Attend a homeschool conference, talk with some of the kids.
If it’s a two day conference, avoid media and going out on the night between conference sessions.
Then, after the conference is over, go to your typical mall.
‘nuff said.
I did this, and it’s a severe culture shock between the two settings.
Can you report how the typical homeschooled kid behaves at a typical mall? And I do not think that the kids that draw attention at a mall could be considered typical. Walk a mall without getting your eyes trapped by the eye-grabbers and take a look at all the kids in a mall. Most of the ones I see are with family and well-behaved. Sure there are the eye-grabbers, the “attention-starved” who beg an audience for face changes and body phrasings. Why give them that food for their fancy?