What shapes us?

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As we get older, ever wonder why we are the way we are with certain things?  Why we just feel a certain impatience or a certain feeling of being uncomfortable, or why we get a certain mindset or complex. I've been doing a lot of thinking and pondering on this issue, and have found a few interesting observations:  one of them is for sure is our upbringing and how we were raised as kids. Another is just simply genetics, and the last observation and the one that I have found the most enlightening, is all of the lifetime experiences we have had throughout our lives, good and bad.  I'm going to use myself as an example, I have always had a slight uncomfortable impatience around severe mentally disabled people.  Now don't get me wrong, I don't hate them, and they are easy to love, but I dont know, I just have never felt patient or comfortable around these people for long periods of time.  Why do I feel this way? Perhaps it's because I was exposed at a young age by my mother a guy she was kinda dating just want all the way there and was a bit of a pervert. That made me uncomfortable. Or the time we found my estranged half brother who is living in a group home because he is completely mentally disabled. We used to go there as a family and visit with him and his roommates. I just never totally felt comfortable doing this.  That impatience and uncomfortable feelings has carried with me even now. While I don't feel as uncomfortable as I used to, I still get that impatient feeling anytime I encounter a mentally disabled group that comes into the library or shopping or at the park.  While I am polite, but there's just that feeling I just want to be left in peace.  I don't really know how to stop it.  It boils down to all these things that have happened throughout my life that has shaped me. So ya, I'd like to hear your thoughts and comments. I hope I don't offend with this topic as it is of a sensitive nature to some.