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Salty Salty Small Child Mode

Okay so maybe I'm just an indignant small child but like I'm sick of being invalidated as someone with the capacity to have political conversation??

Not political as in politics, just like society or even just serious conversation in general. I was just thinking about how there's isn't enough inter-generational communication, and I think that breeds a lot of prejudice. I went to tell my mum, and she was cool about it, didn't really start a conversation but didn't invalidate my point. Then I went and told my dad, whom does like some reflective conversation. Unfortunately he also really likes telling me what I'm doing wrong. Mostly in a good way, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it gets on my nerves. I just told him how what I thought about communication between generations and he replied with a comment about how I don't answer him a lot, which for the record I only do when I'm either too anxious to reply or he just said something incredibly unjustified and I simply don't have the words. In this case it just made me feel like I'd been reduced to nothing but a child in need of reprimanding, and that I'm not allowed to raise a valid point I'd like to converse on. See, this wouldn't be so bad if it didn't happen often, but it just happens so many times. Almost every time I try to raise an insightful conversation I'm shot down with something only half relevant I'm doing wrong. I think it's a parent thing, but I don't get the chance to converse these things with anyone else, not in real time, and I'd really like to. I just don't want to wait till I'm old enough to be important.