u/NJE_Eleven

this is coming from me as a 19-year-old so I was a minor not too long ago, so this stuff is still kind of fresh to me

I’m noticing a lot of minors, I guess specifically the ones who are like 14 to 17, tend to infantilize themselves and have a “come save me!” mentality. saying “i’m a minor!!” all the time, having some sort of learned helplessness simply because they’re under 18. “but I’m a minor!” you’re 16 with a drivers license and a full-time job. I don’t think you can use that card anymore.

This is also with celebrities and famous people who also just happened to be minors. like walker scobell, the guy who plays Percy Jackson. when somebody makes a mildly suggestive edit of him, people would say “that’s a child!!!” when he’s literally 17. minor celebrities are seen more as innocent vulnerable children, and not teenagers who have their own thoughts and opinions and autonomy. they are particularly safeguarded a lot more.

As a 19 year-old, this gives me the biggest sense of cognitive dissonance. someone who’s two years younger than me being treated like they’re made out of glass and I’m expected to have the next two decades of my life figured out.

A Medium article I've created on young people's bodily autonomy.

If you guys haven't remembered, u/TheAutisticSlavicBoy has created a youth rights wiki for writing about important youth rights issues. This is important because with this wiki, we can push our research further, allowing those who are new to our movement to read up on important youth rights issues. the site is currently down for me, but when it comes back up, we need to start researching on important youth rights topics such as social media access, transgender youth rights, bodily autonomy, student rights, etc, and start filling our glorious wiki with important resources. Link: https://youthrightswiki.nfshost.com/wiki/

The fact that you took time out of your day to set up a camera, record this, review the footage, and still decide to hit upload needs to be studied by scientists. Somewhere in an alternate universe, there's a version of you that opened the camera app, thought "maybe not," and just put the phone down. Unfortunately, we got the timeline where you voluntarily broadcasted this sequence of moving images to the world like a medieval town crier whose only purpose is to contribute absolutely nothing.
I imagine you sitting there after the upload reached 100%, staring into the darkness of your room illuminated only by the sacred blue glow of your screen, waiting for somebody to acknowledge your existence. Not because the video was entertaining. Not because it was informative. But because deep down you know that if the view count stays at zero, then for a brief moment you must confront the horrifying possibility that nobody cared.
Generations from now archaeologists will discover this mp4 file fossilized in the digital ruins of the internet and ask each other, "What ancient catastrophe caused this individual to believe this was worth recording?" Entire documentaries will be made. Experts will debate. Cinematographers will argue. Yet no answer will ever be found.
The wildest part is that somewhere in your brain there was a process. Thoughts were generated. Decisions were made. Neurons fired. Electrical signals traveled at incredible speeds across a biological supercomputer evolved over millions of years just to direct your hands to film THAT. That's like using a space shuttle to deliver a single grain of rice across the street.
I don't even dislike the video. I'm fascinated by it. It has the exact same energy as finding a fully functioning microwave plugged into a tree in the middle of a forest. You're not angry. You're not confused. You're just left standing there wondering how events unfolded in such a specific sequence that reality allowed this footage to exist. This is NOT AI.

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DZvceI9p0Jr/ in the comments

Youth Rights related, but what do your processes of conducting research on youth rights look like. How do you guys find the most reliable sources?

I'm currently working on a project that aims to revolutionize the world of social media. I had to restart since I lost its files, but I'm back and working on it. Are you tired of clueless and oppressive lawmakers creating unjust laws that restrict young people's access to social media? Tired of parents saying that young people should not be on social media? Tired of big tech companies not knowing what they're doing with their apps and ending up losing all their users personal information all because of some age-verification system they've created?

Welcome to Project Thetafy: not just social media, but a revolution. I've decided to work on a project, a revolutionary, open-source social app that will be primarily youth led (though, anybody may help contribute). This app is currently being built as a desktop app made in Python Tkinter, and everybody is welcome to join in and program with one another. The Github repository is coming soon, but in the meantime, we have a Discord server, where all are welcome to chat, learn programming and youth rights, and debate with one another.

https://discord.gg/3E97g65yhn

So, my mom just told me to commit suicide after I said that the classes at school are too overwhelming for me. Then she walked out of the room. Is this normal? She has told me before that if I want to hurt myself, I should just do it and that she wouldn't do anything to stop me, so I don't really find it surprising that she wants me to die.

You read the title. I'd also love to see any types of resources you guys might have to support your claims.

While we are on the topic of giving young people positive rights (stuff like being able to vote, be out past curfew, control their education how they want, medical autonomy, have access to the internet and social media), I think that we should also talk about the negative rights that they ought to have (The right not to be abused by parents, not to be preyed on, not to be exploited by other people, especially adults around them). I think these negative rights are extremely important, but when law makers and parents emphasize this, they fall into the trap of taking young people's positive rights away (aka protectionism). You know, people who say "We must ban all young people from social media so they don't get preyed on and ruin their mental health". So, comrades, How do you think we can create safe spaces for young people while also emphasizing the positive rights that they ought to have?

For context, Dad and Mum were arguing over a messy room. Dad came back from work, did the messy room and snapped at Mum, then he blamed me. Look, I agree that I didn't clean it up. But I didn't deserve to get beaten.

Then he hit me, like with a slipper, 4-7 times, then mum and dad started arguing over varous household things, then dad took mum to a corner nearly pinning her to a wall and threatening to kill her, I was filling up water bottles (As told so), Then they started fighting, dad hit mum when she opposed him, and Mum hit dad back, Dad really beat her, I tried to distract dad and called him out for doing this and he tried to punch my face, I dodged, but then he hit punched my gut, and called me out to follow his rules, since he's the earning member basically said "My house, my rules" I hit him back, I punched his hands multiple times as he hit me too, He was hitting mum—I couldn't simply stand back.

EDIT: I already told my grandparents, they came upstairs from the commotion, they defended dad, and blamed all shit on me and lil bro.