When I was 18 yrs old, I founded the first youth rights group on
   the Internet. For kids/teens. I ran it 'til I was 23. A number
   of movements came off of it, including the NYCA
   [1]http://youthrights.org/, TCS movement (Taking Children
   Seriously, a parenting movement giving autonomy) and others.
   They met up in my group (Y-RIGHTS), I taught them how to split
   off into their focused groups when they were overloading the
   group with their focus, and they did. Now, I'm 44 yrs old. I
   still fight for the rights of kids/teens yet it's also evolved
   into human rights. One of my fights is ageism. Usually ageism is
   "young people against old people" but for me, my main concern
   was the other way around. I don't like how young people are
   treated and misrepresented in the media, in the schools, laws
   that are ageist, people's perceptions, etc. So, believe me, I
   know very well. I know ageism when I see it from any direction.
   I know when I'm perpetrating it in any direction. I see people
   as people. Humans. So, if you WANT to put me in an "old guy who
   doesn't understand your problems" category, you can do that if
   you like, but you'd be mistaken. == I only recently came back. I
   was never a part of NYRA itself - I'm still not as they're more
   political than me, but I support and promote them whenever I
   feel like it. Right now, their big thing is lowering the voting
   age to 16, which is already happening in a few towns. It's not
   for federal elections, but for local elections like mayor and
   stuff. They're also working on lowering the drinking age and
   other issues like that. It's political stuff: not really my
   thing generally, but I don't mind broadcasting their stuff. My
   interest was always the shitty way that schools can wreck
   creativity in people and how kids are socially left to their own
   devices without any coping skills for dealing with the huge
   population found in schools. I read "Unschooling" when I was 14
   yrs old and saw I wasn't the only one who thought school was
   systemically messed up. I vowed I'd never forget what it was
   like, and so, I never did. ==

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