Comment by zaphar
4 days ago
It didn't mess me up and I didn't treat any interaction as a peformance. They were just fun conversations.
4 days ago
It didn't mess me up and I didn't treat any interaction as a peformance. They were just fun conversations.
Yeah, that's not fair to you at all, I'm sorry.
No apologies necessary. You were just sharing your own personal experiences. I wasn't offended or hurt.
To be honest, I just saw a really phenomenal dark comedy routine about somebody who was adept at socializing with adults at 6 or 7 and I've been thinking a lot about that dynamic and the dark side of being a precocious kid. I wasn't that extreme, but I related to some of it, and then I ended up projecting that onto your description of home school kids. And yet, this guy wasn't home schooled. I think those are totally separate issues. Would be an interesting separate topic, though.
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