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I hear people reminisce about their childhoods-socializing with peers, watching the cartoons that defined their generation (Dexter's Laboratory for millennials, Adventure Time or The Amazing World of Gumball for zoomers). I had few chances to socialize as a child. The only cartoons I grew up on were SpongeBob, Popeye, and Looney Tunes. Instead, I spent my time traveling the country with family and being homeschooled. As a result, I often feel like I operate on a different wavelength from everyone else. Be straight with me: what exactly did I miss out on?

I hear people reminisce about their childhoods-socializing with peers, watching the cartoons that defined their generation (Dexter's Laboratory for millennials, Adventure Time or The Amazing World of Gumball for zoomers). I had few chances to socialize as a child. The only cartoons I grew up on were SpongeBob, Popeye, and Looney Tunes. Instead, I spent my time traveling the country with family and being homeschooled. As a result, I often feel like I operate on a different wavelength from everyone else. Be straight with me: what exactly did I miss out on?
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Shitty public schooling, Asshole kids in school, Hanging to shower with a bunch of dudes in one class.

Outside of hanging with the neighbor kids at the fort we built and riding bikes, which was home activities, school was mostly a shit show.

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Hanging to shower with a bunch of dudes in one class.

sounds gay

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Extremely gay. Some of the ones I went to school with couldn't wait to get in to the grades of gym class that required you shower after the class. I swear half of them were circle-jerking when the rest weren't looking.

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Mostly was. And this rs before most of the teachers were degenerate pedos.

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If you were born in the 70s or 80s, you missed one hell of a good time. If you were born in the 90s, by the time you were old enough to really go out in your own, the kids weren't doing that anymore, so you didn't miss out. If you were born in the 90s, what you did miss out on was becoming a complete retard by attending public schools.

Us Gen X's and older, we were free to roam because every other kid was outside too. We spent all of our time around people, learning how to make and be friends, and finding stuff to do. If we got into trouble we had to figure it out for ourselves if a friend didn't know what to do. It was all about being accountable for everything in your life, so you got to learn a lot by virtue of being in that environment.

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> Be straight with me: what exactly did I miss out on?

jewish occultism, propaganda, and brain rot

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You are on a different wavelength. You avoided the state approved programming the rest of us were brainwahsed with for the first 18-22 years of our lives (or longer). I've spent the last 40 years trying to undo that damage. Don't try to come to us; we're trying to get to you. Continue to be the beacon in the dark for the rest of us.

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When you made plans as a kid in the days before cell phones, you kept them and it was a measure of trust. You go someplace, you wait for your friends to show up. Plans were less fluid and wishy washy. Playing in the neighborhood was an exercise in going door to door and knocking on your friends houses. Social activities were more location oriented. We had local hangout spots. I'd disappear from from morning to dusk. The memes about the commercials asking where your kids are were real. People would just forget lol. It developed an intrinsic self sufficiency absent in a lot of post 2k kids

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No man. We missed out. You got what we really needed. Be grateful.

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I suggest that you do not compare yourself with "what could be" However, for "scientific purposes" go and watch an episode of whatever. Seriously, the opening of Dexter's Lab explains what the show is about, and each episode is a different adventure for what you're expecting.

It was a way to keep kids passive. It's "fun adventures" without learning morality/lessons. I meant that in harsh criticism; cartoons were best when it told a story that ended with a lesson that they would remember.