I was quietly death obsessed for a bit (maybe a little older than Alex: mine hit when I realised my parents were substantially older than other people's, and would likely die before other people's, all things being equal. I knew I'd figured that out by the time I was 6, but I think I'd actually mostly put it together without actually telling anyone before that.)
Regrettably, this turned out to be remarkably useful pre-planning, as when my father was diagnosed with (and then died of) cancer when I was 15, I'd already done a lot of "If this happens, which things am I really worried about" pre-worrying in advance. Which was both internally weird in a few places, and I think significantly weirded out a number of adults.
In my case, I think the interest may also have been triggered by my older siblings being much less around (they're 15 and 16 years older, so when I was 3 and 4, they were at a nearby college, but starting to not be around so much or reliably.) I wonder if the recent move stuff (despite it being very short distance) might have gotten then 'never again are we going to do X in that house' wheels working, and then they just jumped to different tracks.
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Date: 2008-05-04 02:52 am (UTC)Regrettably, this turned out to be remarkably useful pre-planning, as when my father was diagnosed with (and then died of) cancer when I was 15, I'd already done a lot of "If this happens, which things am I really worried about" pre-worrying in advance. Which was both internally weird in a few places, and I think significantly weirded out a number of adults.
In my case, I think the interest may also have been triggered by my older siblings being much less around (they're 15 and 16 years older, so when I was 3 and 4, they were at a nearby college, but starting to not be around so much or reliably.) I wonder if the recent move stuff (despite it being very short distance) might have gotten then 'never again are we going to do X in that house' wheels working, and then they just jumped to different tracks.