What were you like when you were a kid?

[Naleena]

I was a very shy child. I remember always being alone and so many people picked on me. The kids were relentless. I remember they used to call me chinese and play mean tricks on me. It was so bad that my mom finally pulled me out of kindergarten. This lasted until I reached the sixth grade. I use to do a lot of drawing and writing. I won several first places for poetry and got my picture in the paper for writing an essay. My sixth grade teacher loved reading my poems. : )

I also grew up really poor and so never had what other kids had. It was hard to go to school with old hand me downs. I remember in the sixth grade having only two pair of pants and one of those was striped....lol Yeah, people noticed...lol Not easy when your a girl and then the other girls pick on you about it. We ate a lot of rice at home, too. You know it's bad when you put ketchup on green beans to change the flavor...lol Rice and green beans for months at a time. I looked forward to school so I could eat something different...lol I don't think anyone had it as rough as we did. It was a happy time when mom fixed scrambled hamburger to go over rice. There were many christmas that passed us by. We never got anything. No movies, no vacations, no shopping at the mall, and no hanging out with friends. Life then was very lonely. Maybe thats why I am such a loner today? I dunnoh. I learned how to do without. I learned how it was to be looked down on because I didn't have nice things. I hung around what some would call the school rejects. I think that's where my love for people who are different came in.

My best friend in 5th grade was a gay boy named David. We were the best of friends. He caught a lot of crap from other kids too. Too bad, he was such a good kid. I was always shy and I still am in a group. I was a loner who had a vivid imagination and loved writing and drawing. I was very sensitive and religious. Always tried to be the good girl.
Forgive me if this was too long. There is so much more I could add but I will give you guys a break ...lol

 

[Incognita]

Oh boy, when I was little I was mean little girl toward some ppl, also shy didn't like to talk much. Lol..I talked to puppies and kittens though.

 

[loketron]

*sheds a tear, gives naleena a hug*
omg naleena im saddened by your story, but i bet your past has helped you become the kind loving strong person you are now. i bet you take care of your money too huh? sounds odd but i think if i was given a harder time growing up i might be able to take care of my self today but no, im pathetic and cant hold on to a dime for more than 3 seconds.

growing up i was the weird kid. never liked any sports. always wore plain shirts and hand me downs because i was just sooooo against wearing anything nike or fila or whatever. then in 8th grade i stoped caring what everone though and went punk rock. mohawks, bleached hair, leather with butons and spikes on everything. of course when you get to highschool all the punks mesh together so from then i was sudo cool. im proud of it too, because my liberal upbringing made me a sweet smart and educated man. and im not a dog, horray for me.
love you naleena, gonna go back in time and cook you some gormet dinners and designer jeans

 

[Naleena]

love you naleena, gonna go back in time and cook you some gormet dinners and designer jeans

Love you too, sweetie : ) You are such a funny guy and I enjoy your presence here. So you have some Mexican in you? My dad was Cuban. Now about those dinners....lol

Cuida te, chiquito

 

[Qui]

I was an evil child. I wasn't the kid that was hyper and everyone noticed, I was the one that sat in the corner quietly and plotted things. People tell me that that made me creepier because I was so mellow but then when you least expected it, blam! Water balloon to the face. From the opposite direction from wherever I was, even though you knew it was me. I rigged up all sorts of pulleys and levers in the rafters at the horse stables to prank people. I was really good at designing and building stuff like that, with ropes and wires to be triggered from a distance.
But basically, yeah I was evil. I made a voodoo doll of a young woman that worked at the stables and ended up accidentally breaking the doll's leg when I dropped it and a pony stepped on it. A week later the same pony broke her leg.
I used to really mess with people's heads to, tell them things to really confuse them or mess them up. Actually, I still do that. Which is strange since I've gotten more and more ignorant and oblivious as I've gotten older so you'd think that since I'm so oblivious I shouldn't be able to mess with people's minds but I still do. Not all the time, but occasionally, for kicks. So I guess I'm still sick and twisted. But anyway, when I was younger it was a full time thing.

 

[Steel]

I was always in trouble at school over something. Usually stupid things, like being caught smoking and refusing to obey certain school rules.

At home things were bad... I really didn't get on with my violent step-dad. I didn't make the situation any better by having a smart mouth tho. I suppose that it seemed like some kind of victory to me to make him even angrier (tho looking back, kinda dumb at the same time) Luckily, he was in the merchant navy, so he wasn't at home for extended periods of time.

So basically, I was (am?) a smartass. lol.

 

[Robin]

I was happy, active and thoughtful.

 

[Antihero]

Not too far off from who I am now, except that I was even more quiet and reserved.

 

[EveWasFramed]

love you naleena, gonna go back in time
and cook you some gormet dinners and designer jeans

Dude. If you can COOK designer jeans, I'll expect you here by 8:00 and I'll have the stove hot, lol.

 

[EveWasFramed]

I was a very shy child. I remember always being alone and so many people picked on me. The kids were relentless. I remember they used to call me chinese and play mean tricks on me. It was so bad that my mom finally pulled me out of kindergarten. This lasted until I reached the sixth grade. I use to do a lot of drawing and writing. I won several first places for poetry and got my picture in the paper for writing an essay. My sixth grade teacher loved reading my poems. : )

I also grew up really poor and so never had what other kids had. It was hard to go to school with old hand me downs. I remember in the sixth grade having only two pair of pants and one of those was striped....lol Yeah, people noticed...lol Not easy when your a girl and then the other girls pick on you about it. We ate a lot of rice at home, too. You know it's bad when you put ketchup on green beans to change the flavor...lol Rice and green beans for months at a time. I looked forward to school so I could eat something different...lol I don't think anyone had it as rough as we did. It was a happy time when mom fixed scrambled hamburger to go over rice. There were many christmas that passed us by. We never got anything. No movies, no vacations, no shopping at the mall, and no hanging out with friends. Life then was very lonely. Maybe thats why I am such a loner today? I dunnoh. I learned how to do without. I learned how it was to be looked down on because I didn't have nice things. I hung around what some would call the school rejects. I think that's where my love for people who are different came in.

My best friend in 5th grade was a gay boy named David. We were the best of friends. He caught a lot of crap from other kids too. Too bad, he was such a good kid. I was always shy and I still am in a group. I was a loner who had a vivid imagination and loved writing and drawing. I was very sensitive and religious. Always tried to be the good girl.
Forgive me if this was too long. There is so much more I could add but I will give you guys a break ...lol

Yeah, life back then sucked ass. That kind of life usually does one of two things to people: It either makes them bitter and selfish later in life or it makes them often think of others. You can choose to dwell on your miserable past, or you can pick yourself up and find the grit and determination to make a better life for yourself.
Today, you can find Hilfiger, Vera Wang, etc. in my closet, but you can also catch me giving money to strangers with no gas in parking lots as well as replacing toys and gifts that families lost in fires. Yeah, I was pretty miserable as a kid, but I think it instilled in me, a determination to overcome the crappy hand that I was dealt when I was born. So I guess in a way, my ****** childhood taught me to appreciate the nice things I have now, as well as to try to do my part to ease the suffering of others who are less fortunate. Not an even trade certainly, but one I can live with.

 

[Minus]

I was a very quite shy kid, as i still am. Spent to much time trying to make it so it wasn't noticeable that people rarely talked to me and almost never spent time with me. I read constantly, at least until the school system told me that i was unable to read. Not realizing that, i gave up reading for a few years. At home i found that it was safest to be unnoticed and i avoided my step father as much as possible. Sometimes i would be scared shitless watching him throw one of the kids into a wall or take a pair of pliers to their ear, or whatever the current rage called for. I had this stupid kid idea that if i could just be good enough, i wouldn't be the target but it seems that i just was not a good enough person to not prompt the rage. There were a lot of kids so most of my clothes were things that my older brother couldn't or didn't want to wear any more. I would tinker a bit and made things like a simple 8 key electronic organ, a sound activated light, electronic timing device and other little things. I would tear them apart so that i would have parts to try something else. I did poorly in school and knew that i was pretty stupid. I was pretty unnoticed in school. Plenty of memories like in 7th grade coming into class late because of a doctor appointment. I come in in the middle of the class and the teacher looks at me and says "Oh, I didn't even notice that you were gone".

 

[EveWasFramed]

I was a very quite shy kid, as i still am. Spent to much time trying to make it so it wasn't noticeable that people rarely talked to me and almost never spent time with me. I read constantly, at least until the school system told me that i was unable to read. Not realizing that, i gave up reading for a few years. At home i found that it was safest to be unnoticed and i avoided my step father as much as possible. Sometimes i would be scared shitless watching him throw one of the kids into a wall or take a pair of pliers to their ear, or whatever the current rage called for. I had this stupid kid idea that if i could just be good enough, i wouldn't be the target but it seems that i just was not a good enough person to not prompt the rage. There were a lot of kids so most of my clothes were things that my older brother couldn't or didn't want to wear any more. I would tinker a bit and made things like a simple 8 key electronic organ, a sound activated light, electronic timing device and other little things. I would tear them apart so that i would have parts to try something else. I did poorly in school and knew that i was pretty stupid. I was pretty unnoticed in school. Plenty of memories like in 7th grade coming into class late because of a doctor appointment. I come in in the middle of the class and the teacher looks at me and says "Oh, I didn't even notice that you were gone".

It sickens me to hear the horror stories of what children have to suffer through. As if it wasn't bad enough to live in poverty, you had to also worry about some ******* using you as a punching bag.

You said that you "knew you were pretty stupid"...
What changed then? Because I often read your posts and they aren't what a "stupid" person would write. They are thoughtful and articulate. You also seem to have a healthy dose of common sense going for you, which is simply marvelous!

 

[loketron]

love you naleena, gonna go back in time
and cook you some gormet dinners and designer jeans

Dude. If you can COOK designer jeans, I'll expect you here by 8:00 and I'll have the stove hot, lol.

LOL and i also cook up some good zip up sweatshirts and sandals ( and no not zip up sandals)! you know what i meant eve! still pretty funny though

naleena! i hate not knowing any spanish, whats that---->"Cuida te, chiquito"
naleena mi amor, thats about all i got besides hola. always wanted to learn but never did, and now it would come in handy! damn!

 

[Jeremi]

I was a pretty shy guy when I was a kid. Didn't have any problems making friend though. Me and two of my neighbors of the same age, we played all days long. Fun times. I was a "good" kid most of the time. My mom always say that I never used to cry as a baby. Even though I was shy and not much of notice, my teachers always liked me. Guess they like silent kids, huh? Never caused too much trouble. got dragged into some stupiditied by my classmates a few times, but nothing serious.

I also had this crazy blonde hair on earlier pictures. What happend to that?

Don't know what else there is to say. I had a happy childhood. Kinda makes me wonder where I went wrong and ended up lonely like I am today

 

[Qui]

I got suspended twice. I practically lived in the principal's office in elementary school.
I had detention at least once a week in middle school, got a couple saturday schools.
But now I don't get in trouble at school. Besides, we don't have detentions in high school. Which is weird, but whatever. It's not like anyone would go if there where detentions.

 

[Bluey]

I was a very shy child. I remember always being alone and so many people picked on me. The kids were relentless. I remember they used to call me chinese and play mean tricks on me. It was so bad that my mom finally pulled me out of kindergarten. This lasted until I reached the sixth grade. I use to do a lot of drawing and writing. I won several first places for poetry and got my picture in the paper for writing an essay. My sixth grade teacher loved reading my poems. : )

I also grew up really poor and so never had what other kids had. It was hard to go to school with old hand me downs. I remember in the sixth grade having only two pair of pants and one of those was striped....lol Yeah, people noticed...lol Not easy when your a girl and then the other girls pick on you about it. We ate a lot of rice at home, too. You know it's bad when you put ketchup on green beans to change the flavor...lol Rice and green beans for months at a time. I looked forward to school so I could eat something different...lol I don't think anyone had it as rough as we did. It was a happy time when mom fixed scrambled hamburger to go over rice. There were many christmas that passed us by. We never got anything. No movies, no vacations, no shopping at the mall, and no hanging out with friends. Life then was very lonely. Maybe thats why I am such a loner today? I dunnoh. I learned how to do without. I learned how it was to be looked down on because I didn't have nice things. I hung around what some would call the school rejects. I think that's where my love for people who are different came in.

My best friend in 5th grade was a gay boy named David. We were the best of friends. He caught a lot of crap from other kids too. Too bad, he was such a good kid. I was always shy and I still am in a group. I was a loner who had a vivid imagination and loved writing and drawing. I was very sensitive and religious. Always tried to be the good girl.
Forgive me if this was too long. There is so much more I could add but I will give you guys a break ...lol

First of all where would we be with out ketchup? I mean it goes with absolutely anything lol I have chips and veg soup over with bread of course and I still have ketchup lol

But God, you sure did not have it easy as a kid. Why is it may I ask you did you have very little. I only ask cos my mum and dad was both from mining family's. My mum, she had two holidays a year and she was from a family where they had 7 kids. My dads dad had the same job as my mums dad and he was also from a family of 7 kids but he had nothing. No holidays and hols in hes cloths and foot where. Reason why, hes dad was into the drink. He was also into beating the kids and hes wife. My dad even now has marks on hes back where he was hit has a kid with the belt. crazy thing is my dad never speaks badly of hes dad. So two identical family's, one had what you would expect from that time the other had nothing. I always fined there is a reason to why ppl have to be Burt up like this

The thing that surprised me about your post and I really should not have been surprised considering your a member here and that is that you say that your still a loner. This to me is crazy. You come across as such an amazing person. I think most ppl that go fro hardships like this do think differently then most do in life.

No need to apologias for the post, It was not long.

 

[Silvernight]

I was.. uhm.. quite aggressive and probably a tad hyperactive as a child. Also very social, unlike now. At the primary school, liked to chase my classmates (boys) through the classroom and corridors over the break, had several "favourite victims". Sounds crazy now that I reflect on it At the secondary school, became a "lone wolf" due to being kind of an outcast at first because I didn't know anyone, had frequent clashes with the classmates but never was a pushover. All in all, I wasn't always shy and quiet but why the hell have I changed I have no idea.

 

[GHOSTNYOURMIST]

First of all, I don't like going there. I was a good kid, I got into some trouble, not anything big. I was quiet, because any self confidence or pride I had my old man beat out of me. My first memory is of him hitting me. I stayed outside most of time to avoid him so I got good at fishing and hunting, I can live off the land for months without any human contact. I stayed buy myself mostly because he always showed off in front of my few friends by hitting and cussing me. He left when I was 16 and I had to go to work to help out my mom. Then she took him back when I was 18, I don't remember much of that year, I stayed drunk most of it, always partying and racing my truck and chasin' women, but I decided that I was going to be a better man than him so I joined the Airforce and left. They split for good right after that, she found a great new husband and is happy now. But I will always have the scars, both physical and mental. I can be a funny, happy guy now but it's hard to show it through the pain. And now that my adult life is in the crapper. It shows even less.
So there it is. That's why I'm all screwed up I guess.
Guys, I'm going to need a hug now.

 

[EveWasFramed]

First of all, I don't like going there. I was a good kid, I got into some trouble, not anything big. I was quiet, because any self confidence or pride I had my old man beat out of me. My first memory is of him hitting me. I stayed outside most of time to avoid him so I got good at fishing and hunting, I can live off the land for months without any human contact. I stayed buy myself mostly because he always showed off in front of my few friends by hitting and cussing me. He left when I was 16 and I had to go to work to help out my mom. Then she took him back when I was 18, I don't remember much of that year, I stayed drunk most of it, always partying and racing my truck and chasin' women, but I decided that I was going to be a better man than him so I joined the Airforce and left. They split for good right after that, she found a great new husband and is happy now. But I will always have the scars, both physical and mental. I can be a funny, happy guy now but it's hard to show it through the pain. And now that my adult life is in the crapper. It shows even less.
So there it is. That's why I'm all screwed up I guess.
Guys, I'm going to need a hug now.

(((((((((Ghost)))))))
I always say that the best revenge is to live well.

 

[Naleena]

Guys, I'm going to need a hug now.

((((((((((((Ghost))))))))))

There is plenty more where that came from. So sorry you had to live like that.