Comment by nibs

Socialization is for pets. I just ran around the forest and played Runescape for my single digit formative years. I did not learn to read until I was 11. To call my childhood homeschooling would be offensive (to me), school is the whole thing I was trying to avoid. I was home though. I played sports and chess with other people my age and older. I missed nothing but the cynicical, pluralistic burnout one gets attending school. And as an adult, I would not say I am missing anything social skills wise, other than that pathological desire to be normal school people have. Mimesis begets external validation begets emptiness.