honestly i think the reason why itās so common for kids to have the āitās not a phase, momā argument in their adolescence is less because they genuinely plan for their current state of being to remain utterly unchanged forever and more because theyāre tired of having their interests/self expression/beliefs/etc dismissed as foolish due to being probably temporary
i know that when i was that age i certainly wasnāt thinking about whether or not iād be into whatever shit i was into then when i was 80, all i knew was that i was sick of feeling like the adults in my life were just rolling their eyes and waiting out everything that was important to me at that moment
