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Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist. by electromagnetic on Monday March 07, 2011 @11:32PM (#2299829)
I'd ask you to cite your reasoning. The average age of first child in western societies is almost hitting the 30 year old mark, so I'd argue that (in western societies at least) there is a dramatic mental difference between those in their mid 20's over those in their mid-thirties.
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Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist. by nebaneba on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @11:26AM (#2301444)
How does the fact that the average age of first child in western societies hitting the 30 year old mark support the argument that there is a dramatic mental difference between those in their mid-20s and those in their mid-30s?
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Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist. by rthomas6 on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @09:58AM (#2301058)
Maybe I don't have enough perspective. I'm only 23, and maybe I will think that I'm dramatically different when I'm 40. Right now, it just doesn't seem like it. Then again, most teenagers think the same way about being 23 (me included).
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Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist. by gyardley on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @10:37AM (#2301225)
Heh - I'm dramatically different from the 23-year-old me and I'm only 34.

(And thank god, because the 23-year-old me was both insufferably stupid and didn't know it.)

(Now at least I know it.)

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Re:Are "teens" born or made? An interesting twist. by nebaneba on Tuesday March 08, 2011 @11:31AM (#2301464)
Remind me to ask you what you think 11 years later.

At least we know there's a nonzero probability that your perceived insufferable stupidity is monotonically decreasing. :-)

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