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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

you forgot to mention the fact that all most all secondary schools here are single sex.

I barely talked to post puberty women at all until i was in my late teens

you miss out on a lot of primary socialisation in that kind of environment

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depends on where you live I guess. One of my friends at Uni grew up in quite a posh area and went to an all-boys grammar school, but I'm pretty sure mixed-sex is the norm. I mean my first ever friend in primary school was a girl, it's just that all the ones after that were boys and I just stuck with male friends after that. Doesn't help that I started getting crushes on the girls in class when puberty hit so it was even harder to approach them normally