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[arethinn]

Kids who are 17 are sounding a lot older than I did when I was 17.

I feel kinda funny about calling anyone a "kid", but I'm 29, and there's gotta come a day...

Time is speeding up. Brains are happening more and faster. Or something.

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[stillvisions.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the only concern comes from often the brains growing up faster socially, but still missing the more, well, survival and common sense parts. It varies, I guess. But yeah, it's kinda weird to call people in their late teens kids.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I frequently refer to our student employees as "the kids that work for me", and they're about 19 on the average. Eep.

[stillvisions.livejournal.com]

I've caught myself calling early 20somethings that once or twice, but that's usually because it seems easier than a collective term "people", like "they're a good bunch of kids" just seemed to fit the description.

[ahril.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that in my own children. My eight year old is sometimes where i was when I was about 12-14. So, I don't think it's just you.

[gesigewigus.livejournal.com]

Funny I find it opposite on both ends. I refer to people pre-teen to the early twenties as youths (but that's from social work), but I can't help but feeling that people are younger at the same ages I was. I might be confusing seriousness with age/maturity, but when I work with youth who are like 18-19, I usually feel they are so much younger than I was at that age.