Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things)

One of the wise people of antiquity once said that everyday experience is a collection of mistakes accumulated by a person throughout their life. A person learns from some mistakes, some they simply try not to repeat, and some of these mistakes they alas repeat all throughout their life.

Recently, the so-called "Letters to Myself" genre has been very popular on the internet, where famous and not-so-famous people describe different mistakes they made at a young age and tell what they would do differently taking into account the knowledge that they have now. Unfortunately, in one's teen years, it is difficult to believe and accept some of the life facts that seem so obvious later.

A few days ago, a question was asked in the AskReddit community directly on this topic: "What are teens today not ready to hear?" As of today, the resulting thread has about 44.2K upvotes and over 26.7K various comments, where people in adulthood and older tell which life lessons the youth should definitely learn.

Yes, the thread looks a bit boomerish, but the ancients didn't say in vain: "Forewarned is forearmed." Bored Panda has put together a list of the most popular comments from the original thread for you, so please feel free to scroll to the very end, mark the submissions you like the most and of course share your own life lessons in the comments.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Being controversial isn't the same as being interesting.

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Just Another Girl 2 years ago

Say it louder for those in the back.

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Frando Bone 2 years ago

And talking on your phone on speaker in public falls in the same category.

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Especially if you're Ace 😁

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Just because you f****d up does NOT mean you’re a f**kup

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Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago

When you f*ck up, try again, f*ck up better ;)

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Crazy Meerkat Lady 2 years ago

Why would you put your coffee on the laptop like that?

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) In the adult world, getting into fights doesn’t make you look cool, it just makes you look stupid.

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TheAquarius1978 2 years ago

And always remember lol, no matter how much of a badass you think you are, there is always someone that is either more of a badass than you, or some One that might not be a badass but uses its head and it Will knock you the f**k out.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) To the ones who ride the public bus in my city, specifically: nobody else wants to hear whatever TikTok you’re watching. Buy some headphones.

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Oh god, yessss.......every freaking morning...

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It's not your duty to judge others. Just take care of your own s**t.

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

In other words mind your own business

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You won't 'feel' different when you're older, or have kids. You'll just be you, it's weird.

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Jo Gabriel 2 years ago

Yes!! I'm 51, but still feel like tgat awkward teenager, it's just that now, SOMEHOW, I've managed to hold down a respectable job since i graduated, and have a house and mortgage and husband and kids. I don't know how that happened! I'm still that nerdy kid! It's just, my knees hurt now.

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#10

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) as much as you want to be unique, outspoken and be able to be you 100%, its just not that realistic.

as a queer poc millennial it took me a long time to learn that you gotta learn to pick your battles, read the room, and know that not every space is a space thats made for you.

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S Mi 2 years ago

I wish this weren't as true as it is

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Putting every aspect of yourself online is unsafe. Nobody needs to know your list of triggers or your address or your blood type

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TheAquarius1978 2 years ago

Nothing in my social media is relevant, my adress is wrong, my phone Number os wrong, i don't have any pictures of me or my family, my académic level is wrong and só is my job, you want to " know " who i am, meet me or PM me, my life is mine Alone and i only Share what i think its relevant in a certain context.

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#12

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) The older you get the faster it goes.

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Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago

That sure is true, my dearest son got 30 last week and t feels like only a short time ;)

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#13

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) One day you too will be old and uncool.

And it'll happen faster than you think.

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K- THULU 2 years ago

I'm a 54 yr old punk goth ..... I was never fkn cool.....

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#14

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Social media will give you too much of a superiority complex and hanging around people who enable you will f**k you up later in life.

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Frando Bone 2 years ago

Waaayyyyy higher on the list please

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Just because it's new to you doesn't mean it's new.

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Lisa H 2 years ago

Doesn't mean you shouldn't still get excited about it.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Not everybody can be an internet sensation, somebody has to drive the dump truck

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago

And driving a dump truck is steady work and steady pay. Trying to be an “influencer” is a huge risk that could turn out to be a total waste of time and money—-YOUR time and money.

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#17

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) It is perfectly fine to not know something. It’s OKAY to not know! Stop shaming and bullying people because you learned about something before they did. Social media is not the real world and acting like it is will only make people not want to be around you.

EDIT: I am not talking about ignorance. I’m talking about laughing when people ask a question in class, the “How do you not know that?” crowd, the mocking of people into never asking another question out of fear of ridicule and humiliation.

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago

I have always said it’s the idiot who DOESN’T ask questions.

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#18

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You guys know how the attractive and wealthy kids at school seem to just get life handed to them on a silver platter?

Get used to it.

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Frando Bone 2 years ago

Yep! Focus on you rather than putting energy into being angry because someone has it better than you do...because someone ALWAYS will have it better than you.

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#19

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Jobs aren’t meant to always be fun/your dream, sometimes you have to work a job you hate to stay afloat.

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TheAquarius1978 2 years ago (edited)

And try them out i was a " puddle jumper " when it come to jobs, i tried a lot of stuff untill i finally found something i loved to do, and get ready to be shocked i love to work " retail "

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#20

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Social media is not reality and your entire life should not revolve around it.

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

Louder for the ThikTokers in the back!

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#21

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Please shower.

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Rod McCabe 2 years ago

Please in the name of Poseidon, PLEASE SHOWER.

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#22

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) School has a system in place to keep you from falling behind, life doesn’t

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

Also, you can't ace life without effort even if you could do so with school

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#23

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You need to learn the difference between normal teenage neuroses and mental illness.

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

Louder again for those in the back searching Dr Google

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#24

You're not "mature for your age." Anyone who says that to justify wanting to be with you is a creep.

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Phoenix Connor 2 years ago

Yup. Groomers. Watch out for them

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#25

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) As you get older you just keep realizing how dumb you were last year.

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Sardonyx_3 2 years ago

This is true for me. Especially when I'm trying to fall asleep... 0-0

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#26

10 years from now, no one will care about how many viewers you had on tiktok

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TheAquarius1978 2 years ago

10 years from now lol, i don't give a flying f... Right now.

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#27

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Today's eyebrows are yesterday's clown makeup and tomorrow's regret fodder

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sturmwesen 2 years ago (edited)

Ok, hands up every woman that never dyed, plucked, permed or whatevered her brows? *up*

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#28

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Stop self-diagnosing yourselves with mental illnesses

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KDav 2 years ago

Um, ok, but what about the kids who are literally barely hanging in there and no one is listening when they need help because they're being "dramatic" and "over-reacting"?

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#29

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You didn’t invent that style

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Justin Haskell 2 years ago

I hate this thing people say these days "oh that's not in style right now". Who tf gets to decide that. I was recently told rollerblading wasn't in style. Wtf, it's not a f*****g style it's fun/exercise. What you can't wear/do something till someone "famous" does it. Then suddenly it hip. F**k that.

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#30

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) We adults are mostly just winging it, hopefully learning from the TONS of mistakes we make, but still winging it.

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Sans Serif 2 years ago

When the nurses handed me my first child (as we left the hospital), I said "Are you serious?""

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Someone somewhere cares about you deeply and loves to see you to be happy

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N Gregory 2 years ago

Which is important to remember considering that 99% of the world population couldn't give a c**p about you, or even know you exist. And that is not a bad thing.

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#32

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Condoms are for stds too even tho there are other ways to avoid pregnancy.

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Cecily Holland 2 years ago

Australia is having a Syphillis outbreak in under 25 s at the moment who don’t seem to know what they are for

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#33

In 15 years you’re going to think the kids have gone too far and they’re going to think you’re old-fashioned.

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Sans Serif 2 years ago

Might have been fair warning 15 years ago, I'd be better prepared now...

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#34

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Everything you do as a teenager will be cringe to your children

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MoMcB 2 years ago

Some of it will also be cringe to yourself in 10 years

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#35

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You're closer to being the "older" person in any given setting than you think. And by "old" I mean like 30. Got nieces and nephews just starting kindergarten? Haha. Blink and they're starting college.

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Lisa H 2 years ago

My 24 year old niece just got married and I'm 36.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) That heartache you're going through? It consumes everything now but it will be nothing but a footnote in the future. You'll rarely think about it later - & when you do, it won't hurt you.

It's hard to hear that your pain isn't the worst in the world when you're feeling it. But it does help to know that it won't mean as much as it does in this moment.

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Rod McCabe 2 years ago

At 54, I've had more than "my share of GF" but, unlike some, I've only had 2 heartbrakes. I remember them as if they were yesterday. Heartaches of other kinds, maybe you can mediate them to a soft roar but they're there.

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#37

Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Things will likely take significantly longer to achieve than you think

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

You may work at some your whole life

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#38

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Cut back on the sugary s**t now. Take care of your teeth now. Start working out now. You don’t have to be a bodybuilder and look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, just be active.

Now is the time to get out and do a bunch of crazy s**t but at the same time remember that whatever you do now you pay for 20 years later somehow someway. And this can be taken in a good way or a bad way. Don’t want to take care of your teeth now? Have fun dropping $30,000 on your teeth like I had to.

Not exercising or eating right? Have fun with that quadruple bypass that my father just had. My girlfriend’s parents are older than my parents but because they do those things they haven’t had nearly as much hospital visits as my parents have. By comparison my parents are falling apart and they’re only in the 50s. My girlfriend’s parents are in their 70s and objectively are healthier. The big difference? Early in the morning, every morning those two are downstairs working out hitting the weights and machines for a solid hour or two.

Do you want to speed and act a damn fool on the road? Have fun when you have to pay for your own insurance and nobody wants to ensure you to drive a f*****g Honda Civic for no less than $350, like me.

Even my f*****g car, it was my dream car and it still is the car I would be driving today had just taken care of the goddamn thing. But no it started leaking oil and I didn’t keep up with it or take it in and now I have to drive a goddamn Civic when I used to drive a Lexus.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

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Sans Serif 2 years ago

Most often, being naturally proactive is a healthy approach to life. I have, however, encountered a number of people who have so "prevention'd" themselves out of their life experience that makes me sad. Be aware, cautious but... always curious...

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#39

Not everyone needs to go to college. High school is probably the easiest thing you'll do.

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

Follow your particular talents instead of letting someone else dictate what you should do for a living. Were you always the kid who could take broken things apart, fix them, and put them back together? There are countless types of jobs where people do just that. Were you the kid who was always building stuff? There are jobs for that too. Same goes for every talent and ability a person could have. Just take a moment to think about it, and figure out what you’re really good at, then research the variety of jobs requiring it. If you’re a total whiz at math and want to have a career where all you do is math, but your parents want you to be a doctor, sit them down and outline just how important and respectable, as well as lucrative, your chosen career is. Could change their minds, and stop the pressure they’ve been putting on you to go to med school.

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#40

Your metabolism won't last forever. Practice and develop healthy exercise and diet habits now before it gets harder and with more consequences later.

I'm just about to turn 30 in a couple weeks. I am 100 lbs heavier than I was in high school (to be fair I was super tall and skinny to the point of slightly underweight), and that's after losing 25 lbs since the start of July. I have high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol. I am a father of a 2 year old that doesn't want to die in the 40-60 range. I also want to live as a good example to her.

Another 35 lbs and I'll reevaluate what my body type is like and reset my goals from there. That would be 240 lbs, which I was about 4 years ago...but it would also be a more muscular/trimmed 240. I'll determine where in the 210-240 range I want to end up and what my body and lifestyle will be like.

Running is still hard, but using the elliptical is easier on the knees than it was 25 lbs ago. I want to eventually be able to do the Broad Street Run (10 miles through Philadelphia) even though I hate running. If my knees don't like it, I'll do something else as an equivalent.

As an added bonus, my sex drive I think is improving but nowhere near what it was when I was in the 220-250 range. I don't think it's 100% related, but maybe it's more than 50%.

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$cagsy 2 years ago

I always end up talking to people like this at weddings.

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#41

They’re most likely not going to be the one.

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Bubbles and sparks 2 years ago

yup, most likely not and that's okay too.... nothing wrong with having some or a lot of test drives before you stick to "the one", and yes, girls/women are allowed to take a lot of test drives too, that doesn't make them bad drivers if you know what I mean ;)

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) You know nothing and it's okay.

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Jihana 2 years ago

Ygritte disagrees

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#43

Their children will blame their generation for all their problems

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Headless Roach 2 years ago

Isn't that a bit fair, though? The next generation will live in a world we leave for them. All of our f*ups included.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Those are probably not friends for life - ok, slim chances for some.

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Its like a graph....big on one side, then tapers away the older you get....

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#45

High school won’t last forever

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K- THULU 2 years ago

Then the real horrorshow begins.....

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) Early successes at this stage in your life won’t necessarily give you an advantage later, but early failures will likely hold you back significantly. Basically getting straight As in high school will leave you closer to the mean than failing a number of classes.

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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)

Just sit up and listen in class now. Even if you don’t go to college right away, or at all, just knowing that, if you wanted to go, your high school GPA will not stand in your way of getting accepted to the university or college you want to go to (or can afford to go to). I didn’t go to college at 18, but when I later decided to go, my GPA from high school led to an immediate acceptance from the school I applied to, without having to take any refresher courses.

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Viral Thread Has Adults Listing Various Things Modern-Day Teenagers Are Not Ready To Hear (40 Things) The price of rent and housing they will have to deal with in a few years

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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago

Let me tell you, that isn't going to be enough

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What do you think ?

Upper Enchilada 2 years ago (edited)

How about “Your parents shop at Walmart, not because they don’t care about employee treatment, but because it’s practical. Chances are, you’ll give up more and more ideals as you get older for practicality, so hold back your judgements”.

12points

AmmoniteCat 2 years ago

This post...felt sorta hateful. Like the whole world is against teenagers. All of us can't be grouped into a single category. We're still different people. And we don't have it as easy as you'd think.

censorshipsucks 2 years ago

not really, it's just giving advice we ourselves ignored as teens and now see the point of.

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Tim 2 years ago

Several of them didn't have a "get off my lawn" vibe and many of them were more like giving advice to your younger self.

Izzy Curer 2 years ago (edited)

There's no point in posts like these. Either you have a teenager who is already self-aware enough to grasp this stuff, or you have one that isn't going to listen, anyway. Maybe AmmoniteCat is the prior, and that's why it feels offensive. My only old-person advice is to ignore us and figure out your own way. Because odds are, everything will be different in a few years, anyway, and our experiences won't hold much water. It would be akin to a boomer giving advice to a young couple on how to finance a house.

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Such a teenager thing to say. As you get older you will realize advice isn't an insult and you will wish you took the advise. Everyone who isn't a teenager anymore once was and they/we don't think it's as easy as you think we think it is. Like I said we were all there. It may be hard but you will only be young once. You will be old so much longer. Enjoy your time even if you can only squeeze a couple good days in a week.

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Cory Willson 2 years ago

I dont see anywhete in the posts that say teenagers have it easy or anyome think they do. Just generic advice that anyone of any age might do good to hear

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Ande Anderson 2 years ago

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Ray Arani 2 years ago (edited)

I'm in my mid thirties and I agree. Being a teen was really f*cking hard. I've mentored several teens, and they've since grown into their twenties and told me the best advice I gave them was, "I promise, it gets better. Just hang in there." That's the main advice I give to teens in my life. People love to complain about how hard their life is, but almost everyone had a super hard time as a teen, and when they really think about it, wouldn't go back to that time of overly intense emotions coupled with utter powerlessness.

333 2 years ago

Well...you can all be grouped into the single category if that category is simply teenagers. Every generation of teens has said they don't have it as easy as old people think. Give it 10 or 15 years and you'll look back at it as the easiest time of your life.

Bored Seb 2 years ago

thanks... I felt it the same way... so much condescension toward teens...

Some good tips there for everyone, I think. Also, I'm of the opinion that teenagers generally, are underestimated. Obviously they don't know everything but they might surprise you if you give them the chance. In my limited experience, a constant stream of advice is worth much less than a lesson learned firsthand.

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