Their experience has been artificially limited by restrictions designed to protect them. They have been protected from learning about the world they live in. Then their ignorance is used as an excuse to extend those restrictions to higher and higher ages.

In the 1980s teen was synonymous with young adult. Now teens are considered children. That is a huge shift in the way we treat millions of people.

and they are not responding well at all. They are in the middle of a huge mental health crisis. Rates of depression, self-harm, and suicide among them are at all time highs. The way we infantilize them constitutes abuse. We have to stop treating them like shit. They need and deserve basic respect. “still developing” is a fuzzy, not very scientific way to say they are inferior and justify treating them like dirt.

This short video explains quite a bit: https://youtu.be/12J1f0Zqaqw ,