Sometimes my irl friends like to vent to me because as a general, I don't verbally judge people. Sometimes I get this feeling that's like "Man, she/he is lucky that they have so many things going for them." And I know I shouldn't feel this way but for whatever reason, I just do. And then there is this thing about giving advice to them. Sometimes when I give people advice they take it as an insult. ("Sometimes you just can't change the situat-" "NOT HELPING!") I see adults give advice like that, so why can't i? Is it because I'm "just 12 and couldn't possibly be mature enough to think that deeply"? Probably. Or maybe its that the people I give advice to are also "innocent 12yos". (Ahh, so the first thing a substitute teacher hears when they come in is "SHES RAPING ME!!!" [sadly, that's a true story of my homeroom class] and we're still innocent? wow. the power of the human brain never ceases to surprise me.)
So basically what society is telling me is that I need to act more like a person my age and stop having prior knowledge and life experiences.
There are things, that people will only understand when they experience it. The problem is, the first 1 & 1/5 decades of ones life is not the best time to gain valuable life experiences, even if some of us already know what its like being almost completely self-dependent. The few of us that already know so much of the stuff they tell us about being adults make up a negligible percentage of the population, and often go under the radar. There's a 5th grader down the street that you could trust your car with (albeit illegal for her to drive on a road, that's called underage driving, she can drive nonetheless)
And then some of us are being forced into academic "success" (burnout. we are being forced to use all of our energy too soon. academic burnout.) Yeah, of course 4th grade is an amazing time for you to make your daughter listen to a talk about the Pythagorean theorem and how to prove it. Of course your 5th grader wants to know how LLMs and machine learning work. Of course 6th grade is the time to start learning trigonometry. A friend of MI e didn't make it into algebra 1, and you know what her father did? He bought her a textbook and said: finish this by the start of 7th grade.
It's kinda nice to know that, however negligible the amount of people that can at least partially relate to whatever is happening, its never quite 0.
Have a nice day, thank you for reading, and don't attempt to drown yourself like 5yo me tried to that one time.
(i know I made a typo somewhere in there)