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I met someone the other day in the school cafeteria and we got to talking about where we were from. This is always a hard question for me because I was raised in an Air Force family, so I moved around a lot as a kid. Now, this isn't something I think about very often - it isn't even something I would consider to be a basic part of my identity, even though it was obviously a formative element of my childhood.

The girl I was talking to thought that moving around must have been traumatic as a child, but I don't think it was. It started so young that I didn't know any differently. Growing up on a military base meant that I was surrounded by kids who moved around a lot as well - so none of us thought about it too hard.

Anyway, I got to thinking about what effect this has had on me, now that I am pretty much an adult. I realize that I tend to have a lot of friends that I can hang out with - meeting new people is not really all that difficult or intimidating. For instance, I think that the college (my first school and when I transferred) transition went much more smoothly for me than many of my peers. However, I do tend to be an "out of sight, out of mind" kind of person. What I mean is that if I leave a place, I'm not very good at keeping in touch with friends - I don't really write or call that much. This doesn't make them less of a friend. In fact, when I run into people or talk to them after a while, I find that I very easily pick up where we left off. I think this can be disconcerting to people that don't feel the same way.

I was just wondering if there are any other military brats on TFP that have thought about this...