I possess a strong dislike for the way the seeming majority of adults think and behave. As an individual younger than eighteen, I've experienced cruelty, condescension, maltreatment, removal of my own basic rights. I feel that many of the adults that surround me exert control onto their children in a way that is selfish and masturbatory.
They associate youth with stupidity and poor manner, yet wish they were young because they think that's what they're missing. It seems as if they forget every year behind them as soon as they hit enough 'milestones'. Inside them is the same mind they thought with in childhood, yet they seem to think some monumental change has made them into a different person. They're happy to use this idea to pretend everybody below a certain line is incapable of rational thought. Why are so many people so happy to look down on others? It's a shame.
Some years ago, caught in the act of self-injury, I was punished and admonished. My parents were worried about what others would think of their parenting. Sometimes it has felt as if I were, to them, an indicator to others of their own merit, and if I was no good then they were sure others would assume that they were no better. It's not intentional but still a message I have received. This of course is no good itself, as I'm a person, a real person, despite everything. They never tried to understand the context beyond their own perspective. I respect them, but they suffer from a small worldview at times. Adults continue to bother me in this way.
Largely, people who think this way feel an entitlement of sorts due to feeling affirmed of some kind of superiority by their age. They wouldn't dare to say the kinds of dismissive things they take no issue with relaying to children to anyone they saw as their equal. They feel free to decide that those not like them don't deserve their respect.
This behavior is not a conscious decision of course, but learned. Most people in society see no issue with it and the media too presents it as a fact of life. Nonetheless it is not 'natural'. It's in fact sick. More and more freedoms are removed every day. At the times I'm living with them, I'm trapped in a suburban house that I hate with my whole heart, and there is nothing to do and nowhere to see.
Some things appall me even more. Recently there was wondering aloud on if they should somehow put a tracker on me. This was a very casually delivered idea. But in reality it sounds utterly deranged... authority figures of all sorts can afford to surveil and suppress more than ever now. A shame. It's all a shame. You may call me dramatic but I don't think it can be said that I have no point.