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[–]SerpensInferna 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

"I'm so mature and nobody understands meeeeeeeeeee!!!!"

The anguished cry of teenagers for millennia, except now they get to bitch about it online.

[–]hufflepuff-poet 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

And destroy their bodies and piss away their youth in their quest for "maturity".

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth) 14 insightful - 8 fun14 insightful - 7 fun15 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

I love the comment “mom doesn’t have enough life experience to understand these things.” These things we made up lol.

[–]hufflepuff-poet 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

i’m 16 years old and it took me so long to open up to anybody about my sexuality, when i told her i cried. i thought my mom supported me, but she doesn’t. she acts like she is okay with it & doesn’t care, but she doesn’t fucking take me seriously. i’ve known that i’m biromantic & asexual for 6 years. she told me once that she doesn’t think that i like girls. it’s funny cause i prefer women over men. i just can’t believe my mom thinks she has any say in my sexuality. it’s so sad how immature a parent can be. especially when they’re literally pretending to be accepting & non-judgmental. how do i show her that i’m being 100% serious about this? i promise you, i’m mature enough to know my own body, and feelings.

These kids sexuality self discovery timeline is so messed up. 16 is when many teens start to explore their sexuality and experience actual attraction not the due date to have yourself all figured out sexually, how would you when you have no experience other than maybe your own fantasies and the "life script" you've internalized from your community!?

She's known she's "asexual and biromantic" since she was 10?! Lmao everyone is asexual and biromantic at 10, that's just called being a normal child, lucky enough to have no sexual abuse/trauma to heal from.

[–]reluctant_commenter 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She's known she's "asexual and biromantic" since she was 10?! Lmao everyone is asexual and biromantic at 10, that's just called being a normal child, lucky enough to have no sexual abuse/trauma to heal from.

Yeah exactly lol, many kids are like that at that age.

[–]reluctant_commenter 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is honestly sad. This kid is 16, and she's been "sure that she's biromantic and asexual for 6 years"? So she's thought that since she's 10? Why the hell are so many kids expecting to have sexual feelings at young ages? I thought I was basically asexual up until I was 16-17 or so. She's a kid, sometimes that stuff changes.

That being said-- this commenter is right:

Hey, mom, I think you're a little confused here. We're talking about me not you. I'm actually my own, distinct, separate person

^ I think that if more parents understood this, there wouldn't be nearly as many transgender identifying children. Even if you're right about transgender ideology being BS, what kids need is warmth and support. I hope this girl both finds a supportive figure in her life, and finds her way out of the TQ+ movement.

[–]Soupp 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

"I'm mature enough" Said every teenager ever

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I thought having her Mum say that would be like winning the jackpot for her. Now she can go all dairy farm.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

At the risk of sounding like a weeb, are TQ and especially Q larping like this some Westernized variety of Chūnibyō? Young escapist delusions, only much more prolonged because of contemporary helicopter parenting extending dependence and lack of life control right up to adulthood, and from then on maintained by the increasingly limited prospects of finding meaningful/stable work and independence?

[–]book_hoarder 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you're 16-years-old (and have probably never had sex), no adult of sound mind is going to take your "sexuality" seriously. When I was 14-years old, I thought I was straight. When I was 16, I thought I was bi. It took me until 17 or 18 to figure out that I didn't like guys at all. No one has all their shit figured out by the age of 16.