Brains not fully mature until age 30 ...

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www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6824499/Adulthood-begins-30-Scientists-say-brains-not-fully-grown-twenties.html

As I tell my kids all the time!!!
Also makes the point that everyone is different and develops differently. I think one of the signs of maturity is realising that you don't have to be "like" anyone else, you can just be yourself.

Makes sense to me.

Always said 30 is now the new 13.

I think for myself passing 30 chilled me out a lot more and stopped caring so much about being different from others, having different opinions etc. I left the phase where I felt I needed to be surround by people who agreed with or understood me. Of course all people need some of that, but I tolerate difference a lot more now.

There's a phase in life (I think the twenties) where you are figuring out your opinions and so feel more threatened by the opinions of others. That is even more pronounced in teenagehood for most.

But then you do get the occasional very well balanced teen and tween, so yeah it's different courses for different horses etc.

Can we edge the voting age up a bit now?

Autistic people tend to mature at a slightly older age than NT people probably due to delayed or no official dx. Especially girls and women.

Can we edge the voting age up a bit now?

I’ve been saying for ages that legal adulthood ought to be 21; there’s a strong argument for 25, imo.

It would be completely unreasonable to deny the vote to young people who are legally permitted to work full time, pay taxes and live independently. Perhaps there is a case if childhood was also extended, i.e. free state-provided compulsory full-time education until the age of 21 (or 25) and your parents legally responsible for your care. I'm not sure this would be economically viable and personally I don't think it would even be desirable to keep young adults in a state of extended childhood like that, but disenfranchising people without also freeing them from the responsibilities of adulthood would be awful, a huge step backwards.

Apparently the brain also starts declining around age 30 so perhaps only people who are exactly 30 should be permitted to fully participate in society.

Personally I think I wasn’t fully mature until about 30. At that time a lot of stuff seemed to click into place for me but that could have also been because of other factors.

I think voting should remain at 18, but probably drinking and certainly driving should have a higher threshold. Both of these activities need a bit of maturity to be done safely and it costs public services a lot of money to clear up when things go wrong. I can never drive, but I know when I was 18 I was very immature. I preferred drugs to alcohol which is illegal anyway but I wasn’t responsible with that either, and I was hardly an immature 18 year old.

anyway, derail and that.

I disagree that it would be "completely unreasonable".

You can pay tax before 18 if you earn. You can be over 18 but not qualified to vote as it is.

It's a legitimate conversation to have even though recently the push has been to allow 16 year olds the vote. Time to suggest movement in the other direction imo.

At present, many young adults are in a state of extended childhood anyway. That being the case, yes, I think we could quite reasonably give them better opportunities for personal development in their twenties and relieve them of responsibilities for a few more years.

This wouldn’t necessarily make them non-productive members of society, I’m not suggesting playdough and dressing up (though extending the play-based early years a bit wouldn’t be a bad idea, and would absorb some of the added time).

Yes hipster I'm the proud owner of one.

It's flipped my thinking on this.

It's a legitimate conversation to have even though recently the push has been to allow 16 year olds the vote.

Pure political manoeuvring.

I fail to see how it’s in the interests of young people to be expected to take on this responsibility when they’re in the midst of finding themselves.

It’s an outrageous imposition.