Moving

When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)?

Every time we moved in my childhood it was growing up fast. And we moved often. I had a lot of difficult experiences related to bullying and abuse in addition to undiagnosed Asperger syndrome and severe mental illness. So in that way I was always had to depend on myself first, one experience that stand out was being 16 in a new town in a different cultural environment. I had thought it would be much better but it was actually quite a lot harder, especially in the beginning where I went to school in normal time in all classes. I lost my one friend there because she moved somewhere else or change direction in education. So that was a time I really felt the age being closer to adult than child.

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