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I think they're the most socially adept kids when speaking with adults, and the most socially inept when hanging with other kids, particularly medium-to-large groups. On average. I knew plenty of them who didn't fit the mold.

I'll echo some of the other posters here in saying that homeschooled kids are usually shockingly good at holding conversations with adults for their age. Not being in an institutional environment where you only really talk to schoolteachers means they get a lot more practice having normal conversations with adults. That was a benefit for me in my later teenage years for sure as I transitioned into the grown-up world.

Social adeptness stands out too, though.

“Socially adjusted” means behaving like someone who spent twelve years in a public institution. No more or less.

I think highly of the homeschooled kids I’ve known, for the record.

> They aren't shy. They hold nice conversations

So they do seem very grown up

seem or are?