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Is the term "mature teenager" an oxymoron?

Posted - December 20, 2016

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  • 17261
    Depends on your definition of mature.
      December 20, 2016 3:59 PM MST
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  • 1029
    Depends on your definition of something or other.
      December 20, 2016 7:31 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Sure. Whatever.
      December 20, 2016 11:08 PM MST
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  • "Not necessarily."  Mature adult can be an oxymoron as well. "Teenager" is just a name they pin-on you from ages 13-19.

    teenager, or teen, is a young person whose age falls within the range from 13–19. They are called teenagers because their age number ends in "teen".
      December 20, 2016 7:47 PM MST
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  • 1029
    They're awful people !!
      December 21, 2016 10:49 AM MST
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  • So you aren't a teenager yet or you were a teenager and you're not awful anymore?
      December 21, 2016 10:53 AM MST
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  • 17261
    What an awful remark, judging a whole group simply on their age, and not their person. That is in my world very immature.
      December 21, 2016 11:07 AM MST
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  • 1029
    Oh pshah !!
      December 21, 2016 11:41 AM MST
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  • 7788
    Absolutely! 
      December 20, 2016 7:50 PM MST
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  • 17560
    No.  I was a mature teenager, myself. 
      December 20, 2016 8:22 PM MST
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  • 457
    It's possible. I've seen stranger things.
      December 21, 2016 10:18 AM MST
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