What are effects of teenage stereotyping?

Whether you like it or not, if you're a teen your have an automatic negative stereotpye. Teens are stereotpyed to cause problems, and do illegal things. Yes, some teens are like this, but not all. Adults don't realize this, and they treat all teens different just because of their age. I can think of many times i've experienced this. Many times my friends and I have gone shopping and we've noticed a worker following us around making sure we weren't stealing anything. This is a very common thing for workers to do. At first i found that very offensive, now I'm just used to it. I understand that some teens do steal, but it's sad that we have that stereotype and all of us get treated like we do. Most people think teens have high rates of violence, pregnancy, and sex. I found a website that says in recent years all three of those rates have gone down. It also said the percentage of students graduating now has significantly gone up from ten years ago. I know this stereotype is a hard one to change, but stereotypes are only as true as we decide to make them.