Ran into a classic, snaggle-toothed project kid yesterday and it takes about 10 seconds to realize you're dealing with a different sort of youngster when you talk with project kids. Shyness is sort of beaten out of them early on, and they exude that "poke you in the chest to see if you fight back" attitude in the things they say (and sometimes those things are very adult sorts of topics).
They're always testing, and angling, as their environment has taught them to do.
In that sense they are, today, exactly the same as they were decades ago. It took about 10 seconds to realize that. I must say that it provided more a feeling of nostalgic relief and comfort with my surroundings than any sort of pity, sadness, or self-righteous, adult-perspective-having indignation. I assume that speaks poorly of me as a person but it is what it is.
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