How old were you when you started thinking as an adult?

Ina

Ina

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Harris County, NE of Houston, Tx.
I was 10. Although I'm 62 now, my thinking process still feels as it did back then. I have memories, (bad ones), as far back as two years old, and I remember the day my mind grew up. I made a decision that day, and I ran away. I got as far as Okema OK, before they caught me, and returned me to another foster home in Houston.
 

I am glad things settled for you eventually, and I am ashamed to say I was about 18, when I went to college.
although I am regressing...
 
I sometimes wonder if I've ever really grown up. I still act like an old teenager around the house and love to keep the wife laughing. If I had to chose a time, I guess it would have been in 1958 when I looked into my new born son's face.
 

Pappy said:
I sometimes wonder if I've ever really grown up. I still act like an old teenager around the house and love to keep the wife laughing. If I had to chose a time, I guess it would have been in 1958 when I looked into my new born son's face.
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Nice, Pappy......those newborn babies will do that, won't they? I can remember when my firstborn was just born, my mother telling me, "The rest is up to you"..
 
I giggled too V, especially when they caught me. Okema had a two room jail, and they "booked" me as being blonde, blue, and 6'2". I was 5'3", brown & browns. Best of all the jailer and his wife bought me hamburgers.
 
Ina said:
I giggled too V, especially when they caught me. Okema had a two room jail, and they "booked" me as being blonde, blue, and 6'2". I was 5'3", brown & browns. Best of all the jailer and his wife bought me hamburgers.
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I'm glad somebody treated you well, for a while.
 
I was raised an only child in a house with 4 adults so it's hard to tell really. I know I always saw things a bit differently than the kids I played with, probably why I didn't have a vast array of friends. Still probably accounts for it. I was 'mentored' rather than raised with kiddy stuff or baby talk. It was a tad strange set-up by some standards but was a better education than in more child focused families perhaps.

I know I was more attuned to adult thinking than 'kid' thinking by the time I was around 10 -11. I was well aware of what was real and what was wishful thinking and planned ahead. I had my retirement plans in place when I was 12. (which has turned out as planned I might add) But the kid was just shelved, not extinguished. I managed to grow up early without growing out of the fun things that kids enjoy. I can still chuckle at Bugs cartoons and do silly things for the hell of it. I just learned to avoid the pitfalls of youth a bit earlier than most I guess. ... and probably missed a lot of experiences I shouldn't have avoided along the way, but it's all swings and roundabouts. We don't get to see our 'alternative' histories so we'll never know what were our best and worst decisions.
 
I remember feeling as adult as I do know by age 10-12. I had a good head on my shoulders and didn`t really feel like a needed a ton of guidance from my parents by that age. They,of course,felt differently,but I would just go along with them. Until hubby and I wanted to get married when I was 17. They said no,not until I graduated high school. So we made plans to elope to Idaho-the closest state that would allow us to marry at 16 & 18,rather than 18 & 21. well,somebody (obviously one of our sisters) told on us so a meeting of the families was arranged,we were given the lecture that "marriage is no bed of roses" but we DO want to see you get married so if you are bound and determined to do this,we will sign for you to get married." Worked for us! ;)
 
Old Hipster said:
Yes we do. And I never had kids because I would never had known what to do with them. :p
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Same here, if I was ever asked to watch or mind a child I'd stand there in shock as though they were trying to hand me a crocodile.
My damned cousin used to turn her two loose into the room with me and shut the door then laugh like hell when I was first one out.

I have no idea how small children function, they are totally alien beings to me. Never had any contact with younger children growing up so they were a mystery that didn't interest me. Knew where they came from before I knew what they even ate. So I didn't understand kids even when I was one.
 
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