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Have you grown up like this? I have. It's a lot more alienating than you think. In my case it was a religious upbringing with little outside cultural influences
by Noos 5y ago
Have you grown up like this? I have. It's a lot more alienating than you think. In my case it was a religious upbringing with little outside cultural influences, and it does make it hard to interact and socialize with others.
You don't have shared experiences or languages. There's usually only a small amount of children who share what you experienced, and you don't always understand when they are joking, or how to deal with situations, or even what they are saying. And many times the kids you do know are weird or worse than those your parents think they are protecting you from.
- christophilus 5y agoIt’s all anecdotal until we have some systematic way to study things. I know plenty of homeschooled kids who are now perfectly happy, well adjusted adults. The only thing I can see that they have in common is a tendency to think for themselves. Most of them are now homeschooling their kids. And their kids are also happy and well adjusted— much more so than the kids I went to school with. (I’m a maladjusted product of mostly standard education, so take this with a grain of salt.)