Writer's Block: Adult Onset

[uberreiniger]

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When you make your first kill, take your first drink, get your first car, your alcoholic father hires you your first prostitute, and you find your spirit animal.

Those are the most tried and true methods. I figure if you throw all of them at the kid at once one of them's bound to work.

No seriously, I think just assigning it at an arbitrary age works just fine. Although I might place it at 17 rather than 18, or maybe even 16 since that's already the legal age to work and drive in this country.

Comments

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Universities really need to update how they do things in some respect. For the fuck ups, the year of "general educaction" doesn't really provide them any real incentive to get their acts together. For the ones who have their acts together the general education year seems like a waste of time and can be a stumbling block to them. It was for me.

It's a complicated question. For much of human history you were an adult at 15 and expected to handle things as such. But now we live longer and perhaps biologically our mental adolescence has been extended as well. I wonder if there's been research into that aspect of it?

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

I would expect this is a popular discussion in behavioral psych. I shall point one of my friends who works in that field (at least I think she's in behavior, maybe she's development...related to this discussion at any rate) and see what she thinks :)