I was having some fun with the new blogsearch.google.com feature and testing to see whether my name would generate any results. It did one!

Apparently I posted this in the Third Culture Kids Everywhere group on Facebook quite some time ago. I had forgotten I wrote it! Someone quoted me in their blog...so I'm stealing it back now, because I haven't thought about this for a long time - but it is true, and it is still affecting my life...it kind of relates to what I said a few posts earlier about feeling non-grown up and old at the same time. :-)

I think TCKs tend to appear very mature in some areas and very naive in others. As a result it is hard to judge our age. Do you think this is true? Sometimes we feel very old and mature and other times very young and naive, and we also come across both ways to others. I have observed this in myself and in other TCKs. My explanation is that it is probably because we have been immersed in many cultures, but never fully immersed in one. So we are “fuller” than other people in one dimension and less so in another.

Interesting that someone else agreed enough to re-post in their blog and say they agreed and use it as a discussion topic! I would say this used to be very obvious to me when I thought a lot about TCK-ness, but nowadays I haven't thought about that topic much and I had forgotten! Lol. I guess even a couple years later after posting it I still haven't lost the quality of being both mature and naive...SO true. :P

I have not had as much TCK experience as many other TCKs. I just my life pretty equally split between Thailand and America. But I do think a lot about what experience I have had...