As a boy, I don't think I'm at all unusual in never having journaled during my early teenage years.
I certainly had no urge to purge everything about my adolescence and whatever angst it produced. But there really wasn't much written material.
Starting in my early 20's, there's plenty of writting ... in fits and starts, i.e., whole years or decades missing. Rather than have any urge to destroy ... I've saved a lot of this stuff for perusal in my senior years. I'm sure I would have done the same with earlier writings / self-evidence ... but it simply does not exist.
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