Do today's teens read less or more?
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Re: Do today's teens read less or more?
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I know many teenagers who read a lot and many who don't. I know teenagers who read novels, poetry, fanfiction, graphic novels, short stories, webcomics; a mixture of some or all of these. (I also think that the whole idea about graphic novels/fanfiction/etc not being 'proper' reading material is ridiculous. They are all valid forms of writing and storytelling. Not enjoying/understanding the appeal of them is fine, but dismissing them as not 'real' reading material and mocking people who do enjoy them is not.)
And honestly, from my own experience as an 18 year old and interactions with classmates, friends from other places etc, a lot of teenagers are too busy/stressed etc to have time to read as much as they want to. I loved reading as a child and up until I was about 14, I continued to read a lot. After this, school and studying for exams started to cut into my reading time more and more until I hardly had any time for anything else other than lessons, studying, eating and sleeping (one year I had 17 exams to study for, most of them in the same month!) - pretty much the only regular time I had for reading was when I would travel to and from school and most days I was too burned out from everything else going on to properly concentrate and read. I am finished with the majority of my exams now so I've had more time to read in the last half a year or so and am slowly returning to reading as much as I used to.
I also think that many are unfairly critical of teenagers (people in general, but especially about teenagers) who do not like to read, full stop. I've never understood being judgmental about other people's interests because they don't match up with one's own - mocking and looking down upon people who find enjoyment in different activities is pretty awful.
I suppose I'm quite defensive of teenagers xD For reasons that I feel are valid.
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