#JUSTT kidding i have 2 paintings to do No sleep 🤙

[devilfruitdyke]

ok i realized i would have been derailing a post with this but the brain does not fucking stop developing at 25. the study this figure comes from is bunk.

from a contemporary nbc news article that agrees with this figure, despite knowing that the researchers never fucking bothered to study anyone over 26 (and then rounded it because 25 was a more satisfying number)

[ID: text that says "The study, which is ongoing, involves scanning the brains of 2,000 people ages 4 through 26 using magnetic resonance imaging, a radiation-free tool that permits researchers to view the organs of healthy people in minute detail." end ID.]

even if this glorified piece of trivia was actually true, using it in policy does real-world harm.

from my favorite nih article, linked below the cut

[ID: text that says "Although such research is currently underway, many neuroscientists argue that empirical support for a causal relationship between neuromaturational processes and real-world behavior is currently lacking [4]. Despite the lack of empirical evidence, there has been increasing pressure to bring adolescent brain research to bear on adolescent health-and-welfare policy. For example, in the policy process, adolescent brain immaturity has been used to make the case that teens should be considered less culpable for crimes they commit; however, parallel logic has been used to argue that teens are insufficiently mature to make autonomous choices about their reproductive health [5]." end ID.]

that article is from 2009, but for a current example, look at usamerican republican presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy

[ID: text that says "There needs to be some civic experience you need to have gone through in order to actually vote,' Ramaswamy said. 'That experience could be living seven years as an adult and voting at age 25. That experience could be direct service to the country or some first responder service,'" end ID.]

it isnt a radical position to parrot the same shit that this man wants for his country. child labor is still evil because the ruling class is expanding its cache of people to exploit, not because the wage slaves' prefrontal cortexes haven't finished cooking. if you think people with 'underdeveloped' brains aren't fit for the privileges of being a legal adult, you should stop talking before you get to your position on disabled people.

#ok . good night tri state area #JUSTT kidding i have 2 paintings to do No sleep 🤙 #id added #please reblog this it means a lot to me. and no one else honestly