In my experience, “young adult” refers to a specific stage in life, and takes place directly after teenage, but before your 30s (i.e. 20-30). In fact, the fact that the word adult is in “young adult” does imply that they are adults, just more to their larval stage.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I otherwise agree, but “young adults or adults” seems to imply young adults are not adults, which they are
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Young Adult, as a literary genre, is aimed at the middle teenage years.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Yep, it’s just more convenient for lots of folks to pretend that teenagers are children.
Grimreaper@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
I know I’m saying younger adults or maybe slightly older adults, like the youngest being 21 and the oldest being 25 or something. If you want the characters to be in close proximity with each other and still have this school dynamic, then college is perfect; there are people in their late 20s or early 30s getting their PhDs in these teen dramas. The writers never actually show the awkwardness of high school; they only want to show them talking, acting and doing adult things but never really show the consequences or have teens realise maybe they are too young for this. If you want a show where the characters look, act, and do things 21-year-olds do with little to no consequences and no adults even asking the slightest of questions, then just make them 21 and in college.