That, my dear friend, is the point.

I see.

Does…does she not realize that a lot of millenial/gen z people don't want kids??

Kind of like boomers when they see children with smartphones instead of polio

THIS KILLED ME ELLA

Jay told me he wanted kids 'like soon' and I snarfed in my ice cream.
I mean I want them too but like soon?! yea no.

WAIT A MINUTE IS JAY YOUR BOYFRIEND???

Yeah…

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SO THAT'S JAY
I THOUGHT JAYMARAE WAS A GIRL

I think JM is.

rolls eyes so hard they go to the back of my head

HONESTLY

may I just say, I've been reading through the first few pages of this chat and, just

PHEW

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SO THAT'S JAY
I THOUGHT JAYMARAE WAS A GIRL

wait…..wtf?

Jay told me he wanted kids 'like soon' and I snarfed in my ice cream.
I mean I want them too but like soon?! yea no.

WAIT A MINUTE IS JAY YOUR BOYFRIEND???

Yes? I thought…..I thought this was common knowledge?

There's a user here named jay so I think that's why she got confused

w h e e z e

Yeah, Jay’sn’t here.

Oh. No my Jay doesn't have an account.

I don't go back and re-read chats but I did for this one…. lemme just say… oof XD

Indeed.

I specifically avoid re-reading this chat because I’d honestly rather forget how much of an unlikable idiot I was

Am I going nuts, or are adults putting more and more pressure on teens to grow up?

Okay, so I'm 16 and don't have my permit yet. Whoopty doo! What the fuck is the big deal? I live in a legit village with no desire to go places outside of the small nearby town. No friends, because they're sucking the life out of me with their bullshit. Wtf do I need a car for? Not to mention the financial situation we're in, which isn't really ideal for a third driver.

My mom keeps hounding me about getting a job if I want to have a car, but the only reason I'd have a car would be to go to my job? ??? Adults keep picking on me for not liking the word 'work' when, in fact, it's not that simple. I don't like having to work on minimal mental stability and motivation. I wake up at 6:15 in the morning. I go to two schools, from 7:40 to 3:05, then get home at 4. I have homework from both schools, one of which is drawing which sucks up time like there's no tomorrow. I'm exhausted by the time I get done with school, okay? Sometimes I come home and have to do chores like mowing the lawn, burning garbage, or other time-consuming chores. I need to shower daily because my hair hates me. Eating???

What makes her think that I'd have any desire to get a job when I'm sixteen??

Oh, and not to mention literally every adult imaginable hounding us teens about college and future jobs. I'm so fucking tired of that shit, like come on. How many students are you going to push into college only for them to fall into debt and drop out? And they're not even good colleges, just local ones that want money. Fuck off and leave me alone already.

No, you're not nuts because that's definitely true.

Aren’t they right though?

No, not really.
There's this weird, overobsessive need I see so often with adults to just suck the enjoyability of childhood from kids and teens.

I have no time for a job and my parents are mad at me for not having one but that's not going to change. They're filling up my free time with other stuff. I have no free days. I get home at 6:30 almost every day and I have homework every hecking day too

tbh it’s my parents telling me to slow down lol

i have the opposite problem. I want to get a job and support myself because my family is in a lot of financial debt, and I want to be able to support them in any money they may need, and not to mention anything I or my sister might want.

Yeah, it's the same with me to be honest– but mainly for sexist reasons.

No, not really.
There's this weird, overobsessive need I see so often with adults to just suck the enjoyability of childhood from kids and teens.

But aren’t the “young adults” of this age so irresponsible?

_{meanwhile not too many generations ago you were forced to get jobs at like 10 years old and get married/have children at 13 but yeah kids these days growing up too fast}

Yeah no. Except in very poor/non developed places.

A hundred years ago maybe. But that would be fourteen and sixteen maybe.