Age 12

Just for the sake of comparing notes. I know I can't take much credit for having occurred or for how I have turned out so far, although of course I might have had a few choices along the way.

By then I had lived in a few small towns in southern Michigan, going west to east, from the Chicago area to I-75.

Met my first boy-love (it wouldn't have worked out) just before we moved to Florida.

Pretty much destined to be a magician because of Mark Wilson's Magic Circus, and then one day at the local playground a girl about my age asked me if I had read Bradbury's Martian Chronicles.

Magic catalogs, dirt bombs, sparklers, fireflies, tie-dye, interracial junior-high "rumbles" after school, "Age of Aquarius" (this was in 1972).

When we moved from Monroe, MI to Winter Haven, FL in 1972, it was cool to notice how much less racial tension there was at the time, compared to Monroe (which is right on I-75 and pretty close to Detroit).

Of course, by the age of 14 in 1974 I thought I would be a science-fiction writer.

@kevin-eleven said
Just for the sake of comparing notes. I know I can't take much credit for having occurred or for how I have turned out so far, although of course I might have had a few choices along the way.

By then I had lived in a few small towns in southern Michigan, going west to east, from the Chicago area to I-75.

Met my first boy-love (it wouldn't have worked out) just befo ...[text shortened]... e to Detroit).

Of course, by the age of 14 in 1974 I thought I would be a science-fiction writer.

@pb1022 said
Twelve can be a rough age.

I changed schools when I was 12 and, as the new kid, was pretty regularly picked on. Also developed my first crush at 12.

Wish I could live that age over again knowing what I know now and not caring what people think.

@kevin-eleven said
I had changed schools a few times before age 12, had my first crush at 12, and changed schools two or three times after that (not for military reasons, which is usually the first question). So pretty much an outsider for a white guy.

And I was a gay teen in the USA in the late 70s when it wasn't safe to be "out" (I was cool with being a guy who liked guys but I sussed ...[text shortened]... y would be cool with that) – but on the other hand I didn't go out in the first wave of AIDS deaths.

@executioner-brand said
cool post. gave it a thumbs up.

@kevin-eleven said
I had changed schools a few times before age 12, had my first crush at 12, and changed schools two or three times after that (not for military reasons, which is usually the first question). So pretty much an outsider for a white guy.

And I was a gay teen in the USA in the late 70s when it wasn't safe to be "out" (I was cool with being a guy who liked guys but I sussed ...[text shortened]... y would be cool with that) – but on the other hand I didn't go out in the first wave of AIDS deaths.

This thread is so gay 🙄

@contenchess said
This thread is so gay 🙄

@kevin-eleven said
Not exactly, but aren't you nearly gay just from being a Canadian guy? 😉 (sorry)

Also, this thread is about stuff that was going on at age 12, for whoever wants to post that.

@pb1022 said
Do you think homosexuality is entirely genetic?

Or do you think nurture plays a role?

@Kevin-Eleven

12 is a rough age: just discovering who and what one is, not sure whom to trust, not sure of one's own identity. Good posts, Kev.

@moonbus said
@Kevin-Eleven

12 is a rough age: just discovering who and what one is, not sure whom to trust, not sure of one's own identity. Good posts, Kev.

@kevin-eleven said
It was half a century ago, and I was just riffing off an exchange I had with someone in another thread.

Are you mocking me?

@moonbus said
Not at all. TU from me.

@kevin-eleven said
I know I can't take much credit for having occurred or for how I have turned out so far, although of course I might have had a few choices along the way.