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u/asshol1o 11d ago
Nothing like getting knocked down a peg by a kid in middle school
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u/Fastriverglide 11d ago
If you get knocked down it just means your ego wasn't big enough xD
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u/Bully-Rook 11d ago
For real. Do kids think no one over 16 uses the internet?
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u/RiverBuffalo495 11d ago
My high school shares a library with the middle school below it and sometimes middle schoolers are surprised that I know what various game characters or websites are.
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u/thestrawberry_jam 11d ago
middle and high school is not even that big of an age difference lmao how old do they think we are?
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u/ball_fondlers 11d ago
Well, I mean, a mere 2-year difference to a 12-year-old is 1/6th of their life so far.
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u/my_little_mutation 11d ago
Some of them really really do.
I've seen teenagers say things like this with some frequency.
"Omg why is an adult into the same things I am."
They'll learn, I'm sure, once they're older and realize that they don't want to give up their interests either and thst adulthood isn't all work and taxes. Granted it's too much of those things but it's other things too.
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u/UpvotesFreely 11d ago
I think it means their parents are boring.
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u/knowntart 11d ago
they might not even BE boring
my parents are apparently huge fucking sportsfiends, they love everything that's broadcasted on tv, especially baseball, but i didn't even realise that till after high school, some things you just do not notice when youre younger, especially if you find those things boring
my grandma apparently took me to a professional basketball game when i was young, and i do not remember it AT ALL because holy fuck sports were the worst then
i still don't love them but i can at least appreciate the sport now, back then i did not care one fucking whit
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u/GraciousOpportunity 11d ago
Bro these middle school kids are vicious af though.
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u/bukzbukzbukz 11d ago
tbh they have no idea what they're talking about. To a 13 year old 23 seems senile nearly. But they'll be 23 themselves and they'll realize not much changes and you don't suddenly want to do nothing but taxes or grocery shopping the moment you go above 20.
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u/cherry_chocolate_ 11d ago
I’m 23 and just did my taxes today, then read this in line at the grocery store 💀
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I feel like 23 is not going to be the fulfilling wonder this 13-year-old thinks it is
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u/Zaurka14 11d ago
Yep, at 25 i feel basically how i felt at idk, 16. That frontal lobe development did me dirty.
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u/prasslingsby156 11d ago
Adulthood has always been a lie. Why do you think old people are always so defensive?
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u/pragmojo 11d ago
Adulthood just means you don't get special treatment anymore, it doesn't mean you are any more prepared for or in control of your life. You just now bear full responsibility for yourself, whether you like it or not.
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u/Pac0theTac0 11d ago
No I don’t like it
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u/ksp3ll 11d ago
make it stop. please.
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u/ElJebusKrisp hates freedom 11d ago
i am in suffering every day
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u/SkylarRowan 11d ago
God, Just…WHY!?
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u/lililililiililililil 11d ago
Adulthood hit me like a ton of bricks when I had to google how to write a check. Then I had to google where to get checks. Then I had to google how to write out an envelope. Then I had to google where to buy stamps. Like three days and fifty fucking bucks to get that operation up and running and I wish I could go back and unlearn this garbage.
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u/HaikuBotStalksMe 11d ago
You're still ahead of other "real" adults that are too stupid and lazy to learn stuff.
"I don't know how to save contact to phone. This is because phone stupid and too hard. I refuse to learn and will make my grand kid do it."
In your case it would have had been like "stamps too hard. This is stupid. I'll just use cash app."
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u/lililililiililililil 11d ago
I’m only in my mid thirties but I’m still feeling that weird boomer energy pull sometimes where I get stuck in my ways with stuff and it’s annoying.
Like, I live in a rural area and it took forever for credit card readers in stores to upgrade to the slide in chip style. Whatever, got used to using that quick, but then all of a sudden there’s even newer ones with some kind of tapping thing? Nah dude fuck that. I just learned this insert instead of swipe thing and my anxiety of holding up a line trying this new thing is holding me back.
Like two months ago I finally gave it a shot, fucked it up, got helped by the cashier and now I’m hooked. Got my low-limit credit card (I’m still too distrustful to use my debit card) set up in my iPhone wallet and I’m a tappin’ fucking fool now. Few days ago I’m heading to work, mobile order and pay for my coffee, mobile order and pay lunch, phone tapping the magic box at the grocery store after work, stop at the station for gas. Slapped my fucking phone on a gas pump. Boom. Paid. Gassed up.
Get home and see that I left my wallet on the kitchen table.
Gonna google what the hell cash app is now.
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u/8_800_555_35_35 11d ago
To be fair, America's entire banking system is hot garbage; like no other developed country uses cheques anymore.
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u/_mully_ 11d ago edited 11d ago
I legitimately used to believe there would come a day when my mind and view of the world just "turned over" from kid-version to adult-version. Like the movie Baby Geniuses, but sort of the opposite. Instead of it happening as a toddler and losing cognitive ability, it'd happend in my early 20s and I'd gain ability.
As if it would happen overnight or over a couple months or something.
And afterwards it would just be night and day and you would feel the difference in every ounce of your being and interpretation of the world. And maybe even become more powerful (stronger, smarter, etc. - like an adult was bigger and opder, so they must be a supped of version of younglings, right?).
I thought all of this because of the generic, "You're too young to understand" / "You'll see things differently when you're older". Also, maybe because I watched Baby Geniuses too much as a kid haha (but great movie, might be worth watching if you haven't seen).
Later, during a customer facing summer job, my then boss told me, "Adults are just really big kids. Someone gets under their skin, then they get upset and just wanna get under someone else's". The world made so much sense all of a sudden in that moment.
Sidenotes: Anyone remember the parenting bit with lying and your tongue turning black? Or the crust of the bread is the healthiest part (I believed that one for way too long - it doesn't even make sense, bread isn't a vegetable or something and the crust isn't it's nutrients rich skin).
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u/heepofsheep 11d ago
Nah man it’s great. I can drink light beer in my underwear anytime I want without being judged.
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u/50at20 11d ago
You get judged.
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u/bayleafbabe 11d ago
Nearly 27 here, swear I’ve been the same since like 14
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u/RoboticBirdLaw 11d ago
Just turned 28. There are some ways I have very clearly grown up since high school, but in many respects I'm still the same. My interests are pretty much the same. I can interact better in a professional/social setting but I'd still rather just "be myself" as I would hanging with friends.
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u/RonLivingstoned 11d ago
26, it’s nice to see comments like these and realize i’m not alone. I feel the same as I did 10 years ago, but now I have a professional persona that I act out for 40 hours a week
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u/Stars_And_Garters 11d ago
I definitely felt different after 25. I think that might have been more escaping trauma than frontal lobe development, though.
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u/andrewsad1 11d ago
28, with no character development since I left high school
Like, literally the only difference between late 20s me and late teens me is that I shifted left on the political compass
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u/ColaEuphoria 11d ago
I honestly can't relate. I'm 27 and feel drastically more mature than I did even at 23.
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u/HumanDrinkingTea 11d ago
Yep. I'm 32 and don't even feel the same as I did at 29. My years of most growth were probably between maybe 19 and 23 though.
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u/Mystical-Door 11d ago edited 11d ago
Yup I’ve never related to these posts. I’m only 24 but I definitely feel like an adult and even feel way more mature than I did at 21, let alone at 16
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u/Own-Preparation4687 11d ago
Ok but I just turned 30 and honestly the difference between 25 and 30 is astounding, way bigger than the difference between 20 and 25. I used to stress out about the future a lot and now I have more of a "it'll work out, just keep doin your thing" mentality. Although, to be fair, I've got financial stability I didn't have when I was 25.
I think part of it was feeling like I had to do stuff while I was still young, and now I'm 30 and still feel pretty young so I get the sense I'll feel about the same til I'm 60. I have more time than I realized at 25.
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u/P_Griffin2 11d ago
You only feel like that until you actually sit down at try to spend time with a bunch of 16 year olds.
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u/starvinart 11d ago
nobody likes you when you're 23
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u/Accomplished_Soil426 11d ago
I feel like 23 is not going to be the fulfilling wonder this 13-year-old thinks it is
23 sucks
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u/TheBlueJacket1 11d ago
Hell I’m 24 now and if anything I was more fulfilled back then
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u/prasslingsby156 11d ago
Yeah, at least when I was 13 I knew who I was and didn't have a drinking problem
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u/GregBuckingham 11d ago
I had someone do this to me a couple years back haha. Kid was like 16 in high school and I was like 26 or something
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u/BigFanOfRunescape 11d ago
Bet he wasn't maxed though, noob
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u/abananation 11d ago
Bro what do you think adults do for fun, taxes?
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u/TourrrettesGuy 11d ago
Drink at the bar and play golf. Nothing more nothing less
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u/EasternArgie 11d ago
I never knew my city had a golf club until I was 21, I didn't go in, but now I know its there.
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u/Practical_Echidna917 11d ago
you're*
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u/PinkFloydSheep 11d ago
Teach that kid what the internet is really about
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u/thawed_froyo 11d ago
“Shouldn’t you be eating Tide Pods?”
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u/Idontwantthesetacos 11d ago
I expect that from a 13 y/o but there are adults well in their late 30’s still confusing they’re/there/their, you’re/your; It’s sad.
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u/Frict1on_ 11d ago
Ther/theyr/thayer,yor/ur
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u/BigBootyBuff 11d ago
Could/would/should of is the one that sticks out to me like nothing else.
Though nothing will ever beat "may of had"
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u/CouldWouldShouldBot 11d ago
It's 'should have', never 'should of'.
Rejoice, for you have been blessed by CouldWouldShouldBot!
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u/zZCycoZz 11d ago edited 11d ago
Nobody likes you when youre 23
Edit: Seems many of you should listen to "Whats My Age Again?" by Blink 182
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u/ttbmips 11d ago
I just turned 24. People have started talking to me again. It was a rough year.
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u/Professional-Swing48 11d ago
You joke but we are the same age and that was easily one of the worst years of my life
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u/WE-NEED-MORE-CATS 11d ago
I remember when COD4: Modern Warfare came out for the xbox 360 I just got. People were talking about their ages and I mentioned I was 23. They all started giving me some shit. I still remember this one British kid like YELLING at me "YOU'RE TWE'EY FREE AND PLAYIN CAWL OF DEUTY?!?"
Nobody yelled at me before 23, and nobody has yelled at me about my age after 23. Anecdotally, your comment rings true. Nobody likes you when you're 23. Blink 182 were prophets.
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u/Independent_Yam_625 11d ago
Wtf that legit feels like truth
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u/DIsForDelusion 11d ago
It's a song. A hymn of sorts for our generation.
Blink 182 - What's My Age Again?
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u/Vancouv-NC 11d ago
Surprised how many people's heads this went over. I guess I'm officially getting old since apparently that song is an obscure classic now
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u/thenumber88 11d ago
I took her out it was a Friday night.
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u/jane_delawney_ 11d ago
I wore cologne to get the feeling right
(Oof…right in the 1996)
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u/Important_Middle_880 11d ago
We started making out and she took off my pants
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u/Spart85 11d ago
But then I turned on the TV
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u/Professional-Bread59 11d ago
The amount of people missing the reference is pain-inducing
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u/ShreksGirth 11d ago
I’ve always texted them. I’m a registered text offender so it’s mandatory to let them know
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u/leezybelle 11d ago
As a teacher, just remember that once kids are in 4th grade and up, they REALLY start getting comfortable with their knowledge: aka they can and will burn you. Respond carefully
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u/Respectful_sloth 11d ago
It still blows my millennial mind that kids have cell phones now at 13
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u/exovdo 11d ago
Young millennial here.
I had a Razer flip phone in middle school.
Had a smart phone in highschool.
I wouldn't give my kid a smartphone, but a dumb phone for emergencies? Hell yeah
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u/Respectful_sloth 11d ago
Dang your parents were way cooler than mine. Their approach was: until you are driving yourself you will always be with an adult that has a phone.
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u/ImJustAverage 11d ago
I got my first phone at 14, calls only. Didn’t get my first smart phone until senior year of high school or right after.
I remember when I was a kid we would go play at the neighborhood park all day and my parents would give me a walkie talkie to take in case I needed to get ahold of them or they needed to get ahold of me.
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u/HeavyMetalTriangle 11d ago
Holy shittttt… My friends would’ve roasted me so hard if my parents resorted to using walkie talkies with me. I can’t even imagine the jokes I would have endured. Jesus Christ lol
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u/KarmicDevelopment 11d ago
Yikes...your parents never let you go off on your own with other kids?
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u/magicmeese 11d ago
Dunno about op but I lived in the sticks and no one my age lived near by.
Would be concerning if I went off with a random neighbor (by neighbor I mean like a person living a mile away)
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u/AttaboiLimits 11d ago
Razr*
The gaming peripheral company, Razer, makes phones too.
My second phone was a Moto Razr. I had some absolute brick of a Nokia first. Good times.
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u/MundaneInternetGuy 11d ago
Also not to be confused with Razor scooters, as long as we're doing younger millennial nostalgia.
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u/BigBootyBuff 11d ago
That's been pretty common for 20 years now though. By 13 basically everyone in my school had a phone. Mostly the Nokia 3310 prepaid.
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u/finemustard 11d ago
You had a totally different experience from me then because 20 years ago I was 13 and literally no one in my school had a cellphone at that age. No one I knew had a cellphone until we were about 16.
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u/daxtron2 11d ago
Zillenial cusper here, had my first phone in 2008 because my mom thought I was gonna get kidnapped on my way home from the bus stop lol
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u/Respectful_sloth 11d ago
I’m guessing it worked and you weren’t kidnapped? Thanks mom!
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u/kipperfish 11d ago
I'm a millennial. We've just given our 10yo a phone.
It's heavily locked down, and we can check her messages anytime. Pretty much the only reason she has it is her absolute bestie has just moved schools. Means they can keep in contact and arrange when to go over each other houses without the parents having to sort it out everytime.
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u/Alistershade 11d ago
One of my aunt's kids is hardly 5 and she navigates an Iphone like the thing is just hardwired into her brain.
Sidenote: she's oddly obsessed with skin walkers, we don't know when she picked the term up but it's hilarious watching her do this lanky looking, bow legged, arms way out waddle strut that is apparently how skin walkers move to her.
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u/AttaboiLimits 11d ago edited 11d ago
This actually leads to kids who are technologically useless. I’m seeing them now entering the workforce. Unless it’s a big shiny square that announces it’s intents, they are clueless.
They can find an app in a big screen of apps, but nothing else.
Millennials are peak tech. They are used to having to actually put in work to get work out of a computer. Z’s expect a big shiny box and go blank if anything else is presented.
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u/GlitchIsHiding 11d ago edited 11d ago
I use mine because I’m usually out and about somewhere and my mum has to come pick me up. Don’t get why kids would need it other than that.
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u/Independent_Yam_625 11d ago
I’m 23 and this is the type of shit I would do.
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u/Same-Letter6378 11d ago
Yeah there's nothing wrong with a 23 year old doing this. Kid has no idea what age 23 is like.
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u/Co-Deck22 11d ago
Richmond babyyy!! 🙌🏻
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u/PlaneSole222001 11d ago
Imagine being an age where you technically should start maturing and you cant even realize most adults are just kids with major responsibilities
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u/brantmacga 11d ago
When i was a kid in the 80’s/90’s growing up in a small town, i was in the same class with our home phone “number neighbors”. Even more ironic, both dad’s of those two kids were named Bill. So when someone called my house and asked for Bill, I’d say, “which one?”. And then, “ah yeh you meant to dial 904x”.
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u/The_Friendly_GBear 11d ago
Honestly 13 is the new 8 year old and 20s are the new teenagers that can do it legally.
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u/IndividualJuicebox 11d ago
why do you think it’s fake
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u/StickyHams 11d ago
Bro wasn't getting chewed out hard enough already on Fortnite by teenagers.
It cuts deep.