Agree. As I said:
“There is no age law. Every person here may be a user here regardless of his/her age”
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I know I know
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This is annoying, and they say this to me, I’m 13. People in my family are like, ‘bring home your first boyfriend, would you? I wanna see your first boyfriend’ and I’m secretly thinking that I would rather have a girlfriend because I’m not out yet (I’m pan but find it easier to get along with girls)
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Man you’re too young to be thinking about relationships. I know how you feel! When I was your age, relatives used to ask me dumb questions like “when are you getting married?” Like jeez, kids don’t even know what marriage is like ffs.
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Respect should be earned. Don’t care if you’re old, or bold, or have a bat.
The fact that I don’t hurt you, or invade your personal space, doesn’t mean I respect you.
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I do agree with you earning respect instead of demanding it. I don’t care who it is; if a person is older than me, I am going to automatically respect them. That’s how I was taught, and I continue to do that even know that I am 18. I don’t feel right not respecting an older adult. Even if they don’t give me respect, I still respect them because they are older than me. However, if they are very rude and disrespectful towards me, that’s when I say something.
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No that’s what the baby-boomers said that I quoted it.
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True that.
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I respect everyone until they give me a reason not to respect them 
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Agreed!
I try to be nice to everyone, but if someone proves to me they aren’t worth my respect, they don’t get it.
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Wow, you’re 49?
Lmao this is so on point 
That status is painfully true
I can name 15 “elders” right now that don’t deserve respect from anyone.
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The thing is, I try to explain to my parents that my sister needs to respect me in order for me to respect her. But when i try to, they just say “no, she is your older sister, she loves you, you need to respect her” and they just tell me off
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Lol! I couldn’t help but think of “Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy, both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
Anyway, getting back on topic.
I am glad to say that I haven’t heard someone say this to me yet, but I know other people aren’t as lucky and I’ll probably hear it sooner or later.
Just because you’re older than someone, does not mean you are wiser or better. I saw that someone on this thread said that older people are used to being in charge, but the new youths are DiSrEsPeCtFuL and actually have a mind of their own and are learning free will. Something I don’t think older people had as a child? Correct me if I’m wrong.
It baffles me hearing that older people think how the world works nowadays is just terrible and blah blah blah. Make me wanna punch them in the face, ngl but I can’t because rEsPeCt and it’s also a crime but meh.
Everyone deserves some sort of respect. But I think in situations where someone has to say “respect your elders” because a teenager was talking back and speaking their mind then I don’t think they should have any respect. Screw if that old man thinks that the youngens are demons or whatever. I bet he was no different! I bet that even these old people who say these things talked back to THEIR elders and instead of fighting back they just learned to say it to everyone else. HMPH! 
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I get told off for speaking my mind lol
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oh my GOD!!! I hear something similar to that a LOT in my house. I’m the youngest child, (in fact, both my father and mother were the oldest child in their family AND my sister is older than me so literally everyone is older than me asdfghjkl) and my sister gets on my nerves SO MUCH. She doesn’t even listen to me when I tell her to stop something, because she never listens to me, so the only thing I can really do is act out with force and like push her or something THEN I GET YELLED AT. asdfghjkl well we both get yelled but, but me more than her because "i hit her* or whatever.
i get it, we shouldn’t hit siblings, but maybe instead of just “moving out of the way and let her do what she wants” actual quote from my mom about my older sister maybe do something and scold her? who cares if she is 18 almost 19, she is still family and shouldn’t disrespect me.
God, I have so much anger built up with my family. gxtucyfgvkubhjkef
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But see this point. I grew up in the 70"s and 80s so my way of thinking is different than my kids who grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s the kids who are growing up today. But the one thing I do know is that if you don’t respect your self you can’t truly respect anyone else
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