[Quiet Man Cometh]

It is, since the brain is still developing and wireing itself and is open and prepared to process more things. Apparently, we are born with every possible brain connection active and the brain prunes away the connections that aren't used much to make things more efficient. Lac of stimulation and exploration can result in more patheways being removed or less developed with can make some things more difficult to pick up because pathways need to be created again.

I'm not much of a cook, what I can do I picked up from living with dad. I'm ansy around stoves, one of those unforunately effects from childhood experiences; I burned by arm on the oven bottom when I was two and subsequently fried my hand and one finger on two other occasions on the elements. I'm a little uncertain around knives too but not so much.

My older sister thinks it's funny that stoves make me nervous, even though I didn't remember the oven incident. My dad used to tickle my neck all the time when I was little, and he would make this buzzing sound. I still cringe when someoen gets their hand close to my neck, and making that buzzing sound with a hand near by hair is enough to make me cringe too. He's appoligized for "scarring me for life." I'm pretty sure he thinks that's funny too.