Ah. Strikes me as cognitive dissonance. Disillusionment. Sucks.
   Yeah, feels like being bullied.

   Honestly, I don't know why they don't seem to offer decent
   classes ANYWHERE that prepare minor humans for the ridiculous
   mazes one has to go through as major humans.

   I remember a nephew, Da. Him and a friend found some 4-wheelers
   (off road vehicles) in the woods. (not here at this house
   thankfully). Da was 17. His friend was 18. In fact, his friend
   just had his birthday a few weeks prior.

   Anyway, they decided to take them and hide them.

   Got caught because they were stupid. [for taking them and also
   stupid on how they hid them... by driving them around]...

   Da got threats of "bad future" oooh.
   Br went to jail for nine months.

   They were 5 months apart in age, same grade.

   Da ended up getting married, has a baby, good job, successful in
   his mid 20s.

   Br died at the age of 20 in a high speed chase in a different
   state running away from police. Crashed into a tree. [true
   story, awful stuff].

   That jail time? Yeah. That did it in for him. Thought himself a
   criminal after that. He *did* learn to read in jail which was
   good, but .. well, he died in a high speed car chase.

   That's not to say he *wouldn't* have crashed into a tree in a
   high speed chase if he wasn't in jail for the first 9 months of
   his 18th year.

   But once it was fixed in his head that "I am a criminal who must
   run away from the law", all his actions regarding police sprung
   forth from that.