[Nina]

Teenagers are stereotyped as being insecure and confused and searching for their place in the world. I think this is true, it does start in the teenage years. Do most people find their place in the world and stabilise as they grow older though?

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[ShirleyAvery]

I applaud your honesty and self-knowledge. MAturity CAN result in more self-confidence, partly because we’ve learned that most of the mistakes we’ve made were not fatal or even that serious. If you come from a family like mine where there was more criticism than encouragement (to put it mildly), it may take some counseling and/or support groups to gain confidence to counteract the ill effects of such a family. In any case, when you get older, you tend not to care so much what other people think about you. Instead of trying to please everyone, you try to find people with whom there is mutual respect and appreciation and forget about the others. Just Curious

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[Dot]

I don’t agree that teens are stereotyped as being insecure. In my experience far too many of them are overly confident about their skills as drivers and their ability to make decisions about sex and drug use. You are likely wiser than the average teen in that you realize you don’t yet know it all. People like you do learn from life experience and become better for it because you’re open to the idea and not already convinced anyone over 30 is an idiot.

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