[ml1201]

I have to butt in here and point out that's not necessarily true. There's been plenty of times where a child's maturity is far beyond that of their physical age because of things they've seen or been through at that age. Even as a kid people always said I acted much older than I actually was, even more so when compared to my brother. This could be because of the fact that when I was five I honestly thought my brother had died because when he was eight years old he fell eight feet on August eighth and got a blood clot in his brain. Which at the time there was only a fifty-fifty chance of him surviving. So when I saw a bit of blood on his cot I freaked and started screaming that he's dead. I was only five when this happened and for me it was very traumatic. I was pretty shaken up after that happened, even more so when I wasn't allowed to see him for a long time, so I thought he was barely alive and stuff. And later on it also didn't help when my real mother couldn't hold down a job (mostly because of traumatic things that happened to her that actually prevented her mind from maturing for the most part) and we've literally have had to go without food. So it really all depends on the situation and the mentality of the person to be completely honest about that.