Everything really... If I were to pick most important factors: I have been watching gameplays on a particular youtube channel as a kid. The guy was quite talkative and shaped my economical views (how socialism is always gonna fail). Getting used to my sexuality happened thanks to herpy.net. Interest in programming started from wanting to take more control over my computer. Generally the internet was what really raised me and I'm very glad it happened. My family is christian but at some point, around the age of 15 or 16 I had to find out why the church condemns zoos. Of course I would not ask a priest, so I started reading the source, namely bible. That was enough to realize who is in the wrong and now I'm an atheist. Family cat taught me animal behavioristics. This will be quite personal: Dad was once "addicted" to a certain game, then stopped playing everything and decided games are bad in general. There a few rules at home that fulfilled two criteria: I was not convinced they were right and they were impossible to enforce. So naturally I broke them. That probably damaged trust between us a lot and it started waaay in the primary school. From some later events: There was a time when my parents wouldn't allow me to buy a smartphone. They probably didn't want me to play games without their control. I was always very savy, so I started to move my savings little by little to somewhere they were not aware of. When my school organized a trip with planned free time at a shopping mall I simply took that cash and bought a phone. Of course about a week later I left it in a hoodie for an hour or so and mother had to check it right then. At least proving I didn't steal it was easy with the box and receipt. Now I remember another thing: years ago I used to get a lot of monologues from parents about those incidents. Monologues, because I was unable to convince them that my thinking was right and they failed to address my points, always talking from their perspective. So over time I just learned that staying quiet was the best I could do. Whenever I did something at home, it was either bad, and I had to be reminded of that, or something I should be doing anyway, so why bother encouraging that? Result: to this day when I'm back home I don't lift a finger unless it's for me or I'm specifically told to do something. Fortunately it's only at home, probably because I was often successful when doing something on my own (like that phone). If I were to shortly describe myself, introvertic, analytical, lazy, stress resistant, open minded, paranoid (although I question that part more and more), pro freedom, capitalistic, interested in reptiles, IT, physics, economy, astronomy and games. Also, from the zoo part, caring more about reptiles than humans. Oh man, that's long, I hope you don't mind.