Stereotypes Of Teenagers

The life of a teenager may be perceived differently by many individuals. The life of a teenager carries it's facts yet carries it's stereotypes as well. A lot of people, especially those who are to attend high school later on in life believe teenagers and high school is what you see in television shows or movies. However, it's not. Those aren't as close to the reality of it as you think.

First of all, us teenagers aren't all party, drug infused and alcohol obsessed delinquents. This whole stereotype that surrounds us that all of us are going round and round looking for trouble is false. There are some teenagers who are indeed in the basket of those who seek trouble, yet there are many who don't. Not all of us want to take a puff from a cigarette.
Not all of us eagerly await our eighteenth birthday so that we can legally consume alcohol. I myself can stand for that, I never once thought of even going near the world drugs and alcohol simply because it never interested me. There are people who'd rather stay away from those things, especially since they can turn into unhealthy obsessions. I do believe we should break this stereotype because make an assumption that all of us are into these things is wrong and can very much be proven to be wrong if only people were to focus more on those who did good rather than fall into the bad.

Aside from stereotypes, we do have our faults. The cellphone. Yes I know, we hear about it all the time, mostly because it's always around. We have it in our hands walking through the hallways, we have it during social events and we have it everywhere else. If you walk into any public area filled with people you are bound to hear a phone. We've become dependant on our phones and that's the sad truth. We use it for many things that we shouldn't be using it for, especially social events. Rather than sitting and talking what is what should be done, a lot of us are scrolling down our phones and making small talk. It's as if phones have eliminated the social feature that we should have and replaced it with anti-social way of life. This is not the way were are supposed to communicate, we are supposed to communicate with words and not with the keyboard of our phones. This is one aspect of a teenage life that I wish we could all try to fix since being on our phones all the time is not helpful in anyway.

One thing I've noticed as a teenager is the amount of mental disorders that many of us have to deal with.
Depression, stress, anxiety, and eating disorders surround many of us daily. The problem is, people believe we aren't able to deal with illness' such a those listed since we are “too young to have these things” and that is false. There are many reasons as to why many of us deal with such heavy & life draining issues. Those reasons vary with everyone, it may be insecurity issues that triggered this problems, home issues, friend issues or parental abuse. The list of reasons can go and on. Canada's Mental Health Association shared the fact that in Canada, suicide in individuals in one of the leading cause of death in both sexes in the teenage to middle age years. This isn't a fact that we should be seeing, suicide is something that shouldn't be happening. Mental health disorders have been growing on many of us and it's as if dealing with these issues is starting to become a norm in the life of a teenager. It's unfortunate to see that many of us have fallen into the hard area's of life and have a hard time getting back into the safe zones. Mental health disorders is a growing issue in teenagers, I believe it's time we spoke more about it so that we can help us teenagers feel more comfortable with seeking help so that a lot of us can set a path into a more healthier
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In conclusion, the teenage years can bring quite the discussion due to it's misconceptions. However, there will always be truths to some of them. The years of a teenager can turn out to be quite complicated, though, life itself is complicated. For us, I would say our path towards adulthood is quite bumpy. Some of the bumps affect our way of life and thinking, putting us in tough situations. Though some of the bumps are created by ourselves, whether it may be because we keep ourselves hidden behind the screens of our phones or because some fall into the hands of negative substances. In other words, the life of a teenagers is a period of time that is quite complicated and recquires a lot of understanding yet just like many complicated things, it will eventually fade and the path of life will carry on.