A quick warning.
There are curse words that are unbeeped.
In today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org kids can be so confident about what they know and what they think they can do, and then they get tested.
One of our producers, Elna Baker, talked to somebody who was tested like that as a girl.
Hey there on aa.
Hi, Ira.
Yeah, so the person in this story, her name's Molly.
And Molly grew up in an apartment complex outside of Houston.
Lots of families, and the parents, they worked long hours, some multiple jobs, which meant that this complex was really run by the kids.
They had total free reign, and they did all sorts of things that you could only do if there were no adults around.
Like what?
Like there was this four lane highway up behind the complex, and the kids.
Would go up to the highway and we would play leapfrog across the highway.
This is Molly.
And we would wait until a car came that way.
It would be kind of scarier if we could see headlights coming.
This is when we were like, all right, now's the time to leapfrog.
Oh, my God.
I know.