The Older I get the Less I Can Stand Teenagers!

[robsmith32]

and honestly, I know that not all adults are stereotyping, disrespectful jerks that don't like me based on my age, but it sometimes seems like they are.

It really bothers me the way I am treated like garbage because I'm 16 years old. It disgusts me, I am just as or more ambitious, hard working, driven, and intelligent as/than most adults, but I get treated like a 2nd class citizen because of my age. To me, it's something that most adults really need to get over, and accept that I am not every other 16 year old, and can't control the things they do.

no you're not every other 16yr old... why you keep trying to defend yourself here?

an old saying that i recall hanging on my uncles wall... ... why don't you go ahead and move out and take on all the responsibilities of life as an adult while you're still a teenager and know it all. and we know nothing....

it's not that you aren't intelligent.. but with time comes experience, with experience comes wisdom(hopefully) for some that isnt' the case... you seem to learn from experiences, and learn from others as well. so take it as a complement...

there are several times some that I just wanted to slap upside the head and say step back and look at the big picture.. heck, sometimes i still need a piece of that.


things that i would have willfully done when younger, ain't know way i'd try now, i know better.

 

[Saint_Kyle]

It's not so much that I'm trying to defend myself. It is more that I am disgusted and sick of being treated different solely based on my age. If I can carry a decent conversation with someone they shouldn't talk down to me or act different towards me because I was born after them. All that matters is that I don't act in a way the disapprove of, but I am still treated like I do. I go out of my way to do things for people and it goes unnoticed because it must have been an accident or something, there is no way there is actually someone who is 16 years old and is a considerate decent human being. I go out of my way to treat others with respect regardless of any stereotype, whether they're 60 years old or 6 years old, whether they are black, white, Hispanic, Asian or anything. That isn't what matters. All that matters to me is that they respect me and I will respect them back. Is it too much to ask that I receive respect from elder people when I treat them with respect? All I want is to be treated the same way I treat them, not the way they've been treated by 16 year olds before. I've grown tired of being treated disrespectfully, not because I don't treat that person with respect, but because I am 16. It's really just rude.



To Rob, Don't take this as an attack or offensively, I have no problem with you at all. I am just trying to express the way I feel.

 

[MSUSousaphone]

Give it 6-8 years and you'll understand.

I can't stand geriatrics...you know, people over 40.

 

[Saint_Kyle]

I really doubt I will. I understand why you may dislike many people my age, but dislike them based on their actions. Don't dislike them based on their age. They do a lot of things that I don't approve of, but I cannot change that, and I also don't intend to try to change that because it is a losing battle

 

[MSUSousaphone]

How do you know we are doing it based on age alone? When did I say that's what I was doing? Sounds presumptuous...just like a teenager.

 

[robsmith32]

It's not so much that I'm trying to defend myself. It is more that I am disgusted and sick of being treated different solely based on my age. If I can carry a decent conversation with someone they shouldn't talk down to me or act different towards me because I was born after them. All that matters is that I don't act in a way the disapprove of, but I am still treated like I do. I go out of my way to do things for people and it goes unnoticed because it must have been an accident or something, there is no way there is actually someone who is 16 years old and is a considerate decent human being. I go out of my way to treat others with respect regardless of any stereotype, whether they're 60 years old or 6 years old, whether they are black, white, Hispanic, Asian or anything. That isn't what matters. All that matters to me is that they respect me and I will respect them back. Is it too much to ask that I receive respect from elder people when I treat them with respect? All I want is to be treated the same way I treat them, not the way they've been treated by 16 year olds before. I've grown tired of being treated disrespectfully, not because I don't treat that person with respect, but because I am 16. It's really just rude.



To Rob, Don't take this as an attack or offensively, I have no problem with you at all. I am just trying to express the way I feel.

what you speak of isn't related to age... all age groups have that problem in this culture.. too many me me me people. and not many that try to get we ahead..
you know, help a friend up the step, and in turn get helped later.. sometimes it stillw orks that way. but often even when you do help them, they forget ya later when it counts.. that's how you know whom your true friends are...

 

[robsmith32]

and MSU i don't like us over 40 curmudgeons either...

 

[fish321]

Ive pretty much run across every type of teenager there is. Most of the kids that work for me are teenagers. Some of the are just like everyone is talking about, rude, lazy and generally inconsiderate of anyone else. There are some though that I would trust with the keys to my store. Ive got one girl (18) and one guy (18) who work harder, care more, and do the right thing more often than the 25 to 40 yr olds that work for me. They even have gone so far as to tell me when they thought one of their frinds was stealing. I mean to end a friendship over a short time job because its the right thing to do is just really impressive to me. Dont get me wrong I think alot of this generation takes gangster rap as gospel instead of entertainment and try to live their lives by the songs but I wont loop em all in together because there are a few I will be sorry to see go off to college

 

[Goatman Saint]

The older I get the less I like everyone.

As far as teenagers, I have one, and him and his friends are pretty nice creatures. However some of them are pretty dang annoying.

I really do believe that with age comes a certian wisdom that makes a difference. I remember when I thought I knew more than my dad. Then I had kids and found out he really knew a whole lot more than i expected.

But yeah as a general rule this group of kids coming up now really so lack a lot in the idea of how the real world works.

 

[ra]

I like eighteenagers and nineteenagers.

 

[skymike]

sick.

 

[SaintJ]

The best age to be is the one you are.

If that works for you, then you can't deny everybody of other ages the same right.

I'm trying not to say that a tremendous number of comments in this thread border on the idiotic.

But everybody here loves little babies, right? Except when they're screaming uncontrollably in the airplane seat behind your, or at the next table at a restaurant.

Everybody respects the elderly, right? Except when they insist upon driving in the left lane at 58 mph, or when they are trying to write a check for their groceries in front of you and start asking a lot of questions.

Now people have less tolerance for "teenagers", I figure I can substitute any number of terms for the word "teenagers" and I'll probably have the truth.

Maybe the real problem is a frustrated sense of entitlement and control you thought you'd have by now.

But you don't.

Sorry.

 

[RazorOye]

But everybody here loves little babies, right? Except when they're screaming uncontrollably in the airplane seat behind your, or at the next table at a restaurant.

Everybody respects the elderly, right? Except when they insist upon driving in the left lane at 58 mph, or when they are trying to write a check for their groceries in front of you and start asking a lot of questions.

Now people have less tolerance for "teenagers", I figure I can substitute any number of terms for the word "teenagers" and I'll probably have the truth.

lus-un2:

Very well conceived and stated.

 

[blackadder]

What happened to music after STP, Pearl jam and nirvana? Rock is all girled out. Thanks MTV, the internet and american idol.

Music goes in cycles.

You need a longer memory. The original gender bending music was "glam rock" in the 70s.

Queen, Marc Bolan and T-Rex, New York Dolls, Bowie as Ziggy Stardust etc. etc.

Androgyny goes a long way back and cycles in and out.

Grunge was a bit more "testosterony" but was boring as hell. The mid to late 90s was a meager time for music, IMO. Everything sounded the same and it seemed like very band out there was in a rush to copy the grunge sound.

If not for Oasis, the Verve, Blur, U2 and a few others the 90s would have been a complete musical wasteland for me.

I had to quit listening to the radio for awhile there.