# People who hate children **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 2, 2009, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-hate-children/491746 "2009-04-02T19:25:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1152
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2009, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-hate-children/491746/1152 "2009-04-18T13:54:18Z")
> [@starwarsfreek42](#): > > I am 23… That explains a lot right there, You _ARE_ a child, and you hate your _peers_. So you’re not a bigot—thank God,—you’re just a garden variety sociopath. 23…hell, I have t-shirts older than that, Sugar. Still, it is refreshing to discover that you’re _not_ a twisted, bitter, insane old harpy like your fellow Child Haters Club sister(?) **curlcoat** ; you’re just incredibly, stunningly, completely immature. Maybe some day when you grow up we could have a real conversation. > [@starwarsfreek42](#): > > But the fact that I’m expected to alter my mannerisms or language or avoid certain subjects does not sit well with me in any context. You’ve’ gotta be shitting me…you honestly expect to walk through life doing and saying whatever you please whenever you want?! I’m finding it actually difficult to believe that you’re even 23; the sort of attitude expressed above is very similar to the one carried around by the average 15-year-old, like “Wahhh, I’m tired of the grownups always tellin’ me what to do, man!” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-hate-children/491746)._