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It's like "Overheard in New York..." ...but somehow much, much worse. Or, Things I Have Learned From Life Issues. -If you cannot spell fiance(e), you should not have one. Possibly ever. -If you think you may be pregnant, know that a pregnancy test is always more reliable than the psychic powers of young teens on the internet. -If you want to know if someone likes you, ask him/her, since the aforementioned psychic powers are faulty. Similarly, if you like someone, ask him/her out. No, we cannot do it for you. -You need oxygen, food, water, shelter. You do not need bigger boobs or a significant other. -If you have a medical problem, see a doctor. Don't tell people you can't afford it, either, because clinics are free and you have internet. -No, the other kids are not all doing it. They are lying about it to seem cool. No matter what it is. -If you're too young to drive, you're too young to get married. -If you ask a question, be prepared to receive answers, even ones that do not coddle you and stand for "I can't" at every turn. Should this be abhorrent to you, do not ask questions. -Your significant other is not your property, nor is he/she a mind-reader. Accept this and stop complaining they they see friends and don't buy you enough stuff. -Occasionally, other people do know what they are talking about. If you think this is not true, then why are you asking these people anything? -If you want a child when you are one, do not have one. Possibly ever. I feel that most of the threads in the Life Issues forum could be answered by one or more of these, and yet... People never cease to amaze me, what with the asking children for medical advice and the panic after they repeatedly screw without protection, because oh my god, who knew something could happen? It's a train wreck, except instead of people dying, they're usually popping out new casualties. gonk

Posted by: fubenkunai Wed Jul 25, 2007 @ 09:19pm

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Commented on: Wed Jul 25, 2007 @ 11:03pm


	Kids (I'm going to assume that the overwhelming majority of the people that make threads in Life Issues are still underage) these days live in a very confusing world and, as I view it, as possibly the most troubled generation. We're very ignorant of valuable knowledge and are ignorant to those with it. We've skewed priorities and are focused on things that do not mean anything. And to top it all off, we believe we own everything. Essentially, we're stupid, unfocused, and greedy. But that's the way things roll as time goes on. I could voice opinions on some of those points with reference to Maslow's Heirachy of Needs, but meh.

Commented on: Wed Jul 25, 2007 @ 11:14pm


	I just don't know where things are breaking down for these kids. I mean, at 16, you're at least able to drive and work, and should have been through at least one health class; even abstinence-only education tries to scare kids out of sex because it means babies. And yet, the first thought is not to run to the drugstore and buy a test, it's to ask total strangers if you're knocked up. That's more than panic, that's a deep-seated inability to think. I mean, if you're sick, you see a doctor, right? But no, these kids ask people dressing up pixel dolls on a cartoon website instead of doing that, or calling a nurse, or talking to Mom and Dad. Good grief, it's not like being sick only happens to kid who sneak out or cheat on tests, it's nothing to be ashamed of. It's basic stuff that just isn't clicking, en masse, that really should have been clear from middle school. I don't know how these kids are going to manage when they leave home, and that's disturbing. The needs I'll give them, since everything is life-or-death at that age, but at the same time I think it's unhealthy to say you're going to commit suicide because you don't have a "zomg bf//gf" that would probably only last a month or so anyway. Being sad was par for the course, but I don't remember anyone saying they'd open a vein over it. I wonder what socio-cultural mechanism is at work to make that happen, because it's more than just normal hormonal angst over being loved and accepted. Kids seem to think they literally cannot survive without a date, or plastic surgery, or any number of random possessions. That weirds me out to no end, because it's like materialism on steroids.

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Commented on: Thu Jul 26, 2007 @ 12:24am


	It seems that, like most normal people, they want to hear what they want to hear. However, unlike mature people they are unwilling to accept what they don't want to hear, be it painfully true. As such, they go to the sources that please them the most. Friends, "anonymous"'s, et cetera. I see us as a generation that, if possible, will fail. I've told several of my friends that I'm fearing fast food and other simple services in the near future. Heck, I'm willing to bet most won't even work and probably just mooch off of their parents until their late 20's, even 30's. As for their "needs", I think it's a skew of psychological priorities.

Commented on: Thu Jul 26, 2007 @ 12:42am


	I think the big source of my confusion, aside from a basic lack of cognitive function, is that people tell them the only possible solutions and it still won't click. Like, on any given day, there will be three threads on the main page at any time saying "OMG PREGNANT" or "I think I'm pregnant..." Invariably, people tell them to take a test, and invariably, they don't. Maybe that's because they don't want an answer, but what do they really think their friends or the anonymous LI horde will say? "No, you're not, and now that I have decreed it it is magically true?" That's like expecting 2 and 2 to make 5, and having a sympathetic person do the problem so it really does come out to be 5. It's 4, it always has been and always will be, there is only one answer. Srsly. I don't know about the failure rate, since I'm not old enough to have charted this extensively, but I worry too. I wonder where they draw the line for generations, because my own is fairly bad too. I try to have faith that most of that will burn off in the atmosphere as they enter the real world, but I don't know. We're so hyped up on instant gratification without work that I'm fairly sure people wouldn't breathe if they didn't have to, so I might end up being wrong and building a secret underground bunker for when they ruin everything through impatience and incompetence. burning_eyes

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Commented on: Thu Jul 26, 2007 @ 05:49am


	...Deliver me from all of this sadness... L.I. is an interesting forum... >.> Most of the time I go there, I see "OMG I LIEK DIS GUY BUT DIS ODUR GUY, 2!11" It's a bit embarrassing when, most of the time, the LI is filled with boyfriend threads made by users who... are too young to date with a conscience. ^^;; -Chiri Kcrinh Please PM me any questions regarding Gaia Online and its features. Please DON'T send me random friend requests if I don't know you. ...Deliver me from all of this madness...

Commented on: Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 03:59am


	Interesting, and mostly (but morbidly) true.

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