"Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people……" — Douglas Coupland

"Post-adolescent Expert Syndrome The tendency of young people around the age of eighteen, males especially, to become altruistic experts on everything, a state of mind required by nature to ensure warriors who are willing to die with pleasure on the battlefield. Also the reason why religions recruit kamikaze pilots and suicide bombers almost exclusively from the 18-21 range. "Kyle, I never would have guessed that when you were up in your bedroom playing World of Warcraft all through your teens, you were, in fact, becoming an expert on the films of Jean-Luc Godard."

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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. — Dave Barry
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. — Kate Beckinsale
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral… — Omar N. Bradley
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting… — Diablo Cody
I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady
Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. — James Broughton
Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,… — Arnaud Desjardins
We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage. — Charles Krauthammer
One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the… — Unknown Author
We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many… — Ralph Nader
At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing… — Selma Blair

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