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jfindper12/10/20252 repliesview on HN

Where I am, "teens" is 13-19 because they are all suffixed with "teen". Ten, eleven, and twelve are generally called "pre-teens", if anything.


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benatkin12/10/2025

It technically means that, but teen is often synonymous with young adult which is 13-18. The newly an adult period is a year, not two years. 19 year olds are considered to be too old as a default in many teen spaces. https://www.ala.org/yalsa/guidelines/whitepapers/teenspaces

Aachen12/10/2025

Not very useful without saying where that would be :P

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