What Teenagers Want You to Know | Roy Petitfils | TEDxVermilionStreet

I swear adults always say teenagers are antisocial but when i take my dog on a walk and greet people on the trail adults answer the least

Fun Fact: Most people watching this video are teenagers.

What teenagers want: To be heard To not be patronised To have our ideas considered and not dismissed

This is the first and only time I have ever seen "all teens want is attention" in a positive manner and honestly it's really touching

As a teenager the only thing I want people to know is please knock on my door before you enter my room.

My parents would always tease me about being in my room all the time and would call me a hermit or a shudden but that always made it harder to actually get out of my room

Adults always say we need to “learn how to make our own choices” or “be more responsible” but when it’s a decision that actually effects our life the most we suddenly are not allowed to have any input.

Me: makes a valid point in an argument Parents: H O W D A R E Y O U D I S R E S P E C T M E

Teenagers are expected to act like adults but are still treated like children. Even being 18 and living with my parents I didnt magically get the attention society deems worthy of Adults Only. I had a talk with my mom a few months ago about saying thank you to Me for simply doing the dishes or setting the table and she got upset with me, making me feel like I wasnt worthy of the simple act of being thanked. Later once I'd calmed down and she was driving me to a meet up with friends I said to her "you expect me to say 'thank you' after this car ride right? Cause that's the decent thing to do" and she said yes and I said "all I was saying is that I wish you'd extend the same courtesy to me" and she apologized, saying sometimes she guessed she forgot her pleases and thank you's. I wish I could have more moments like that with my parents, where they would actually listen to what I'm trying to say rather than immediately jumping on the grumpy sullen teenager train, as he said: we are experience rich and vocabulary poor and we need people, Especially adults to reach out to us cause sometimes we dont know how, or its misconstrued as something that's just a "teenager problem"

when his voice cracked when he said "my wife" i teared up

it kinda sucks that i have a better relationship with a stranger over the internet than my own family...😂

Me: Begins winning in an argument My parents: I'm sorry, I don't speak d i s r e s p e c t

This guy sounds like he’s at the verge of crying yet he can’t stop making jokes. It made my brain oof

And those invisible teenagers grow up to be invisible adults. It doesn't just stop at the teenage years. It can go into adulthood too.

My parents: "why r u always in your room?" Me: * gets out* Then: Oh wow, you finally came out Don't you know how discouraging that can be? When you try to do something but get shunned for not having done it sooner?

Adults think their so smart especially teachers and parents... They think their always right no matter what, you argue or talk back and try to prove your point, you get punished and you never win.

I was in class and I think my teacher was in a bad mood. This girl walked up to her to ask her a question and the teacher yelled at her. The girl didn't show any disrespect so I instantly knew it was wrong of her to yell at this girl. I told my teacher that "all she did was ask a question so you don't need to yell". She gave me a detention, but why was what I did considered wrong? The fact is it was not wrong at all. I only received this because I'm a child and a child can NOT know anything. They always say stand up when somebody is being mistreated or somebody is being rude, but if it's the teacher I guess it doesn't apply. I didn't try to go against it or tell any other teachers because I didn't want to make it worse besides who would believe a child.

When asked if bullying was a problem in my school, I would always say no, we mostly ignore each other. We all have our circles and the ones who don't have a circle are just left to wander.

Literally all my parents do is criticize me, and then they’re like, “Why don’t you ever spend time with the family?”

"teenagers are experience rich, but language poor." these. these are some wise words, and they hit home.