Reply #117: Perhaps I was "behind" but at 13 I looked like an adult woman but I was a kid [View All]

[dugaresa]

I liked riding bikes and watching the muppet show.

The only problem I had was that I looked like I was 25 and I was considered very attractive. It caused all sorts of embarrassment for the men who approached me and tried to ask me out when I had to say, "sorry i am only 13". It was also disturbing because sometimes I felt like "prey".

We spend most of our lives as adults, there is no reason we shouldn't let children enjoy a childhood.

As to your grandmother, a lot of young women were married off because it was the norm at the time but that didn't make it right. My grandmother was married off to a man old enough to be her father and didn't love him one bit. She was his arranged bride so that he could father a bunch of kids on her, some romance heh?