Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello my name is Shola and I would like for the age for being an adult to be lowered from age 18 to age 16, 15 or even 14 or 13 in this country and all other countries too because I am so angry with older people and people who are young treating younger people which includes children and teenagers like they are babies/little children when they are all not babies or little children anymore. People seriously need to stop treating children and teenagers like they are babies or little children right now as that is not acceptable and children and teenagers should be allowed to have more rights, responsibilities and freedoms like adults already have please I need to know what are the full list of things young people want to change and what are the list of changes that they want to see happen on this planet?
It sounds like you're feeling a lack of respect!
As a mother and someone who had to 'grow up' too early, there are so many bad things happening in the world and without a hard line between childhood and adulthood, we wouldn't be able to prosecute criminals properly. Males would marry as young as they could or even younger, which is legal still in some places where the wife is not protected from her husband in cases of rape - this is horrifying when the girl is Nine or Thirteen. Legal ages affect voting which affects the Laws and Judgements in countries.
If you're coerced into criminal activity under 18, you're not locked up with hard 50-year-old criminals. At a legal age we vote on how prisoners are treated, how citizens are protected from corporations, how water and sewage is handled, where roads are built. Public servants are voted in by those with enough years on them to (supposedly) see a wolf in sheep's clothing. Would you like all of this responsibility? It will be yours some day.
But I think the error you are running into just now has to do with how humans in society treat each other, and learning to steer clear or how to respond back to the ones who are disrespectful, disregarding, un-kind, un-generous, who lack grace, and patience and do not care to see you for who you are! Which is a worthwhile being with so much potential. Adults have to deal with this sort to our grave, so it may never go away... sadly.
Maybe spend these years in a commitment to researching the psychology behind humans with Control Issues who are stuck survival mode: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn. How Capitalism closes in on society and pushes it to these extremes of competition while pushing those who do not fit it's model out. Spend time researching how to become a human with good principles and you will find you begin to find a level of expectation with everyone you meet & quickly extract yourself from those who do not "play" at your level. Take this time which is allotted to you to learn to intake as much as you can! This research can take 10 years, so start now. Because once you cross that legal threshold, little time will be afforded for education and growth; most of us are thrown into a workforce at 17 or 18 trying to survive and catch up to where we can learn something to help us into a better life.
The best place to not find yourself treated like a child is in the research section of the Public Library (once opened back up).