• I think I spent most of my non-school times at home lol.

    I was born in 2002

    When I was in China, we mostly just stayed locked at home because parents are at work all the time (beside going to school)

    When we move to the US, I was put in afterschool programs when I suffered what amounted to psychological torture (I mean I was basically in a foreign country and didn’t even get time to “recharge my social battery”), and I never had the eslf esteem to really make friends with English-only kids for those the first few years of my life here.

    So that inertia just stayed… I just got used to not “going outaide” it just been how my life is…

    I mean sometimes I did outside… but I’ve almost always been acompanies by parents

    Not surprisintly never had much real friends, never made any deeper connections beyong just talking in school…

    Immigrant parenra really just either have no time or is terrified of CPS…

    So yea I have fear of the outside world basically…

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      A lot depends on where outside was too.

      I grew up partly in a city/burb then we moved to the woods.

      I actually played outside in the burbs because it had ode walls to ride bikes on and more kids near by. But playing out in the woods was more time outside, except in hunting city and after dark.