The older I get, the less my teenage years mimic those of middle and high school students today. As parents, this gap can be frustrating to navigate. In the following blog post, a staff writer with Axis helps adults understand youth culture and how to interact with it. The article defines what a meme is and how teenagers use them to express what they are feeling.
Axis writes:
"By making light of something personal, these memes can actually be empowering in the face of mental health issues because when the meme-creator is in charge, it allows that person to be as open or closed as they’d like to be. So in sharing something funny with a hint of personal truth, their peers can laugh along with the meme because they can relate, too."
Mental Health Memes: Gen Z's Preferred Therapist by Axis