We were never spoken to in that slow baby talk at home. My parents always spoke to us in a direct mature manner. We only have one set of distant cousins, and we weren’t allowed to play with them, because their mother made some bad choices, and the kids would have been a bad influence on us. So we were around adults, and always listening to their conversations. Then, when I would be around kids, I’d be so appalled at how stupid they were, and how they acted, which was pretty normal for a kid, but unappealing for mature kids.