I'm not glad other people feel like this also, but I am glad I'm not alone. I see my sister chatting with our aunts and uncles and grandparents like she is ... I don't know ... just another adult, and I feel awkward when they talk to me. I keep hoping someday I will feel differently and be able to relate to other adults as their peer.
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From the movie The Hours: "If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too."