Well maybe I’m different but I’ve always grown on my own and continue to.
You were born from a test tube in an artificial womb? You have no father or mother or both, and no siblings? You never went to school? You never had any friends, no acquaintances, no interactions with others? You never had a job requiring you to interact with people? You have never left your house and observed any other human in their habitat? You have never watched the news, watched youtube videos, you've never written in comments on visual novel pages? You never read any books, newspapers, magazine articles? You never listened to music? I don't know you, but I doubt you live in profound and absolute isolation from human contact. Even if you did you have millennia of human biological electronics and energetic waveforms in constant play within you that did not originate at the point of your birth. Despite your presumptions, you have never been on your own, and I doubt you're different. You're one more human living one more human experience. You interact with thoughts, feelings, ideas, and concepts beyond yourself, are affected by them, and in conjunction with, acceptance of, and resistance to those things, you grow. You're not alone, and don't grow on your own.