That’s absurd because language doesn’t crystalize either and that runs at a deeper level still.
You can develop a complex lens with which to view / comprehend society and one’s self at a number of crucial developmental times.
For example, your pre-teen/early teen years are extraordinarily formative with regards to a lot of cultural assumptions that you carry with you for life; that is why that is such a targeted age for church groups to cults alike; such a social age, things ‘stick’ harder.