The kind of life you lived at 13 has both advantages and disadvantages. You learnt adaptation, but without proper adult guidance you also picked up negative lifestyles. But still you are better than kids that grew up with adult or parental guidance but weren't built to adapt. It would be more difficult for them to learn adaptation as adults than it would be for you to drop those negative lifestyles you picked. No one ever gets it right from their young age to adulthood, we all make mistakes. But it requires adaptability to correct those mistakes. I think it's your adaptability that made you drop the mindset of scarcity for that of abundance.