Stupid, sure---they kind of stupidity you get from being really isolated and learning nothing of the outside world, while your peers mature. Of course, my parents never acknowledged that maturity, so it could hardly matter that I missed out on it.
Illegal, probably not.
YippySkippy wrote:
No. I was possibly the most straight-laced teenager who ever lived. Never experimented with any substance, only skipped school once (on senior skip day, with my parents' permission), had the same boyfriend for years but didn't sleep with him, got straight A's, etc. etc.
In my book, having a boyfriend already counted as not being "straight-laced" by any means. That was stuff for grown-ups, and you were supposed to be
patient about earning such privileges. I actually feared getting too close to peers known to have partners, in case my parents regarded them as setting a bad example for me and restricted even further my chances to break out of my isolation. In fact, I had no clue that sex was supposed to be any more forbidden than romantic relationships---both were equally unthinkable and that's all there was to say about them.
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