Appropriately Self-Centered

Did you know that our brains aren’t fully developed until our mid- to late twenties? So the idea that every person, especially adolescents and adults, should innately know the importance of thinking of others is unreasonable. Teens are developmentally appropriately self-centered. This article gives a general synopsis of the why behind “adolescent egocentrism”: https://www.joon.com/blog/understanding-adolescent-egocentrism. This doesn’t mean that kids these days will never mature into contribu...