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[b]What is your opinion on teens?[/b]
[b]Why do you feel that way?[/b]
[b]If you are a parent with a teenager, does your teen exhibit common stereotypes?[/b]
[b]When you were a teenager, or if you still are, did/do you exhibit any teenage stereotypes?[/b] These are some common stereotypes associated with teens that I hear a lot that you may discuss or debate about:
● Can't be trusted.
● Don't like their parents, they don't listen to them, and hate to be seen with them
● Only care about their social life(Boyfriends/Girlfriends/Friends)
● Want the most expensive things
● Ungrateful
● Troublemakers
● Sex-crazed
● Never accept blame/Always blaming parents for everything wrong in their life
● Don't care about school
● Immature
+ Any other stereotypes concerning teenagers that you may have heard.
Please, no flaming or hating on somebody because of their opinion. Discussing anothers opinion is one thing, scolding their opinion is another.
My personal opinion
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Being a teenager, I feel that teenagers are stereotyped quite often, and that it's even socially acceptable to stereotype teens. I sometimes feel like I'm not an individual due to how some people treat me, purely because of my age. They assume I'm something I'm not just because I'm young.
Yes, for most teenagers, several of those stereotypes are true. But what about the ones who aren't like any of the teenager stereotypes we all hear? Is it right to group all teenagers together and label them as one thing, or should we treat them as individuals? I've dealt with stereotypes against teenagers for a while, and even some of my own peers have stereotyped me. I'm always able to brush it off, though. But I haven't been able to get one incident out of my head.
A couple of months ago, my mom and I were in the grocery store. A song was playing that my mom liked, and she was doing a little jig while going into one of the isles. When she started doing her jig, we were turning into the isle. There were a couple ladies there, looking at products, and one of the ladies was on the phone. When my mom starting doing her little dance while walking, I, out of habit, told her "Mom! Stop it!". After I said that the lady on the phone said, in a mocking tone with a smirk on her face "Noooo mom! You're embarrassing me, stooop!" and laughed after saying that. I immediately told her "Uh, no, she has a bad back and has thrown her back out before by dancing in here.", with my mom saying something along the same lines with me. She said nothing, and we kept going.
A lot of times, my mom does stuff that isn't good for her, like dancing in the middle of a store while walking. Most of the time it doesn't hurt her, but the the few times it does, she has to lay in bed for a day to recover. Just because she danced. So sometimes, I have to tell her not to do something, or to let me do it. But of course, since I'm a teenager, that lady assumed that I was scolding my mom because I was embarrassed, and even laughed at me about it. It really irritates me when people assume something because of their age/race/gender/how they look/etc. I'm the complete opposite of a stereotypical teenager; yet I am still sometimes treated as one.
Yes, for most teenagers, several of those stereotypes are true. But what about the ones who aren't like any of the teenager stereotypes we all hear? Is it right to group all teenagers together and label them as one thing, or should we treat them as individuals? I've dealt with stereotypes against teenagers for a while, and even some of my own peers have stereotyped me. I'm always able to brush it off, though. But I haven't been able to get one incident out of my head.
A couple of months ago, my mom and I were in the grocery store. A song was playing that my mom liked, and she was doing a little jig while going into one of the isles. When she started doing her jig, we were turning into the isle. There were a couple ladies there, looking at products, and one of the ladies was on the phone. When my mom starting doing her little dance while walking, I, out of habit, told her "Mom! Stop it!". After I said that the lady on the phone said, in a mocking tone with a smirk on her face "Noooo mom! You're embarrassing me, stooop!" and laughed after saying that. I immediately told her "Uh, no, she has a bad back and has thrown her back out before by dancing in here.", with my mom saying something along the same lines with me. She said nothing, and we kept going.
A lot of times, my mom does stuff that isn't good for her, like dancing in the middle of a store while walking. Most of the time it doesn't hurt her, but the the few times it does, she has to lay in bed for a day to recover. Just because she danced. So sometimes, I have to tell her not to do something, or to let me do it. But of course, since I'm a teenager, that lady assumed that I was scolding my mom because I was embarrassed, and even laughed at me about it. It really irritates me when people assume something because of their age/race/gender/how they look/etc. I'm the complete opposite of a stereotypical teenager; yet I am still sometimes treated as one.
said they were bad for my allergies). Plus I've met many others like me so when people start telling me off about me being a typical teenager who blah blah blah I get really irked. To the point I get rude and snarky because I know they don't listen to my reasoning anyway (and this is not the typical teenage mindset, its an actual fact). When I explain it to others who are willing to listen, they say I speak too mature for my age (a friend of mine even called it cold, critical, and calculating or someting along those lines xD)
