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RE: Is teenage rebellion actually an identity issue?
Yup, I figured this out a few years ago. Trapped in a lack of self-knowledge, attaching to various counter-cultural images to absorb and take in as an appearance of our identity to latch onto, as if it's "authentic" to alter external appearances when real authenticity is about inner substance. People get so wrapped up in looking different as if that makes them "authentic" and "self-expressive"...
So true! The external reflecting the internal... for many teens I would have to ask how much settled internal is there to reflect in the first place? Then again we humans want to feel whole, and often try to fool ourselves into thinking as much. So each "new" we think will make us whole, and yet it lands right back at the original question. Who am I, really?