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Between ages 13 and 50 you lose about 20% of your gray matter, and gain about 10% of white matter.

These are not dramatic differences.

Teenage brains and middle aged brains are very similar.

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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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A: "Prefrontal cortex! Irrational child brains! No one under 25 should have the right to vote!"

B: "If they have child brains we can't let them work in factories, or any place where there's danger. They gotta be removed from the workforce, and of course free from taxation."

#RespectYoungAdults #childlabor #frontallobe #prefrontalcortex #DeficientBrains #bodilyautonomy #youngadults #taxationwithoutrepresentation #StopTheHysteria #brains #undeveloped #braindevelopment #deficient #agency

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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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People grow up faster now. We are taller younger. We start and finish puberty significantly earlier than 100 years ago

But rather than acknowledge that we're reaching adulthood quicker, we decided to act like we are children longer

So we now have a widespread unscientific belief in an absurdly long "adolescence"

tube.xy-space.de/w/3hVrZbZf7oB

#teenagers #puberty #adolescence #teens #respect #youngadults #undeveloped #frontallobe #prefrontalcortex #RespectYoungAdults

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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
39 followers · 354 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
39 followers · 354 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

People grow up faster now. We are taller younger. We start and finish puberty significantly earlier than 100 years ago

But rather than acknowledge that we're reaching adulthood quicker, we decided to act like we are children longer

So we now have a widespread unscientific belief in an absurdly long "adolescence"

tube.xy-space.de/w/3hVrZbZf7oB

#teens #teenagers #respect #youngadults #prefrontalcortex #RespectYoungAdults #adolescence #puberty #undeveloped #frontallobe

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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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Wild_Heather_860 · @Wild_Heather_860
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Looking around the world I see obsession with undeveloped frontal lobes only in a few countries which also have long strict sex-phobic Puritan traditions,

and the allegedly deficient brains are only mentioned with regard to choices about sex.

Coincidence?

#basicbiology #teens #teenagers #brains #undeveloped #frontallobe #prefrontalcortex #RespectYoungAdults #SexualDevelopment #evolution #bodilyautonomy #agency #youngadults #puberty #puritan #SexPhobia #stopthehate #braindevelopment

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