This is based on a number of things I have seen on LJ lately. My original group of friends was an older bunch with a wide range of ages but I have since found groups with a much narrower age group.
In my life I think except for adults I went camping with it was graduate school before I ran into alot of people more than 5 years older than. Of course I also have a number of friends more than 5 years younger than me too.
I started dating a guy 5 years older than me right after I turned 18. In turn, I became friends with his friends, all at least 4 years older than me. We've since broken up, but I'm still friends with that group.
In school, I'm a year ahead. So most people in my classes are at least 2 years older than me, and their friends tend to be older than that.
Through this nifty journal thing, I've met people 5 years older that me (or more) and most of the time everything is great. Only once in a great while do I run into perverted old men.
I'll have to dig but I am sure I read an article that said that in the average married couple the husband was six years older than the wife.
I was referring to people past the age of majority. The one or two year rule does work in high school though.
A recent study quoted in the Globe and Mail said that todays teens are getting tribal because they are discouraged from talking to strangers. I can't help but think of the attack on Tyson Gnass.
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My original group of friends was an older bunch with a wide range of ages but I have since found groups with a much narrower age group.
In my life I think except for adults I went camping with it was graduate school before I ran into alot of people more than 5 years older than. Of course I also have a number of friends more than 5 years younger than me too.
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In school, I'm a year ahead. So most people in my classes are at least 2 years older than me, and their friends tend to be older than that.
Through this nifty journal thing, I've met people 5 years older that me (or more) and most of the time everything is great. Only once in a great while do I run into perverted old men.
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I'll have to dig but I am sure I read an article that said that in the average married couple the husband was six years older than the wife.
I was referring to people past the age of majority. The one or two year rule does work in high school though.
A recent study quoted in the Globe and Mail said that todays teens are getting tribal because they are discouraged from talking to strangers. I can't help but think of the attack on Tyson Gnass.
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though, it's true eh? we are all taught to fear strangers.
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At my age six years is nothing.
But you at 12 and other Jeff at 18 would have been interesting but 18 and 25 is easier to accept and 22 and 28 is normal.