Anonymous #2 9w

And to top it all off has crippling anxiety and depression, and genuinely can’t enjoy life because she just scrolls for hours watching other people’s lives instead of living her own. It literally devastates me.

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Anonymous #2 9w

Dude I’m in my 20s and that’s more crazy than me

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Anonymous obtuse_rubbergoose 9w

Oh hey I had that shirt

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Anonymous lavish_hitbomb_ilysfm 9w

I did too😭

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Anonymous obtuse_rubbergoose 9w

Oh my god, Twinsies?

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Anonymous lavish_hitbomb_ilysfm 9w

I believe so

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Anonymous lavish_hitbomb_ilysfm 9w

the crop top- tank top under it combo had me in a chokehold

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Anonymous hellraiser 9w

Yesss, or the lace ones they had with the tank underneath. Let me find a pic

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Anonymous hellraiser 9w

Yesss girls today will never understand and it’s so sad

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Anonymous obtuse_rubbergoose 9w

Found it

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Anonymous hellraiser 9w

My go to was this style top in some obnoxious pattern or graphic design under a tank top

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Anonymous lavish_hitbomb_ilysfm 9w

Almost, I had a very specific one that was all pink. I’m looking through my pictures right now lol

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Anonymous OP 9w

saame

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Anonymous OP 9w

Wait I meant over a tank top 😭 that would make no sense under a tank top

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Anonymous lavish_hitbomb_ilysfm 9w

I had a shirt identical to this one and the jumpsuit that was a bright pink with “justice” in big sparkly letters on the butt😭 my dad HATED when I wore it

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They probably would have😭 I think i donated or my mom got rid of it right after it stopped fitting me right (I was notorious for wearing clothes waaaaay too small for me because I though I was a skinny queen)

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Anonymous #11 8w

Because even if I raise with restrictions on tech and social media the girls in her class won’t be and I know how bad peer pressure can feel as a tween. Like I just know she’s going to want to spend all day on tiktok and dress like an ig baddie because the girls in her class do

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Anonymous #2 8w

Do her parents know? Do they even care?

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Anonymous #11 8w

I think she can dress like a baddie and understand what’s cool without being chronically online. ALSO as they get to tween age they may be easily manageable as far as electronics if you start as soon as they’re born. Personally my kids won’t know TVs even exist until they’re ~3 y/o. And if they’re allowed cartoon as that point it’ll deadass be DVD of the things I grew up with so they don’t have seizure-level brain activity trying to keep up with how fast imaging in shows is nowadays.

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Anonymous #11 8w

That was long but basically TLDR I feel like that alone will make a huge impact on their desire to still go do things outside or interact with our family and spend less time on social media, just like how our generation finds it somewhat more manageable bc idk abt yall but I was like 10 when the first iPhone came out, I never had electronics as a kid, so I can be without them a bit easier

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Anonymous #14 8w

I have millennial parents and was a teen pregnancy. I’m sooooo glad I wasn’t given electronics at a young age. I got an iPad at 10 and never had a huge interest in it other than FaceTiming family

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Anonymous #2 8w

12?!?!?!?!?! I was still listening to mindless behavior 😃

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Anonymous #18 8w

At 12 I was wearing my bright pink and zebra print right below the knee converse, heavy side part, bright blue eyeliner and pint lipstick while walking around with my iPad and listening to panic at the disco through my dollar general earbuds😭😭

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Anonymous obtuse_rubbergoose 8w

Lmaoaoao like wtf is going on. Smoking weed and sending traps at 12 is insane

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Anonymous #18 8w

Literally. I wish kids still went through their awkward phases, I ate mine up and LOVE the photos I have from it. I can’t even imagine smoking weed now, my bf does, I don’t react well to it and working healthcare I get tested regularly

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Anonymous obtuse_rubbergoose 8w

This made me want to go and find what I looked like at 12 and … also found a pic of me in a pink tie dye Justice tankini to put it in perspective ..

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Anonymous OP 8w

I LOVE THIS. literally how I dressed. The low ponytail had me in a CHOKEHOLD so badly

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Anonymous #21 8w

I don’t think that’s my fault, I think that’s corporations faults if anything..

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Anonymous OP 8w

And I didn’t have any of those things, I had like Disney channel and YouTube personally

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Anonymous OP 8w

Yes but they still had YouTubers dedicated for that age group now YouTube isn’t as popular and more dead tbh

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Anonymous OP 8w

When I say yall I don’t mean specifically you sorry I should have clarified 😅

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Anonymous #21 8w

Yeah idk what needs to change but I wish something would bring it back. At that age I was mostly watching other girls my age who had that actual tween energy. Think seven super girls. And Disney channel girls maybe a little older or around my age with that same energy. Maybe they just somehow need more role models around their age who aren’t acting 20

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Anonymous obtuse_rubbergoose 8w

it’s definitely not all millennials, I actually think my parents are borderline millenials (84 and 82) who has me young. But I’m talking about the later millenials who have kids in who are now in middle school and young highschool, who still think they’re in college and have little to no interest in parenting. Maybe it’s not a good generalization but it’s what i’ve seen.

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Anonymous #14 8w

I think the problem is that generation reacted to the expectations of boomer parents and decided that it was better to let everyone be free and do what they want, but it made them either to selfish to invest in their children (esp if they were accidents, conceived when they were young), or they think they should just let their kids do what they want because that’s better for them. this isn’t backed by any data though

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Anonymous #18 8w

And this just made my anxiety spike bc I just realized there’s probably 50 pedos trying to contact her everyday. I’m actually terrified for her safety

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Anonymous #2 8w

oh my god?

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Anonymous #2 8w

i don’t think this a generational thing. i think the girl needs a talking to.

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Anonymous #2 8w

justice and other tween geared stores were expensive and went bankrupt 😭 also there was more mainstream tween media but that often came at the expense of child actors, child performers childhoods. kids have always participated in trends older people had, as well but maybe you guys didn’t all see that when you were younger. it’s nothing new, we’re just pretending it is because we’re getting older and and acting old.

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Anonymous #24 8w

Yes fs esp on the actors part but for the clothing part I had like 2 things from Justice that I prized and the rest was just the classic tween style that was justice like from like Walmart or target or something, I just wish kids would have that kind of period and popular transition from kid to teen style to not dress so adult at 12

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Anonymous OP 8w

Like that pic I posted I think that’s all from like old navy or TJ max or something like that idk

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Anonymous OP 8w

i think most kids are tbh, most of us just aren’t around kids anymore and so we see posts about the kids who participate in certain trends or who post online and take it as a majority thing. it’s like the whole 10 yr old sephora thing. most 5th graders probably dk what drunk elephant is.

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Anonymous #2 8w

At 12 I was still asking my parents to let me use my iPod touch at night and wearing tank tops under my crop tops

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