Ship of Fools

<br />Thank you.<br />There's a variable level of 'trickiness.' I was thinking about our sense of self and the normal challenges of puberty and adolescence. Mostly because that's how I fou

Is this the point where it’s worth mentioning the <i>midrashim</i> that say Isaac was an adult (some say 37, some say 27) when the story happens, and that he was fully informed by Abraham

I'm really curious to continue discussion on this topic because I think it's going to become more and more relevant as todays' youth grow up, more and more of whom embrace a more fluid concept of thei

<div class="QuoteText"><img src="https://forums.shipoffools.com/resources/emoji/cry.png" title="" alt="" height="20" /> I loved Captain St

I think I needed a healthier father-image in my adolescence, so he touched my heart in that role.

<a rel="nofollow" href="https://forums.shipoffools.com/profile/Gee D&quot; rel=">@Gee D</a> yes indeed. I will reach the allotted span in June, and have been the ol

I suspect that the judges reasoned that puberty blockers and the other treatments of young people during adolescence prevented those young people from exploring other issues. Which, whether they are

distress part of the normal ups and downs of adolescence, or is it truly dysphoria?”<br />These anxieties are exacerbated by a commonly cited statistic that 80% of children expressing cross-sex

Sorry, outbreak of real life means I've only just started re-reading ...<br />The big themes of the book seem to be adolescence / identity; relationships and family plus story and place so star

<div class="QuoteText"><br />I remember my Catholic girl-friend had a two year old nephew, and his parents were giving him a kind of early induction. Thus, pictures of Jesus on

<br />I remember my Catholic girl-friend had a two year old nephew, and his parents were giving him a kind of early induction. Thus, pictures of Jesus on the cross elicited sad face, and so on.

handle the trip than we might, with our extended adolescence; she was about to be married, after all, and leave parental control completely. And if she came of a pious family, as seems likely, chance

old at the time, right in the middle of kitty adolescence. She had aggressive play issues. She was a handful, but she was loaded with personality and intelligence, and I loved her from the beginnin

much later. The perils of a childhood and adolescence with Mission Praise as the primary hymnbook.

<br />I also have had this since adolescence. It comes in waves - twice or three times in a week, then nothing for months.<br />Mrs T who is a few years younger than me had her first ever

The thing is, I've lost a lot of weight (most of my clothes just hang on me), and I was a little under my ideal weight to start; my scoliosis, which I've battled since adolescence, has triumphed, so I

straight). I've been fighting scoliosis since adolescence, but now that the cancer has spread through my spine, it seems to be winning the war. Dammit.<br />