That has a lot to do with everything. Those are your formative years. Me personally, I was abused. I was never allowed to have emotions of my own. My only concern in life throughout my childhood was the emotional well being of my abusers. You may have experienced putting your own emotional development aside to tend to your parents. It was almost as we were never taught to read and now are expected to read Shakespeare.

Everone told me I was old beyond my time. But it was because I needed to be and never had a childhood.