Another one here who wouldn't be fourteen again for all the money in the world.
I think the thing that saved my sanity was that mom sent me to summer camp for a week or two each summer starting at age 12 -- nothing fancy, just your basic more-or-less fleabitten Y camp. It must have been cheap, or mom wouldn't have been able to send me.
But anyway. Just getting out of the closed social system of school (not a particularly evil environment, just cliquey, and in that small city we had all known each other since birth and the cliques were ironclad) & into another place where no one knew I was supposed to be awkward, badly dressed, and unpopular, even for only a week or two each summer, made all the difference in the world. I can't begin to tell you how much.
So that's my two cents.
Thanks for posting this. Even in Chicago, where we really ought to know better, the first snowfall always startles everyone behind every steering wheel & we all drive like morons for a day or two.
And speaking of nasal saline rinses (what? That was an hour ago? Well. . .) Since I started that, I haven't had a cold or sinus infection and I used to get them *all the time.* Every day, salt water a la neti pot. No more colds for me. Hurray!
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