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A brain under construction running on impulse, snacks, and the conviction that nobody understands.
means A person between thirteen and nineteen years old — old enough to want independence, young enough to still need a ride home.
from From the suffix -teen, which marks the numbers thirteen through nineteen — the only ages whose English names end that way. -teen descends from Old English -tene, a form of tien, "ten," so a "teenager" is literally someone whose age is ten-and-some-more. The word teenager itself is a 20th-century American coinage, born when this stretch of life became a recognized stage (and a market) of its own; teen as a standalone noun grew up alongside it.
- brain wiring
- Prefrontal cortex isn't done until mid-twenties
- sleep shift
- Biology pushes bedtime later, not laziness
- word origin
- Coined relatively recently, around the 1940s
- risk reward
- Dopamine peaks make rewards feel enormous
- growth spurt
- Bones can grow faster than coordination keeps up
thirteen magazine — us publication launched 1997 for girls aged 13-19, owned by hearst
mtv's teen mom — reality tv series debuted 2009 following pregnant teenagers and young mothers
teen vogue — fashion magazine spinoff of vogue launched 2003 targeting teenage readers