[CRConrad]

> I learned from this that some people are always going to see you like they first saw you.

Yup.

> Your mother is going to always see you as the adolescent with the messy bedroom, even when you're 40.

Nope. She's going to keep seeing you just the same way she saw you when you were the adolescent with the messy bedroom, namely as her little baby.

Even when you're 60.