I want to make a wry comment about how I'm searching for my 12 year old self in these pages but all I'm coming up with is how 8 years really enriches your perspective. I can understand the critical analysis, the points of view, tie this down to psychology and cognition and linguistics and semantics. I don't think my 12 year old self was ever trapped here. I think he's been with me all along. Which I suppose should've been a confirmed when I look out the world and occasionally, just occasionally, feel what it was like to be so fresh and green and naive at 12 years old.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391