Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children and not for the education of all adults of every age?

As long as any adult thinks that he like the parents and teachers of old can become introspective invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him he is lost.