charlottegelin said:

my mother told us that mess when we'd sit for hours on the porch during the summer

brownsugar said:

worldwide phenomenon!

psychodelicide said:

Hey! I'm not the only one.

weepingwall said:

Well, call me crazy, then, 'cause when I was a kid, EVERYthing had feelings. I would feel guilty for days if I left certain toys at the toy store (or, worse, the thrift store, where they looked REALLY sad). I remember that I would say 'good morning' to the trees along the driveway when I walked to the school bus stop, and I didn't want to leave any of them out 'cause they would feel bad. . . and I was careful not to break tree branches. I didn't really like cutting flowers, either. Didn't want to hurt them. I remember feeling sad when I got a new bedspread, because I loved my old unicorn blanket (still have it; I think I got it in kindergarten), and I didn't want it to feel rejected if I went to cover it up with something newer. Christmas trees! Good lawd, if I didn't pick the ugly one every time, because I didn't want it to still be out in the cold on Christmas day. I mean, I could just go on forever.

It would have been amazing if, as a nerdy little fat girl, other PEOPLE had treated me with the same consideration with which I treated trees.

I didn't quite do that, but I used to think that I would hurt people's feelings if I told them I didn't like a song or a color that they did. I was insane about not disagreeing with people but it didn't matter if I did some other things, in my mind.

I thought "bizarre" was the best word in the world....
I also was somehow under the impression that coffee-milk (you know, half and half; I used to drink it as a treat sometimes) was the equivalent of a cappuccino.

Protege said:

Well, it's not SO far off.

My mom used to give me sweetened, milky coffee, which I called "coffemilkandsugar" when I asked for it. Coffee and coffeemilkandsugar were completely unrelated beverages to me. Coffee was gross. Cofeemilkandsugar was delicious.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Awww... You sounded like a sweet, senstive girl
I did the same sort of "feelings" thing with inanimate objects

that the people singing etc on the tv where in the TV. I'd Go to the back of the TV and be like come out,/ how'd they get in there and knock on the back of the TV you know that part where it has the slits in the back.

Memories, thanks for starting ive had a horrrrrible day full of yelling at the top of my lungs and cryin: this has made me laugh
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applekisses said:

Yeah, I was a pretty ok kid. Totally the bee girl from the No Rain video.

And I'm not surprised to hear that you did the same thing. Really, it makes sense to me that kids would do this.


This thread is fun.
[Edited 5/19/06 0:00am]

When I was a kid, I never realised you could go into a shop and actually buy music.

(Even though my parents had loads of records and tapes).

For some reason, I thought the charts were determined by fat, old businessman, chomping on cigars, sitting in a boardroom, battling it out. They'd have a vote, decide what they liked, and then that was the Top 40.

But what I really couldn't understand was why the charts seemed to go backwards. To me, 40 was a higher number than 1 so that made it more important. So the record at number 40 was the 'best' one. But I could never work out why they'd work all the way back to the 'worst' one one at number 1.

onenitealone said:

I remember thinking that too!!

And yes, i was told about the piles!!! Wierd eh?!

althom said:

susannah said:

Freaks unite!





(And yeah, my mate's dad used to give us the "You'll get piles!" line as well).

onenitealone said:

susannah said:

so has anyone actually ever GOT piles from cold concrete!

alwayslate said:

HA!

POOK USED TO THINK LUCY AND DESI WORE BLACK AND WHITE MAKEUP

LAST WEEK POOK FIND OUT ABOUT FILM THOUGH

[Edited 5/19/06 22:06pm]

HereToRockYourWorld said:

I was like that too!

In truth I still am like that to some extent.

I used to think the world was like a snowglobe and that Sydney in New South Wales was overseas ...when I got on the plane and it was taking off when i was 3, i actually remember looking down at the ground and waving "Goodbye Australia!"

Anybody with a beard except Jesus and Santa Clause were gonna 'get me' i used to SCREAM and BAWL my eyez out when a family friend would come over to my nana's house...my parentz were all ... and the poor man had to face an ordeal just step inside!!

I used to think that my mum and dad had me by taking a trip to heaven and they saw me in a box with other babies and decided i was the best, so they took me and i was theirs!

I also thought that the everyone on TV could see me, and they knew who i was! When was at Moomba Parade- about 2 yearz old i saw Big Bird and some of the other characters waving from a wheeling platform and i apparently yelled out 'BIG BIRD! BIG BIRD! It's ME!!! It's MISSY!!!' i was apparently very heartbroken when he ofcourse took no notice of me ...

When I was little I used to think the people in the pictures on the wall could see me.

When my mom first explained sex to me, I thought that the sperm jumped out of the man and crawled across the bed to the woman and made her pregnant while they were sleeping.

I thought this up until I was about 15 !

babynoz said:

!!

i thought 'euthanasia' was 'youth in Asia'...i thought damn, i'm never going to Japan with all those MEAN kids over there killing people.


i thought the words to the CCR song were..."theres a bathroom on the right..." instead of 'theres a bad moon on the rise...' to this day i still catch myself singing them wrong



i thought you got pregnant by eating fish.

lillith said:

I always thought so too!! And all those gorillas fighting in the war

Sweeny79 said:

Oh, me too.

my sister thought that men had boy babies, and girls had girl babies.

which is true, but not the way she thought.

oh, and there was a kid across the street who i was convinced was a hermaphrodite. only, i didn't know the word, i called her (i think it was a her, this was a true "pat" type) a "boy-girl."

didn't think anything of it, especially. just thought there were girls, boys, and boy-girls. and maybe girl-boys.

Heiress said:

One of my mates - and this was in his teens - was convinced that he had a hermaphrodite living next to him. This was based on:


~ the fact that his (female) neighbour wasn't the most feminine looking woman

~ she lived alone

~ he once saw knickers and pants (mens' underwear) on the washing line


Conclusive evidence, I think you'll find, that a hermaphrodite lives next door.


I was, like, 'Are you sure her brother hasn't come to stay or she's got a boyfriend???'.

'No, she's definitely a hermaphrodite'.

onenitealone said:

now that's funny...

I once asked my mother if they had color when she was a kid, because all the tv shows were in black and white.

ZombieKitten said:

cosign on the youth in asia.

onenitealone said: