I never realized exactly how weird it was until relatively recently. The incessant talking and analysis -- I kind of thought that everyone did that.
Yeesh.
This is exactly how I've described it. People think it must be so nice to have open communication. Umm, there is such a thing as too much communication, especially when you're a teenager!
My mom was a marriage and family therapist. Instead of the awkward sex talk I got handed her graduate level text book on human sexuality by Masters and Johnson.