However, I became a follower of Jesus at age eleven. That makes me a Christian.
There is a difference.
Despite what is published in the CCC it is not substantiated in the Word, and in fact, goes beyond what the text says about Mary.
And yet you wrote "... nor is the catholic claim that Jesus is giving all of us His mom" and I posted the passage from the Catechism of the Catholic Church. That, and your testimony, impeaches your witness in the matter.
However, I became a follower of Jesus at age eleven. That makes me a Christian.
I hope so. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
First Corinthians, Catholic chapter ten, Protestant verses ten to twelve,
First John, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verse six,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James
How did you do that??/....just a question, answer if you want to.