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As a person just a bit older than the higher age mentioned here, I have to say I don't have anything in common with teenagers and frankly, outside of my own family members I don't even hang out with people in their early 20s. We just have had totally different life experiences: kids, a decade or more being ground into the dirt by wage labor, having lived without parental supervision for a large percentage of my life, having dealt with bureaucracy outside of a school environment, having had to cook for myself for more than a year, the feeling of drifting apart from old friends, etc etc means that we couldn't easily relate to one another. They just haven't personally experienced shit that the majority of people have by their late 20s/30s.
I wouldn't have felt this way when I was 19, I'd have found it condescending, and I absolutely think anyone my age pursuing a teen romantically is preying on that naivety.