some don't. The smart ones just need a few years to go through their teenage years to get there, for dumb ones like Trump supporters there's nothing to get to in the first place.
This was very well said. And I think it truly matters in society to focus on schools cracking down on drugs, violence, bullying and other sorts of things. Because the teen brain is so fragile and the future is in children, and teens are the extremists. Most of the time teens who are under the influence of large amounts of pot smoking, or more so drugs and alcohol remain in that state of immaturity. Until they drop clean they are immature in a sense more so emotionally and it is very clear to see when you see those kids grow up and act the same yet the ones who weren't hooked on partying and what not, evolved into a more mature adult.
you dont have a cerebral cortex.
shut your face
MsWackypanda I rest my case
Trey Stine being a loner doesnt make you a mature adult
MsWackypanda I think you got something different from my comment...
Ok, this explains a lot. The wave of maturity from the back of my brain towards the front, well it got stuck and never arrived at the front.
This video is a trip.
(I was running out of characters.)
I avoided people when I could and I graduated a year early. For most of the time I was in high school I was also in martial arts programs outside of school, so I would go to the studio and beat on a punching bag or spar. I saw a therapist once a week. I dropped classes if there were too many students who harassed me, and tried to spend as little time in the hallways and cafeteria as I could. I didn't go to any school dances or events if I could avoid it.
god i feel the not planning ahead part. okay i am going to revise and get great marks on my exams. 1 hour later rewatching zefrank not having done any revsion
John Doe
Extremely insightful and eloquently put, thank you.
I nearly thought I was the only one who noticed this.
I am 33 years old but I was very mature as a teenager. I think it was because of my traumatic experiences as a child. In short I had to "grow up" at such a young age. I was cooking full time on a gas stove at 7 for my sister and mentally ill / alcoholic father. If I didn't.. we would starve. And that only scratches the surface of what I lived thru
I believe it is a bit of nature vs nurture in regards to teenage maturity.
*DWIGHT!!!! FROM THE OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Ze, that look at :58 - Oh Lord, it gets worse at 1:04 hilarious XD