Home schooling is a signal of at least somewhat off the rails parents where I’m from (not U.S.), if these folks have similar experiences what they’re really expressing is surprise that your parents were… normal… but still decided to homeschool their kids? Or that you turned out ‘normal’ despite your parents. You are a significant update to people’s posteriors.
Not true in the UK. I have met a good cross section of home educating parents in the UK through multiple means (HE classes and activities, online, dropping kids off at exams,...) and its definitely not true.
There is a higher proportion of kids with mental health issues and special needs because of a lack of provision in schools. More social liberal than the population at large and more affluent. Maybe more of some religious groups.
Conflict isn’t an issue for me at all, and consensus-building is probably one of my strengths.
I said all this to say, anecdotal opinions are just that, anecdotal, and opinions.
The whole “homeschooled kids are weird” is a narrative that seems to have been politically driven, not based in reality.