> slowly or quickly realize that you are just a regular human being like everybody else.
The earlier the better, one of the best revelation that I had is that 'nobody actually cares about me that much'. So much of the peer/social pressure are self inflicted.
Well hopefully you surround yourself with a smallish circle of people who care about you! But yes all your high school / college classmates / coworkers are off living their lives and not thinking about you.
