| | Adolescence is something we all either survive, or don't.
It can be brutally cruel.
Six-sigma happens. Here are two examples that barely reached adolescence, much less, survived it.
There is something disturbing about Bustamente's picture. Given, she's depressed, distraught, and just committed murder.
She's not only blank, but if you disregard the hair, she looks somewhat sexually ambivalent. (ie, that could easily be an adolescent male.) That is a characteristic of many adolescents, most at some point in our life, but imagine being overly self-aware of it, in this culture with its hyper focus on beauty, and its, IMO, way too young for our own good self awareness of our expected sexual roles, often, culturally, too hard to live up to at a young age expected sexual roles.
Millions of adolescents deal with that, painful or not. By far, most. A tiny few, for whatever reason, and my amateur analysis above is pulled straight from my butt, just my impression of her picture, -- don't deal with it gracefully or reasonably, and thus, don't survive their adolescence.
There are a ton of ways not to survive adolescence. Fortunately, most do. Few with no scars at all...
(Edited by Fred Bartlett on 11/23, 2:41pm)
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