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anxious, very depressed child.<br />Upon adolescence, I convinced myself that there couldn’t possibly be a Hell, and believed in my mother’s idea of reincarnation, or at least an afterlife not

<br />That's what I'm thinking, yeah, but it would still be sending nasty sexual messages, as people here have discussed. Maybe even messages that are still horrible, but hurt <i>comparat

the hormonal intensity and mental development of adolescence, that we're going to die, which blasts it out of orbit.<br />None of which addresses the prayer directly. Apart from its projection

young, she was living a period of extended adolescence, in the sense that she was suppressing her own ideas and behaviours to suit others in her family. Once she made the decision to stop pandering,

re-use the imagery they are familiar with from adolescence. Reading too much into it would be a category error along the lines of looking at these patches and deciding the US Air Force in the Pacifi

of 11 or 12, and follow those characters through adolescence into adulthood).<br />In many ways <i>The Blue Castle</i> has a lot of the tropes of the classic romance novel, but it's

in our early days and very much so also in our adolescence remains with us as the 'standard' which we either agree with or try to deviate from, but which is nevertheless always there in the backgroun

Thanks everyone. Yes, the Giraffe has got through his turbulent adolescence and has grown up. Very well. Young to ,army, maybe, (22), but she is almost perfect for him.

emotionally and physically turbulent period as adolescence. Always assuming that someone who reports as transgender is mistaken about that is clearly wrong, but I would suggest that always assuming

emotionally and physically turbulent period as adolescence. Always assuming that someone who reports as transgender is mistaken about that is clearly wrong, but I would suggest that always assuming

that there may be a different safety profile in adolescence? Actually that's not unreasonable. There are concerns about bone density, reproductive health and brain development. Sex hormones play a ro

<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