@Furtuka:How does that even work?
Basically a large amount of factors in my life all converged into each other during my teenage years. I was raised with traditional eastern values and so have a really strong sense of respect towards authority and a somewhat stronger leaning towards collectivism over individualism, and also had a differently toned upbringing due to being a nerd from a family of nerds.
This got reinforced further due to having a very large extended family in close proximity who are very tightly knit due to surviving becoming refugees alongside each other and holding gatherings of some kind or another every other week, growing up with stories of how my dad's family was airlifted out of Vietnam by the US Military to protect them from the expected purges and how my mom's family escaped on a boat and came to America after being sponsored by a Pastor, and after my brother was diagnosed with autism I grew up having to set a good example for him and developed a disposition towards avoiding causing any trouble so as to not load my parents with any extra stress. More recently I've also concluded that there was also a pretty strong difference in behavior between me and my peers due to having different examples set by our parents since my family was very strict and comparatively soft-spoken.
So basically around 4th grade I started to diverge a ton from my peers and friends and grew pretty distant since I was more into reading as opposed to anything else. So I had a lack of contact with outside influences for the next few years of my life. And starting around middle school I became outright resentful of most of the most of the other kids in school because of having to deal with their stupidity after I wound up not getting into the junior high gifted program due to not receiving my ADD diagnosis and medication until the summer right between elementary and middle school, and the students in said program were the only ones I was really able to get along with.
So come high school I had a massive dislike for the rowdiness and crude humor all of the other students exhibited, and really despised a lack of respect for authority figures in general, as in my perspective they were just doing their job, and I had a really strong understanding of why the enforcement of rules was done the way it did. Also Bay12 kind of influenced me a ton during that time too since reading peoples discussions in GD back gave me a broader reference pool as to worldviews and values. And as silly as it sounds I wound up skipping past parts of the nihilism stage due to catching Gundam 00 on the Syfy channel in between 8th and 9th grade which heavily influenced my worldview towards conflict, understanding people, and hope/faith/potential.
So basically to sum it up I saw teenage rebellion as the oppressive and bullying dominant culture held amongst my peers/generation and considered it as being pointlessly edgy and disruptive for the sake of trying to look cool and massage the ego.