Western teens think the world revolves around them. I don't know if this can be said of teenagers in radically different cultures, but in the Western world they have been pampered enough by their families to be encouraged to think that. There are always going to be points along the way when they learn hard lessons--that they aren't god's gift to the world. I suspect she had reached that tipping point in her education and if you hadn't responded that way them someone else probably would have. I've been seeing it quite a lot lately with my 19-year-old. It's painful to watch, but they need to snap out of it.

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