• HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    9 months ago

    with modern science, we have learned that the prefrontal cortex hasn’t fully developed until around age 25. does that mean you’re a child at 24? no. but you are adolescent, and we should have some cognizance about that

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      9 months ago

      If you cannot behave like an adult by the age of 24 there’s something more wrong with you than your prefrontal cortex.

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        9 months ago

        This is not about behaviour, it’s about brain functions. Humans brains under the age of 25 function in a different way, because they are not fully developed, no matter what behaviour people learnt to show.