Visual Art: The Teenage Mind

         This picture shows, a joke on what goes on inside the teenage mind. If you look closely some of things say, "Rebellion Center" and "Slang Decoder". These are based off of the way adolescents act these days. They use slang that most adults don't understand, and they have a definite rebellion stage. If you look closely there is also a yin- yang section of the brain that says "Love for Parents" and "Disdain for Parents", this is most likely wired to the "Rebellion," and "SuperTurbo Rebellion Centers".  I am quite the rebellious teen myself and I found it interesting that the artist of this picture put a "SuperTurbo Rebellion Center" in stead of keeping the "Rebellion Center".

         Stuart Goldman MD says that teenagers are "hard- wired to butt heads with their parents" and that "It's the task of the teenager to fire their parents and then re-hire them years later, but as consultants rather than managers." Experts say that one of the five main teen behavioral problems is that the "Your teen seems to hate you". This would clearly go in the "Rebellion Centers" and the "Disdain for Parents" section as well. The Five Main Teen Behavior Problems are: 

• Teen Rebellion
• Staying Out Late (Testing Limits)
• Communication Device Addictions (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, BlackBerry Messenger)
• Drama, Drama, DRAMA
• Hanging Out with Bad Influences

Coming from a teen I can say that most of these are actually true. I love communicating with my friends (texting) there's always drama and occasionally I do get home late, but Doctors say to all of these that there is a logical reason for why teens do this. For example: When you're a teenager you feel emotions intensely which is why everything is usually over- dramatized in your Mom's perspective.

           I think that this connects to real teenagers everywhere. Whenever you see some comic in the news papers about teens you find that the teenager is usually saying something stupid or unethical, or they're not following rules- especially when it's a girl- but why? I never understood why teenagers had to be considered stupid. I always see different photos of thoughts on what the teenage mind looks like and it's all the same. For boys it's usually "Cars, Girls, loud offensive hip- hop music, girl, song lyrics" and for girls it's usually "Boys, make- up, prom , Facebook status, hair and cosmetics, etc" Some parents become worried about their children and try to "Decode" there text messages.  A text message conversation could be: 

• Hey, are you coming to the party later on tonight? 
• No I don't think I can my Mom grounded me (winks). 
• Oh ok talk to you later! 
• Bye!

And easily be written like this:

• Heyyy r u cominn' 2 dha partiii3 l8rr on 2nit33 lmlmlml ??
• N2 i dnt thnk so dha momz qot meh on LOCKDOWN %)
• oh aiiiiqhtt ttyl!
• bii33

That was a complete change in words and symbols! For teens the last letter you have to type the better. The mind of a teenager is very intriguing it's an intricate field of hormonal inbalance and random thoughts. This is why I thought that this picture was very interesting.