“When I Turned 25 and My Frontal Lobe Fully Developed”
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- “When I Turned 25 and My Frontal Lobe Fully Developed” #brain. Teenagers' brains undergo significant changes during adolescence, making them more sensitive to rewards and flexible compared to fully matured adults. These changes are influenced by ongoing neurodevelopmental processes, including synaptic pruning, myelination, and changes in neurotransmitter systems. One key aspect of teenage brain development is the heightened sensitivity to rewards. The brain's reward system, which is primarily regulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine, undergoes significant changes during adolescence. This heightened sensitivity to rewards makes teenagers more responsive to pleasurable experiences, such as social interactions, novelty, and risk-taking behaviors. As a result, teenagers may be more likely to seek out rewarding experiences and engage in sensation-seeking behaviors compared to adults. Furthermore, the teenage brain exhibits greater neuroplasticity, or the ability to adapt and change in response to experiences. The prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for higher-order cognitive functions such as decision-making, impulse control, and long-term planning, undergoes extensive development during adolescence. While the prefrontal cortex is still maturing, other brain regions involved in emotion processing, reward processing, and social cognition are more active and sensitive to environmental influences. This heightened neuroplasticity allows teenagers to learn and adapt more rapidly to changing environments, but it also makes them more susceptible to peer influence and external pressures. Additionally, teenagers' brains are characterized by increased connectivity between brain regions, particularly those involved in reward processing and socio-emotional regulation. This enhanced connectivity facilitates the processing of social cues, emotional experiences, and interpersonal interactions, but it can also contribute to heightened emotional reactivity and susceptibility to stress and peer influence. #teen #neuroscience
25 is the average age. It can take up to 30 years.
It happened around 30 for me, I think. Just started randomly doing things a mature adult would do, over the course of the year; Brushing my teeth every night, consistent sleep schedule, daily walks, regular phone calls to friends/family, making my bed every morning, etc.
Things I *knew* an adult should do, but could never make myself do them consistently, or at all. But something just clicked, and I was doing them. No major life change that year too, was still single, same job, same friends. Its crazy to look back at it.
Sounds like you have a perfect life to me..
@@mii_7093 lmao, I wish.
I'm doing a lot better right now, bc I'm prioritizing good habits (daily walks, social connections, stretching, exercising, journaling, etc.) but still have things I need to improve.
Plus health issues. But yeah, my outlook on life in general has *never* been better and more positive.
Not brushing your teeth every night until you turn 30 sounds crazy to me
There's still hope for me to get a sudden onset frontal lobe assist with my adulting.
@@lilytheflower-4004some people aren't taught to do it daily 2x . Not everyone has responsible parents .
Me at 25: let's do drugs!
Me at 30: let's do drugs while also being painfully aware of their consequences and long term effects on my body/brain
did you not know the consequences before? a ten year old could understand the long term consequences of doing drugs or other bad things and act accordingly to avoid being in a worse situation.
@@tack3545 Could understand and could *understand* is completely different. You literally watched the short about it!
@@alalalala57 explain what the fundamentaldifference between a ten year old thinking about something long term and reacting to it vs a 30 year old is. saying the same thing *in bold* is not an explanation
@@tack3545 the 30 year old has felt the long term effects from their past shenanigans so they can properly understand, 10 year olds can bounce back from damn near any injury. A 30 year old can fall down and they’ll feel it for the rest of the week if their lucky, a 10 year old can fall down and they’ll feel it for the rest of the day if they’re unlucky.
There’s a difference between understanding and comprehending, you can understand something without fully comprehending.
@@brandonferrel7066 i’m talking about something that neither the kid nor the adult has yet to experience. both of them are deciding to not do something based on critical thinking about long term consequences.
I was always very rational & calculating & “mature for my age”. Never really had any issues with impulsive behavior. Then at 25 I had an emotional breakdown that completely changed me as a person, and I actually became much more emotional and impulsive. So apparently this can happen in reverse.
Was the emotional breakdown random or had you been going through a lot? I think emotional breakdowns in general can change you as a person. I developed depression at 14 which massively changed the way I think. A lot of the experience and after effects were negative, but surprisingly there were also some positive abilities that came with it like the ability to be more introspective. I was very logical and rule following before, but became more unstructured and disorganised after that, but with better ability to analyze the events that contribute to why I and others might feel or act the way we do about things. Also I always felt like I was a young person in my 20s that wasn't getting to experience and enjoy the things others get to, but when I hit 25, while I still felt young, I felt more like I should get my life in order and became more adult rather than the feeling as much like a young person expected to be able to handle all the adult responsibilities. Been becoming more responsible and thinking long term bit by bit
This usually happens when we've had traumatic childhoods. You can't act immature because you're forced to face mature situations. Then once your brain matures its like you realize you were robbed of your childhood and try to take it back. Being "mature for your age" is a line that comes from trauma, unfortunately.
I was going through a lot. So I actually was also depressed as a teen, and then a bunch of stuff happened at 25 that pretty deeply tied into some of the reasons for that depression, and to some extent pulled me back in. And it made me realize that that emotionless “rationality” had been the result of me suppressing feelings that I wasn’t able to handle, or able to trust anyone else enough to talk about. Until then, I was genuinely quite academically smart, but that’s basically *all* I was. It wasn’t until all this stuff happened that I discovered an emotional depth both in myself and in other people that I didn’t even realize was possible.
This is exactly what happened to me.
Quarter life crisis put things into perspective and I realized that.
This!!! The exactly same thing happened to me last year. I've always been "mature for my age". Very rational and level-headed but as soon as I hit 25-26, I became a lot more unstable, emotional and sensitive. Had impulsive desires to completely change a lot of things about myself and those effects have completely pivoted who I am. To the point I still don't recognize myself and it's very hard to navigate this new me. I'm trying to embrace it but it's rough
25 was the age of realization- 30 was the age of implementation for me anyway
I believe I was 33 when I figured being more responsible and rational of my decisions.
You're 30???????
Same
I agree
This gives me a lot of hope because although I am 27 now I still can't seem to put my thoughts in to motion
No because 25 hit me like a truck. It’s not like I completely changed, but so many things my brain was struggling with suddenly just popped up like I got a software upgrade. It’s crazy
They aren’t saying it isn’t part of it but that there are other factors to the behaviors in adolescence. Which makes sence.
Also not everyone has a sudden moment of change soemtimes it happens sooner sometimes later
My mum noticed I entered my final developmental stage sometimes around mid 24 I’m not sure if I’m still in it or not.
But basicly the brain is very complex and we where simplifying it to much
There doesnt happen a big jump in development in your early to mid twenties. What most likely happened is something you should be really proud of, you overcame a lifelong hurdle that was holding you back, and in the following year gained so much more capability, since you could now act and think easier. Something that could've done this could be losing a source of stress, like getting a job you love, or cutting contact with someone abusive. Could also be something else, but im not smart enough to go into detail there.
@@danielskovbjerg4562 I see what you’re saying and I think I didn’t really explain it as well as I could have in my original comment. It was a small change, but a small change that came from a perspective shift. Change in perspective can change a lot of things, even if it was a tiny adjustment on its own. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had a lot of positive change between being an actual teen to now, but those positive changes have been stable for years now.
Can't wait to have that update if it doesn't happen when i'm 25, hmmm well can't do much about it. Can't wait till I start getting healthy. Depression helped me lose 10+ kg in a week. but I need other sort of motivation to continue Healthy Lifestyle... 1 year after that phase, I'm +2~4kg currently.
I recently got exactly this like you just straight up understand everything and it becomes so clear, its like you get 20 gigabytes of ram
ADHDers: “Look, we work with what we have!”😂❤.
Autistic people too, and neurodivergent people in general. Can get difficult, but we try our best to keep up
AuDHDer here👋
I have really severe ADHD but to my surprise I actually noticed a huge difference the year I turned 25! My emotional dysregulation improved a lot and I can talk myself out of initial overwhelming emotional reactions way better now.
@@idkilikestrawberries That’s great! Progress is progress! We do function differently but to me, when we become self-aware and practice good coping strategies, we become more disciplined anyways because it’s always a struggle. And treatment can help. (Edited for typo.)
Me. Lol I need meds to function properly
@@aliaflow6877 same, but I haven't been able to find a psychiatrist to prescribe them for.. 4 years now? Working on that tho
I read that the reason why the designated age was set to 25 was because scientists studying prefrontal cortex development were running out of funds and the study of it altogether ended when funds were exhausted after not having any successful results from observing prior ages.
Yeah, general public misinterpreted the study thinking it said that's when the brain stops developing, but the study just stopped at 25. It's crazy how much this is repeated.
This is why this could be false. I found studies that showed your brain is done developing as early as age 15. There isn’t enough evidence to dictate when the brain is usually done developing, as it can vary from person to person
@@jong7100 oh shit. I hear 25 years brain stop development fact on so many different subjects that is crazy know that the studi ain't even reliable
just off logic this sounded like a dumb theory ngl
@@jong7100 And also, that's bullshit, your brain doesn't just upgrade in a day because it finished a software upgrade or something, it's a process that slows down over time. Its a mix of placebo along with just misremembering things to fit your new notion. Mid twenties are just when you get more used to working and start living on your own consistently usually so because of modern societal reasons that would happen, not because of your brain.
Honestly I feel like I regressed, I feel like in a practical sense I used to be way more “mature” and smarter. I always felt like I was forced to grow up fast because of trauma. But with age, a funny thing happened to me. Around the time I turned 27ish, I started focusing on emotional intelligence and emotional maturity and honestly, the reduction in stress is so so worth me feeling like I’ve gotten dumber in other ways. One thing I’ve learned with age is realizing that I am who I am, if people don’t like that, then that’s on them. All I can do is keep focusing on becoming a better person. Life is too short to focus on the false sense of urgency everyone seems to have. Everything will work out, and if it doesn’t, then it probably will work out in a way I don’t completely understand yet and that’s ok.
Thank you for sharing that. For real. I'll keep it w me. Take care, wise stranger! May you life be great! /Gen!!!
The same happened to me, I finally got out of a rough situation and after a few years it was like all my maturity just got up and left. I'm far happier now and feel more like myself than ever but I'm also more impulsive and somewhat less capable of taking care of myself. In emergencies that sense of maturity and intelligence comes back and I've since realized it was mostly just constant fight or flight + emotional repression that was making me capable of that kind of maturity.
I don't understand. You say now you are emotionally more intelligent on one hand and ironically become dumber and immature on the other. I am super confused. Need more context and clarification.
@@mammamiapizzeria4911 they might mean that they judge their world through mostly emotion instead of logic now which is what's societally considered to be immature
@@xylophone_8888 ln hindsight, I actually misread his comment, I thought he was saying that he himself is becoming more dumb because he is more emotionally intelligent now, but instead rather what he meant was the society is deeming him dumb because he is not living up to the social expectations which was giving him stress, the stress which he now is emotionally aware of.
Btw meaning no disrespect, I don't think you are familiar with the term emotional intelligence because what it entails is someone giving an astute behavioural response to ones environment in a practical sense. Which is only possible if the individual in question is logical and matured.
My mother used to use this as a put down and manipulation technique. “You can’t make this decision about your life. You’re not fully mentally developed until 25.” The decision in question was getting married. 13 years and 2 kids later, we’re still together and I barely talk to her. Brain development is an interesting thing, but it doesn’t define us or what we’re capable of.
same. i feel like the real significance of this is overblown. i have always been able to rationally think out consequences - nothing has changed as i have gotten older
So you got married when you were 12?
You and sadly people like you don’t understand just how relevant it is for the majority of humanity. To ignore this age and its significance is very problematic. There’s almost 8billion people on the planet, of course there’s outliers. But to ignore the fact that the amount of people who marry and have kids young not listening to anyone is why the divorce rates are through the roof. There is a lot to our full development AND most people develop at 25 that’s the average. But some not till 30 and some like you not till 20, but most have a fuller deck by 25 and should not be making life altering decisions until your fully developed.
This is honestly why I get so aggravated when people take this type of research without nuance. It is weaponized against women, against transgender people, against almost everybody who's younger.
I'm 28, and I don't feel any different than I did at 18 or 19 years old, I just have a little bit more life experience.
Even the original researcher who worked on some of that research , Alexander Cohen was stated as saying she was frustrated people took the research without context and without nuance.....
Brain development is never the way that you should judge somebody's maturity. As 80% of our brain development happens before we are 1000 days old. So it's just ridiculous, it is much more complicated than that and people don't seem to grasp that.
@@BassSetH0undlmao no, just means that op got married before 25. If they were let’s say 21 when the got married, their mom would still say the same thing lol
Didn't the study stop at age 25. Basically meaning your brain continues to evolve over time.
Yes
Glad someone brought this up! That study is effectively pseudoscience, your brain continues to develop longterm
yep. this has been proven to be a straight up myth for years. our brains develop all throughout our life since we’re always learning and growing
@@gunnasintern don't they mean two different things? That is developed brain maturity is not the same as the decline of cognitive function. Also that is false, our fluid intelligence indeed declines with age, the cell can't continue replacing itself.
Yes.
Can someone tell this to Leonardo DiCaprio?
Its happening to me at almost 21. I take midday naps now. I plan my sleep so I dont feel like a zombie at work. I'm more aware of the food we have at home. I suddenly have the urge to step up the quality of my lawn care. Its weird.
I feel that I'm about to turn 23 and I'm suddenly feeling more responsibility and I'm trying to actually get my life in order
Everything else other than lawn care everyone with a full time job already does😂 been doing it since 16 and school bruh
@Pugerino general lawn care yes, but not quality lawn care
You got a long way bud just enjoy the years….
@@GhostFace-di2hi I'm trying to
It's crazy but this actually did happen to me, and up until 25 I thought that was a myth. Literally after 25 I felt like a different person and my life started to change so much, I felt like an adult and like I could do things that I wasn't able to do up until that age. Now I am 26 and my life changed so much in the past year that I don't even know what reality I am living in anymore, nothing feels real anymore...like I am living in a game. It's hard to even believe I am alive.
might be depersonalization ?
@@elise9537 it might be...I wouldn't be surprised. But my thinking did change a year ago after I turned 25.
Either you got depersonalization or you had it.
For me it was the opposite lol, I realized I’m merely a child in an adults body using this whole construct of time to tell myself stories
Still a game as you feel, just a higher dimensional game than I could have every fathomed as the soul in between mind and body. Now it’s just so bland because this is only one construct of time out of all the ones in existence.
Now I just wait for my brothers and sisters to figure it out, and if they don’t then I’m not harmed and I know where I’m going once my experiences down here are over and done with.
But yes, there are many 3D realities within this 4D construct of time, and I thank you for resonating into these moments with me, at least we aren’t alone.
I’m not nearly 25 and I feel that.
As an autistic person, I don't know if its related, but I dont think mine ever developed fully. I still feel like a scared lost child trapped in the gross arapidly aging body of anadult.
Same here
I get that, I do still kinda feel like that, esp because I am late diagnosed, so it feels like I lost so many years that I cant get back and time is running but I still noticed a big change from how I was thinking when I got to the age of around 25, I think most people just dont notice it too much, also really depends on how you grew up probably and its also not just a moment of clarity like peole like to joke about it, it just happens gradually and if you notice it, then probably years later, when you think about how you were before you truned that age and even if not, doesnt mean it never fully developed, its really not that crazy of a thing, so dont worry if you dont feel like anything happened
It could take until 30 or 35.
@@asteri8299 I am 43 ~_~
You'll experience it when you stop caring and asking why, but rather how
Happened to me the day after I turned 18 I just had a realization that I needed to be an adult because no one around me was mature. So, I had to be, for their sake, my sake, and for my future.
I love being in my mid 30's. I spent the end of my teenage years, all of my 20's and the first year of my 30's addicted to heroin, fent and crack. Going to jail and finding out I was pregnant saved my life. Becoming a mom and a functioning adult literally happened over night for me. Not a common theme amongst addicts. I'm so glad though. I love doing grown up things tbh ❤
I met my husband when I was 19 and married him when I was 23. I'm 42 and we're still going strong. I made excellent decisions.
Good for you. I’m happy that you two got to experience life like that. I’m a little jealous.
That's an exception, really. Doesn't change pretty much anything, because divorce rates are still high.
@@yourperfectnightmare3642Divorce rates are high because women can leave bad marriages now when we couldn't in the past.
@@yourperfectnightmare364250% isn’t really an exception, unless you mean specifically for the age they met at then yeah I agree
@@yourperfectnightmare3642 lol i know a lot of early 20s that made decisions like that or are able to do but haven't a partner/right conditions to do so
I never got the whole “Teenage recklessness” thing. Been waiting for it to happen for 4 years.
I'm constantly anxious and mutually distrustful of everything so I'm not reckless
(Edit because I accidentally hit send before finishing)
My teenage recklessness was hurting myself to make people feel happy. I thought being on antidepressants would make my mom and dad happy. But it turns out, nothing had changed except for me. Being on that poison hurt me. It hurt my creativity. I felt different than what I wanna be. I just wanted to make my mom happy. But she still wasn't
Heightened sense to rewards indicate it could go in many different directions depending on what stimuli you get exposed to, similarly, that's how most people find their passions during childhood. Bad friends may lead to recklessness, unrestricted internet access will much more likely develop into an addiction and dopamine deficiency, etc.
@@pithepieoverlord4861same bro
Its like being a little kid and randomly gaining consciousness
Oh yeah. It’s a reality check that you didn’t realize
This happened to me. I feel like I woke up mentally one day and had actual consciousness at like 5 😮
“Rebellion Cortex” sounds like a cyberpunk song name
Every wild decision & event hit me mentally at 26.
Same
25 for me. Suddenly I was regretting all my stupid life decisions when previously I was living happily with no guilt.
Since the brain of depressed people can age a bit faster, how does that effect the development of the brain overall? Do their frontal lobe develop earlier? Does it have any long or short term negative effect? I couldnt find anything specific online
Edit: i know they can be at a higher risk for dementia. But im curious about the overall development
im surprised u didnt find online that this whole developed frontal lobe at 25 thing is a myth
Struggle with MDD. In my case I was 23 when this moment happened. I didn't realize that could have anything to do with depression lol
If this is true that makes sense 😂 at like 18 I thought most of the stuff was stupid. I only did it for a year since literally everyone around me did but in comparison I barely did it.
What happens if you have a lesion in your frontal lobe?
I miss my teenage brain. At times when I'm hesitant I could really use it.
Remember that in individuals with developmental neurodirvergencies (ADHD, ASD) the age of development is more likely to be 30-35 rather than 25.
This is beneficial! Genuinely! While we're more likely to behave like adolescents, it also means that during the ages 21-29 our brains are at our learning peak, making us more likely to succeed in university, granted our symptoms are treated or we have academic accessibility accomodations.
While understanding that anectdotal evidence is not evidence, ive been having a significantly easier time learning more complex maths such as grade 12 level pre-calculus now than I did as a teenager, where all I could learn and digest being 8th grade level foundations.
This falls in line of what my psychiatrist told me, I, at 27, am at my academic peak.
As it turns out, we are more likely to succeed above our peers at really young ages (i learned to multiply at 3-4 years old), but have trouble at later grades and fall behind (highschool), and succeed above our peers academically again in university.
I'm ASD/ADHD. I could multiply by 1, 2, 10, 100, & 0 by 2 1/2, and I taught myself to read the week I turned 3. However, I'll be 17 in a few days, and I still play with dolls, love to cosplay, and primarily read YA books. I also have troubles with impulse-buying, and I have difficulties learning new fine motor skills.
Thanks for this. It’s really interesting. My daughter is autistic and I know some things at school she really struggles with (English Literature for example) but it’s interesting that in the next 15 years she will be at her peak(ish).
Thank you for reminding us all of this xx
Reading this makes me hopeful, that means I still have a chance to become a responsible adult lol. I’m 26 and I swear I feel no different than how I was at 16, so I never really got the whole brain development talk
@@mar-nyan we're behind, but we aren't out of the race. Always remember that.
@@asteri8299 thank you for the encouragement ❤ feel so lost sometimes
I know its not instant but i swear the moment i turned 25 or 26 i started thinking about how my actions were effecting everyone around me i started eanting to inprove the lifes of the people around me and build a future after year of drugs fighting and doing what ever i wanted
Me: I cant wait to be 25!!!
Back-pain: Allow me to introduce myself.
A nightmare 💀
I'm turning 25 in june so next month. I cant wait for nothing to change
yeah at the end of the day it’s another birthday just like any other lmao
it’s really funny how people in the comments tricked themselves into thinking something happens when really everything still resumes as is. it’s all myths and placebo effects
@@gunnasintern how would you know? You aren't those people
I turned 25 and had a very noticeable shift in the way I self-analyse. Over a year later, I am still my own worst critic, but now I’m able to better distinguish between the voice in my head that is me, motivating me to reach my next stage of evolution in every aspect (mental/physical health, creativity, productivity, love etc), and the voice that is an amalgamation of other projecting their own insecurities onto me or trying to disturb my peace. I’ve heard less form that second voice since I’ve let go of friendships that weren’t adding positive value to my life, and I’ve never been more peaceful.
I’ve heard a few folks refer to your mid-20s as a ‘second puberty’, and honestly I think there’s some truth to that. No matter what phase of life you’re in at that point, things just start to make more sense
For my it was the sudden realization that unlike my teenage self, i could not look back to one year ago and see an immature child so much more naive than the current me.
That used to be a thing when i was in high school, at 16 i'd find my 15 yo self so childish and dumb and inexperienced and NOW i knew more and then at 17, it would repeat itself, 'oh at 16 i was a CHILD, now though...' and so on.
But i was 26 i think when it hit me that i didn't think of my 25 yo self as so much different from my current self. In fact, even the 24 yo version wasn't so different.
It's been like that ever since. The years just blur and flow into each other and you stop going through these huge changes all the time.
Which is why huge changes, such as the toddler you saw at that wedding/dinner/event two years ago will surprise you. The 'oh my god, you grew up so much, do you remember me?' is on the tip of my tongue and i bite it down bc i hated that as a kid but i suddenly understand all the aunties and uncles in my life who would say that.
Children remind you that, oh shit, YEARS are passing so quickly now.
And while drastic changes are rarer than in childhood, of course you still grow and change and learn, but you go into it all with a toolbox you know well now, so to speak.
I'm 29 and will turn 30 this year. I look forward to it. Best wishes to all going through their twenties. You'll see that your older self is a friend that awaits you with their experience and love and some sad and fun stories alike. So when you meet them, be grateful you can.
underrated comment
You explained this perfectly
i turn 25 this year and my grandmother who has been a therapist for longer than i’ve been alive has started sharing the family secrets with me. she absolutely made the best decision to wait. this shit is insane.
Its literally our second time gaining sentience since we were toddlers
Im about to turn 25 and have noticed a big difference in the way i think, and i love it! Im going to the dentist more often to fix my mistakes from pre fully developed frontal lobe era 😂 im changing my diet for the better, getting more active, finding myself again, and i understand things so much more now. I knew all this stuff as a teen but now i actually understand it and it seems so much more clear to me now.
Hold on, is that why I suddently started thinking in a way I never had, and thinking more often about the consequences of my words or actions before doing them? In any case I'm not mad at this, I'm mad at the loss of the endless creativity I had when I was a child, before losing brain cells and becoming grounded in reality.
I'm turning 25 soon and i recently felt like i woke up one day thinking differently, got out of a toxic relationship, found a new job, i feel like a different person and couldn't be happier
On my 25th birthday i was driving downtown in chicago & felt soo afraid for the first time like the reality of how crazy the traffic always was hit me
My husband is going to be 26 next month and he still addicted to iFunny and still kinda has the same mindset of being in highschool. I'm fucking waiting on the big change mah guy
Give it time, 26 to some man is just 18.
I'm glad I never made rash decisions when I was younger. (Other than taking medication that'll scar me for life.) I'm so glad i never dated in high school. Once I turn 30 in 6 years, I'll start thinking about having kids.
That makes more sense, I’m 20 and I’ve noticed lately I seem to be thinking things through a bit more.
I can swear it just hit for me like 2 weeks ago. I moved and dealt with a load of nonsense, now everythings settling and im getting shit figured out. I hope its for real this time
I swear mine is going backwards
For me as i approach 25 ive definetly noticed myself making better decisions for what feels like no reason
I was an alcoholic for about 7 years and before I turned 25 I finally beat alcoholism and after few months I and others noticed Im behaving more mature and rational. Guess alcohol really stunted my development
Alcohol is fine and can be a good way to relax. I personally almost never drink but you have to be careful who you surround yourself with.
For me it was 27.....i honestly don't know how I functioned before that. I still don't completely feel mature enough to be responsible for a family of my own, but I'm definitely become much more reliable and stable now.
It makes sense why there should be an age limit for making huge decisions, because I literally made self destructive choices while deluding myself into thinking that I actually know best. I didn't do anything too seriously bad, but the way I made decisions was so easily influenced by my surroundings. Luckily I was surrounded by good stable people, which stopped me from following through with stupid decisions.
I now realize why the internet is so much more insidious for our mental health because we are literally like a sponge. I know I was annoyed whenever my mom blamed the internet (a very boomer thing to do), but I now realize that she was very right.
Children and teens are way too exposed to the world now. While it has its benefits, it has its fair share of dangers. It's too easy for companies and predators to influence them without getting caught.
We also have to keep in mind about stuff from our daily lives
A traumatic incident or prehaps an ordeal or depression can change the way a person behaves and acts
In most cases it makes a person more emotionally mature and understanding about mundane things though this can always change
You can see this evident in how they are persuaded in their choices of college degree, voting, and other impactful choices due to emotional persuasion rather than through more analytical thinking.
I’m really expected to figure out wtf I’m gonna do with my life at 20. What if at 25 or 30 I just realize I hate what I’m doing?
That’s probably why I’m so stressed about my career.
I'm 53 and still haven't decided what I'm going to be when I grow up.
Don't worry about the decision you make, as long as it's something you enjoy at the time. Things change, and your goals and desires may change, too. That's okay. You're not locked in to one path in life.
everyone alive lives life in their own timeline and pace, just focus on your own personal timing and everything’ll work out
don’t go after people’s expectations and do what you want to do in your own lane
It was 16 for me knew how the world work
Pretty sure a lifetime of video games, Gore and meme brainrot has permanently stunted my frontal lobe development lmfao
For the “mature for your age” thing or “always been serious and smart” I think hearing “positive” things at a young age makes us what to live up to those things then when we realize we’re just human, we feel like we lost something. there’s nothing wrong with being “mature for your age” but I think it makes us what to stay ahead, and it becomes a disadvantage when you get older and realize it’s okay to be your age and not have to be overly mature or overly smart. it’s okay to cry, feel, relax, and just live life without having to present yourself a way
My dumbass thought bro was talking about ear lobes 😭
Lmaooo
Why is this me
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My undeveloped brain hearing "frontal lobe":
WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87????
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@@vancedaniels5180 hurr hurr hurr hurr hurr hurr hurr hurr hurr hurr
Literally felt this at 21, 24, 25, and now again at 28. I believe we really do learn everyday, continue to grow everyone :)
Mine happened at 23. I cried for a year. Legit. Cried every night for a year because of how much I changed mentally and all the things I came to realize.
I’m 26. It must’ve skipped me. I am pretty stupid though so….
It's not exactly 25 lol, it can be up to like 30
@@mirimariana I hope so 😆
@@mirimariana or it can be before 25 but nowadays people love to treat adults like kids...
Now i know till 25
28 actually
Is your pfp Mr. Beand with a mix of Mona Lisa?
I felt almost in an instant when something happened to my brain around 25 or 26 years of age. Almost like this video. I started to be able to learn so much faster and better and became more relaxed. I’m still an anxious person, but nothing like before.
It’s the learning that has been the biggest change for me. I became much better at math and grammar in foreign languages in an incredibly short amount of time. For example my English, which is my 3rd language, improved tremendously. I still have issues with my native language’s grammar, but that’s probably because I haven’t used it in day to day conversation since i was 19 years old, 15 years ago. I don’t live where it’s spoken anymore.
I was always more mature never let myself fully go always thought of consequence around last year when I was 26 I started realizing how god awful I was treated growing up like I knew before but now I could never rationalize why any adult would put me through that pain. Now at 27 just feel like crying not only have I now realized I’m getting closer year by year to being older than when my parents died but abuse I faced as a child from family after they died really hit something feel somewhat out of control I want to be 24 again and angry and just striving now I’m locked in a brain that doesn’t feel like it’s mine.
Is it gonna be a sudden click or simply stop developing and study where it is at the moment? I need to know whether the wait is gonna be worth it or not
It's actually a fallacy. If you read the original study, maturity is a lot more complex than how far and brain development we are. For example 80% of our brain development happens within our first 1000 days.
I'm 28 years old, and I don't feel any different than I did 18 or 19. A lot of these factors when it comes to maturity, are impacted by environmental, social, and of course development plays a factor, but it is multiple things..¬ just how far along in development you are. Plus many researchers, believe that we continue to develop our brains our whole life, as we are always making new connections.
It happens overtime, a few things will just start to click, you'll stop caring as much especially about what others think and you'll want to feel some stability in your life and have a strong need for some kind of foundation
@@xdani_thethinkingnekoThe study is about the frontal lobe being fully developed around 25-30ish, the rest of the brain is still developing, it tends to happen to men much earlier than women, it's why you see a lot of guys around 20ish start to try and get their life together, while for women its a bit later like around 25 or older
Make the adult age 21. I am only now at 21 only just beginning to start planning my future. I was still a kid at 18 and even now I'm still a kid
to me if the age has the word "teen" in it, logically someone's still a teenager aka a kid
tf??? 18 is adult for a reason, changing it will:
1) make people in abusive homes have a much harder time getting out since they will be controlled until 21 (which will also make su1c1de rates skyrocket, you probably don't want that)
2) make the age of consent so high most people will only be able to have kids in their 30s or even 40s unless they already have financial padding before they're 21
3) make getting your own property impossible since now you can't start getting credit and saving money until 21 and that's a huge amount of inflation that'll happen during those FOUR ENTIRE YEARS, might aswell go live in a box after you move out
4) make people unable to move out to go to college or uni since they're not legal adults yet by the time they have to
and sooo much more, 18 was always the adult age in europe and everything is perfectly fine, quit reinventing the wheel ugh
They needa keep it 18 imo 😭 There is too many trash parents out there that children are trying to escape from. I agree that 18 is still young and will be difficult to be an adult. However I think its still better to be able to have your freedom at that age, albeit would be beneficial to have some help though.
If you raise legal age to 21 the future 18 yos will be even more childish than they are now
I sometimes have those sparks of being an adult and sparks of being an kid, its really annoying being just in-between
I have always interpreted the frontal lobe thing to mean that you have finished writing your software and now you have locked in the hardware. Essentially you have become set in your ways and change will and learning new things that effect you as person and emotional being becomes harder to learn and add to yourself and loosing that which you have developed is also harder.
I swear brain is weird
My theory behind the drugs and unprotected sex im adolescence is pretty much social structural reasons
Ngl I hit 24 1/2 and that’s when my decision making kicked in and I absolutely went “nah bruh” and cut off bad relationships, got out of a romantic relationship that was far from romantic, and made some of the best decisions almost overnight. That full brain development helped so much
20 is my age of realization. Where i stopped being insane and grasped fundamental philosopjy and now do proper things to bwtter myself and the world.
When do men develop mentally is it 30, 35 plus or 40’s
Never.
Not the twitter girl
make 25 the new legal age.
So you want people to have no bodily autonomy or autonomy over their life until 25 years old? You don't think that is a little bit extreme...?
Edit: especially considering how this research was taken out of context. Have you ever read the original peer-reviewed study?
😂😂😂 stop being stupid
Very true, my son described this to me. I was so amazed at his self awareness
I can say that after 25 and now at 30 I do notice a difference in my thinking and my impulsivity. I’m a better and less selfish person now.
And why Karens exist 😂
Im 25 now. There hasnt been one key moment for me, but i feel more peaceful. Even when im troubled im not troubled to the same degree. Theres a layer of calm over everything
One day, you wake up and say:
"Wait. I GOT SHIT TO DO!!" 😂😂
Must've happened for me when i wss in my mid to late teens because that's when i put on my big boy pants. I didnt notice a shift though. I'm well into my 30s and still haven't notice such an awakening. If it ever occurred it must've been in my teens.
“You are the company you keep” Is the one life lesson I had to learn the hard way, multiple times.
i just got fiercely faded when it like all the dumb stuff i was doing was childish and immature. since then i just been self improving and bettering myself
Im 23 and most of my friends are at this age or abouts.
It feels like in the last year everything he said that would developed hit hard over the course of a few months. But it has began long before that as well. I can only imagine what it will be like in 2 years.
I feel like ive always thought ahead to consequences of my actions some may say its maturity and rational but honestly i can say i wish i had just gone and done drugs with people in school. I was so worried about my health and future so i missed out on hanging out and making memories but now that means fuck all. To this day when i smoke or drink im extremely conscious of my health my friends just do it and think nothing of it i wish i could be more like that. I still smoke but i always feel its wrong and i smoke way less than i would want because im so aware of the effects and hardly ever drink.
Your brain actually keeps developing and maturing forever. Im mid 30s and i can attest as a neurodivergent that every few years i continue to think more adult like and mature.
Yeah I get that moment of *ding* when suddenly my thinking changes at each level of growing up. Honestly it was wild each time, I used to be really extroverted but it’s like a switch flipped and I became severely anxious and introverted when I was about 10-11.
It is so fun being 22 with adhd you don’t understand im having the time of my life it’s great :)
This is happening to me at 23. I am finally conscious 😅 it’s absolutely crazy the things we experience when we’re young just bc my our brain is still growing
This is like gaining consciousness in the McDonald's parking lot at 2yrs old lmao
I never expected a moment like this. I did eventually learn to stop caring so much about what others think. Not sure when that happened, after 25 though, but a bit before 30 I think. I thought that was normal.
I've acted rationally almost my entire life. But trauma has other effects on the brain too.
Yeah I had this experience. Something clicked and I just felt calmer and more rational. I was always intelligent but at some point during 25 a shift certainly happened.
For me it felt pretty developed at about 22.
I was around 23 when I suddenly got super focused about the future and started to think more deeply about things. Rather than the short term
I was put on Ritalin as a child, struggled with alcohol since 13. Smoked cigarettes and more. I did feel a change around 25. But I felt an even bigger change when I turned 34. More focus and motivation.
As a Teenager, my teachers constantly told my parents that I was intelligent but emotionally immature
I honestly dont know nothing about that, but if were talking about mentaliity. I wrote a song a bit back on my page talking about being stuck in my head overthinking, losing my mind, fighting to fix it, losing hope, speaking openly with people about my mental state, feeling lost about how to fix how i feel. Shits killin me, its like adhd on overdrive. I have ptsd
…And it starts deteriorating right away
28 turned out to be that year for me. The scales fell from my eyes and my entire belief system and demeanor changed. I became, in several ways, a different person.
The original study was looking at neural pruning as a measure of development. It followed test subjects from adolescence to age 25 but ran out of funding. The neural pruning didn’t stop at age 25, they just didn’t have the money to continue measuring it.
I totally felt this shift. It was unreal. I had to shed myself of all childishness
I started my true existential crisis just last year at 28 years old. I started feeling my sense of perception of things starting to shift soon after my 27th birthday and all the sudden it hit me at 28.
Im 29 and going to be 30 in December. The existential dread still comes in waves but seems to be diminishing every month. I truly think 30 years of age is probably the time of this sort of thing fully integrating and you really starting to feel the shift. Those emotional responses have lessened drastically and i feel much more aware of consequences as though it only takes like a second to understand what would be a bad decision over a good one. Im enjoying my life so much more now than i ever did.
Im not quite understanding of why people think 30 is old, when for most its the beginning of their life to some degree. Im excited to turn 30, it feels young but in an adult-like way lol
My frontal lobe developing was the most depressing time in my life and continues to be a burden. I'd rather be unaware
It's happened to me at 19
The affects of tobacco/substance use is also very interesting, it can biologically hijack your rewards systems, lowering frontal lobe functioning. This is why folks who have substance use disorders often struggle making good choices.
I turned 25 a month ago. In the past couple years I have changed so much. For one thing, my worldview is more solid (still open-minded, but less easily influenced?). And now that my brain is better engaged, my decisions and behaviour feel like they are becoming more reflective of who I am. I feel like I'm finally making headway in discovering myself!
Definitely informative, and very enriching, especially if you're a person who has ignored knowledge from your elders your entire life. I appreciate this video, explaining a basic platitude that is understood by most people. So glad science is here to tell us things we've known to be true for generations upon generations! Hooray science! This is not a slight against the creator of the video but a comment on the people who watch this and believe he is giving you new information.
It happened for me at 21, I’m 22 now. It depends, environment, experiences/trauma impacts this as well
Once had someone come into class, they were the social worker. They made the false claim they had a doctorate and used the fact that their frontal lobe was fully developed to assert authority over us and explain how students are not capable of making correct decisions over teachers/adults. To my knowledge she was fired the year I left the district