All I was doing was passing time visiting one shop after another and each time I stepped in a new shop it was to browse through displayed merchandise. That windy, chilly evening in Folsom Premium Outlets was different for me. Before leaving one of the shops, I casually browsed through it. There were colorful, eye catching items like ties, bracelets, sunglasses, and other little trinkets, attractively displayed on the racks. Suddenly, I noticed that the shopkeeper, with intention to stop me, started following me and just before I left the shop, she asked, "Did you put anything in your pocket?  and to that I responded, "No  with an offended look on my face and left the store. My mind started to wonder, "Did she ask me to stop because I was acting suspicious or was it just because I was a teenager?  As I began to think more about this awkward situation, I realized, teens are discriminated and are treated with disrespect which has a big impact on teens, but this can be solved. Age related discrimination, a.k.a. ageism, is when someone treated badly because of their age. In 1969 Robert Neil Butler coined the term ageism. It was mainly directed toward seniors because of their old age, but recently the situation has changed and teenagers have become the discriminated ones. Anna Delph, sophomore and guest writer for the Calvin College newspaper experienced this discrimination when she was waiting at the hospital and a nurse came by and made an offensive remark because Delph was on her phone and her brother was on a tablet. Anna quotes the nurse in her article, Discrimination against teenagers: pervasive and damaging, "I remember the days when we used to actually talk to each other at the table! Now you can't even get them off their phones.  She then writes, "It was the first time I had ever been judged like that by a stranger, and I was thoroughly confused.  These kinds of incidences can be discouraging and irritating to teens. They