#How am i supposed to fix being a grown up ipad kid

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lavish path
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Even if your not sure how to respond please answer. I know this is a growing concern in our society today and we all need to brainstorm some solutions. I am part of some of the youngest gen z, only a few years older than the oldest of gen alpha. All of the adults that had been responsible for me in my earliest developemental years have been catastrophically negligent. I have basically grown up with every adult in my life either being too busy to raise me full time or just didnt care enough to spend time with me and do things with me. My situation was probably on the more extreme side than others my age, with my estimate of screen time probably averageing 12 hours when i was 3-10. Because everything that is entertainment is especially formulated in ways to make it more interesting, and therefore not realistic, I had a complete false sense of what the world looked like and had no sense of reality at all. I also see some of the complaints about gen alpha in myself, for example, i think i grew up a little too fast then i should have, trying to copy people way older than me. It is not just the screen time that adds to my misunderstanding of what the world looks like, but also in the fact that i have no where near the amount of life experience as i should. i have no discipline either. I find myself treating my life like it's a movie because its literally all i have. I am completely delusional in the way future things will go. I am also not used to living a life that is so monotonous with nothing deeply interesting happening, and find that i put myself in dangerous situations to make up for it. Not only that, but due to the lack of experience i mentioned, i have no real core memories that make up a personality. I'm nothing inside. I think the solution to my issue is to just get more experience. Ive already cut myself off from the media, It’s hard to be satisfied with my life when its not actually what ive been taught that it should be like.

viral coyote
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A simple solution is just cutting the internet

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I was so addicted to my phone at one point that my parents had to do it

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And I'm still addicted

lavish path
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i have. im not really addicted anymore

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but what i didnt expect was this kind of existential dissatisfaction with my life

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lavish path
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i mean i guess you could put it that way yeah

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a couple of my friends mentioned that it sounded like depression

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lavish path
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im older

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lavish path
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why does it matter?

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