Like any age group, theres some good and some bad. They are a
diverse group of people, affected mostly by their 3 enviornments
(school, social, home) and their everchanging emotional state
will determine how they are in those enviroments. Many elders
look on this group as nothing but a bunch of "smokin, drinkin,
lazy, noisy good for nothin' punks who have sex and do whatever
the fuck they want" though really it just depends on the
individual. Im gonna be 17 at the end of this comin' august, and
i will admit that i do smoke and drink at times, but its not all
the time, and it doesnt make me a bad person cuz i dont go doin
anything to anyone else. I just wanna live. There are teens who
are understood and theres ones who are misunderstood, yet there
a lotta adults who say "all teens just think theyre
misunderstood and ignored, but we know whats right for them" and
that pisses me off the way those adults think they can speak out
for us like that. I think it would help if the stereotypes about
our age group lighte