Maturity in Teens by Aubrey West The popular topic of conversation between adults and Generation Z teens staff writer
Graphic: A. McGraw
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was around 11 when I first felt like I was becoming more mature. This is when puberty hit; I was changing as a person and didn’t know how to handle it. I was growing up. I learned from the people around me what to do and what not to do, and I started to understand a lot more of what was going on around me, from home life to how people were acting in school and their behaviors. My home life wasn’t all that fun, and I loved going to school to get away from home. School 22 // BGQ // January 2022
was where all my friends were, yet that was when I started to realize that I didn’t have the best of friends or a good group around me. I went down a pretty hard path to get where I am today, but it gave me the knowledge of what is right and what is wrong for me. I would say that I grew up a bit too fast, and I experienced things that I shouldn’t have when I was super young, but the path that I went down was the right one for me to be who I am today.
