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As yall probably know, I was homeschooled from birth to the end of 'high school', and cut off from most secular culture - except for 3 months, when I attended public school at the age of 14, and ran into a lot of public school norms that shocked and confused me (cont).

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Not totally sure - I think my social skills turned out pretty well, but the disconnect in culture made it hard. For example, I couldn't pick up on pop culture references or a lot of slang, which made interacting with other people awkward pretty often.

2:46 AM · Jun 28, 2019

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Sounds like an immigrant experience

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I often think of it in these terms yes. I felt like an immigrant inside America, which is hard to communicate to people because there's no pre-existing ideas about that being a real thing. How can you be like an immigrant when you were born here?

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Don't feel bad, I went to public school and couldn't do that either.

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This is why I am dubious of homeschooling for anyone who isn't a severe, screw-the-world introvert. It isn't that pop culture is important in and of itself, it's that the lack of common knowledge screws with your bullshit filter...1/2

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Same exact experience for me!

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Random kid: hey we’re going to the jimmy jam later bring your schnozle emulator were gonna have a blast and as always follynog ding dong!

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No doubt, that would have been very tough.