Are adults more sensitive than children?

Research has proven that indeed adults are more sensitve than children. Some of the reasons are as follows:


When children are not feeling well, regardless of the reason, they are often doled with attention and pity. However when an adult is not feeling well or grieving, they are still expected to perform at top level.

Children can get away with making some decisions using their emotional state strictly. However, adults are expected to be able to pay close and careful attention and make decisions irregardless of their emotional state, which at times is not often easy.

Children have more room to vent when they are upset. When adults argue and fight, even when they agree to make up there is still usually some resentment or hostility. But, when children get into fights or arguments usually they can find a quiet room to listen to the radio, aplogize and move foward with the friendship.

Adults have more responsibility than children. Often children can fantasize about what is happening and about the future and live in a state of euphoria. But as adults age, old defenses and ways of coping with problems and issues can wear away causing even more problems and emotional turmoil.

As adults age and mature the stakes become higher. For example a teenager is expected to date more than one individual, be indecisive about what they want to do for a living, and they have some room to find out who they are. But by a certain age, an adult is held more accountable for their actions by their peers, employers, friends, and the universe.

As a result, adults can live in constant fear of not being able to survive or not being good enough. Because adults relationships are expected to become more serious as they age, it raises the discomfort level as for as becoming intimate is concerned.