Probably it depends a lot on how much cruelty you incur / how resilient you are to it.

apilgrimpassingby : Maybe this is just me, but I&rsquo;m baffled by people insisting that childhood is so much more idyllic than adulthood. At least in my experience, childhood is a world of casual cruelty, by adults to children and especially children to each other (in hindsight I can see myself as both victim and perpetrator), while adulthood is where you meet kind, patient people who fully…