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“I will thank you not to be impertinent," said Aunt Josephine, using a word which here means "pointing out that I'm wrong, which annoys me".”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“The adultist political hegemony has forced autocratic homogenization, alienation, and oppression into the hearts, minds, and hands of children and youth everywhere, and it can only be stopped with democracy.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“[A]dults today have been enculturated by a society where the language used, the built environment, policy-making, healthcare, school curriculums, afterschool programs, mental health counseling, libraries, and parenting can all invalidate the worth, depth, ideas, knowledge, actions, and opinions of children and youth.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Throughout society, adultism is an oppressively nefarious reality facing young people at home, throughout society, across government systems, and beyond.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Adultism is bias towards adults, which happens anytime the opinions, ideas, knowledge, beliefs, abilities, attitudes, or cultures of adults are held above those of people who are not considered adults. It is obvious in the language, actions, policies, and many other elements of society which adults use to emphasize their bias toward themselves.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Adult fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of age-based stress can become intolerable and trigger a range of emotional and behavioral reactions intended to restore a sense of age-based comfort.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Occurring in every situation throughout society—including home, school, the community, government, and elsewhere—the adult fragility that leads to adultism can pummel organizations, institutions, communities, and individuals everywhere.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People

“Challenging the ineptitude of adults and common intransigence toward the changing abilities and roles of young people throughout communities requires pushing back against age-based assumptions that have nothing to do with the capacity of learners today.”
― Adam F.C. Fletcher, Democracy Deficit Disorder: Learning Democracy with Young People