In Aaron’s story, the end result is a young man who has retreated from the real world into his bedroom in order to play video games. I have seen the same process in young adults—more often young men than young women—who come home from college, or drop out of college, to retreat into the bedroom with a computer screen or a video game. That’s often the final common pathway which I have observed in twenty-somethings: young people whose dreams don’t come true, who then give up, retreat, and return home to live with their parents or (if their parents have the means) live separately from their
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