Absolutely. I think you touched on the main thing. Teenagers have always been teenagers, but the world they live in now and the world they grow up in now is different. I think we are seeing all kinds of changes; the world is changing.
A couple of things we have to understand is that technology offers us alternatives. When I was growing up, I was also bullied and I was very socially isolated, but I had no choice but to socially rehabilitate myself. When I went to university, there was a lot of forced social interaction. That essentially allows us to become socially rehabilitated.
That's no longer the case today. When someone is socially isolated now, if you think about a 25-year-old man or even a 15-year-old, you don't have to leave the house anymore. You can get food delivered and you can work from home, and you never have to socialize with anyone. That's why we need more programs to help teenagers train in certain skills that we never needed social training in.
We have an event on our Discord server where we practise asking people out on dates, and 200 people will show up and practise that. We train social skills. We train emotional regulation skills. These were things that people would basically acquire before, but now the way that our society is structured, no one is forced into social acquisition skills.
I'm sure the members of the committee can think about times in their lives when they didn't feel like doing something socially, and they learned how to do it.
