fne8w2ahtoTechnology@lemmy.worldEnglish·8 months ago‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood(www.theguardian.com)external-linkarrow-up1533arrow-down122message-square229fedilink
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minus-squareAlpha71Englisharrow-up5arrow-down9·8 months agolinkfedilinkIf you cannot behave like an adult by the age of 24 there’s something more wrong with you than your prefrontal cortex.
minus-squareHalcyonEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down0·8 months agoedit-28 months agolinkfedilinkThis is not about behaviour, it’s about brain functions. Humans brains under the age of 25 function in a different way, because they are not fully developed, no matter what behaviour people learnt to show.
minus-squareAlpha71Englisharrow-up2arrow-down8·8 months agolinkfedilinkI was 24 years old. I was the same person I am now that I’m over 50.
If you cannot behave like an adult by the age of 24 there’s something more wrong with you than your prefrontal cortex.
This is not about behaviour, it’s about brain functions. Humans brains under the age of 25 function in a different way, because they are not fully developed, no matter what behaviour people learnt to show.
I was 24 years old. I was the same person I am now that I’m over 50.
You literally are not.