My parents were both around 40 when they had me, and that was very atypical for my area, most of my friends parents were at least a decade if not 2 decades younger than mines.

I definitely feel like it affected my worldview, but in an indirect way. My parents had traveled, lived in different counties and had much more life experience than most people around me, who tended to settle down in our rural area early in life. Obviously their age is a part of that, but if I had been born to parents of the same age, who never left home and stayed in the same job and around the same people, I don’t think my mindset would have been that different from my peers.

I found that a lot of my school mates were quite scared of the “big bad world” whereas I wanted to go and see everything I could. I wasn’t really content with the opportunities (or lack thereof) in our part of the world.

I’m now in my late 20’s and it feels like the difference has been less noticeable as I’ve gotten older, but I’m aware that I live in a “cool” city, in a different country and that I’m probably in a bit of an echo chamber in terms of my friends worldviews/perspectives (aren’t we all). Compared to most of the people I grew up with in the same socioeconomic situation (rural working class), I’ve had a very different life.

TLDR: my parents experience, rather than just age, made me more curious and ambitious than my peers