After his mother died, with his dad still working nights, Danny Tompkins missed a lot of normal teenage activities. He survived those years, but decades later he realizes many of his adult habits of responsibility and difficulty having fun stemmed from those years. He relives it, and takes a small first step to overcome the baggage from his teenage circumstances. "Growing Up Too Fast" documents the teen years, and the adult Daniel's struggle to change from what those years had made him.