Social media and the infection of misinformation is definitely impacting young people's understanding of themselves. So much emphasis on how you configure your identity that it's vitally important to have the right sexuality, the right mental illness, the right virtue signal to send out. Back in my day (get off my lawn), identity was about important things like passions, thoughts, connections, spirituality, not about external characteristics such as disability or gender identity. It all feels so empty - and maybe covid has contributed to this sense of directionless living.