“When I was thirteen and looked at the twenty-one-year-olds, I thought they were all full-fledged adults. I thought I would be an adult by now, that I would have a career and a house and all my life figured out. I was still just a kid in a grown body. I had no idea what was going on, and that scared the shit out of me. When was adulthood supposed to kick in, and was it ever going to happen to me?”