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I started driving at 16, and got my license at 17. I was short, and at those two ages I often got people thinking a lot of times that I was 11 or 12. When I would be on the road, I did get looks frequently from other drivers. Sometimes I would be scared to drive by myself because of it, especially if I was to go through a fast food drive through. When I would get out the car in the parking lot, sometimes I’d see a stranger looking extra hard.

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I always got in trouble for not paying attention at the meetings. My parents were so active, it was extremely rare we ever missed the meeting or field service. The meetings were pretty boring, and of course, your attention span at a young age isn’t that great. Me and my brother often got in trouble a lot. However, my brother payed more attention and always got in far less trouble than me. I was the one who got in trouble and acted up the most. During the meetings my mom would always go “pay attention! Open up your bible! Stop drawing in your note pad!” Normally when I wasn’t paying attention, I get a spanking.

I’d get taken to the back, or sometimes I’d get it in the seat. she would pinch me at the seat Or slap my leg. When she would pinch It would always hurt. She wore these fake long acrylic nails. Mom always had to sit in between us because I would always whisper to him or start laughing. After the meeting, this would be annoying too. Since my brother payed more attention at the meeting, he knew more. The drive back home he’d tell mom and dad “can we tell you what we learned?” I HATED that because each time I would never know.

I often do with my 2021 Chevy spark that’s red hot color. I often get comments from people saying that they like the color. When I was in the parking lot someone was talking to me while I was in the car. After the conversation She looked at the body of the car and said “I like this little car!” One the road when I’m with my mom, we often like to point out other sparks and say what colors we have seen. On the road last week she said “there goes a dark blue one! It’s pretty too!” It was the Caribbean blue one.

The venue is 18+ or 21+ to enter and be in there. But because you have a baby face and don’t look older than those age limits, you probably look like an early teenager or like you’re 12, or whatever age people think you are. Do other strangers ever react? Look at you weird? How exactly does it play out when being in an age restricted place while having a baby face?

Mines it’s the 2021 LS model, and the color is Red Hot. This is my first vehicle I’ve ever owned, and I went with family to pick out a vehicle. We were searching constantly for a vehicle that fit me and test drove a lot. One time when I was looking, I saw the Chevy spark. To me it had a cute appearance and I liked the color and it was in my price range. I was like “I want to test drive that!” Took it for a test drive, and I loved the way the car road, it was smooth. And then I liked the entertainment screen, the Onstar, and the other features it came with. I instantly knew I wanted this car. I didn’t want to look anymore, or do anything else, I just wanted to get this car and go. After we bought it and took it home, a lot of people said they like the car’s appearance too. A lot of people tell me that this car does fit me too. I’ve had this car for 2 years and never had any major mechanical problems with it. I still love this car like I bought it yesterday.

Are you atheist, or still believe there is a god out there? For me, I’ve been doing a lot of research to see peoples viewpoint and theories about a god. Of everything I read, I decided to google what Albert Einstein believes about a god or if he was an atheist. His claim of god stands out to me. According to what I've read, this is what he believes. He did not believe in a personal god that intervenes with humans lives, rewards/punishes humans if they committed a sin, or answers prayers. While he didn’t believe in a personal god, he does not label himself an atheist. He believed in a Spinozas god. What a Spinozas god was he believed in, He believed God is the harmony and orderly structure of the universe. To Einstein, God was manifested in the physical laws of nature, not as a conscious entity or being. And this explains why your prayers were never answered when you were in, you didn’t gain more faith when asking for it, and why we’re not in the paradise already.

Where I live there is a 33 year old guy thats the owner of a small business and he's worked there for 7 years. However, he looks around 12-14 years old and is 5'2. kind of like an adult trapped in a kids body. You wouldn't think he would be the owner of the store. However, when you hear him talk his voice throws things completely off. He has a deep adult sounding voice. It throws you off and you're like "is it a kid or an adult?" According to him, this is why. He said that when he was 16 he got into a bad car accident and he had several brain injuries and it damaged his pituitary gland. He never reached his full height, or fully developed.

But the reason he was able to have the deep sounding voice is because his voice was one of the first things that developed during puberty. He said he's able to grow a slight bit of facial hair but its very patchy and most of the time he chooses to just shave it.

He said he of course gets mistaken for being younger all the time. He said the youngest answer he's ever gotten from someone was 11 years old.

When I was 13 I always had a constant fear I was going to be destroyed at Armageddon. I tried to do everything right to make sure I’ll survive like paying attention at the meetings, going in service with my parents, do what I can. Even then, I still felt like I was missing something or not good enough. I had nightmares of Armageddon a few times. Here’s something crazy of having nightmares of Armageddon. Everyone in my family has had at least one nightmare of Armageddon. I’ve asked them and sometimes they’d share their dream at dinner. Not just my family, people at the hall had it too. After doing research, this is why nightmares of Armageddon happen. It’s a psychological response to the high-control indoctrination. Deeply embedded fears of an imminent, cataclysmic end—where one's worthiness, thoughts, and actions are constantly monitored by God-can trigger chronic anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and trauma-like stress.

You are taught that your eternal life depends on perfect obedience, and maintaining a "spiritually strong" status. This perfectionism naturally creates subconscious panic. When Armageddon is shown in the Watchtower it shows images of global destruction, fire, people running and screaming, this gets deeply encoded into your subconscious and brain. Dreaming about Armageddon often manifests when your subconscious is processing feelings of being overwhelmed, helpless, or fearing severe life changes. Here’s something I asked my mom recently. I asked her “do you still have dreams of Armageddon?” She said “sometimes, it is pretty scary! When that happens I be like I need to read the watchtower or the bible!” You see that constant loop?

For me right now and in the past I don’t normally sing. I normally just stare off into space or I just stare at the words on the TV screen. I haven’t sang during the song in a long time, it’s hard to recall if I ever did sing during the song. What about you, did you ever sing during the songs? Or do you just stare off into space and just not engage?

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Ever since we came back in person after Covid, is when things at the hall has been going downhill and I don’t see any of it getting better in the future. At our hall we don’t have any parties, congregation, get-togethers, go over people’s homes, go out door to door regularly. Also used to do public talks out, we don’t do that anymore. We’d usually have a visiting speaker, that has declined. We rarely have a visiting speaker now and the same thing with feeding the speaker. We just go to the hall to worship, chit chat a little before and after the meeting, and then go home. We very rarely ever actively hangout with anybody after the meeting. We have no unity with our congregation. Especially on Thursdays, the meetings are pretty empty. We’ve been back for at least 4 to 5 years, and we’ve barely had any new members to our hall or any congregation gathering. Either get baptized, switched to our hall or somebody studying that came to the meeting. With these 4 to 5 years we’ve only had at least 3 people new to our hall. Has anyone else having this experience where they’re at?

For me I’m a short driver so of course there will be a lot of room behind me. I do have the passengers seat pulled up a little as well so there’s more room in the back. Most people I have that sit in the back seats have plenty of room.

If so, how often do people tell you that you look so much younger? Do people sometimes not believe you’re that age and express doubt? With me, I’m 22 and I have never looked my age and I’m short. 14-18 I looked significantly young and everytime I met people, they always commented how young I look. When I was 14, people often guessed I was 9 or 10 years old. I remember one time when I was at a restaurant with my family, we ran into someone we knew. She came over to our table to speak to us and she told my parents that when she first saw me, she thought I was a kid. She said she actually thought I was 6 or 7 years old. At 15-18, I often looked 11 or 12 years old according to other people. I started driving at 17 and I would often get looks from other drivers. It would bother me sometimes when people would think I’m that young, especially when it causes me inconvenience.

At 19, the amount of inconvenience from not looking my age and reactions declined and didn’t get it as much. I still don’t look my age at 22, people often guess I’m still a teenager ages 17, 18, or 19. Those ages aren’t that far from 22, and it’s also not young enough to cause inconvenience or questioned all the time. It’s much better than 12.

Let’s say you’re at a casino, drinking alcohol, in a sex shop, a bar, or whatever location it is that’s 18+ or 21+. Do people look at you weird? Do people react? Do you get comments? How exactly does it go when you go somewhere age restricted? I remember when I was first driving at 18, I often got looks from other drivers. People told me all the time that I looked 12.