Comment by mlyle

> One person's short attention span is another person's intolerance for bullshit.

If a student asks a friend a question, and then drifts off into space before the two sentence answer has been delivered, that's not great.

> One person's poor mental health is another person's emotions appropriate to the actual state of the world.

Perhaps being prone to anxiety attacks, panic, and self-harm are what we need to meet today's challenges head-on.

> The kids these days are doing great in all the ways that matter.

Hey, not everything is negative-- we live in a world with more interpersonal kindness and tolerance than a few decades ago, and that's great. But the kids aren't alright.

Especially teen girls. It's impossible to escape curated content encouraging social comparison to edited, perfectly curated standards of perfection.