Growing up in the 1950s was very confusing just like now

You pop out of your mother's womb and you are spanked and your head manipulated so it's the right shape often by the doctor (the did a really good job on my head by the way) and then you have to try to survive here any way you can or you die soon during birth or after birth.

This is pretty terrifying in itself.

However, that's not to say that there aren't some fun time you can have growing up either. It's not all terrible or terrifying (at least this is true if you have good parents like I did who loved me and wanted me).

But, this is not universally true so I'm very lucky this way.

What was the most confusing part of Growing up in the 1950s?

I think for me it was the constant paradoxes in life that I dealt with.

My parents were mystical Christian Ministers and ran a church in Los Angeles on Hope Street from 1954 until 1960 when I was 12 years old. There are good things about this and bad things about this. 

But, mostly looking back at this it taught me how to counsel people like my parents did. 

But, people were dying like flies in our church because they didn't believe in Doctors. And at that time I didn't really blame them because Doctors then really didn't know shit yet about most things.

So it was a very ignorant time for Doctors too.

Like for example, Doctors would go on TV and sell Cigarettes to people and tell them it wouldn't hurt their health.

WTF? This is just one instance how doctors were killing people (a lot) in the 1950s.

There were no seatbelts in Cars. So, about once a month kids would be racing cars and a crash would occur and 5 to 15 people would be in trees and scattered along the ground places and all dead or severely maimed usually.

Even my 16 year old Cousin died when he got his license at age 16 when he hit a house and broke his nect when I was 8 years old which was very disturbing for me at the time and contributed to me learning to write more and better just to try to survive those times because I wasn't really counseled about this in any way. I was just told it happened and that's all. It was the 1950s after all.

Children were sort of expendable then because kids died like flies then from whooping cough (like I almost died from), polio (which my best friend in junior high and high school almost died from and various other childhood diseases and various accidents (like not wearing seat belts).

Then like now people didn't wear seat belts in School buses so often all the people in the school bus would die if anything happened then too.

So, the point is it was just as confusing in an entirely different way then than it is now for kids being born and growing up here in California and throughout the U.S.