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Why do so many teenagers go through an overly dramatic dark stage? I don't mean that they don't genuinely feel it, but I'm reading this Reddit thread on old cringe and it's basically everyone remembering being embarrassingly emo. I was homeschooled and the bug bit me too.

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Is it like a stage in human progression where you learn how to feel long term sadness and then cause it's the first time, you go overboard?

3:19 PM · Aug 15, 2018

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I remember feeling deeply misunderstood. Is it because society chronically misunderstands teenagers? Is the teenagers darkness phase an adjustment to lack of empathy in society?

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Perhaps something like this — I’ve thought about it as teenagers have a narrower range of emotions; and they grow into nuanced emotions by expressing that range more extremely

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It seems like an overexpression of a desire to be taken really seriously (instead of like a child). Maybe caused by a society or parenting that fails to develop/ack that desire in other ways, or prolongs "youth"?

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