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"Young Adult" is a weird term -- think of the book/movie genre called "young adult" or "YA" -- it isn't actually literally for people in their twenties but for children. It's like calling people like me in their 50s "middle aged" -- most of us aren't going to make it to 100.

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Both terms are euphemistic for the groups they refer to.

You call it young adult fiction because most teenagers would rather be perceived as young adults than children.

You call people middle aged in their 50s because no one wants to be reminded that they're statistically 2/3 of the way to the grave.

I had considered the YA genre in fiction, which is marketed at teenagers. But I did a quick search for the general term "young adult" and Wikipedia seems to suggest that it is the period immediately following adolescence, which is generally considered to begin at 18.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_adult

.. this one silly statement really triggered my autism this morning lol.

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