i feel like too many teenagers use their interests as a defining part of their personality and it makes them weirdly unrelatable. i sound like a douche saying this because i am a teenager too but like hear me out for a second, you know those fandom people ?? fanboys/girls/people? they won't be friends with someone if they've never heard of their favorite TV show? Them? well they dedicate their whole lives and personality to this one artificial interest of theirs and if you dont share that interest then you share nothing with them because they lack character depth beyond their interests (which is okay) (especially as teenagers we’re growing and figuring out who we really are and clinging to things like this makes sense it’s a safe and easy way to become a person i get that but) that makes it feel almost impossible to be around them. yeah