I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration anger shame helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration that sense of unfairness and multiply it.
There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society.