Well considering everything in our bodies is a chemical we are always thinking with chemicals.
But I think you are referring to not thinking while our body chemistry is altered by drugs we have ingested. And you’re probably not referring to caffeine or sugar or some of the other mind-altering substances we ingest on a regular basis.
My point was simply that the world of adults is not fun, but if adults don’t face it, childhood doesn’t have a chance. Just ask those schoolgirls that were abducted by Boko Haram.
Actually not just that. Of course I would exclude the supposed thought processes of someone using mind-altering drugs (those more powerful than caffeine and sugar).
But I am also referencing internally produced chemicals that are called hormones. These principally begin affecting our thought processes as we enter puberty.
Prior to that, kids (people) apply their thinking according to various rules of logic they have learned, and information to which they have been exposed. One would expect the results of such processes to be at least understandable.
With testosterone, and tidal fluxes of estrogen, thinking gets skewed, and it takes a long time to reset to a balanced and logical view, if that ever happens at all.
It is for that reason that you can see pre-pubescent children looking strangely at their teen-age associates, and rolling their eyes at their obvious idiocies.
"My point was simply that the world of adults is not fun, but if adults don’t face it, childhood doesn’t have a chance."
Generally speaking, I am forced to agree with you; but it doesn't have to be that way. Adults can and should have a playful spirit to apply to all their activities. For instance, I frequently tell people, "You should enjoy the time you spend at work, because you spend a lot of time there."
"if adults don't face it" -- They are violating the definition of what it means to be adult. Reference the picture of 0bama squeaming in imagined discomfort as someone else gets body-slammed in a Karate demonstration.