[ SECRET POST #6068 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6068 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Inspired by #4

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, hold on, you're squicked by 16 and 14?

NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Like... when I was a sixteen year old, I can't imagine dating a fourteen year old... but, at fourteen, I would have absolutely crushed on a sixteen year old. I didn't ship that particular ship just because I didn't read their interactions as EITHER of them being actually romantically interested in each other at all, but the age thing... /shrug

For either ship, once they're grown up, two years isn't even a gap. Like if I dated someone two years younger than me NOW, I would just think 'yeah we're the same age'.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I had a very different experience at that age. 14 to 17 year olds were kind of lumped together, bound together by school, work, and the various youth-oriented hang-outs in the area. 18 is where the age difference really started to feel like a thing, likely because the 18-year-olds were either in college, getting ready to be, or starting "real" work.

If you're comfortable sharing, when were you in your teens? For me, it was late 90s. I feel like that might be a factor.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

DA I was a teen in the early and mid 90s and my experience was very similar to yours. There were always exceptions, usually someone who was very immature for their age so at 14-16 they didn’t fit into the crowd or 18-19 did fit. Friend groups may have been narrower in range but a lot times they weren’t. My group stuck together for about seven years total so two years after my graduation we had a few in our group who were freshmen in high school. That group kinda rolled over through life stages and most of us who are still living are still in touch with some having extremely close friendships still.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

dda, also a teen in the late 90s and yeah, it was the same here. From about age 14-17 everyone just sort of hung out together and there was no real age distinction because you were all in high school. No one thought it was weird for a freshman to be friends with a senior or anything like that.

It would be considered kind of weird for high schoolers and college students to be hanging out together, but otherwise, everyone just sort of grouped together regardless of age.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

NA - I was a teen in the early to mid 00's and we tended to have friend groups that were mostly within our grade. There were people one year younger or one year older, but they were the minority. I think the smokers and the tokers tended to have a broader age range, for the obvious reason that what made them a group was a shared hangout spot--namely, the spot where they were able to smoke and/or toke without getting in trouble.

All that said, I still don't personally feel squicked or concerned about a 14yo and a 16yo dating. Like yeah, it could be a toxic relationship, or evolve into a toxic relationship, but so could any relationship.

Re: NAYRT

[(Anonymous)]

Late 90s-early 00s, small town in central California. Part of what made the difference for me was having a sister two years younger than me, while I was one of the younger people in my grade. So when I was 14, say, I'd be spending most of my time at school with 14-15s, and any 12yos I saw were in the category of 'little sister's friends', and then when I was 16, I'd be with mostly the 16-17s, and any 14 year olds I knew were, again, friends of my little sister and therefore KIDS in my eyes.

Whereas now, as an adult, I know *plenty* of people who are two years younger than me but I know them through hobbies/social spaces where they've got nothing to do with my little sister, and even if they did, she's also an adult now.