Imagine a good kid growing up in a militant-Christian home and having to walk a strict line while being surrounded by heathen ass cretins on the outside. Most people don't even know a smidgen of #MyLife. The other day, me and my sister were telling her kids about how when we were kids we didn't even know what secular music was. We couldn't listen to r&b and rap even when we were teens. Of Course we started sneaking after I became a little older teen. She talks about how her friends in-the-now couldn't comprehend that we didn't even know how to play card games or dominoes by the time we became adults lol. We were unaware of so many things up to our teenage years and even adulthood for certain things. We were sheltered from a LOT. My now-adult perspective is that, (even though it is what it is), just from an analysis, I could see the good in some ways, but the very bad in a lot of other ways. We grew up completely different from the outside environment that we were in (like school and where we lived). When I was in elementary it wasn't such a big deal, but as I started to get older it became a huge conflict. I was not like the kids in the environment that I was in and they knew it and I was a target for many years. My only issue with that is that I wasn't taught the tools that I needed to operate in a hostile environment. Sure I was alright, bc I was always mentally tough, but still no kid should go through any of that. And with no backup support and I had to learn it all on my own. I learned alright lol. When I got older they started saying I was "crazy" or had a "temper", oh and "anger issues". When in reality it was what you call 'dealing-with-stupid-people issues' and I had EOTBS Syndrome ("Enough-Of-The-BS"). Self-explanatory. Still have it to this day lol. The people that can't comprehend why I have zero tolerance, especially for Hot Springs people, I mean I really don't care. I encountered just a bunch of unnecessary ignorance from ignorant people (not much has changed). Lucky for them I have though in a lot of aspects.