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Not really a complaint, but I get super confused when people say things like "I was totally watching horror movies in diapers" and "I listened to music with f bombs in second grade."

Was I more sheltered than I realize, or are people just trying to sound like edgier kids than they really were? Alternatively, was my normal the norm and they don't realize they weren't?

(I mean, I didn't even start paying attention to pop culture until middle school, but wouldn't have been allowed to listen to music with bad language in second grade anyway.)

The first movie I remember seeing was Nightmare on Elm Street. I saw Stephen King's It as a second-grader, and enjoyed it enough to go on to read the book. My parents were pretty liberal with the entertainment, and I'm old as shit. I realize that's not typical. Nowadays, probably not the case.

Also, I am as far from edgy as you could get. I have no edges. I am a sphere.

I'm sure some of that stuff is true for some people (thought not all), but I still think sometimes people who say stuff like that are just trying to sound edgy.

I wasn't sheltered, and my parents would've probably allowed me to watch scary stuff, but the problem was that I'd have been scared shitless and probably traumatized :D

It's not about what's normal and what isn't, it's about individual preferences and emotional constitutions.

Music with swearwords, eh, that's a matter of family culture. Maybe you come from a more educated/higher-class family (many of them tend to be generally uncomfortable with swearing). Or vice versa, actually - maybe you come from a strict conservative background and these people are from more "hipster" families?

Either way, again, different things are "normal" for different people/social strata.

I definitely think some people are doing it to sound edgy, especially if they brag about it the way they do in those examples you gave.

But it's not unusual for all kids. I didn't really watch super violent stuff as a kid, mainly 'cause it wasn't something I was interested in to begin with and my parents would've been concerned about that stuff giving me nightmares.

But I certainly heard lots of songs with swear words and references to other more "adult" things thanks to my parents being huge music fans, and when I was a little kid I was watching things like 'Look Who's Talking' with my mom, and there were cuss words in there and some innuendos and stuff. I also remember watching a LOT of MTV with my mom when I was really young, and not all the videos on there were exactly family-friendly.

I did know a lot of other kids whose parents were much more restrictive with what they allowed them to watch or listen to, though. Not that it stopped them from trying to sneak around watching or listening to those very things, but hey :p.

Well, my parents didn't say I couldn't watch Jurassic Park when I was 6. I loved dinosaurs and I LOVED/LOVE that movie back then and now. Never had nightmares. Halloween I saw when I was like...10? Became my favorite horror movie series as a kid. I was reading the Hannibal trilogy when I was in early, very early, middle school, even wrote a very detailed report about Hannibal and got an A on it.

My parents never tried to censor me much as a kid, with only a few exceptions, so.

My parents rented Jurassic Park for a family movie night when I was probably about 6 or 7 because I loved dinosaurs, but turned it off when they realized how violent it was going to get. I don't think my parents "censored" us, but looking back I think they tried to be pretty fair about what was/wasn't appropriate for a young kid to watch. (And by appropriate, I mostly mean "scary", my dad had us watching Monty Python from a young age)

Same here. Like stated above, if my parents held any reservations about my sister or me watching something, it was mainly 'cause they thought it might be too scary for us.

But other than that, they pretty much trusted us to figure out for ourselves what we could and couldn't handle. And fortunately, we proved they were right to trust us.

I saw Holy Grail when i was a kid and was really confused by the "spanking and oral sex" dialogue.

You were more sheltered than I was, anyway. That's kind of an individualized metric, you know?

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