In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
I got a good-enough adolescence. I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.
Basically, my socialization as a child didn't come from any schooling; it came from being in theater and meeting people online.
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.
I was brought up in a strong working-class community by working-class parents and relations until I was 18, and that's what I really am. Now all sorts of things have been added, but that's what I am.
I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.
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.
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is.
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