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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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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...makes it hard to know when people are messing with you, and tilts your social interaction towards others who similarly struggle with 'keeping up with the knowledge' but for worse reasons. Ultimately, it prevents confidence in reading situations. 2/2.
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Same exact experience for me!
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No doubt, that would have been very tough.
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