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Where Have All the Teenagers Gone?

Elizabeth Wurtzel is the author of “Prozac Nation,” “Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women” and “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction.”
The sweet indignance of Holden Caulfield’s smart-alecky voice has not aged that much since 1951. He still sounds the way fed-up kids trying to imitate adults tend to sound, even if nowadays we’ve nice-ified the word phony into hypocrite.

As a true age of rebellion and confusion, adolescence went away with the 20th century.
.But I’m not sure the latter-day teenager would find comfort in Caulfield the way a few generations past have, because I suspect they are no longer exactly teenagers anymore. As a marketing concept, as a Twitter tribe, as girls who shop at Forever 21 and boys who skateboard, of course teenagers still exist. But as a true age of rebellion and confusion, adolescence went away with the 20th century.

Most of the young people I encounter fall into two categories: they are either supergood kids, overscheduled little adults like their parents, who have a staff of tutors, coaches and therapists to ensure that all will work out as it is supposed to. Or they are so bad and in situations beyond redemption — babies with babies, little meth-heads and big screw-ups who are never going to get on the right track.

The world now is so much more dangerous, the temptations so much darker than anything Holden could have encountered, that kids are either L7-square or they’re just messed up. The chance to be a tiny bit wild and crazy in the teenybopper tradition is not part of what we know.

So assuming it’s the good kids who are reading “Catcher in the Rye” in ninth grade English class, they are bound to be stumped by Holden’s mismanaged troubles because theirs are so masterfully managed. They are medicated out of adolescence before they even have a chance to experience teenage angst, because their overprotective parents are desperately frightened of where all that friction might lead. (Perhaps with good reason: a kid gone wrong today could actually end up in a terrorist sleeper cell, which was not a possibility even a decade ago.)

Never mind that these are financial hard times, that everyone has to compete in a global economy that seems to be getting the better of us, and that the stakes are higher all around. The feeling that it’s Harvard or bust has hit a feverishness that in Holden’s era was merely a minor gripe, as he would have called it. There’s no room for adolescence in all this. Hence, medication.

Although it was, in fact, Prozac that saved me from my own young adult alienation, I am greatly relieved I was over 20 before the drugs were prescribed to me. I was given a fighting chance to fight it out — possibly at great risk to my life. I had an opportunity to think of Holden Caulfield as my imaginary best friend before they took all my demons away. I got to be a real teenage girl.

[Charlie C]

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