Have you led a sheltered life?

And if so how do you know?

I doubt it, I'm in the magazine publishing world. We're not sheltered from anything. As a child I was; the real world changed that.

Sheltered from what? religious fanaticism from a parental guardian, poverty, domestic abuse? It seems like the kind of subjective question some Zack De La Rocha would ask.

Definitely not! LOL.

No sheltering whatsoever. I didn't even have a curfew when I was a kid! I think I turned out pretty amazing 8)

Ummmm not really

Oh yes. i shelter myself from evil doers.

hmm...
nope

i which i was sheltered and didnt have to see some things i seen as a child but i did and its made me who i am today

I was until college when reality smacked me in the face. I've been shot for crying outloud, that's not sheltered. I'm a psychologist who taught disturbed children; hell no!

as a kid, definitely not. As an adult, you betcha! lol

My first memories are ones of violence,and sexual abuse directed at me by my very own mother. I'm very glad that it did not warp me! My parents in spite of their proclivities toward violence, Did shelter me from religion saying "you can believe if you want,you can go to church if you want" I am grateful for that! But I would say I was far from a sheltered child.

'Sheltered' by what standards?

Anybody living in the developed world is sheltered to quite a large degree from the brutal necessities of life.

Who in here can say that been so weak with starvation that can no longer walk? Or used a stick to pin their own broken leg as there was no medical help to be had? And so on.

I've had my share of traumas and disappointments, like most, but unsheltered? No, not by a long way...

I get the point, but does the op mean sheltered in the way of being totally unaware of the world, or not living in the thick of the devastation. Growing up(toddler), the only African American I knew was my mother's housekeeper. She was like a mother to me so I didn't notice until older kids pointed it out. Sheltered that way, yes. I've been in the homes of hungry students with cockroaches crawling around. I don't live their life, but I wasn't sheltered from it.In my last year of teaching I was the only white person in the room, my assistant included. I learned that people were people, good and bad. Do I have neighbors of color, yes. I'm sheltered in that I live on a nice street in a nice home, but I've seen too much and been through too much to call myself sheltered. People who say," how expensive could it be to keep clean?", now they're sheltered and unaware.Intolerence for the differences in people and the different standards of living is being sheltered to me.

True. Although i grew up in communism i consider to have been sheltered the most in that part of my life. This was ment to be by all means an open question for everyone to define. cheers