I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.
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I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.
I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.
I've always been quite mature because of the way my parents brought me up. They were very good at talking to me like a person rather than a baby, and I was around so many actors and directors from such a young age because my dad is an actor. I was more comfortable with adults rather than actually being an adult child.
I was having my teens in my 30s.
I don't think I really realized what being an adult and being a real grownup was until I was at least twenty-eight.
I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.
My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.
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