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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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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