• Alex_Jones [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I remember being 21 and I felt weird about dating 18 year olds. It just feels like a different world inside and outside of high school. Or in this guy's case, middle school.

      This is just straight up grooming though.

      • HornyOnMain
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        2 years ago

        I remember when I was 15 a guy I knew who was 16 hit on a 14 year old on one of those week long half term school trip and that was weird as all hell, especially since I was sharing a room with him while he was openly flirting with someone the rest of us thought of as a child. 21 on 13 is just plain fucked up though

        • sappho [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Man it's nice to hear this perspective from other people because I had an 18 year old harasser when I was 14 and everyone thought it was fine/normal/cute because we were both in high school. At least it only lasted a year before he graduated.

        • Alex_Jones [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I totally understand that and see that as fine, I'm just personally very conscious of power dynamics that come with age gaps.

    • mr_world [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Wait until your 30s. 18 year olds look like 13 year olds. It's weird as shit. You just don't notice how young that is when you're that young.

      • Multihedra [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I taught at a uni immediately after graduating from one. And exactly this happened, after 2-3 years. It was like a flip switched and everyone looked like a damn middle schooler lol

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      What mr_world said.

      Went out with my wife last weekend to a nearby college town, we both thought all the (certain) college students in the downtown district looked like early high school/jr high age kids

      I'm a year shy of 30