It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a kid, I was just a kid. Average.
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
I wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child.
In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
I didn't have a normal childhood by any means.
I didn't really get a normal childhood.
I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.