Adult: “Happy sixteenth birthday!!” Teen: “Oh thanks so much” Adult: “ So have you gotten your license and a car yet?” Teen: “ Oh yah I have, I’m so excited” Adult: “ Oh man everybody watch out, I guess I will be staying away from you on the roads”…..Me: oh my gosh just shut the #$%^ up.
This type of conversation and remarks given by adults to teenagers who just are starting to drive is what absolutely drives me nuts! I cannot take it when adults falsely make assumptions and misconceptions about all teens and teen drivers. Almost all adults use this type of lingo when talking to a teenager about driving.
Okay, okay, so I will admit that some teens are not the best or most experienced drivers, but this is not a good representation for the entire population of teens. Although some teens aren’t very irresponsible or good drivers, there are also a large handful of teens that are very responsible and experienced drivers.
Along with some teens there are also a very large amounts of adults that are not the best drivers in the world. The reason for the over exaggeration of misconceptions of bad teen driving, can be explained by a series of psychological phenomenon’s that a conscious human mind is not aware of. These phenomenon’s of over exaggeration can be explained by the need for the human mind to need to fill in and make connections between radical events and the explanation. In this case the false accusation of a teen being a faulty driver and inexperienced comes to persons to try to explain something like a crash that a teen might have been involved in. This type of factor and psychological phenomenon have been formed by the influence of both culture and social factors.
For these types of reasons, is why teens are sometimes given this label, which can sometimes be false and can actually anger teens including me. I mean, yah its true that some teens aren’t good drivers, but that is true for adults also. Teens may be less experienced and mentally developed than adults, but teens also have faster reactions and have the ability to learn new task easier and faster like driving then adults. So next time you might come into a situation like the one given, please understand that teens aren’t an exception to driving skills and that actually you were one at one time way back when.
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