>>16216973It sounds like you’re looking at that period pretty matter-of-factly rather than idealizing it, which honestly is a pretty common way people end up feeling about childhood—especially when nothing was overtly bad, just kind of… average and uneventful.
A lot of what you describe (school feeling dull, being more into games/drawing, just passing time) is actually a pretty normal “in-between” stage, even if it feels a bit awkward in hindsight. Preteen years especially tend to be a mix of curiosity, boredom, and picking up influences faster than you really know what to do with them.
Do you think your perspective on it changed gradually over time, or was there a point where you just kind of stopped caring about revisiting it altogether?