Chronological sure..
You would not believe the number of worthless fucks there are who are teenagers who just grew old..
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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As someone who has been thirty years old for the past five years, I resent your disqualifying tone.
13 .. 14 .. 15 .. 16 .. 17 .. 18 .. 19
Pretty sure that you're a teenager for seven years, not five.
But after 19 teenage pregnancy drops to Zero!
I wonder how it is in countries that doesn't have the "teen" in the numbers.
Most other languages count that group as "youths" and in general you are one from 12-18.
In Germany you can actually still count as "youth" until you are 27. i know youth organisations that allow members up to 27. And if you committed a crime you can still be tried as a youth, pending a psychological review.
There's two terms: "Jugendlicher" and "Jugend-". "Jugend-" can be used as a prefix for all sorts of things with all sorts of age limits (for example the SPÖ Jugendorganisation goes up to age 45 for some crazy reason). "Jugendlicher" on the other hand is really just used as a term for people until they reach the age of legal adulthood.
(Also, terms are not always used correctly in all circumstances. For example, I local all-you-can-eat restaurant that we often go to has two price tiers for children, one from age 4-7 and another from 8-12. To differentiate both of them by name, they call the older group "Kinder" (children) and the younger group "Kleinkinder" (toddler), even though in any other context a "Kleinkind" is maybe up to age 3-4. So it's not really an evidence of the meaning of a word that it is misused in some contexts.
Being "tried as a youth" doesn't make you any more of a youth than being "tried as an adult" turns a child into an adult.)
OP, get a couple more brain cells and learn how to count
All the dogs in the world have been replaced in the 33 years since I was born
😰With what??
With undercover CIA android dogs
I wasn't ready to realize this
:(
That is one of those statistics tbat take a long time to fully be cognizant and appreciative of because it is so intense
Most human artistic output isn't about or geared towards dogs tho (sadly).
I'm gonna have to disagree with you here. 18- and 19-year-olds are still teens. say what you will about being adults, but semantically (if nothing else) they are still teens.
changes every six-seven years then...
"That's what I like about these high school kids, man. I get older and they stay the same age. 😎"
I heard last night hes gonna run against Abbott in Texas. I did not double check.
The amount of people younger than you is ever growing, and the amount of people older than you is shrinking.
We're all constantly falling to our deaths through the fourth dimension
🤯
but also not at once, the youngest are influenced by those older than them, and in tuen influence yet new teens. Its causes an endless shift of culture.
In 120 years the earth will be all new people. That scares my kids. Makes me hopeful.
This is what makes experienced history so extremely short.
In general, people have a somewhat ok understanding of how their grandparents lived, and they might know a few stories about their great-grandparents, maybe one more generation after that, but that where it ends and where history books with dates and numbers begin.
That's where you get statements like "In the past people did/believed/were like/... X" from. No, your grandparents did/believed/were like/... X, not all people in the past.
Or we crack the code to repair damage caused by aging.