How do I stop being so suspicious of people(spef. those older than me)?
This is on a throwaway.
I'm 16-18 and I lost a few very close friends, so I've been trying to stay positive and use this as a way to make new connections. I joined a Discord server and someone older than me sent a request and immediately I felt a bad vibe, but that's just the vibe I honestly get with all adults. I don't know how to differentiate when an adult is going to do something bad to me, or when an adult isn't. I don't want to give any more information lest I turn this into a vent of some kind, but it's been really messing with my head. I know I'm considered old enough to be the age of consent in a lot of places and yet I often feel unsafe around people just a decade or so older than me, which I'm very afraid is going to blend into my older adult years.