Far from it. That's a big part of why we checked out. We were tired of fake friendships. We never could express our true identity as unique individuals since the expectations to have been molded into the homogenous group were ever present.
We realized what a mistake it is to raise a child among such a sick society that controls your thinking to the extent that you truly believe that they are the only humans appropriate to socialize with. Our kids could never understand how it was that they had 3 kids to choose from to be friends with at our hall- they shared no common interests, yet were told, these must be your friends- not any of the hundreds at school. My son would tell the kids at school that he couldn't come to their house etc. because they are "worldly" ??? I always tried to help him find another way to explain it - but it was just as lame. He HAD to be friends with the kid at the hall who at 12 yrs. old, didn't even know what a washcloth was!
