What were you like as a kid? [Archive] - Beastie Boys Message Board

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 09:12 AM

I was quiet and shy, and would crawl into corners of the house with two little toys and play there alone for hours. I liked to hide. Sometimes I would sit and wait and wait, just to see how long I could hide from everyone. Then occasionally someone would walk by and I'd crouch down and be totally silent and just wait - not to spy on anyone or to try to get any secrets or to overhear anything - I just liked feeling invisible, like I could slip away unnoticed.

I once did that actually. I ran away from mybabysitter's house and went for a walk through the neighborhood. It was terrifying and exciting and I got into big trouble for it when I came back, but it was worth it because I felt so free and alone.

Didn't you always dream of one day finding a secret room or crawlspace in your house that no one ever knew of? C.S. Lewis caught that with his wardrobe. Everyone I know always loved imagining the same thing, that they'd be the one to find a secret new place all their own. It's human. Ownership or discovery. Maybe it has something to do with masturbation, how everyone discovers it on their own and thinks it's a private secret treasure no one else knows about. The secret garden (of pleasure) Or maybe I'm getting too far out with that one. Eh.

P of R

08-09-2005, 09:13 AM

Troubled and wild.

skinnybutphat

08-09-2005, 09:14 AM

Same as I am now, totally awesome.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 09:15 AM

I made Barbara cry one day and I still feel bad about it. She was a couple of years younger so when she tagged along sometimes my best friend, Caitlin, and I got annoyed with her. Once we tried to ditch her for a little while. I left her in my room to play with toys and gave her stuff to do while Caitlin and I went out to the backyard. After a few minutes my mom called me angrily back into the house and told me to go upstairs. There in the bathroom Barbara was kneeling over the edge of the bathtub crying into it, politely not wanting to flood the house. We included her for the rest of the day and I felt awful. I still feel sorry.

Freebasser

08-09-2005, 09:16 AM

A fucking pain in the arse, I should imagine.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 09:17 AM

I take it you guys aren't into talking much about it.

skinnybutphat

08-09-2005, 09:18 AM

A mean police office made me cry because he said I was going to fined a $100,000. because I put a slushee in a post office box.
It was a raspberry one too.

Freebasser

08-09-2005, 09:19 AM

I take it you guys aren't into talking much about it.

I actually didn't have a childhood. I was conceived and produced in a wool factory, and knitted into existence 4 years ago.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 09:20 AM

I actually didn't have a childhood. I was conceived and produced in a wool factory, and knitted into existence 4 years ago.

I love the topstitching!

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 09:21 AM

A mean police office made me cry because he said I was going to fined a $100,000. because I put a slushee in a post office box.
It was a raspberry one too.

What a jerk (the police office I mean) It's not like a little raspberry stickiness ever hurt anything.

Freebasser

08-09-2005, 09:21 AM

Please direct all comments to the Mattel corporation.

skinnybutphat

08-09-2005, 09:22 AM

I buried my underwear in the sand and then dug them shits up like a year later.

Kid Presentable

08-09-2005, 09:27 AM

Horrible.

But well dressed.

My first day in school, I stole a kid's transformer, and lied about it. I took it home for the weekend and it spoke to me, mocking my guilt.

I once smashed a toy train for no good reason, much to my parents' chagrin. It was a collectable. In a similar vein, my G.I Joe fanfic would revolve around an omnipotent 6 year old murdering 'good guys' by putting them in the fire, and laughing. Eventually, a Daschund puppy we had died in my arms and I developed an understanding of mortality.

I was often in bad taste. I told a girl in my class she looked like 'Brundlefly' and her mother asked for my expulsion as a result.

I befriended my neighbour James at age 7, and we would plan attacks from his tree house. We wound up going to the same high-school, but never acted like we had ever been friends. Memories faded like an old T-Shirt.

Often spent my childhood searching.

ms.peachy

08-09-2005, 09:28 AM

A bossy know-it-all.

Yeah, shocking, I know. :o

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 09:34 AM

Horrible.

But well dressed.

My first day in school, I stole a kid's transformer, and lied about it. I took it home for the weekend and it spoke to me, mocking my guilt.

Eventually, a Daschund puppy we had died in my arms and I developed an understanding of mortality.

Those are great anecdotes! You seem like you were complex and emotionally turbulent as a child. I guess everyone was but in memories it all feels so enhanced, the fear and excitement and unexplainable impulses.

beastieangel01

08-09-2005, 09:34 AM

I was a bit of smart ass to anyone who tried to mess with me. I also got in trouble constantly for talking in class, or talking too much. I tended to be both shy and outgoing at once, depending on the type of people that were around me. I loved to read a lot (wish I still had the luxury of doing so, school takes up all the reading time I have since I need to read textbooks). I was also a huge tomboy from about 3rd grade until 8th grade. I mean, hats, backwards hats, and jeans that were too large for me. I also loved to dance, constantly (and still do). Jem was my favorite ever. I drew constantly. Um, that's all I remember for now.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 09:37 AM

Kid Presentable

08-09-2005, 09:38 AM

Those are great anecdotes! You seem like you were complex and emotionally turbulent as a child. I guess everyone was but in memories it all feels so enhanced, the fear and excitement and unexplainable impulses.

I learnt a lot from my childhood.

Nah, fuck that. I actually used to play war on my own, playing all the parts. Shooting, dying, issuing commands, tending the wounded. So while I found the masculine game, I had nowhere near enough social capability for it. I forced myself into having an imagination.

Did anybody know any kids who died? Because while everybody lost a small pet, I never knew many children dying until I was about 5. My Mother took me to this lady's house, and I pointed to a picture and asked "Who's that?" in reference to the boy in the frame(as an only child, my currency was other children). Nobody answered me. On the drive home, I asked again about the picture. I don't remember my Mum's reply, but I do recall saying "I thought only old people die.".

I also discovered pornographic magazines too early.

icy manipulator

08-09-2005, 09:47 AM

i was a little pyro and a clepto

beastieangel01

08-09-2005, 09:54 AM

I wish I had been a tomboy. All the best grown-up girls admit that as children they were tomboys. Maybe tomboy is too broad a discription and even too negative for describing a girl who continues to live her dreams and have a sense of humor about herself and not be afraid of new things after age 6.

haha.

I still had remnents of being a tomboy until grade 12. Although I stopped with the caps (backwards even), large shirts, and large jeans... I refused to wear skirts or dresses. I hated the color pink. And almost all my friends in high school said I was a guy trapped in a girls body due to my interests and personality. I might as well have been born a boy, but the fates decided otherwise and gave me girl parts.

mickill

08-09-2005, 09:58 AM

I was hyper and lied a lot.

In kindergarten, I remember telling a different lie everyday for show-n-tell. But Miss Kermy was still really nice to me. Except for this one time when I saw Steven painting King Kong and felt inspired to do a painting of the same thing, and she scolded me for it. I started getting shy aound this time.

Another contributing factor was probably when I was waiting in front for class to start this one time and these two kids in my class, Brian Choo and Raymond Diablo, asked me why my jacket was so big and then one of them suggested to the other (I'm pretty sure it was Raymond), "Hey, let's suffocate him!". I had no idea what that meant so I wasn't really sure what to expect. Anyway, they tackled me to the ground and threw their jackets over my face and tried to kill me. I musta bitched about it to my parents because the next day my mom walked me to school and told Brian and Raymond not to try and kill her son anymore. Raymond became my best friend a little later.

I went to the hospital a lot, too. Mostly for self-inflicted injuries, such as overdosing on chocolate laxatives, shoving a bead up my nostril, shaving the skin off my chin with my dad's razor and falling from a 6 ft fence directly onto the sidewalk.

I was into girls at a pretty young age, too. I remember this one time, I went back into class during recess to where we hung our coats and had our little locker thingies and some kid was sitting there with my lunch box eating my cookies. I flipped out and started chasing him around the class, but then he picked up a chair and threw it at me. At that moment, this girl I had a crush on named Laura Lee walked in. I ended up crying and then I noticed her standing there and tried to be tough, but she ended up yelling at the dude. She was very compassionate for a six year old.

bigblu89

08-09-2005, 10:01 AM

I was what they liked to call "Huskey".

mp-seventythree

08-09-2005, 10:07 AM

Quiet and shy, a total daydreamer. I remember one of my first report cards from school mentioned that "Matthew likes to stare out of the window a lot".

I also discovered I was a convincing liar at young age.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 10:08 AM

I was into girls at a pretty young age, too. I remember this one time, I went back into class during recess to where we hung our coats and had our little locker thingies and some kid was sitting there with my lunch box eating my cookies. I flipped out and started chasing him around the class, but then he picked up a chair and threw it at me. At that moment, this girl I had a crush on named Laura Lee walked in. I ended up crying and then I noticed her standing there and tried to be tough, but she ended up yelling at the dude. She was very compassionate for a six year old.

I didn't have my first crush on a boy until second grade, age 7 or 8 I guess. But it was hardly a crush at all. I didn't get shy and embarrassed around boys until 4th or 5th grade, that'd been like age 9 I think.

mickill

08-09-2005, 10:20 AM

I didn't have my first crush on a boy until second grade, age 7 or 8 I guess. But it was hardly a crush at all. I didn't get shy and embarrassed around boys until 4th or 5th grade, that'd been like age 9 I think.

By the time I was 9, my friend AJ and I were pretty much hanging exclusively with girls during lunch and recess. At first, people accused us of being gay, which was understandable in AJ's case, because he was a bit on the feminine side, but I was just there to get my mack game in motion. We played these games with them that were deemed "girly games", like tetherball and square ball. By halfway through the year, just about all the guys in our class were playing, too. We made shit co-ed, dig? Anyway, I learned that it's always difficult for the pioneers.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 10:22 AM

By the time I was 9, my friend AJ and I were pretty much hanging exclusively with girls during lunch and recess. At first, people accused us of being gay, which was understandable in AJ's case, because he was a bit on the feminine side, but I was just there to get my mack game in motion. We played these games with them that were deemed "girly games", like tetherball and square ball. By halfway through the year, just about all the guys in our class were playing, too. We made shit co-ed, dig? Anyway, I learned that it's always difficult for the pioneers.

tetherball was a guy game at my elementary school. Only one girl tetherballed; April, she looked like a thumb and had short hair and talked tough. The sensitive children were swingists.

miss soul fire

08-09-2005, 10:39 AM

I was also quiet and shy and big. Not fat, but tall compared to the other kids. I was always at the end of the line. Any line. I was always the last one. Not to mention I used to pee in my pants all the time. Fortunately I had more than one uniform.:p

I remember this one time in kindergarden, I've noticed this girl had the exact same little doll that my aunt had brought to me from Paraguay (and that I had "lost") and at that time anything coming from Paraguay was soooo famous and wanted! But I wasn't very smart (although I had excellent grades) because I made a deal with this girl to trade this big doll that used to laugh like a crazy bitach and that belonged to my sister for my stolen doll. She acepted, of course. I remember that when my sister and my mom went to pick me up at the classroom she made me trade the doll back and I got nothing at all!:mad:OK, I really can't I remeber if I got my doll back. I'm thinking not.

Such a precious doll. I'll never find it again. It looked like a gnome but it wasn't a gnome and it had this long red hat and puprle fluffy clothes and all.

I wonder where this thief is right now.:mad:

:D

Trimm Trabb

08-09-2005, 10:41 AM

According to my parents I was a happy child, and also very curious. I wanted to know about everything, wanted to know how stuff worked.
But I was also pretty screwed up. Even when I was a toddler I had self esteem problems. Whenever my parents laughed because I did something funny I felt embarassed because I thought I'd done something stupid and I shouted at them to stop laughing. Even now I can not hear the phrase 'we're not laughing AT you, we're laughing WITH you'.
I also spent a lot of time crawled under my duvet or under my bed because I felt bad and didnt want people to see me.
Yeah, happy days. :rolleyes:

On the plus side: I did then learn how to speak english, when I was about 3. And as I was a total geek I wanted to be a paleontologist from age 5 to 12 and became obsessed with monty python when I was 10.

JBernas

08-09-2005, 10:53 AM

I was extremely skinny and got teased a lot. I played cops and robbers with my brother as well as with dolls. I was VERY shy when I was little (say under 7)...which is nothing like me now. I was also a tattle tale until I learned that nobody likes a snitch. My teen years I looked the part of the good daughter and got really good grades. I guess that's why my parents never suspected any of the things I did (drinking, etc.). My brother actually had a worse repuation than me, but did much less....I just got away with more.

beastieangel01

08-09-2005, 10:57 AM

I was extremely skinny.

oh, same. I forgot about that. Didn't get teased a lot about it, except one girl. I remember being in the locker room and her going up to me and saying "do you throw up?" and I said "what???"

"you know...(proceeds to do the finger to the back of the throat and barf noise here), because you are so skinny."

bitch :mad:

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 11:11 AM

i was quiet and shy around strangers, and very talkative and affectionate at home.

at school, i didn't have a whole lot of friends and frankly it didn't really bother me. i was always the nerd, the teacher's pet, and i got teased about it sometimes, but after a while i stopped caring. i cried at lot at school because of problems at home, and then i would get teased for that. once these two boys ganged up on me and kicked me in the stomach then hit me in the back when i gasping for air. this was in third grade. the worst part was i got in just as much trouble as they did because beforehand we were playfighting, and the school had a zero-tolerance rule for that. i used to walk or run around the schoolyard in the mornings during recess, usually by myself, until a couple girls started joining me. yeah, forrest all the way :\ i was definitely a tomboy but i loved creative things and would needlepoint and make origami. whenever there was a group project, people wanted to be in my group because i was a perfectionist and would end up doing all the work myself. i really only had a couple friends during elementary school. there was jackie, who lived by me, and i'd go over to her house and she'd make me watch Small Wonder and when i slept over i'd stare at her headgear all night. there was Breanna, who was such a valley girl i almost couldn't stand to be around her, and when we hit junior high she transferred schools, started dressing really skanky, and hanging out with these really dumb girls.

i didn't really become a social animal until junior high, where i finally started meeting people i actually liked.

i asked a lot of questions and was probably really annoying. i read all the time. in first grade i was the only kid the teacher would allow to borrow books from the "sixth grade" section of the library because the first grade books were too easy for me. i cried when i lost in the semi-finals of the spelling bee. i was told i was gifted and was offered a chance to transfer into a gate/honors school, but i decided not to. i went into gate classes when i was in junior high and stayed in honors from there on out. i was really chubby in sixth and seventh grade then got SUPER thin in eighth grade.

Lindsey_1535

08-09-2005, 11:16 AM

I was loud and annoying and a tomboy. But I was crazy ass shy in front of a crowd or ordering food from places of sorts. I had very few girly friends and most were boys because I kicked and punched people a lot. And I lied tones but I really bad at it and you could spot it a mile away. I climbed a million trees and fences and had an obsession with dogs. SOOO pretty much me now as well. Less of a tomboy though.

mickill

08-09-2005, 11:19 AM

I remember this one other time I felt kinda embarrassed, one of probably several million times during my childhood. I was around eleven or so. An old friend of my dad's was visiting and I happened to have a few friends over, as well. I had no idea who he was, but he was telling me that he hadn't seen me since I one or something. Then he was like, "You don't remember, but I used to wash your balls when you were a baby" and I was like, "Oh, really?". At the same time I'm thinking, wtf, man? Why was this dude washing my balls and isn't this considered inappropriate touching or something? Anyway, my friends thought it was funny, but I was just kinda baffled. I didn't actually ask for further detail or what he meant by it.

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 11:22 AM

it was Echewta, wasn't it?

mickill

08-09-2005, 11:25 AM

Now that you mention it, I think his name was something like Edchewdward or something.

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 11:26 AM

he said the same thing to me. but i don't have balls. i think he was making it up, and he doesn't know a whole lot about anatomy, so you're probably safe.

Freebasser

08-09-2005, 11:27 AM

He was talking about the balls of your feet, man.

monkey

08-09-2005, 11:29 AM

oh i was a silly kid. i played with the boys all the time, except when my mom would say "go play with your cousin, be girls for once!"
i had a killer imagination and i loved making things. i used to get a notebook and make props and play with them...my favorite was my paper cellphone. ofcourse, those things were huge, because back in the day cellphones were humongous. and i used to play dress up all the time.
i was really tall but neither skinny or fat. i was a normal kid. i looked older until i hit 15 and my looks started regressing.
i had my friends, but i moved between 9 and 10, and that changed my friends and a lot of different things...

i was always talking back to my mother. my mom said i was born with too many brains. i always asked why and wanted to know everything. i read a book a day.

and i wrote stories all the time.

Sarky Devotchka

08-09-2005, 11:31 AM

quiet and loud, honest and sneaky. I used to climb trees and build forts and swim and rollerskate and play with lincoln logs and my little ponys. I wanted to be a detective and was always trying to solve mysteries that I made up. I had a boyfriend and my first kiss at age 5, he was 6, ooh la la. I was pretty shy at school and got picked on some, but boys always liked me because I was very pretty and I liked to play games. The popular girls didn't like me really, but they included me because I was pretty ("you're so cute Kelly, why do you have to be so weird?"). That whole thing put a bad taste in my mouth for so-called "popular" people.

I switched schools in the middle of 2nd grade and got called "teacher's pet" because the teacher had to help me adjust to the way her classroom was run (before lunch we had a list of tasks to do on our own and I always used up all the time on art projects and math, and didn't have time for the rest). She thought I was slow, but it turned out I was gifted...I just didn't have any time management skills. I got beat up alot after that. It was shitty, but I was embarassed and didn't tell anyone.

After that we moved to michigan and I got fat because my grandma constantly fed me and we lived on a busy road so I couldn't ride my bike. I also didn't have any friends, so I just sat inside all day long and watched nickelodeon the summer before 3rd grade.

3rd and 4th grade was great, although I had some self-esteem issues. Eventually I just went deeper into shyness and got in fights with popular girls and was very competitive academically, getting pissed off if I didn't get straight A's, etc. I became very introverted and stayed that way until college.

and now I'm more like my kid self. Except for boys always liking me. I'm still too fat for that.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 11:34 AM

I don't remember any concept of a "popular" crowd before 6th grade (middle school, age 11)

Before that there was maybe a popular girl or boy but not a crowd who excluded people.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 11:35 AM

I wished I was either blonde or "mixed" because I thought then I'd be prettier.

beastieangel01

08-09-2005, 11:39 AM

I wished I was the blonde hair/blue eyed girl for the longest time. I still felt that way a few years ago. Funny.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 11:40 AM

I wished I was the blonde hair/blue eyed girl for the longest time. I still felt that way a few years ago. Funny.

I still feel that way from time to time. Why can't I just be blonde with blue eyes and tanned skin like a Barbie Doll? I don't seriously I guess, but it's not entirely vanished from my mind.

beastieangel01

08-09-2005, 11:42 AM

yeah I hear you. I remember being so effected by it once that when I found out my exes ex (make sense?) was a blonde haired blue eyed girl. And here I am, dark hair, dark eyes, etc.

I remember being given barbies, and each and every one of them was just that. I think the first 'ethnic' barbie I got was asian when I was in 5th grade.

I remember wanting to be asian at one point too. Hrm!

Freebasser

08-09-2005, 11:45 AM

Don't worry. I wanted to look like Barbie too.

DipDipDive

08-09-2005, 11:49 AM

The earliest memory I have is the view from my aunt's kitchen cabinet under her sink. We used to go over to her house for all the big family gatherings, and as soon as I was old enough to walk, the first thing I would do when we got to her house would be to go into the kitchen, whip open the cabinet door, and just sit and chill under the sink and watch everyone. :o

I was kind of shy as a kid. Music was always really important to me. A lot of my fondest memories are attached to the oldies music that my parents raised me on. I watched Monty Python's Flying Circus instead of Sesame Street. I was a little bit of a tomboy with girly tendencies. If a girl wore accessories or clothes that I wore before her, I would get pissed off at her unoriginality. I never liked Barbies. I hated Girl Scouts. I didn't really enjoy doing the kinds of things that typical kids enjoy because I was always sort of antisocial and a little bit more mature than my age. I loved to swim. Like Nuzz said, I used to be obsessed with the idea of finding a secret spot somewhere that no one knew about where I could go to be alone. Like a super secret abandoned treehouse or some shit, but I never found a place like that. Most of my really good friends throughout childhood were boys, yet I never had boyfriends until high school. I really liked reading and my strongest subject was English.

I didn't have a fun-loving, carefree childhood like most people because I struggled with a lot of anxiety and panic issues as a youngster. I had a constant, nagging fear of failure/physical pain/death, a fear that normal, well adjusted kids don't have. It prevented me from having too much fun or doing the stupid things that kids do and learn from.

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 12:09 PM

I wished I was the blonde hair/blue eyed girl for the longest time. I still felt that way a few years ago. Funny.
i always wished i was white. i hated being so dark. i always got told, you have such beautiful skin, such beautiful thick hair. i hated it. i realize now that i hated it so much because my dad really hated heing mexican. he wanted so badly for me to dress "white" and wouldn't even let me wear dark clothes.

now i'm pretty much okay with my skin and hair and eyes and all.

JBernas

08-09-2005, 12:29 PM

I still feel that way from time to time. Why can't I just be blonde with blue eyes and tanned skin like a Barbie Doll? I don't seriously I guess, but it's not entirely vanished from my mind.

Same....I had dark hair/skin/eyes (my skin has really lightened up a lot as I get older). Although I accept myself more now then I did then, I still find myself a little jealous of girls that fit that mold from time to time.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 12:45 PM

Don't worry. I wanted to look like Barbie too.

She had no nipples but she had what I think represented pubic hair or the scars left over from her most recent waxing

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 12:47 PM

your barbie had that?? mine had a plasticky smooth crotch. oh, how i wish mine was like that :(

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 12:48 PM

i always wished i was white. i hated being so dark. i always got told, you have such beautiful skin, such beautiful thick hair. i hated it. i realize now that i hated it so much because my dad really hated heing mexican. he wanted so badly for me to dress "white" and wouldn't even let me wear dark clothes.

now i'm pretty much okay with my skin and hair and eyes and all.

From your pictures, I didn't know you were Mexican, or even Hispanican. I thought you looked southwest Asian. You're pretty no matter what, especially in that picture of you holding the bouquet of flowers.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 12:49 PM

your barbie had that?? mine had a plasticky smooth crotch. oh, how i wish mine was like that :(

Didn't any of yours have those little scratch marks? I think maybe one or two of mine had them, my first ones. Then later ones did not. This one also had slippery smooth hard plastic legs, like her arms. This made her the easiest to dress and undress. Later dolls had rubbery legs.

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 12:50 PM

Freebasser

08-09-2005, 12:50 PM

que?

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 12:51 PM

I don't really like white people.

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 12:51 PM

Didn't any of yours have those little scratch marks? I think maybe one or two of mine had them, my first ones. Then later ones did not. This one also had slippery smooth hard plastic legs, like her arms. This made her the easiest to dress and undress. Later dolls had rubbery legs.
nope, mine were all smooth. i am a little younger than you though, so that probably would explain it.

i had fourteen barbies and two kens. them boys was PIMPIN'!

DipDipDive

08-09-2005, 12:55 PM

but in white culture, anything ethnic and nonwhite immediately classifies you as a minority.

My dad is jewish and he has very dark features, dark hair, skin, etc., and I seriously thought he was black until I was like 5 years old.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 12:56 PM

nope, mine were all smooth. i am a little younger than you though, so that probably would explain it.

i had fourteen barbies and two kens. them boys was PIMPIN'!

Me too! Well, I don't know how many Barbies I had but they outnumbered my 2 Kens by far. I had a blonde Malibu Ken, with soft full blonde hair - he came in swim trunks, and I had a Prince Somethingoranother Ken with molded black hair, he came in a puffy white shirt and the tight pants with boots equestrian look. Poor fools didn't have one decent outfit between the two of them.

One year for my birthday I got a Barbie that I already had. They were like, Absurdly Pouffy Hair Barbie or something, with extra hair accessories. Anyway, they ended up being twins and one was an evil one and the other a good one. The evil one always slept with Ken, pretending to be the good one, his real girlfriend.

None of my Barbies ever wore shoes, ever. Only the sneakers ever stayed on their feet, and that's just plain dowdy with the evening gowns.

cosmo105

08-09-2005, 12:58 PM

One year for my birthday I got a Barbie that I already had. They were like, Absurbly Pouffy Hair Barbie or something, with extra hair accessories. Anyway, they ended up being twins and one was an evil one and the other a good one. The evil one always slept with Ken, pretending to be the good one, his real girlfriend.
i swear to christ i did the same exact thing. only my twins were the ones with the crazy rollerblades that had the flint in them that sparked when you ran it across the ground. not so great on carpet. i think they ended up recalling those. fuck that, i kept my skanky twins.

Beckalina

08-09-2005, 01:04 PM

i melted plastic onto my skin, thats what sort of kid i was

actually my brother did it to me, but it makes me sound more interesting huh?

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 01:07 PM

i melted plastic onto my skin, thats what sort of kid i was

actually my brother did it to me, but it makes me sound more interesting huh?

Sure does, especially if you did it like Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear, just to show your terrified parents on the houseboat that pain doesn't scare you.

QueenAdrock

08-09-2005, 01:09 PM

Oh, god we're learning how to say this shit in French. Imparfait, et passe compose. Bad memories...:(

Anyways, I was quiet and serious for most of my childhood. Then I got in a horrible bike accident when I was 13 and bashed by skull real bad. Then I became much more talkative and outgoing. I also lost my sense of balance, but whatever.

I'm still as big a liar now as I was back then. I mean, everything I say is a lie. Except that. And that. And that. And that. And that. And that. .....And that.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 01:20 PM

Ha! (http://www.se7enty6ix.com/images/Contest/12-2004/still19.png) "She falls down a well, eyes go crossed; gets kicked by a mule, eyes go uncrossed. You're guess is as good as mine."

JBernas

08-09-2005, 01:23 PM

Ha! (http://www.se7enty6ix.com/images/Contest/12-2004/still19.png) "She falls down a well, eyes go crossed; gets kicked by a mule, eyes go uncrossed. You're guess is as good as mine."

Morning! Shitter was full! :D

adam_f

08-09-2005, 01:24 PM

I was a shy kid. Only talked to people who I knew wouldn't make me feel awkward. I loved to crochet little bunny rabbits. I would also knit bedroom slippers for disabled veterans. They called me 'a little homo' It was adorable.

Seriously though, I was awesome.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 01:24 PM

Morning! Shitter was full! :D

OMG! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/magdb/roflcopter7.gif)

TAL

08-09-2005, 01:31 PM

I don't really like white people.
Oh, I won't bother you with the story of my childhood then.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 01:33 PM

Oh, I won't bother you with the story of my childhood then.

No, I'd like to know. I was only kidding about that white people thing. What I meant was that I don't find them attractive unless they are blonde women who look like Playboy Bunnies. Not that I even find them attractive but I recognize their overt sexuality as something I admire. So, you were saying, you were just a little girl in Paraguay...

JBernas

08-09-2005, 01:40 PM

OMG! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/magdb/roflcopter7.gif)

That's great....I think we've had these 'Vacation' moments before?

Bob

08-09-2005, 02:32 PM

quiet, a little wierd, sorta smelly (i hadn't really appreciated the virtue of clean laundry at the time, i'll just admit it)

beastieangel01

08-09-2005, 02:49 PM

oh wow, thanks :o i'm actually half white, half mexican. but in white culture, anything ethnic and nonwhite immediately classifies you as a minority. for the longest time i considered myself white until i realized that everyone else saw me as mexican. just because i'm tan, my last name ends in a z, and i have very thick hair doesn't mean i can speak spanish :\

haha. I am mostly mexican, and the tanned skin and thick hair and all... I still don't speak spanish. I hate menudo. And usually I can not take any salsa spicier than medium.

I'm an americanized beaner. I'm like the Taco Bell of Mexican food.

Or something.

The Notorious LOL

08-09-2005, 02:52 PM

Bob

08-09-2005, 02:55 PM

my face now looks identical to when I was a little kid. I just have facial hair now.

I was a smart little shit. I learned to read when I was like 3, got enrolled in a "gifted kids school" in first grade, opted out in second grade cuz the smart kids liked puzzles instead of nintendo.

i did that too, except i stuck with it until middle school, when we started doing these independent studies...i did mine on "how do seaplanes float?" and just kind of quit after that without saying anything

The Notorious LOL

08-09-2005, 03:01 PM

those gifted kids suck, dont they?

Bob

08-09-2005, 03:03 PM

yeah...i almost accidentally killed one of them once. i felt terrible about it afterwards. we were playing around on one of those jungle gym things and long story short i kneed him in or near the temple, pretty hard...well, everyone had me convinced that i nearly killed him anyway..boy, that would have changed my life

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 03:04 PM

I was not gifted. No one ever even considered that I might be.

DipDipDive

08-09-2005, 03:05 PM

I was always gifted in the sarcasm department, but they don't have special schools for that shit.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 03:06 PM

Bob

08-09-2005, 03:08 PM

I was not gifted. No one ever even considered that I might be.

you weren't missing much...to be honest i only really stayed in it because every wednesday we got to go to a different school all day and do stupid little puzzles and stuff. the other school had a better playground. then in middle school, they moved the program to this tiny little room without air conditioning, where you'd go an hour a week and talk about the progress of your independent study, so i quit.

anyway the point is, just because you didn't get to take an extra bus ride every wednesday doesn't mean you weren't gifted

DipDipDive

08-09-2005, 03:08 PM

I was nothing exceptional in any department - not extra smart or pretty or talented or popular, not extra lacking in that stuff either though. I was middle of the road, ordinary, common plain old kid. Still am, but grown up.

Me neither. People always thought I was funny, though. I guess because I didn't really talk much unless it was to make some sort of smartass comment at someone else's expense. I guess some things never change.

P.S.
Bob - clowns scared me as a child and they still do to this day. :(

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 03:13 PM

anyway the point is, just because you didn't get to take an extra bus ride every wednesday doesn't mean you weren't gifted

yeah but what's the bonus of being gifted if the people who decide who goes on the bus don't know about it? Maybe I'll be celebrated posthumously. I'll request cremation and that my remains be bussed to another school each Wednesay of the month for a few years, then after that sent for an hour each week into a small unairconditioned room.

DipDipDive

08-09-2005, 03:14 PM

yeah but what's the bonus of being gifted if the people who decide who goes on the bus don't know about it? Maybe I'll be celebrated posthumously.

The self satisfaction one gets from knowing he or she is smarter than everyone else, perhaps. Even those little fuckers who think they're cool because they ride on the special bus just like the retarded kids.

Nuzzolese

08-09-2005, 03:17 PM

ToucanSpam

08-09-2005, 03:17 PM

I was a loner. Not by choice. I was picked on severely by everyone, because I left myself wide open. I did everything my way: I was smart, I worked hard, I was kind of a teachers pet, I always used ot give girls flowers I picked from this guys lawn across the street (that stopped in grade 3 when I got caught), I told things like they were. As a result, I was abused to shit by my classmates.

Now they beg for help with school, and whine about not being able to get jobs and girls. So weak.......

Bob

08-09-2005, 03:18 PM

The self satisfaction one gets from knowing he or she is smarter than everyone else, perhaps. Even those little fuckers who think they're cool because they ride on the special bus just like the retarded kids.

it was NOT a short bus, it was a full length bus, and the 6 of us got it to ourselves, thank you very much

nuzz, don't you worry, everyone i went to gifted and talented with turned out to be a fuck-up in the end after all. except for tim, tim went to harvard or something. and as for me, well, i'm a pret-ty major player on several internet forums

TurdBerglar

08-09-2005, 03:19 PM

i was a very tolerable kid. always did what i was told. but then again i was never really told to do anything. i had a lot of freedom. they're not like that with my brother becuase he's an idiot. he'd probably get himself lost or abducted.

Sarky Devotchka

08-09-2005, 05:37 PM

I don't remember any concept of a "popular" crowd before 6th grade (middle school, age 11)

Before that there was maybe a popular girl or boy but not a crowd who excluded people.

yeah, unfortunately I was introduced to pettiness and popularity at an early age. kids were extremely judgmental and there were already cliques in kindergarten. my mom says the parents were like that too. I once had to stop hanging out with my friend Renee because her father admitted he was attracted to my mom and her mom got pissed and said I couldn't come over anymore.

this was in Littleton, Colorado...hello Columbine? that whole town had an atmosphere of animosity, I can see how things got out of hand.

synch

08-09-2005, 05:45 PM

An empathic, stubborn, sensitive, smartass hothead.

Trimm Trabb

08-09-2005, 05:47 PM

I was always told that I was 'gifted'. Oh I was soooo smart, and I was gonna do soooo well. My parents were determined I was gonna be a professor of some kind. My teachers said I had the highest test scores and that high school was gonna be easy peasy for me and that I would get into university without any trouble.
I never believed them. I was weird, not gifted.
And now it's turned out that they were wrong and I was right.
Score for me! :rolleyes:

Loppfessor

08-09-2005, 06:02 PM

When I was little I had two sides I think. My big brother was like the neighborhood kingpin and everyone loved him. He picked all the games and decided the teams/rules ect. So when other kids were around I was kind of shy and quite, mostly competing with the crowd for his praise. My big sister was nicer to me and usually fought with my bro over who go to be in charge. I pretty much bounced back and forth between the two of them depending on who liked me that day. Side two was when I got around adults. I then became quite the showmen. I had a million and one commercials, songs, and dances memorized so I’d always be doing some goofy performance. I think the most popular at family functions was when I’d to the Pee Wee Herman dance (the tequila on the bar) for all my relatives.

When I got older and my baby sis was born things changed. The older two were pretty much gone so it was just she and I. She was a pain in the butt and had to have/do everything I did. It was cool to finally be the boss but also annoying to have a little clone follow me everywhere. I did try my hardest to turn her into the lil brother I always wanted but she’s become more and more girlie the older she gets.

Medellia

08-09-2005, 10:12 PM

And as I was a total geek I wanted to be a paleontologist from age 5 to 12
Hahaha, me too! :D
I was going to be either a paleontologist or an astronaut. When I was in kindergarten we had to draw pictures of what we wanted to be when we grew up. I drew a paleontologist but since I couldn't remember how to spell it I wrote "Miss America" instead. Then we had to give a speech about what we wanted to do. Weeks later at a parent teacher meeting, My teacher had to ask my father what a paleontologist was.

I was pretty quite and shy. I liked to read and taught myself how at a very young age (two, if my parents are to be believed). I used to put on shows in my room. I used my toy box as a stage and had my own talk show. Carebears, Rainbow Brite, Strawberry Shortcake and their friends were the audience, I would interview Teddy Ruxben, and Jem and the Holograms were the musical guest. For some reason I had a poster about the history of the Statue of Liberty on my wall. I thik that's why I have always liked the French.

I had crushes on Davy Jones and Paul McCartney. I loved the movie Help! even though I was a bit scared when Paul was shrunk. I cried at La Bamba and The Land Before Time. My favorite Beatles songs were "Fixing a Hole" and "When I'm Sixty-Four". I remember the early days of MTV, even when they showed The Young Ones, especially the part of "Nasty" where Neil is in the muddy bathtub. I was a really cute kid with big blue eyes and curly blonde hair. I was afraid of our backyard when I was six because my dad told me a serial killer lived in the woods beyond our house. I had a cat named Cookie Baker that killed a bird in front of our house and then a few months later had kittens. My cousin and I would fight over who got to marry the cute young guy from Star Trek, even though we both hated Star Trek. I was watching China Beach when my sister was born.

Medellia

08-09-2005, 10:28 PM

I was a smart little shit. I learned to read when I was like 3, got enrolled in a "gifted kids school" in first grade, opted out in second grade cuz the smart kids liked puzzles instead of nintendo.
i did that too, except i stuck with it until middle school, when we started doing these independent studies...i did mine on "how do seaplanes float?" and just kind of quit after that without saying anything
I was in a gifted program for about a week. I was one of only three kids in it and the other two were the full on pocket protector, future D&D kind of geeks. That was first grade, and even then I knew that while I might be a bit of a nerd, I ain't that bad.

Kid Presentable

08-09-2005, 10:34 PM

It's funny how as kids nobody wanted to be gifted, but as adults we're all keen for people to know it.

HotAndWet

08-09-2005, 11:27 PM

I didn't have a fun-loving, carefree childhood like most people because I struggled with a lot of anxiety and panic issues as a youngster. I had a constant, nagging fear of failure/physical pain/death, a fear that normal, well adjusted kids don't have. It prevented me from having too much fun or doing the stupid things that kids do and learn from.

Yeah me too. In fact recently I started getting depressed thinking, "I missed out on a lot in childhood" but I mean I still had good times, just not as much as normal kids I guess.

I guess going to catholic school and having to attend church every morning for kindergarten and first grade really made me hate the idea of school and religion and being away from my mom. I rarely talked, at all until maybe middle school, but even then people thought I was "too quiet", like it's a disease or something.

At home though and my neighborhood I was a different kid. I was almost considered bad ass as a 7 yr old! I used to push this kid off his bike all the time because he would make fun of me and then he'd cry. I also remember writing fuck on a coloring book at some girl's house. After that I was "banned" from hanging out with them. ha.

HotAndWet

08-09-2005, 11:32 PM

I wished I was the blonde hair/blue eyed girl for the longest time. I still felt that way a few years ago. Funny.

I was the little kid with blonde hair and blue eyes, and I hated it. I wanted to have brown eyes and brown hair and be petite. I was always tall and skinny and I wanted to be the exact opposite. I hated it, but now I miss being skinny.

Medellia

08-09-2005, 11:37 PM

I was the little kid with blonde hair and blue eyes, and I hated it. I wanted to have brown eyes and brown hair and be petite. I was always tall and skinny and I wanted to be the exact opposite. I hated it, but now I miss being skinny.
Yeah, I always thought my hair wasn't blonde enough, or too curly. Or not dark enough, not curly enough, I was too skinny and too short. Nobody is ever happy with themselves, even as children. :(

beastieangel01

08-09-2005, 11:52 PM

I was the little kid with blonde hair and blue eyes, and I hated it. I wanted to have brown eyes and brown hair and be petite. I was always tall and skinny and I wanted to be the exact opposite. I hated it, but now I miss being skinny.

Weird how we all wanted something different other than what we had.

Too bad we didn't appreciate things more then. But then that tells you something about society though I imagine.

Clarence D

08-09-2005, 11:54 PM

fat, ugly, hyper, nose full of snot, mouth full of glue.

JBernas

08-10-2005, 07:33 AM

every wednesday we got to go to a different school all day and do stupid little puzzles and stuff. the other school had a better playground.

Did you go to elementary school with me? :) We did the same thing....every Wednesday we'd go to another school. Except the kids who weren't in the program got to stay behind and learned to play instruments while I was developing my first science project :mad: ....I stayed in honors classes until high school....that's when the work got insane...not that I couldn't do it, but I dropped into easier classes b/c I just wanted to have fun and do less work. I remember my sophmore year of high school my English project was to research my family tree....I had to write letters for copies of birth/death certificates, go to the National Archives on Saturdays and Sundays....my report turned out to be about 35 pages....that's when I'd had enough and dropped out of the program the next year. I figured I would have plenty of research projects in college and just wanted to have time to hang with my friends and have fun.

Bob

08-10-2005, 07:55 AM

Did you go to elementary school with me? :) We did the same thing....every Wednesday we'd go to another school. Except the kids who weren't in the program got to stay behind and learned to play instruments while I was developing my first science project :mad: ....I stayed in honors classes until high school....that's when the work got insane...not that I couldn't do it, but I dropped into easier classes b/c I just wanted to have fun and do less work. I remember my sophmore year of high school my English project was to research my family tree....I had to write letters for copies of birth/death certificates, go to the National Archives on Saturdays and Sundays....my report turned out to be about 35 pages....that's when I'd had enough and dropped out of the program the next year. I figured I would have plenty of research projects in college and just wanted to have time to hang with my friends and have fun.

yeah, same here...once it got to the point where advanced stuff became actual work and not just playing oregon trail all day i decided to become lazy

adam_f

08-10-2005, 11:11 AM

I had a good jump shot too. True story.

Nuzzolese

08-10-2005, 11:22 AM

just playing oregon trail all day

I think the best thing was when you found an abandoned wagon. There was a sense of danger, because you never know, there could be rabid badgers lurking in there or something, but usually it was just something like "supplies"

Did you ever use the secret codes to get UNLIMITED WAGON WHEELS? I think it was the same as the contra code, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left. It was on Oregon Trail 5 I think, or maybe OT: Return to the Trail.

I gave Synch Cholera, and kll has the measles. And if they aren't careful i'm sinking us in the river that I'm ain't backin down from. No river calls me chicken!

adam_f

08-10-2005, 11:25 AM

When we would play Oregon Trail at school, we weren't allowed to use other student's names because some got upset they died.

Nuzzolese

08-10-2005, 11:27 AM

Yeah well, thems the breaks. Frontier life is tough. Those people were a little bit brave and little bit stupid.

Bob

08-10-2005, 11:30 AM

nobody ever cared about deaths at our school (in the game i mean). if you were fording a river, and you sunk, everyone would be like "oh no!", then the screen would pop up and say "sara has drowned", and everyone would breathe a sigh of relief, like "at least we didn't lose an ox"

all we really wanted to do was shoot buffalo. even though you could only carry 200 lbs back to the wagon, we always shot every buffalo in sight.

i wonder how far back oregon trail goes? by that i mean, as a generational thing, like you talk to your parents and they're like "oregon what?", or you talk to kids in grade school now, and they say "shut up you faggot" because kids are all little punks today...i feel privileged to have oregon trail as part of my childhood. that and the adventures of the mimi

adam_f

08-10-2005, 11:31 AM

It was especially hard whenever I got distracted and I kept missing the ox I tried to shoot. Damn mouse wouldn't cooperate.

cosmo105

08-10-2005, 12:01 PM

the best was when you died, and it would ask you what you wanted on your tombstone, and you'd type in "pepperoni and sausage."

and the hunting fucking ROCKED.

Bob

08-10-2005, 12:03 PM

the best was when you died, and it would ask you what you wanted on your tombstone, and you'd type in "pepperoni and sausage."

and the hunting fucking ROCKED.

YES! we would all do that too! we'd purposely set out naked and with no food and just stay still for months at a time, purposely trying to kill ourselves, just so we could do that. it was so funny at the time.

cosmo105

08-10-2005, 12:05 PM

ahh, the days before we knew what "dysentery" really was

Bob

08-10-2005, 12:09 PM

ahh, the days before we knew what "dysentery" really was

i bought a t-shirt that says "you have died of dysentery", and it's got a picture of a wagon on it. i'm saving it for the college crowd though. people don't still die of dysentery, do they?

cosmo105

08-10-2005, 12:11 PM

where did you get that? i must have it. don't be one of those fashionistas that won't tell people where they got their clothes because you want to be unique, you whore.

synch

08-10-2005, 12:22 PM

I think the best thing was when you found an abandoned wagon. There was a sense of danger, because you never know, there could be rabid badgers lurking in there or something, but usually it was just something like "supplies"Veediots from UHF flashback.

Did you ever use the secret codes to get UNLIMITED WAGON WHEELS? I think it was the same as the contra code, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left. It was on Oregon Trail 5 I think, or maybe OT: Return to the Trail.Good old konami cheat code :)

I gave Synch Cholera, and kll has the measles. And if they aren't careful i'm sinking us in the river that I'm ain't backin down from. No river calls me chicken!I rubbed it with oil of olay, it cleared up.

Nuzzolese

08-10-2005, 01:12 PM

that and the adventures of the mimi

The adventures of what, you faggot?

No but seriously, what are the adventures of the mimi, you faggot?

cookiepuss

08-10-2005, 01:23 PM

One of my best friends was asked this question in my presence once and her reply: "Sara? She's exactly the same except now she walks on two legs instead of four"

I was a dog as a child. no really. I ran around on all fours and barked alot. when the other kids wanted to play house I volunteered to be the family dog.

Sometimes there were other little girls who wanted to pretend to be horses. I liked them alot. I was good at pretending to be horse as well. But by best friend got really mad at me one summer because i promised her that when we went to camp I wouldn't pretend to be an animal. but when i got there another little girl wanted to play horses and i did. I was busted. my best friend wouldn't talk to me for a week.

Sometimes, though not often, I pretended to be a cat.

Anne Lauren

08-10-2005, 02:33 PM

Growing up I always had to be the center of attention. I think a lot of it was because I have a sister that's just 11 months younger than me and 2 brothers that are 3 and 5 years younger and all have them have strong personalities, so I had to always compete for attention. Since I'm the oldest, I always got the brunt of my mother's sometimes unrealistic expections thrown upon me. She has issues with living vicariously through her kids. Anyway, in school, I always felt the need to join a lot of clubs, do sports, and make good grades...I get a rush from competeing in things. However, the highlight of my youth was winning the 6th grade annual talent show...my two best friends and I danced to "Ice Ice Baby". :p

P.T.B.A.I.

08-10-2005, 06:21 PM

I am still a kid, and I probably will be forevermore. Why grow up when you can be immature? :D(y)

BionicEye

08-10-2005, 07:18 PM

I also discovered pornographic magazines too early.

how? when? I discovered Sears catalogs too early

paul jones

08-10-2005, 07:36 PM

bit of a daydreamer
always doodling
hanging out with friends playing sports and in the park

tracky

08-10-2005, 08:13 PM

I used to pinch playboy and penthouse magazines from the kid across the road's dad. He had them in a bookshelf right next to the computer :eek: :D (y) Actually, I used to spend most of my free time playing with the neighbourhood kids. We'd get into all sorts of trouble, you know, the usual making things explode or making thing burn or making things shoot other things. At school I was pretty much the same, except my materials were more limited and so I had to get a bit more creative to make my weapons. Never did play this oregano game at school tho, we just had commando and this train game where you had to spin the tracks around.

zorra_chiflada

08-10-2005, 10:00 PM

cosmo105

08-10-2005, 10:51 PM

when i was a young kid i was pretty much an average kid. didn't have many friends though. was very quiet, but had a bad temper.
when i was a young teenager i was pathetic, lame and depressed all the time. i wish i could go back in time and live it again, but enjoy it more.
that's a good sentiment.

i've always wanted to write a book about that...one day you wake up and you're five years old again. what do you do differently? what do you say/not say? i can think of so many things i would change...