My first experience was when I was about 8 years old, my dad died when I was 6 so it was just me and my mum, my mum used to take me to a friend of hers house who had a daughter roughly the same age as me, as soon as we arrived her daughter and I would strip off and play naked in her bedroom, garden and run all over the house for hours, my mum or her mum never got naked so I don't think they were naturists, I think it was just a kid thing, unless her mum sugested it to mine and that's why we stopped seeing them but I think it was because we moved.
Anyway the feeling of being free and running around naked stayed with me ever since, however because society is the way it is I thought I was in a minority so didn't practise naturism unless alone at home and a couple of times when the oppotunity arose where I was alone walking in the countryside etc, so apart from that and sleeping naked from about the age of 11 I missed out until about 5 years ago when for some reason I just decided to google naturism, I couldn't beleive how many people of both sexes and all ages were nudists, I was both pleased and anoyed, pleased because I wasn't the odd one and could now become a full nudist and anoyed because I have missed out on so many years of doing something which I enjoy and makes me feel great, also thinking that I was odd or not normal etc because of how people portray nudism, So now I have been making up for lost time.
Nudity only becomes an issue if an issue is made of it
The innocence of childhood seems to disappear earlier all the time now. It's a common theme that many naturists seem to have that they didn't discover or take up the life-style sooner. Like you one of the regrets of my lifr, but I'm making up for lost time.
Davie 8)