Corb, okay, this is all I remember of that conversation I remember. It was on Misc. forum. On the misc forum there are just-talking-and-enjoying ourselves threads, and more serious threads. On one of those just-talking threads my memory says your child -- who was a teenager -- did something and then someone called you on the age thing. I did the math. I do give that even 12 year olds can have children, so if it was that kind of thing, the most you would have gotten from me was pure sympathy for becoming a father before it was time to be one. I never connected it that way.
It felt more like my dad telling us he was 29 for so long that when my older brother turned 14 and asked Dad how it was he became a dad at 14 years old. (Oldest brother was 15, so Dad would have had to be 13 when Mom became pregnant, if Dad really was 29. And they were married for 15 months before they had their first baby, so it really was ludicrous for us to buy he was 29. lol) Truthfully none of us bought Dad was 29 for years, but that was the moment Dad had to change his story. (Oh, he turned 34 then, so at least we knew he was kidding. And he was, since last time he mentioned how old he was four out of six of his kids were older than he was. lol)
The math simply didn't work right in my mind. And becoming a dad at 15-16 does work mathematically, so that wasn't it.
That's all I remember of your post. And I didn't call you on it, because many people on this site mess up on age or gender when they sign up. BUT ever since then, I've been thinking you did have a child when you were 15, but that was a long time ago, and now your child is a teen or young adult. I've mistakenly aged you into being in your 30s or 40s. (Obviously not true, but that's how I've been thinking of you all this time.)
On the one hand, I'm sorry I didn't believe you are 17 now. I screwed up there, and I'm sorry.
On the other hand, one thing for sure. You know I've never treated you like a kid, because I never thought you were a kid. And, now knowing you're 17 and with a toddler, I'm still not going to treat you like a kid, because, frankly, that in itself says you had to give up being a kid a while ago.