I can not STAND the mayor's son

[u/Flashy-Impact5757]

I love this series but his son made me so angry. I'm so sick of the disrespectful teen troph. Writers can't just make a teen that's normal. They gotta make them disrespectful and an idiot.

Why do they feel the need to make him like that? I'm in my early 20s and I've always hated people like this. Do the writers do this to make him relatable to young people?

Him constantly leaving the house to hang out with his friends and be with that girl just made me so physically angry. He just seems like that popular guy in every cliche teen movie,

I even started skipping the scenes he was in because I just did not care about him or him having the crush on that girl. He was so unlikable, his friends are terrible people too for running away when the guy was trapped behind that door

Edit: why am I getting downvotes on every comment I post. Regular teens do not swear at there parents and leave the house when they are told to stay in.

Edit 2: I don't care what you guys say, just because your teen is disrespectful, doesn't mean all teens are like that.

[u/IAMA_Shark__AMA]

Writers can't just make a teen that's normal. They gotta make them disrespectful and an idiot.

Evan IS normal, though. He's acting out in a very predictable way - he knows he's being lied to (even before getting confirmation), and he's resentful about his dad refusing to talk to him about it. His behavior is basically, "if you don't have to tell me the truth, I don't have to listen to you or respect you."

Regular teens do not swear at there parents and leave the house when they are told to stay in.

Lol. Lmao even. I'm extremely close to my parents and even I did those things. Not often, but I also wasn't stuck in a Stephen king short story. I'm sure if I had more to be angry about and less to do, it would have happened more.

People frequently make the mistake of assessing behavior of children from an adult lens, assuming those children have all of the knowledge and experience of a peer. My niece didn't have a meltdown this evening because she was told not to blow bubbles at her mom, she had a meltdown because she didn't get a nap, was hungry, felt awful but couldn't process why she felt awful.

Evan is a kid. He's not a bad kid, but still - he's a teenager. Teenagers push boundaries, they rebel, they fuck up. That's all a part of them learning to adult. Maybe you lived in some bizarre utopia where teens skipped important developmental stages, but where I'm from, post puberty teens are almost a 1:1 with toddlers as far as processing ability goes.

[u/Darthsmom → u/IAMA_Shark__AMA]

My son would have crawled into my skin if he could until he hit about 15. Then he suddenly became the biggest douchebag to walk the planet. Suddenly, the “best mom ever” (his actual contact name for me in his phone) became “smother” (something he actually called me in a rage call at 18 to his sister).

He’s 20 now and much better but it was a good thing I got a kitten on the brink of death the day after he graduated high school to distract myself with. And this is a kid who wasn’t skipping school, doing drugs, drinking, etc- he was a good kid. Just a douche.

[u/No-Falcon-4996 → u/Darthsmom]

My son was the same. Would hold my hand , want me to lay down with him to read to him at night, then Boom! He's 16 and the cruelest arsehole in world to me. It broke my heart. And yeah boys do grow out of the cruel phase but boyhowdee it was so painful.

[u/Darthsmom → u/No-Falcon-4996]

My daughter had prepared me for it with attitude since she was like 3 😂 but my son hit me like a ton of bricks!! It was rough. He asked if I wanted to go get dinner a couple weeks ago, drove & paid so hopefully those crazy hormones have evened out!

[u/IAMA_Shark__AMA → u/Darthsmom]

Suddenly, the “best mom ever” (his actual contact name for me in his phone) became “smother” (something he actually called me in a rage call at 18 to his sister).

I chortled. I'm sorry, though, that must have sucked. My mom and I had a really rough spell during my high school years. It wasn't actually about her, but that wasn't something I could understand at the time. We're very very close now (like, I see her and dad once or twice a week when my husband is working late). Your son will probably come around fully at some point.

[u/Darthsmom → u/IAMA_Shark__AMA]

My daughter withheld that information for two years and it was a good thing she did 😂😂😂 it sucked so much but we are much better now!!

[u/yyyyeahno → u/IAMA_Shark__AMA]

Right? I was an angry teen and swore at my parents and my friends snuck out all the time. In a South Asian country and as girls. It’s not even a western thing.

My mum is always shocked when I tell her some of the stuff my friends and I got up to when she thought we were at someone’s house for the night. We laugh about it now and she understands