re: #42 SanFranciscoZionist

Fuck.

A friend of mine’s father committed suicide when she was thirteen.

Kids at school would make eye contact and then do the ‘finger is a gun to head’ thing.

How the FUCK do people raise children with so little empathy?

Teens have very little empathy as a rule, they are so wound up with hormones and the angsty coming of age “oh my god I’m going to have to decide what to do ‘for the entire rest of my life soon’ thing that not much else penetrates. Those middle school years are the absolute worst, at least in high school some of them have gotten laid (really, not just locker room stories) and realized that the entire world does not actually revolve around sex.

I’m always surprised when people express shock at how brutal kids are to each other. Having been an underage, underweight, stutterer, wearing hand-me-down clothes during that period of my life I know exactly how mean things can be.