Like I said before, many of these character's stories are very realistic. I've been in school with psychopaths, pregnant teens, drug addicted teens, trans teens, grindr-using teens, etc. And I don't even go to a school that was a "city school". I can only imagine what teen students in New York or Los Angeles experience on a daily basis. It's not that hard to see how true most of this is when you see it plastered over social media 24/7. Unless you've been a teen in recent years then you wouldnt be able to understand that. And most of the time, everyone had deep dark secrets that they never tell anyone. So you still can't judge how normal your experiences are with other teens when you can't even begin to know what they've been through.