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'You young ones don't know you're born,' said every erstwhile person always, underestimating the pressures and hells of mod teenage life.

Yes, lodge and technology has come on a long manner – but life as a teen is past no ways easy. In fact, even though adults endure everything from work problems to debt, no flow of your life comes close to being as difficult every bit your teenage years.

Everything is changing both physically and emotionally and still you lot are thrust in to the most intense situations of your young life, discovering heartbreak, anxiety, low self esteem and peer force per unit area along the way.

In defence of all teenagers out in that location, hither's the proof that those of us who accept emerged out of the other side should be far more understanding of them.

Huge expectations

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'Fail your GCSEs and get into university or life is over and you lot'll gather grit on a checkout' is basically the message hammered home past teachers and parents. The terror of failing and facing a bleak future of no income and no pride results in sleepless nights and serious spells of anxiety.

When, at the end of the day, it isn't really the end of the world if you don't get the results you wanted.

Hormones and puberty

While this pressure mounts against you lot to practice well, your body is trolling you lot. I minute you lot're angry, the next you're tearful and you just don't know why. Teenagers aren't bad-mannered and confrontational by choice, even if they are treated that style. Our skillful friend scientific discipline has proven that mood swings are a biological part of growing upward.

And equally your emotions take on that rollercoaster ride, you lot're sprouting pus filled blimps on your face, gaining and shedding puppy fat from nowhere, growing pilus in strange places, smelling quite pungent from your armpits and other less savoury places and half of y'all start to bleed on a monthly basis as well. Oh what fun.

Bullying

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Young man teenagers can be and so cruel. Bullying goes on at all ages and in all locations but the intensity of it during school years can exist seriously traumatic and there are very few people that escape those years without falling victim to information technology. With peer pressure forcing y'all to conform to standards and hobbies or face a backlash, teenage life is a minefield. And the bombs are particularly nasty if when you step on them.

When something as minor as wearing a pair of shoes that were final month'south fashion can make you vulnerable to brutal campaigns, you know it'southward hard to win at beingness a teenager. Add in the social media factor (70% of teens said they've seen bullying online in a contempo survey) and it's hard to get through youth without being scarred by bullies.

Parents

Look, they try, just they can't always become it right. And sometimes they simply aren't on the same wavelength – they're not teenagers anymore so oftentimes they forget what it felt like to exist one.

'Love'

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That start honey is merely agony isn't it? Those showtime stirrings of feelings towards boys and girls lead your heart on a bit of a harsh journey – and nothing else from school to family matters once your center has decided to launch itself at someone. Longing for someone takes over your life and you lot call up you'll never love someone then intensely once more – and you lot're probably right. When that first relationship breaks down you just desire to give up on life.

Independence and privacy

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You get told to human activity more mature but you all the same tend to go treated like a kid. While a lot of the mollycoddling is necessary, there is a distinct lack of privacy for teenagers who are desperate to affirm and bask some independence.

Proms

Picking that dress. Finding a date. The horror of a spot appearing on your chin. Being invited to an after party. Weren't these things meant to be fun!?

Identity

Teenagers notice themselves categorised into certain sub-groups from geeks and goths to skaters and hipsters based on what they enjoy and what they wear and many struggle with the civilisation of having to fit in to a certain group. What if you like black clothes AND One Management? Being pigeon-holed can exist soul destroying.

Beingness tarred with the same castor

Teenagers have a bad reputation due to a pocket-sized minority of so-chosen 'hoodies' getting into problem. Yeah some teens are louts and requite adults cheek. Merely like some adults are thugs and criminals. On the other border of the money, many teens are hard working, pleasant homo beings who are getting a bit sick of existence treated equally if they are all the same.

Here are some other thoughts from teenagers by and nowadays on Twitter over the nightmares of that section of their life:

Permit's cut teenagers some slack eh?

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