childhood

I know the simple happiness that one obtains today could be once so valuable and dearth — and if misunderstood, one could never fully appreciate the hard work and dedication behind every improvement of life. 

I’m an only child with two lesbian mothers, but I attended a boys’ school for most of my life. From as early as I can remember, school was a male space and the home was a female space.

 I was somewhat aware of my erratic pursuits of dopamine and novel stimuli, but the problem was that there wasn’t a language in my culture to identify and to describe these issues, and certainly not in a healthy, constructive way.

Each attachment style — secure, anxious, avoidant and fearful-avoidant — are used to describe the way people are in relationships with others

My sense of closeness with animals and wildlife has changed dramatically as I have grown up, but I feel as though my guiding principles have just matured, becoming updated versions of what they once were.

Especially because my overall life mentality is to look forward rather than to reflect upon old memories, I’ve realized that I have let many moments from my past fade away; I’ve allowed them to pass me by when I really should have held them closer.

I decided to rewatch the movies I cherished as a child, including "Lemonade Mouth" and the third "High School Musical," among others.

As life got more complicated, I felt the ease of my connection to the Oregon Coast gradually slip away.

Nobody has the exact same childhood experience, but there are a few common cultural touchstones that those born in the early 2000s can relate to.

These symptoms are unnoticeable at first, but for your proper analysis, I have created a guide for the symptoms you may experience from growing up.