i think i trusted whatever adults said as true until i was in middle school. i'm still undoing a lot of bullshit they said that i just believed. think of it this way. i am now the same age my mother was when she had me. i, right now-- today, don't have answers. but if i had a kid, sometimes I'd just have to come up with some answers. i'd be making some shit up as i went along. adulthood doesn't grant you some magical insight that you got on a kit when you turn a certain age. and sometimes, if a kid points out something that don't make sense, adults get defensive. just like i get defensive sometimes. because humans are human, and nobody really gets what's going on or why.