Twenty Year Olds Calling Eleven Year Olds Immature… Right…
October 23rd, 2007 by Nate in
Miscellaneous
There’s a thread going on right now on the main site that I won’t mention, but numerous times people who are 19, 20 years old have called people who are 11, 12 years old as immature. Well duh, but does it bare saying, much less even getting upset about an “immature” 11 year old?
I suppose the problem is that you can’t see the other person, so you don’t think to take into consideration their age. Now, there are plenty of 11 year olds who are extraordinarily intelligent, and they should be held to a high standard. But personally, I know I was an idiot at 11. Besides, if I were to hear a 20 year old call an 11 year old immature in real life, I’d probably think it was more true of the 20 year old than the 11 year old.
Ah well.
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
Eleven-year-olds aren’t immature… they’re eleven-year-olds. I don’t think you can really hold them to a standard of maturity, or even immaturity. Not to say they’re so low as to be lacking either one and they’re stupid, it’s just that… They’re not going to be as mature as someone who is older mostly because they’ve had less experience with life in general. I know immature sixteen-year-olds… I would take an “immature” eleven-year-old instead, any day. At least then I could have a good conversation. XD
*grumbles*
October 23rd, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Amen, Nate. This is a site to help young writers with their writing, not to do name calling. Young writers come to this site for that reason only, we need to help them with the consideration that they are eleven years old and have not had the experiences that we have and need to be guided in their writing appropriately. Let’s be helpful, not harmful.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:16 am
I don’t think I’ve seen the thread in question, so I can’t really comment without knowing the context. I will say, though, that 95% of the time everyone I talk to on this site is amazingly mature and I often find myself surprised that they’re a great deal younger than me. If it’s about writing quality, then I suppose most of the time a younger writer is not going to be as technically or emotionally developed as someone who has been writing for longer, but I wouldn’t necessarily call that immaturity!
If you ask me, the use of “immature” as an insult is best confined to adults (i.e. 20+) who are acting like 11yos rather than 11yos who are acting…like 11yos XD
October 24th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
If I saw an eleven-year-old (in person or online) doing something immature, why, I would say, “Golly, that’s immature.”
Even so, I find myself using the word more to describe people my own age than I do to describe younger kids. Immaturity has nothing to do with age, it has to do with acting one’s age.
October 28th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
immaturity is a matter of opinion, it can’t be used to describe all people but it can be used to describe all ages. We are all immature to ones older than us, even a 90 year-old might be considered immature to one that has passed 100, there’s no stopping the idea. but we can restrain the usage of it in onversation, it’s not exactly fair, as we can’t judge people when we are not at their level. 11 year olds think that we are very mature at this age, yet when we look at ourselves later we will think that we were very IMmature at this age. there’s no way that we can properly judge it.
October 30th, 2007 at 6:35 am
I have to say, I haven’t read the thread in question - I’m on the search for it now but I doubt I’ll find it - but I can kind of picture the kinds of things that these people have been saying.
I’ve noticed on here that the word “immature” is used a number of times, and in a number of ways; you don’t have to say the word to be saying it. For those who call an eleven year old immature? What a load of poo, mind my language.
When I was eleven, I was a total and utter baffoon. You’re not supposed to be mature at that age, you should have to worry about anything at that age. If anything, I’m still a complete and utter idiot, but gladly, I do have my more mature moments when I need to be formal and such; but life is too short to be lardy-dar all the time.
To those who call eleven year olds immature; Whaaaa?
December 28th, 2007 at 1:19 am
They’re not going to be as mature as someone who is older mostly because they’ve had less experience with life in general.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
i’m eleven. i have average matureness for my age. sure, of course i’m considered immature compared to a nineteen or twenty year old!! They are eight or nine years older than me! Geez!