/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>10874473
Exactly.

>>10874439
When I was 12, I used to talk to people online and they assumed I was in my 20s and in college because I was able to converse using good grammar and maintain what I assume they thought was a compelling conversation. I never told anybody I was actually 12 and nobody questioned it. I always enjoyed talking to adults more than people my own age. I was also considered academically gifted and was put in the 10th grade when I was 13. So actually, I speak from the experience of being a "mature" child.

No matter how "mature" I was in one sense, I was still incredibly EMOTIONALLY immature, naive, and inexperienced.

Because people treated me like an adult they didn't forgive me when I made the kinds of stupid childish mistakes that all teenagers make. Because I was a "miniature adult" people assumed I could take full responsibility for my choices, when often my choices were actually incredibly poor, stupid and impulsive because I was still inexperienced and emotionally underdeveloped.

You should talk to children and teenagers with respect, and you should act like you respect them the same way you respect "good" adults. Precocious children like that and it makes them feel good. But when you forget that they ARE still children behind the mask of apparent maturity, you start to go down a very dangerous road.