People or Kind works just fine... I guess by human standards I'd be considered an animal, though, I've never thought of myself as one, I guess. (If that makes sense.)

And actually, I don't really know how fast we grow up! I never had anything to compare myself to, growing up alone so... y'know. I had no real concept of what I could and couldn't do at any age so I just did whatever took my fancy at the time and if I couldn't do it at first, I'd just keep trying till I could. Mostly I'd get ideas from the creatures around me and so... y'know. See a mole dig, I learned to dig. See a bird fly, learn to fly.