As a minor who has healthy friendships with people in there twenty’s am aware that there friends aren’t comfortable with hanging out with minors and out of curiosity am wondering why??? Is it afraid of talking about certain subject around them?? How mentally undeveloped minors are? How they act? Am very curious to see reasons
i got on really well with this guy who was 19 when i was 15, but when i told him my age, he said that other people would perceive our friendship as being weird. he had no problem with it, but with adult/ minor relationships (not romantic) being so stigmatized (for a valid reason), it’s really hard for a lot of people to accept that minors and adults can be friends without the adult having ulterior motives. idk i think alot of adults are afraid of being seen as weird and want to be careful when it comes to that kinda thing.
i'll take a potato chip... and eat it!
As a minor you are the responsibility of your parents/caregivers and as such any social relationship with you would require keeping parents/caregivers in the loop.
This is a really bad analogy but it's a tiny bit like if I wanted to hang out with someone's pet without them. It'd be a little weird, and the pet is subject to a whole host of circumstances outside their control.
As an adult without children, there's really no reason for me to be hanging out with minors when there's so many other people I can hang out with and build direct relationships.
One objection may be that your parents/caregivers don't need to know, it could be a secret. Secret relationships aren't great for anyone involved, so again, another reason to not engage.
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