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fandomsecrets2015-02-06 06:55 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2015-02-06 06:55 pm
[ SECRET POST #2956 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2956 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Re: Where do you work? If you have more freedom in adulthood, I want to work there, too!
The argument I was making/looking at is that being a teenager vs being an adult is comparing "less options, better living" vs "more options, worse living". Ultimately, teenagers and adults both have to face constraints and controls from other people in terms of what you can do for your free time, what you do/work by day, and where you live. These constraints are in different forms, but they still exist, and in general, the difference is mostly just a change of scale rather than a change in fundamental paradigm. Adults have less constraints, but the cost of that is less guarantees/people and places to fall back on. It's also not an absolute - while technically/legally minors are at the mercy of adults, the actual reality is that most have some element of choice in their lives. It's heavily structured and out of limited options (choosing classes, what you do after free time, where you work, etc.), but it's rarely as if someone's every movement as a teenager is being dictated against their will, and conversely, it's very rare that an adult actually has total freedom over their own lives. A lot of the "options" or "alternatives" you have as an adult are only possible in extreme circumstances - just like there often are outs from extreme circumstances as a teenager (i.e. choosing to be homeless and starving to escape a bad work environment vs choosing to be homeless and starving to escape a bad home environment or school - which also goes back to the theoretical vs reality argument I was making, in that legally you can't run away from home as a teenager, but in practice you absolutely can and many people do, sometimes successfully/with good results).
I am very sorry that you spent your teenage years homeless, but that is not even close to what the majority of teenagers are dealing with (at least in America, which I'm assuming is the background or similar to the background from which we are both speaking). I haven't seen any high school AU's that are about homeless teenagers. While I have seen homeless!teen!AUs, those are usually NOT high school AU's. This is, in many ways, what I meant by "a different can of worms altogether" (even if I probably should have realized that abusive parents are not the only contender for another can of worms).