[otakucode]

This might be far too personal of a question, and if so just tell me to piss off, I won't mind. But I'm curious, do you think, compared to others, that you might experience intense interpersonal relationships (intimate friendships, romantic relationships, etc) very differently from people who were schooled differently and thereby able to have formative early relationships of that sort during early adolescence - the period of maximal neuroplasticity? I've always worried that being forbidden such intense experiences might be a 'critical period' phenomenon similar to needing to be exposed to language before age 5 or else never being capable of grasping its fundamentals.