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Is it just me, or does adolescent brain development feel from the inside like getting better at *fear*?

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They say the *next* stage of brain development is getting *less* susceptible to peer pressure. What the hell is *that* gonna be like?

I have some guesses, I think. Maybe you get so used to full-grown impulse control that you start taking it for granted, go so long without ever being at real risk of snapping that you start projecting your non-violence onto others the same way you once projected your violence onto them. “What will happen if I make this person angry” calculates (as it always did) as “what would I do if I were them and someone made me angry”, and since “I would hurt them” is no longer a serious possibility, you stop taking that possibility seriously in others (at least by default), and so the stakes are lower.

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