if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are โtoo old for trick-or-treatingโ because that will literally break their hearts and thatโs not cool.
Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought Iโd reblog this again
And ifย โdonโt be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreakerโ isnโt enough for you, considerย
You canโt tell how old a kid is just by looking. Iโve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and Iโm 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you wonโt be able to tell theyโre elementary schoolers, but they still are.ย
Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy.ย
You donโt know if that teenager is developmentally disabled.ย
You donโt know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.
You donโt know if this is that teenagerโs first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.
You donโt know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year.ย
You donโt know if that teenager has eaten anything at allย today.ย
And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head.ย
and even if it is just a bored 16/17 year old out trying to see what free shit they can get. is it really gonna kill you to give them a fun sized milky way from the multipack you bought at poundland? That thing didnโt even cost you 5p, just give the kid the sugar, say โnice costumeโ, and let it go.
There are worse things a teenager could be doing on Halloween instead of trick-or-treating.
