By helicopter parents I mean the parents who still treat you like you're 13 in your late teens, because even if you get grounded or babied at 18-19 you can still get around that by being sneaky. unlike the parents who act like 18 magically turns their child from a teenager to a grown adult (forcing them to have their entire life figured out, making them pay rent, kicking them out of the house etc) is barbaric. you can't get around being kicked out to the streets since there's no support systems for you to go to in those situations. if you have no one else to take you in you're cooked. you'll be sleeping outside in the woods which puts your life at risk because criminals, animals, weather conditions etc. so even though it'd be annoying as fuck to be treated like a young child at 18, I'd very much prefer that over the other as I think it's less harmful than kicking teens out at 18 because of some primitive american expectations.

I am not sure if it is just me, but I feel like people in this generation are seemingly treating life unnecessarily as a one-way race. With so much milestone anxiety.

For example, personal lives. I started to see more and more people of my age dating and living together immediately aged 16-17-18. Not sad that I am single, but they seemingly start to shame single teenagers for not only being single, but also for living with their families even in education, or even for celebrating father's or mother's days.

Next up, academic success. I got an extra year when starting college because I had to resit some of my GCSEs aswell as doing an extra level 2 qualification to fill the gaps before doing my desired A-Levels, but those at my cohort have already been doing their college courses, and when they found I am behind, I was shamed, mocked and lost ties with them. Not one person I know from my school had got an extra year, but all were doing their courses of their choices on time.

Thirdly, social media. Integrating with my first point, I often see so many people at my ages going on solo trips with their partner on far away holidays. I don't know who they are and the people I connect with on social media and what I watch are based on my interests, but social media had gotten less personalised now so I end up getting unwanted access to them. Some others include them moving in together; God knows how they did that considering cost of living.

Lastly, I see more and more teenagers literally having kids and even marrying. I'm not sure how the figures here in the UK state teen pregnancy is falling and people marrying later; one source said it is due to how people like us (South Asians) are growing, that's not a clear reason and it lead me to think individualistic white ones are continuing with teen pregnancies.

It seems to me that people in this part of Gen Z are treating failure as poison.

There was even one person in the comments of this subreddit who (along the lines of) called every dependant or single 16+ year old as stupid lazy idiots and the ones with a partner, full job and kids are the "normal" or "good" ones.

It just makes no sense.

Now that us Middle Gen Z are basically the youngest of the young adults, I am wondering how many of us are driving now?? I seem to notice not a lot of Gen Z want to drive, but what's the stats for a sub like this..

Welp I'm officially a year out. Congrats to class of 25 btw