As the audience floods in the doors, Divya walks onto an empty stage with a megaphone in her hand.

Divya: Come out, guys! Our audience is here! Time to start the talk!

The team comes from all sorts of places. Riya jumps in from the left side of the stage. Zubi walks calmly from the right side. Mags runs from the audience, jumping onto the stage. Lily falls from the ceiling hooked onto wires, Teslim riding piggy-back. Finally comes Adiba, dragging along a huge (and heavy) poster behind her. Once everybody is onstage, Divya continues speaking into the megaphone.

Divya: Welcome everybody, to our new Alpha to Omega story! Today’s talk is about something all teens and parents need to hear! Now, let's lift this poster and get this show on the road!

All the ladies struggle to lift the heavy poster, but they do it!

Divya: That’s right! We’re talking about the many myths about teens! Wanna start us off with what a myth is, Lily?

Lily: Of course! A myth is an idea or belief known by everyone that is not true. Teenagers are generalized into various myths that are not 100% true at all!

Teslim: Yes! They are not true! Some people think that all generalizations of teens are true, but, they are, in fact, myths!

Divya: Thank you for explaining! Any advice for how to stop with those generalizations?

Zubi: Sure! But, first, I think we should have the story. Ready, Mags?

Mags: Oh yeah! I was born ready! Just a warning to our audience: there are some elements that may be triggering!

This is a story filled with several mini stories of various myths about teens. They consist of heartbreak, bullying, abuse, peer pressure and other things teenagers all around the world experience.

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Our first story is about Micah, a love-sick girl who must get past some rough times after her boyfriend breaks up with her.

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Micah loved him. With a passion so great, the moon and sun aligned when they kissed their first. Okay, only because Micah planned it that way, but still. Uber romantic.

Everything about their relationship was purely romantic right down to their names. Maxum and Micah. Micah and Maxum. Their ship name was not Maxah or Micum, no. It was M&M, of course. The fact that they have the same birthday was the majority of the romanticism in their relationship, though. Ever since their third grade year, they’ve been celebrating together. They were like twins, except for the fact that they looked nothing alike. They could not be pulled apart, no matter the situation. As they grew older, they realised that they loved each other in a way they never thought possible. Real love. Adult love.

As they grew as individual people, they also grew as one, big, happy relationship.

Until their sixteenth birthdays, when Maxum broke up with Micah because there was a “new” girl. Then, he just walked off and said nothing else.

Micah cried nonstop for hours on end. She yelled at her parents when they tried to console her. She shooed her six little brothers and one little sister away every time they tried to crowd around her. She was heartbroken and couldn’t stop thinking that she and Maxum were made for each other. But, he threw that away without a backward glance.

How could he do that to her? How could he break her like that?

She promised herself in that moment that she would never date again. Her parents told her she was being unrealistic. She wasn’t though. She didn’t want to be hurt by anyone else. Her parents didn’t understand that.

She had trust issues for the rest of her teenage years, but, by the time she was twenty-one, she understood that her parents were right.

Now, Micah is happily married to the man of her dreams (not Maxum, although they’re still friends) with three kiddos. Everything turned out okay. Just like her parents said it would. She just wished they could have been more supportive of her when she went through that stage.

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This one is about the abuse of a seventeen-year-old boy named Aaron when his parents body-shame him.

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Aaron has a lot of problems. One of his biggest is his eating disorder. Due to certain happenings, he is not comfortable with eating. Every time he eats in front of either one of his parents, he is shamed. They yell at him, calling his fat and ugly. Eventually, the shouts always get to be too much and he has to leave the house, which his dad gets mad about, so he runs after Aaron and forces him back to the house where they continue yelling.

Aaron shuts them out in his room with the door closed. He wishes he could have better parents. He wants to make them proud of him. He comes to the conclusion that the only way is to not be fat. So, he throws it all up.

This is how Aaron thinks he needs to fix his problem. It’s not because he doesn’t like his body. It’s because his parents don’t.

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Here’s a story focused on peer pressure and how it leads to teens isolating themselves, being mean, and being rude.

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June is supposed to be a happy month. A month full of jubilant events with joyous kids running all over the streets of the Misty Fall neighborhood. But, the angsty teenagers kind of ruin it all. Parents try to get their teens out there to play with their younger kids, but the teenagers, of course, refuse. They are adamant enough to not be persuaded from leaving their dark, gloomy room.

Here’s the story of how it got this way.

A fourteen-year-old boy who used to live in the neighborhood loved to play with his four younger siblings. They played all day everyday. Until one day when they were playing Duck-Duck-Goose for the sake of the youngest, two teenage boys ran up to the boy and laughed at him, saying in between chuckles, “Aww!! Are you a wittle baby? Do we have to wipe your butt for you?”

They ran away, high-fiving each other as they went.

The boy felt terrible. So terrible that he pushed his youngest sibling out of the way when she tried to tap his head. He ran to his room and locked the door behind him. He never hung out with his little siblings again. And when he saw other teens playing “kids’” games, he did the same thing those two boys did to him. And, thus, all the teenagers were scared back into their rooms, never to be seen until they went to college.

And that’s it!

Divya: Wow! Those were heartbreaking…

The whole group is tearing up and all of them start crying at once, except for Mags.

Mags: Umm, you guys don’t have to cry! There is something we can all learn from all of these stories. If we support one another, we will have more happiness in this world. Instead of insulting and being mean to each other, we should be kind. If all of us are kind and work to understand each other, this world will improve significantly. Now we all have learned this, so we don’t have to cry because we know no one who reads this will ever make these mistakes!

Abida is the first to stop crying.

Abida: Could you tell us what myth each story represents?

Mags: Of course I can! The first one I based off of the myth that teenagers are always dating. The second one is based on the myth that teenagers hate the way they look. The third one is that teenagers are angry and isolate themselves because it’s their nature to do so. All three of these myths are just simply not true!

All the team is done crying, so, naturally, they are now messing around and playing with each other and showing each other memes about teenage myths.

Mags: Divi!

Divya’s head swerves to look at Mags and she remembers that they’re in the middle of a talk. After she gets the rest of the team in control, she speaks into her megaphone.

Divya: Now, you can tell us the tips, Zubi!

Zubi: But, I’m pretty sure Riya has some more quotes she wants to share!

Divya: Oh, right! Take it away, Riya!

Riya: Here are a whole bunch of quotes that relate to myths of teens! I already put some up with the stories, but I can’t just let the others go to waste! So, here they are! They also go with the stories Mags provided!

Riya: And that’s all I have for the quotes!

Divya: They’re amazing! Thank you for sharing with us, Riya! Now Zubi can share some tips about how we can get past the generalizations of teens!

Zubi: Now it actually is my turn, haha!

Every problem have solution and here are some tips from which you can deal with this myths

Think of things that excite you about your kid growing up. Are there hobbies or activities you can enjoy together, like quality time? It's just that teens have different ways to enjoy themselves. Look up at that and encourage them for positive hobbies and teach them to leave bad habits with love and concern.
Like to play in nature or comedy shows being watched or learning a new skill with them.

Mostly, “teens don't like spending time together with family” is a big myth. You can only start with little pick: a show you both can enjoy and have it to be your show to watch together, particularly something every teen is familiar with, whether it's a movie, Anime, or horror. Mostly spend their time on joining them. Try to adapt to the new generation things.

We all make mistakes and wrong choices. It's not only teens. Reflect on how you can provide opportunities to them by giving choice like taking care of a plant, giving it water everyday, to cleaning surroundings, and mostly taking care of a pet, which nowadays, everyone owns, or say filling the gas up when they use the car. These things which help them to value time and responsibilities.

“Teenager is just phase” is all wrong. It’s a myth which makes your teen get into depression. Teenage is the beginning of adult and end of childhood. Listen to what is important to your teen and consider how you would like someone to respond or something new you're trying. Back them up and VALIDATE their feelings, they are in a growing phase.

Teens go to many harmones as well internal changes. We teen's do care, but accept less judgement. Talk to them about current events. Hear their thoughts and opinions. Teens just feel they don't have anyone who cares about their thoughts. Just like you think they don't care. Ask them what is bothering them. Let them know you care and they matter and are important.

And that’s all! I hope it was of help!

Divya: It definitely was! Thank you for that, Zubi! It is much appreciated! Does anyone else have anything to add?

Lily: Please share all of this information with your friends and family!

Adiba: Yes! We need as many people as possible to see this, so that more teenagers and parents can have peace!

Mags: We really hope y’all learned something from this! It’s been a pleasure talking with you guys!

Zubi: Now, I think it’s time to go! Right, Divi?

Divya: Yeah, you’re right! Move out, Teenfixers!

And, POOF, they disappear.

~Teenfix

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