What's it like growing up on a Commune or like situation?

I have always been curious what it was like to grow up on a commune or in a similar counter-cultural situation. I assume there are many here who have, so I thought I would enquire.

I have read some articles discussing the good and bad about growing up in such a way. Do you find that you were exposed to certain things earlier than you would have liked?

I wonder also about the "Fish out of water" scenarious that must have ensued when you were unleashed on the rest of the world.

A bit about me-I grew up in an old Victorian in Maine, My dad was an attorney and my mom a housewife. My dad wasn't religous but my mom has a wonderful library and gave me a bunch of books on Budhism and Taoism to read.

I think the most radical thing I remember them doing was organizing a protest to shut down a coal powered plant that was poisoning us. There were also those seperate brownies their friends served at parties-but all in all they were your usual middle class family on the outside.

 

Bjork was brought up in a commune...so ya see the results

to be serious, i'm wondering myself....
hey people, tell us smth about it