As for your own personal experience, you say that you had
the normal fight for independence which characterizes healthy teen - agers, that you loved your parents but welcomed escape from their daily supervision, that you are now on your own and outwardly in charge of your life, but this, you say, does not solve the problem of conformity.
In Philadelphia, teenage boys find ways to impress girls using a mode of transport obsolete since the 19th century; a young man's
fight for independence from his mother would be
normal for most kids, except
for some special circumstances.