Is it normal i didn’t mind watching graphic content on tv when i was a kid?

I remember being 10 years old very well. I was big into horror, and the scarier and the more violent the better, as far as I was concerned. I remember seeing my first pair of boobs while watching the original Halloween from 1978 on tv (later I’d find out I wasn’t much into breast despite being heterosexual, but I’ve already talked about that).

I’d also heard a lot about how The Exorcist was supposed to be the scariest movie ever, and one day when home alone I found it and watched it on YouTube, and I didn’t find it scary while watching (although that face did gross me out). And I also remember Saw being a popular series at the time, and I found it on tv when I was 10 or 11, and the gory scenes (which surprisingly there weren’t very many) were cut out, and I was disappointed that the movie wasn’t as gory or scary as I was hoping, and thought it didn’t need to be as long as it was.

Nowadays I still sometimes see people say certain movies aren’t ok for kids of that age, and sometimes I regret not having seen them at that time, because I loved proving people wrong about the type of stuff I was ok with.

Of course I don’t think EVERYTHING should be allowed at that age, or sometimes even any age. I definitely would have been disturbed if I saw a snuff film or CP or something of that nature. It still feels weird to me though when people say kids that age shouldn’t know about these things because the kids I knew were all pretty fucked up.