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I find a lot of this fascinating, because when I was in graduate school, my focus was on the development of late adolescence between 18 and 24 years old. I worked in a college setting and spent most of my career in a career services type office. There is a whole body of literature that shows the marked development into an independent being that occurs in that timeframe. And it seems like we’ve just let that fall out of our heads.

The change between an 18-year-old college freshman for example to a 22-year-old college senior can be fairly dramatic and how they view themselves and interact with the world. The sheer number of students I worked with that wanted to change majors or careers in their junior year or even senior year, because they finally sorted out their voice from their parents voice was not a small number. And we’re only talking about jobs here. Not complete identity for the rest of your life.

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It’s a strange social justice movement that arrived, pretty much fully formed and backed by millions in financial terms and with the backing of global corporations, health services, businesses, governments and local governments, police services… in fact anyone and everyone with any degree of power. Considering that we are told that this is about a tiny number of people, one might wonder what the motivation is for all these organisations.

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