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30 Things People Considered ‘Normal’ While Growing Up, Only To Find Out They’re Actually Weird (New Posts)
Back in the day, everything was different. The tooth fairy would visit now and then, brown cows would make chocolate milk, and you could grow a watermelon in your stomach if you swallowed a seed. But fast forward to today and the things that looked totally normal for you as a child, are, let’s put it this way—plain weird.
So when one redditor posed the question: “What things did you do as a kid that you now realize is extremely weird?” on r/AskReddit, 21K comments flooded in. From eating rose petals to trying not to breathe in too much ‘cause the air is full of germs, these are some of the craziest things we did because, I mean, we had to.
After you’re back from this memory lane down below, be sure to check out our previous post on things people considered normal while growing up that now look kinda weird. Life has happened to all of us, but that sheer ridiculousness from our childish selves is still lingering.
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#1
When I was in fourth grade (so around 9 or 10) at a private school, we used pinto beans as counters during math. Well, one day someone realized if you put a bean in water, it would sprout, and it became incredibly fashionable to keep a couple living bean sprouts hidden in your desk at all times.
This turned into a whole industry. Sneaking to the cabinet in the back and stealing the beans was risky, so people took on those roles. The beans were old, so getting them to actually sprout was valuable. Others would sneak the sprouts in and out of class to get sun.
A boy's grandparents had bought him a science experiment kit that came with hundreds of these little plastic vials that stood up on their own. They were the perfect size for keeping a sprouted pinto bean, so he started trading them. Another two kids had water bottles with a straw that fit neatly into the vials and made it easy to water the sprouts. They turned it into a service.
One pretty talented group of girls started making houses out of paper and cardboard for the sprouts to "live" in. This allowed bean "families" to become a thing. Another girl realized that the houses meant there was a market for bean sprout furniture. Kids starting pulling textbooks out of their desks and stashing them around the classroom to make space for larger and larger houses.
The houses were a turning point, because they ran anywhere from $5 to $10, which was the first time anyone had charged real money for something instead of bartering. In addition, demand for sprouts went through the roof, since you could fit 4 or 5 in a house. The kid who had been successfully sprouting the beans is under immense pressure to produce, and we've crossed a threshold so people are willing to pay real money now.
Into this high-pressure situation walks my classmate Julia. Julia brings a tiny bottle of purple liquid one day and tells bean-sprouter kid that it's the diluted slime of an extremely rare snail from the forests up north that she collected herself while camping with her family. It's such a strong fertilizer, even diluted, that one drop in each vial will guarantee that a bean will sprout; in addition, a drop to each already-sprouted bean will ensure a nice, green plant. There's enough for around 50 sprouts in there, but it's going to cost him $20 for the whole bottle.
Well, if you're selling the sprouts at $1 each, $20 is a steal. So the kid comes back the next day with the cash, Julia gives him the fertilizer, and he puts a drop in each vial just before we leave to go home.
The next day, all his bean sprouts are dead, and he's pissed. Turns out the fertilizer was just Julia's mom's perfume, and it killed all the plants. Well, bean-sprouter kid is not the kind of person to take this laying down, so he goes to the teacher to tell her that he got conned.
And the whole thing unravels. The teacher is upset that her students have been devoting hours of in-class time to beans. Parents are upset that money they thought was for snacks or field trips was for beans. The principal has to announce to the whole school that growing plants in your desk is now banned, which just confuses everyone else. And my class is angry at poor bean-sprouting kid for snitching and ruining everything. All their hard work is now in the trash.
The bean sprout industry never recovered.
Pillowhead 5 years ago
If I was the teacher I would have been proud of my class for starting their own economy.
Tina Harbour 5 years ago
Right? The teacher could've totally used that to teach science, biology,horticulture, and economics to name a few!
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SashaAlexandra 5 years ago
this story definitely deserves a separate post or a Bob`s Burgers episode!
Odette Greyling 5 years ago
As a teacher, I would so encourage this type of free thinking. It is brilliant! I once saw a teacher speak at a conference, and he had bean growing competitions in his class. If I ever have my own class, I'm so doing this!
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#2
My cousins lived across the street from a huge cemetery. I was the second to youngest of all my cousins so while they did older kid things, I would hang out, play and explore in the cemetery by myself. I noticed that after a funeral, the newly buried graves would have mounds of flowers kind of haphazardly placed on top and around them. For some reason, I felt bad for the graves that didn’t have flowers because that meant no one was visiting them. So I made it my goal to distribute the flowers to as many graves as my little self could manage...sometimes placing just one or two in the little headstone vases. I hope it gave me good ghost karma, if there is such a thing.
#3
Several friends and myself had a fascination with writing in code. We had little pocket notebooks full of codes and deciphering instructions (also in code) and would write volumes of notes between us in code. Notebooks got confiscated by a teacher, we wouldn't tell her how to decode, she tried to get us in trouble. Parents thought it was hilarious. I'm almost 60 and I still have one of these notebooks around somewhere.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
I made up my own language so I could write in my diary without my mom and sister being able to read it. I'm so glad I wasn't the only one!
Amanda Sherland 5 years ago
I did that too! And there's even an entry where I get tired of the code and officially go back to English haha.
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Marcia Cash 5 years ago
We were assigned "The Hobbit" in high school, and I figured out how to write in runes. Teacher caught us passing notes, but said it was OK as long as we wrote in runes.
Spring Fisk 5 years ago
I would write secret messages on a long strip of paper and then wrap it around the ink tub of my pen.
Nicole Holt 5 years ago
I did the same thing with some of my friends! We had some code that was a completely new alphabet made out of random lines. For another code we simply switched certain letters with each other and were able to even talk to each other in that 'language'. The letters were completely switched. No letter stayed itself, if that makes sense. Nobody but us understood what we were saying. It was so glorious.
M Kate McCulloch 5 years ago
I wrote a whole coded alphabet - easy to break because it was English alphabet with the letters represented by different symbol but used in the same order. But it was fun!
Weronika Natalia Doliwa 5 years ago
we used to talk and write "backwords" - after some practice you can actually have a pretty long conversation as long as you do not use really complicated and long words... we were 8-10 at the time :)
Bored Panda reached out to Sarah Ockwell-Smith, a parenting expert and author of “The Gentle Parenting Book” to find out more about the curious minds of children that we all seem to have had up until some point. We asked Sarah how it is so that we believed the most incredible stuff and at what point it disappeared.
Sarah explained that at around two and three years of age, the child enters a normal stage of development that psychologists call "magical thinking."
“During this period, children are particularly imaginative, believing in mythical creatures, and they also believe that they can influence the world around them with certain beliefs and actions.” Like, “if they jump up and down ten times, they may be able to make fairies appear.”
#4
Between the ages of 5 and 7, I was a really big fan of nature documentaries, especially those narrated by David Attenborough. There was a big flamboyant tree in our garden that shed lots of twigs. I imagined those twigs were snakes and would spend hours every day narrating documentaries about them in David Attenborough's voice. Each "snake" had a different scientific name I would give them and they had very specific hunting tactics and courtship displays and territorial fights.
liz 5 years ago
Oh my god i did this! I owned every David Attenborough film that existed and watched them everyday over and over again. i would climb the big tree in my back yard and do a narration for the birds, caterpillar and anything else I saw but if there wasn't any animals i would pretend the branches were snakes! Oh my goodness i thought i was the only one!
Kitsune Fox Girl 5 years ago
i used to do this, but with other things such as mythical creatures
#5
I used to stand naked in my bedroom window and try to stay as still as possible so the neighbours would think my parents had had a statue made of me.
I would stand in different poses, too, so they'd think there were multiple Dendronate statues which my parents would rotate around the house.
The way I saw it, only important people had statues built of them. I wanted the neighbours to know they lived near a pretty important guy.
Robyn Wilson 5 years ago
"Hun, i wonder why we never get invented to the neighborhood barbeques?"
#6
When I was a kid, in the 80's, I had very strict teachers. Any form of back-talking or, god forbid, swearing, would get you a quick slap and a fast march to the head teacher's office to explain yourself.
My teacher once sat me down for "A talk", as happened fairly often, which was basically her just berating me. In the middle of this she suddenly stopped and told me I needed to keep my eyes under control, because I had this terrible nervous habit of twitching my eyes when she was talking to me.
In actual fact, I was tracing out imaginary swear words with my eyes. Basically, drawing out things like "PISS OFF" and "SHUT UP", tracing the letters with my eyes as if they were right in front of her face.
I didn't realize she could see my eye movements - I mean, I don't know why, as an adult it's obvious that my eyes were darting all over the place and looking crazy, but child me thought that it was subtle enough that it was unnoticeable, and that I was being super sneaky.
As soon as I realized she could see it, I stopped, but looking back, probably the funniest part to me now is how much it must have unnerved her. And she never did know the reason for it. To her, I must've just been the weird kid with the crazy eyes.
Diana Dodd 5 years ago
I’m sorry ... am I the only one to react to “quick slap”! My kids were in school in the 80s and if a teacher slapped my kid ... they’d be meeting me in the principal’s office! No one was allowed to hit my kids!
Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 5 years ago
I'd do that to my Mom when I was in kindergarden... so satisfying
At this point, kids often have imaginary friends too, which is again “a completely normal phase of child development.” Sarah said it’s caused by immature brain development and concrete knowledge of the world around them. Adults may also encourage this thinking with books, films, shows, toys, and even actions. “Like pretending to be the Tooth Fairy, Santa, or the Easter Bunny. So a lot of it is actually just learned behavior,” Sarah explained.
A big change in children’s development happens as they approach the "concrete operational stage" at around seven or eight years. “At this age, brain development has taken a big leap and children are much more experienced at logical and hypothetical thinking.” Sarah said that this is when they are able to work out that unicorns and Santa don’t exist as their knowledge and experience is way more matured.
#7
I once wandered out of the open back door in the townhouse we lived in when I was 5. Found the biggest pit bull I could and made friends with it.
Unfortunately, when my dad came to collect me, the dog was not so happy about it. Said the dog chased him away and he had to talk me into coming home from a distance lol.
He still swears to this day I have magical animal powers.
May-Lin Martinsen 5 years ago
Well they're nanny dogs, so the pitbull was acting according to instinct - protecting the child.
Jamie S. Martindale 5 years ago
"Naturalistic Intelligence" it is called by some experts, like Howard Gardner of Harvard
Saffroncat 21 5 years ago
Nhaundar that’s disgusting. Pitbulls are adorable and very sweet. Seems to me you have never met one in real life.
#8
I used to eat tissues as a kid. My mum found out one day and yelled at me to stop, (as any sane parent would do) so I started eating them in secret. Sneaking away with a tissue box to another room to eat a tissue or two.
Until one day when I was about 5 years old I had to go to the hospital. I had no idea what was going on all I knew was that I had trouble breathing through my nose. Before my operation I was in the hospital and I overheard one of the nurses say that they just needed to remove the excess tissue in my nose. Naturally I thought that the tissues I had eaten had started getting clogged up in my nose and I never ate a tissue again. I made the realisation at 14 that it was muscle tissue in my nose and not the actual tissues I was eating.
Daria B 5 years ago
Tissues are filled with harmful whitening chemicals. Kids, don't do this at home.
Lillukka79 5 years ago
I used to eat toiletpaper when I was 2-3. Don't know why, and I just stopped on my own.
Picture Queen 5 years ago
My baby sister would eat baby wipes, bath foam (silly foam or something like that. It was a foam for kids to use in the tub) She also ate sand, dirt & other stuff. Being a kid I had no clue why she did this. Found out later in life that her body lacks certain minerals & even as a baby she was trying to replenish those minerals.
Hannah Boning 5 years ago (edited)
I used to eat sand sooooo................... (When I was younger)
#9
I would add several drops of Tabasco to my unsweetened iced tea. I called it Asian tea despite knowing Tabasco and Lipton were in no way Asian. I also didn't like it very much but made myself drink it so that I could understand the Asian community better.
Asian friends I have now are still baffled at the connection I tried to make.
Max L. 5 years ago
Im italian, and wondered how in this world he tought it was an asian thing
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After it, the "tween years" follow at age eight to thirteen. It’s these that are full of skepticism. “Parents can often struggle with this and try to cling onto the magical world of their child's early years for too long,” Sarah said. However, the best response is always to be led by the child. “This stage is important for children, though, as they transition from childhood to adulthood.” Life happens and this is how they become grumpy realists like me and you.
#10
Found a cat skull buried in the garden, pulled the teeth out and put them under my pillow for what i thought would be easy money
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
I'm sad for the cat who has been profanated and for the person who burried her/his beloved cat.
Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
Your parents probably thought you needed werewolf suppression medication.
#11
Used to eat sugar sandwiches. Bread butter and sugar
Pete H 5 years ago
I did this too. I think it was a combo or childhood 'genius and growing up poor up North.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
Yep. We'd get sent to school with butter (nothing but real butter, mind you) and sugar on Wonder bread. I'd trade a kid his ham & cheese. It was a win-win for both of us.
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Marcia Cash 5 years ago
just pop them under the broiler with some cinnamon......my mama's favourite snack.
Lousha 5 years ago
My mom of 64 still has fond memories of her childhood visits to her grandma when she got to eat sugar-lard bread. Thick slices of fresh homemade white bread, a good thick layer of lard and lots of sugar. ("Lard bread" in general is still a very popular food in Hungary, but it's usually eaten with salt and lots of (raw) onions, maybe a sprinkle of paprika.)
Sharon Hahn 5 years ago
My elderly neighbor did this regularly and I thought the taste must be very greasy. I couldn't bring myself to try it. However, when I was small my cousin and I would eat tons of our Grammy's mayonnaise on bread every time we were at her house.
Load More Replies... MantisKeeper 5 years ago
bread butter and honey was a kindergarten after school snack all the time for me.
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
Estonia here. That was wery common here throughout the country. Later when honey was available I switched.
Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
Very common breakfast or snack for generations of kids in Spain, now almost lost because...sugar. Sprinkling the butter with cocoa powder instead was considered a treat.
#12
I would give myself a limit of three repeats when listening to a favorite song on a CD. I was convinced the artist was literally in the studio singing the song over-and-over again and would get sick of me. Didn’t wanna piss ‘em off.
SashaAlexandra 5 years ago
Because this is the greatest and best song in the world. Tribute )))
Monika Rhodes 5 years ago
I had that with the radio. When I was a kid I thought when you turn it off and then back on again- they'll just continue what was on.
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
Also keeps you from listening to something until you're sick of it. I have a friend who loved Bryan Adams and at one point played summer of 69 on repeat a whole day while we were hanging out. I'm still tired of it (and that was like 20-30 years ago or something).
Carole Hamilton 5 years ago
my mum told me to wipe up the cutery, when asked she said it was knives and forks, then I got hell for leaving the spoons
Philly Bob Squires 5 years ago
When I was a kid playing records, I noticed the groove would run out to the label. Some records had less playing area and I thought it was because the record was about to die off so I'd spin them backwards to make them all come out again so I wouldn't have to try to talk my parents into buying a new one. I was 4. I'm now 61 and have been a multimedia specialist all my life even producing albums. I also have a vinyl collection of over 6,000 LPs and 45's!
Shaurya Joshi 5 years ago
lmao i thought about the same thing but on radio, i thought they were doing the live performance
#13
Purple was my favorite color but I didn't like the word so I called it murdalop.
Carole Hamilton 5 years ago
when my dad was angry all 3 of s kids would hide, I hid in the bottom of my wardrobe, myboyfriend thought it was weird until he saw one of my dad's furies
#14
I used to run a “purified dust” cartel. My school had a sandbox area with eucalyptus trees, and I’d assign workers to throw sand over the trees so that the larger pieces would get filtered out by the bark. The remaining powder was labeled “purified dust.” Surprisingly, a huge number of kids were interested in buying our purified dust. Our currency was plastic BB gun pellets, and a pinch of dust was worth 5 pink pellets. Different colored pellets had different values, and freshly made dust cost more than old dust. There were even different “companies” of people creating purified dust at different trees. We’d devise plans to sabotage each other so that our own company could earn more profit. We were basically 6-year old a**holes running a fake cocaine business. Weird times.
Helen Haley 5 years ago
I totally get it. I had kids collecting rocks that I'd throw in a tumbler and then sell. Or, I'd make paper 'confetti' have my younger (cuter) sister sell it, then give my sister a crocheted 'charm' bracelet and charge her for charms and end up with her confetti money. Also convinced other kids to help me weave pine needles into 'sachets' to sell for peoples closets and drawers. As an adult, I couldn't sell a glass of water to a dehydrated camel.
MantisKeeper 5 years ago
i used to crush a bunch of "redstone" (i was a huge minecraft fan) and sell the dust as souvenirs. it was like a lemonade stand. my first customer (some other kid) asked me what they were souvenirs of, and i couldn't think of anything. the shop closed 30 seconds later.
Acceber 5 years ago
We had a similar game at school in the "woods". Gold dust (aka brick dust) and sticky noses (sycamore seed - peel them apart and stick on your nose) were our currency. Used it to buy fallen sticks which you then built a shop with and traded fir cones, other sticks, rocks, "land" or another's shop.
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
My middle sister got kicked out of our Catholic school for selling bags of oregano. I think she was in 4th grade.
Tina Harbour 5 years ago
I used to shave crayons between 2 sheets of wax paper,then use my moms iron (on lowest setting possible) to melt the shavings....then sold my "art" to friends😂
Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 5 years ago (edited)
OMG I did this too! My school had a secret "Soft Sand" comunity. At recess, the soft sand makers would use their clothing to filter the sand from our sandbox. The softer the sand, the more valuable. Then they would sell it for twigs. The soft sand had many perpouses, including collecting (some kids had entire vats of the stuff), re-selling, and eating. I bought it for the latter.
#15
I would sometimes think of myself in the future, thinking back at that past self thinking at the future. As a way of communicating with myself outside space and time. Sounds really silly. I'll give an example: sometime in middle school, when I was having a big math test, during the test I stopped solving it and started thinking of future me and told myself "Hello" Then sometime in high-school I remembered that, and said hello back to my younger self. :)) I don't know what was that about, it kept ongoing for a few good years, don't do it anymore
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Ima start writing myself notes, hiding them someplace I know, then, when I come back to the place I hid it in for whatever reason, I'll see it, and remember. Then I'll say hello back to myself in my mind. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
Marty BlackEagle-Carl 5 years ago
your past self misses you, and wonders why u dont talk anymore.
#16
When I was four or so, we lived in a flat in the USA that had this massive concrete structure behind it. I've no idea what it was, but at the bottom of it was at least a foot of dank water, trees, etc. I was convinced it was a swimming pool, and begged my mum to let me swim in it. "No, absolutely not," she said. "It's full of snapping turtles, and they will snap off your fingers." I also wanted to eat all these berries that were on local bushes. "No, absolutely not. Those are poisonous. They'll make you very sick and then dead." Clever me, I put the two ideas together and thus spent that summer throwing poison berries into the swamp structure in order to kill all the turtles. Four years old, stuck on murder mode for three months.
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago
I read this in a British accent for some reason
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#17
I would go out to my local cemetery and talk to dead people. I would find someone whose anniversary it was, either birth ar death, and just wish them well. I don't think it's weird now, I still do it, but I definitely thought it was weird at the time.
Hunter 5 years ago
broooooo i did this to and i swear to god i got an answer back by someone touching my shoulder when i looked back none was around (i thought it was the coolest thing ever i still think it is)
Celtic Pirate Queen 5 years ago
My hubs is a photo hobbyist and one of our favorite things to do is find old cemeteries. The statuary can be amazing. The most poignant I've ever seen was before we met. I went to Connecticut with my sister and absolutely begged for 5 minutes in this old cemetery. There was an above ground grave(?) with a full sized (8ft, don't ask how I know) Angel prostrate over the cement coffin, with sagging wings and the head on the arms. It was the epitome of abject grief and one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
#18
When I was in elementary school I would use one hand to cover my butt when I showered because I was afraid that a monster would warp through the bathroom wall and attack my butthole
LottieH 5 years ago
When I had to turn my bedroom light off, I would then run and jump into my bed to stop the (imaginary but very real to a child) hand from under the bed grabbing my ankle. Also my quilt was a protector, if I had all my body under it, nothing could get me.
JuJu 5 years ago
I'm 36 and when my partner is not home for the night, I make sure to cover myself from head to toe...monster-proof.
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Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Yes, yes. The b******e is always the place a monster would attack first.
#19
Every time I ever turned a full circle for any reason I would always turn a full circle the other way as well to make sure that it was "balanced" because I didn't want to turn one way more than the other.
Doggo Georgia 5 years ago
Omg I did this, but with EVERYTHING! And I thought it was just me. 🙃
Ellen McClenathan 5 years ago
I did this too!!! I didn't want to become "unscrewed" from the earth's gravity
#20
Whenever I got new shoes, I would hold the old shoes up to my face, breath in and then breath on the new shoes. I would then say, “transfer of souls complete.”
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
They probably heard something about getting new soles. Too cute.
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Nancy Curtiss 5 years ago
Not shoes but feet. My twin and I, around 5 years old, would stick thumb tacks into the soles of our feet. Did that for a while until one time I bled a little so we stopped, a bit freaked out.
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
Where did this image of an adult breathing into shoes come from exactly?
#21
I used to waste a ton of water by turning on the shower and lay on the floor next to it with a towel over my body and fall asleep with a tiny bit of water splashing on my face. I used to imagine I was in a cave and it was raining outside for some reason. ah good times
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
We moved to a house with a shower for the first time when I was 9, the year "Psycho" came out, and I would NOT shut the shower curtain, which was really messy and made Mama mad.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I've totally done that, just without the splashing on my face part. It's even better if you turn off all the lights and stick a towel under the door so it's pitch black. I keep a kitchen timer so I don't just fall asleep for hours and waste the water. The sound is soothing, and I think I've read that the aerated water generates ozone or something, which makes you more creative...?.
#22
I used to have “science experiments” in the bathroom sink. Meaning, I’d go the bathroom and lock the door. Once in I’d make sure the sink drain was shut and then proceed to add every cleaner/ chemical/ shampoo etc under the sink to the sink in hopes of a reaction. Never got one, but it also never stopped me from trying. In hindsight I probably could have killed myself if I had mixed the wrong stuff. I obviously didn’t.
Luna Lovegood 5 years ago
I did the same thing but only with shampoo and conditioner. I thought that if I mixed all the soaps together it would somehow make something that was super good for my hair.
T Kory 5 years ago
That’s awesome. I used to like mixing chemicals too. I stopped after mixing bleach and ammonia. That was scary.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
Wow, you could have died by inhalating chloramines. Glad you stopped your "experiments", wise decision.
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I used to create a "House of Horrors" in our bathroom & I was the Mad Scientist. Hard boiled eggs were either Dragon or Griffin eyeballs, cooked spaghetti was their intestines, slightly underdone jello was some viscous substance (I don't remember what). My sisters and brother would have to come through in the dark and I would place their hands in the various containers, all while laughing maniacally. Good times. I'm the eldest, by the way ~ mwaaahaaaahaaa
#23
I (a girl) used to sit back to front on the toilet to pee. My reasoning was that that way it sounded like my dad peeing and then the monsters wouldn't try to grab me. Childhood anxiety is wild!
Bonnie Edwards 5 years ago
They recommend brides sit backwards on toilet seats, to make it easier in the big floofy dress.
#24
I used to think that we were all characters in a book that someone was reading right now, and that’s why we were moving, eating and talking...etc, and that when we go to sleep at night it means that that person closed the book.
I also used to think that all days in each week had different and new names. I’d always say that “I only know Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. But I don’t know what comes after that.”
Luna Lovegood 5 years ago
"The Great Good Thing" by Roderick Townley has a similar idea. It's a good book, you should read it. :)
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Marcia Cash 5 years ago
this is probably true, we are just imaginary creatures in higher being's reality.
Charlotte A. 5 years ago
uhm, how many weeks were you able to "used to think" that there would be new names? Seems impossible to not learn this mistake pretty quickly?
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
Actually, I used to think we were book people as well
Elaine Everett-Klimas 5 years ago
Jasper fford wrote a series about a girl called Thursday Next who could travel to 'book world'. Awesome books!
#25
I would walk out the bathroom after taking a poop and spread my butt cheeks to whoever was in the living room and ask, "Is my butt clean?". One time it was the guy cleaning our carpet.
Randy Klefbeck 5 years ago
Oh my god I did that! Thought I was the only obsessive compulsive kid with the a**l hygine trip. I never did that in front of strangers though.
#26
A few years ago, I was visiting my aunt and uncle, and they had some old film from the '80s of my extended family on a camping trip. There was a full playset there including a trampoline, and my mother was filming my cousins and I playing. I'm not sure why my aunt and uncle had the tape instead of my mother, but whatever. I was about 3 at the time, and my mother panned the camera away from my cousins playing on a swing set towards me on the trampoline. Except I was lying face down on the trampoline, full-on thrusting my hips into it as hard as I could. Now, I don't specifically remember doing that, but I have a pretty good idea of how my little mind worked at the time. I'm certain that I was just trying to see if I could build up enough force to lift myself off the trampoline mat, or flip myself over. Still, not exactly the best thing to be watching with your aunt and uncle, who threatened to save it and show at my wedding. Jokes on them; I pocketed the tape when they weren't looking.
#27
I used to eat cat food because I thought I would become a cat if I did that
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I was a weird kid. I lived for quite a while on just Cheerios, pate and mushrooms. And gravel.
WhatsUpKittyCat? (I wuv dogs too) 5 years ago
Hey, no hard feelings. I used to eat sand, drink seawater and eat metal-and-glass screen protectors.
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Lily Luna Potter 5 years ago
me and my cousin used to have secret tea party's with cat food until my parents found out and obviously told use to stop
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I used to eat chocolate covered gerbil treats. Can still remember smell and taste 35 years later.
Ayra 5 years ago
There's a cartoon with two mice: one eats cat food to become stronger, the other eats books to become smarter... I'm kind of glad that I wanted to become smarter...
Mainecoonsandhuskies 5 years ago (edited)
So you ate books? Interesting :)
Load More Replies... Philly Bob Squires 5 years ago
I asked my Dad one time what would happen if I ate cat food... Guess what he told me? YUP!
Laurie Ostergaard-Overbey 5 years ago
my sons teethed on dog biscuts....did i secretly want puppies??
#28
Saying some gibberish all the time and thinking that it is probably meaningful in some languages. I felt smart as hell
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
My kids and I could go on for hours talking nonsense words. It's all in the voice inflections, you can usually tell what people really mean.
Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 5 years ago
My sister and I had this game we called "Spanish Girls" where we blurted out gibberish.
Load More Replies... Eva the Ravenclaw Bookworm📚💖 5 years ago
YEP! Ditto! But first I looked up the words in Latin and then created new words based off the roots. Would use then in conversation.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
I turned english songs in french as a kid. My mother was playing Pink Floyd "goodbye blue sky" in the car, i was singing and my mother asked me "what are you saying?" "gousse d'ail gousse d'ail" which means garlic clove but sounds close. "garliiiiiic cloooove, garlic clooooove" was a really good song, i was a misunderstood child.
#29
Running any lollipop or sucker I ate under the faucet water after every lick because somehow it tasted better after being rinsed lol
Katie Allen 5 years ago
and my comment disappeared from this one too. apparently BP thinks I won't notice
Katie Allen 5 years ago
Has anybody looking at this picture ever had one of those bacon lollipops? do they actually taste like bacon?
creative panda 5 years ago
Maybe it takes all the coloring off so you can taste the flavour better?
#30
When I was around 8 years old, I liked the way clean towels tasted. Something I really enjoyed was putting a towel over a straw, and drinking kool-aid through it.
My mother wasn't a fan of having white towels covered with red spots, so she put a stop to it pretty quick
jane holland 5 years ago
I know what you mean about the taste of the towel. When I was a kid we would pick up my father from work sometimes. Pre A/C in cars (it was the 60's) it would be blazing hot in the car in the downtown traffic. My mother took a few ice cubes and twisted them up in the middle of a clean linen dish towel and fasten with a rubber band. I would then have a cold compress and a thirst quenched that could not make a mess! I can still remember the taste. Thanks for bringing back a fond memory from almost 60 years ago.
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Your name--Jane Holland--sounds like it should be a very chic actress's name.
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#31
Until I was about 11-12, I used to imagine my brain as an endless room, full of filing cabinets for different things; memories, schoolwork, random facts etc. And in the centre of this room sat a toad in a waistcoat, in a rocking chair with a pipe (think Wind in the Willows), under a single lamp. If I couldn't remember something, I'd ask him to look it up in my filing cabinets and off he'd go, and then I'd remember. NGL, I had an excellent memory as a kid haha
Helen Haley 5 years ago
I wish I'd thought of that! I told mom I had a mind wipe every night. I hated to fall asleep because I'd forget almost everything.
Pawton Sansders 5 years ago
I once saw a certain series on YouTube about a guy named Thomas who created characters called “sides” (think Inside Out style) and he basically used them to explain different stuff like messages in Disney movies, anxiety, motivation, etc.(I’ll upvote anyone who gets the reference)
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
If it's an endless room, how does it have a center??? And also, why a toad??????? XDDDD
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I have an almost foolproof trick for remembering someone's name - say a actor in a sitcom. First I think of everything I know about the person, and visualize how they look. Then I say to myself that even if I don't remember the name, I can always look it up. Then I go through the alphabet letter by letter until it comes to me. This works about 95% of the time.
#32
When I was in 3rd grade I would dress as little bo peep while I took my poodle for walks and ask my neighbors if they have seen my other sheep
#33
When I was 7 I began making plaster casts of animal tracks. I had a collection of dogs and cats. One morning, I made one of a huge unidentified track near the house that was not there the previous day. My dad said I faked it and to quit fibbing. Later that day the Idaho Fish and Game was getting a black bear out of the tree about 15 feet from where I had spent an hour casting the track. Probably watched me the entire time and I didn't notice. I took the casting to show and tell. The teacher asked me to stop fibbing.
Pillowhead 5 years ago
I know the feeling. When I was about 7 or 8 I saw a peacock fly by, I was young and a peacock is not something you see in Philippines, I told my sisters and my mom that I saw one fly by and they kept telling me to stop lying. Monday morning comes along and I told my friends about it at school and my teacher overheard and told me to stop lying to my friends. I got so upset, I wasn't lying. I kept getting labeled as a liar. A few months roll by and my mom met up with one of our neighbors and introduced her to their new pet, lo and behold its the peacock. I never got an apology from my family for calling me a liar.
#34
Ate rose petals. My grandfather told me they are edible. I still eat one when I go visit his grave.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
Most rose petals are edible. Turkish Delight is made from Rose water.
Katie Allen 5 years ago
Crystalized roses are candy made out of rose petals. They make them out of violets too. I used to eat them when I was a kid.
#35
I liked playing with Microsoft Paint. I would use the biggest zoom, pick a color and a small brush, and just...paint the whole sheet. Pixel. By. Pixel. I dunno why, now as an adult that seems pretty boring, but it really relaxed kid me, maybe?
#36
Had an imaginary friend that I would make bets with, that I was guaranteed to win. The prize being ludicrous amounts of imaginary money. “Hey Joe, I bet you 1 figillion septriligon dollars I can hold my breath for 3 seconds” God, I was rich back then...
Lily Luna Potter 5 years ago
i used to talk to my favorite stuffed animal daisy (I still have her) in my head when school got boring and have her spy on my mom who was home with my baby brother and honestly believed it was real
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
What'd you do with all that money? You can't throw all that moola away like that.
#37
Not me, but my partner used to keep Kiwis (the fruits) as pets. He would name them and take care of them...until his mom took them to blend into a smoothie. That was a rude awakening for him.
#38
There were spiders and mice in my room which totally freaked me out so every night before I went to sleep I'd whisper a report of what the weather was outside to encourage them to go outside rather than stay inside and bite me in my sleep
Bonnie Jarrett 5 years ago
I was so OCD that I would stand at my bedroom door with my finger on the light switch, check all four corners and walls about five times to make sure there weren't any I could see lol
#39
Until I was like... 8, whenever I was on a car journey I'd spend the entire time moving my eyes from one side of the road to another, trying to avoid the streetlamps. I'd get really excited if the windscreen wipers would move exactly between the lamps and would become actively stressed out if they 'hit' the street lamps. If I'm being honest, it still slightly bothers me, I just don't mention it anymore haha
#40
Walking upstairs like an animal. Ngl though in my early twenties I still do that sometimes, you know, for a treat
Luna Lovegood 5 years ago
It's just faster and more fun. The real question is, why wouldn't you?
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
I do that sometimes. I used to do that all. The. Time. I was obsessed with cats and thought I was one.
#41
In the 3rd and 4th grade i ran a toy bank in the schoolyard. All the kids would gamble for pokemon cards, draco heads etc. When someone lost all their pokemom cars from the flip game, they would come to me and borrow cards for a chance to win their cards back. If they borrowed 3 cards and won, they would give back my 3 cards free of charge. If they lost on the other hand, they were required to bring me 5 cards the next day. After a while i had so many cards that i would never run out, and it basically became a matter of the house never losing. I kept records in a little book and all. Tl;dr: i was a bookie for toys in elementary school.
#42
My parents told me if I swallowed fruit seeds, a tree would grow out of my head. I accidentally swallowed an orange seed. Instead of telling someone, I distinctly remember being sad but oddly accepting that I was going to die. I quietly gave my toys & books away & said goodbyes bc I was pretty sure I didn’t have long bc the tree growing out of my head would kill me. Eventually, I forgot about it tho bc no plants ever sprouted from my head.
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Everyone at school told me that if I swallowed a fruit seed, it would grow out of me. I imagined it violently (and rather swiftly) ripping out of my stomach and growing into a tree (even watermelons and things that didn't grow into trees) OR growing out of my mouth. I was terrified when I accidentally swallowed a watermelon seed. OUCH!
#43
Bury roadkill, random bones I'd find, fish scales, etc. It just seemed more respectful then letting them... sit there. Especially after it got to the point that buzzards and vultures wouldn't even eat it
David Kohn 5 years ago
and i have like 5 bobcats and 20 ferals who greet me whenever i go out. also yesterday i saw nancy (my cat ) wlaking along our screen and then she just stopped and looked at me really wierd
#44
I used to pinch my eyelids ever so gently, vertically and pull them away from my eye, just to let then snap back so I could feel the air bubbles popping against my eyes.
#45
I'd soak my face cloth in water during a bath and suck the water out of it.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
I don't recall doing that, but apparently I took a big bite out of the bar of Ivory soap and then promptly barfed in the tub.
Karen Fernley 5 years ago
I used to like *eating* the foam made by bubble bath. I liked the feel of the tiny bubbles in my mouth
#46
As a young kid, I decided it was a good idea to melt chocolate on the furnace and then scrape it off and eat it. Guess who is not working for NASA.
#47
When I was 6, I had trouble sleeping alone, so mom would sleep next to me. However, I was rather attached to her arm and would not let it go. She literally had to pry herself off of me. So the solution? I have an arm instead of a teddy bear. Still got it laying in my room, friends get creeped out by it all the time.
Anne-marie Johanson 5 years ago
I used to love playing with m moms hair while I fell asleep, she started to develop back issues so she cut the arm off of a teddy bear and sewed a patch of her hair in its place. I have it in a box still
#48
I used to think everything that happens around me was a set up. Parents, house, neighbours, friends, kin everyone were paid actors and nothing was true and it was all a part of big scheme of something I couldn't understand. Crazy to think I used to imagine all of this at a very young age with no outside influence at all.
#49
When I was around 5, I would basically act like a train and follow the lines on the playground whilst also using my hands as those little rail things on the wheels (Coupling rods), I would also look directly up when it was cold and use my mouth as a chimney. Honestly it must have looked like I was insane
#50
I would wash things made of rubber, like the kind of rubber that already feels slightly tacky, then pat it dry with a really fluffy towel so the rubber would get kind of fuzzy from the towel fluff, then I would just touch it until the fuzz wore off. Turns out I was just autistic and no one had figured it out yet. I still have a thing about textures but in a much less weird way.
#51
At 6, I would dress up in a sparkly yellow two piece skirt and tube top covered in butterflies, grab the poor cat, climb up into the tree in the front yard, and pet her, staring off into the distance while trying to look like a mysterious magical person in order to impress the neighbor children. They were not impressed. Months later I snuck into their house when no one was home, made myself a bowl of ice cream, wandered around, and then left. They talked about how freaky it was coming home to dirty dishes they weren't responsible for, but never suspected me. Vigilante justice I guess? Oh. And at 13 a friend and I played with barbie dolls, except they were all strippers trying to beat each other for the top spot. They were paid in a currency we called croutons. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
#52
We had two pear trees on our farm growing up. When they would fall to the ground and get mushy, the bees would come to eat them. I would take the mush pears and rub them all over and sit in this white plastic chair and let the bees feast off of my mushy pear body. Not a sexual thing. Idk why I did it but I did it often. My mom was shocked the first time she saw me covered in bees. Lol. She still talks about that to this day.
Spring Fisk 5 years ago
Maybe you are a bee whisperer :-). When I was young I would go out at recess and find bees on dandelions. Then very sneaky I would see if I could pick the flower with them still on it.
#53
In grade 1 we would sit in a group on the floor in front of the teacher while she read us stories. I would sit at the back of the group against the wall and pull my pants halfway down my bum. I liked feeling the cool ground/wall against my bare butt.
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Wow... I can imagine someone passing by and pointing going "Teacher, there's a butt right there!" and then the class would scream, "Oooohh, *giggle giggle giggle* you said butt!"
#54
I would only sit on the toilet with the shower cap on my head.
#55
I used to steal things from my sister when she was mean to me, and then hide them by sewing them into her stuffed animals... She found out a few months ago and was really freaked out
#56
My mum told me that when I was really little, I stood at the top of the stairs and said “my old mummy used to throw me down the stairs”. I don’t believe in reincarnation and I know I wasn’t adopted so I don’t know what that was about.
#57
Not exactly something i did regularly but more of an extremely weird thing I once asked. I was probably 8 or 9 when i just nonchalantly asked my father to show me how to "beat the meat" because some classmates of mine were constantly using this term and i genuinely didn't know what it meant. Needless to say he replied with a firm "absolutely not" to which at the time, i was utterly offended by but today i understand it was probably for the best.. Oh well.
Be Potato 5 years ago
LOL. Reminded me of that one time when I asked my male friend in sixth grade about this word 'pukimak'. He stared at me in disbelief, not saying anything. I found out years later that the word means 'mother's c**t'. I guess he didn't want to tell a girl the meaning of that word.
#58
So I was really toddler-small (3-4?), but somehow I suddenly took it into my head that when I close my eyes, it becomes dark. So for a while it was almost impossible to put me to bed, and I felt really guilty for eventually falling asleep because then everybody had to sit in the dark until I woke up.
#59
I would come up with all sorts of supernatural and conspiracy theories to explain the world around me. I thought people were spying on me. If anyone laughed outside while I was on the toilet, I'd be convinced that they could see me and were laughing at me. I wouldn't characterize it as paranoia, it was more like extreme self-centeredness. I had trouble comprehending that there was a world out there that didn't involve me in any way. This went on until I was about 15 - 16 I think.
#60
I mixed ketchup and mustard together and called it my secret sauce. I used it as a dip for Fritos. I was convinced I’d make millions off it.
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Good job, now you told us ur recipe, and now we can make it and sell it for crazy amounts of money. HA! Suckerrrrr! Lol
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
I still do this on a regular basis, especially with Dijon mustard. In my opinion it's the perfect sauce for grilled meat or sausages.
#61
Used to eat a palm-full of mustard, as a snack. Just squirt right from the bottle to palm, lick on it for a few. We were poor.
#62
The main one I remember is if I went to the toilet after dark I would run back to bed after flushing the toilet like I was doing the 100m. Small me thought that I was disturbing the ghosts with the noise and they'd leave me alone if I was under the covers
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I am almost 34 and I still do this if I have seen something scary.
My O My 5 years ago
Foxxy, I like you a little bit more with each comment I read
Load More Replies... Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
I still do this. I dash down my hall to the toilet, ever so quietly flush, then run for my life back to my room, closing the door hastily behind me.
#63
Blink at things because I thought it would help with my memory. I would imagine my eyes were like cameras and each blink was a shutter click.
#64
For much of second grade, for some reason, my parents let me pack my own lunch. I had two sandwiches of choice- one was what I called a triple butter sandwich: peanut butter, apple butter, and butter. A little strange, but okay. The other was a lettuce sandwich. White bread, mayo, and a few leaves of iceberg lettuce. I have no idea how they let me eat that for most of a full school year.
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Because it gave you a sense of control. You'd eat normally, most likely, the rest of your meals. Smart parents.
#65
When I was around 4-5 years old I remember I used to sneak downstairs very early in the morning and search for any cups with that ½" of cold sweet sugary coffee in, and drink them before anyone got up. Guess I may have been the youngest caffeine addict in Britain.
Bam Place 5 years ago
When I was about 6 yrs old I thought I could see my fringe when I frowned, not knowing it was really my eye brows. I thought I looked good with a fringe so constantly frowned at everybody, I looked at not knowing how angry I must of looked all the time! Alan Place the Evil Child
#66
Thinking my life is a television show and every birthday was the beginning of a new season
#67
When I was around 6 years old, I would stuff pillows into my clothes and then jump off the top of my playground, run into walls at a full sprint, etc. to see how much the pillows would absorb the impact. Not much. I also tried jumping off my roof into a bush because it looked fluffy. Not fluffy
#68
There was a short period as a kid where I really liked onions. I would just snack on them as if they were apples.
Mimi777 5 years ago
Yep me too I still eat them. Sometimes with a little sugar sprinkled on top
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sivanphoenix 5 years ago
I read somewhere that they have the same taste if you remove the flavor
Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 5 years ago
I think taste and flavor are the same thing...
Load More Replies... Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
I tried it once... I'll never forget the burn... Oop, I forgot what an onion tasted like just now. Oh well.
#69
So my step brother was 6 and I (male) was 8 when we first met. When he and his mom eventually moved in a year or two later, I was going through a period of time where noone taught me the proper way to wipe. So, instead of front to back (taint to asshole) I was back to front (asshole to taint). That would cause irritation, which I called "lightning in the butt". SO, my solution to relieving the irritation was to lay down on the couch, put a round puff pillow over my butt, and have him sit on it and hop up and down as we both chanted "lightning in the butt" over and over again. Suffice it to say my dad and step mom put a stop to it, and I learned to wipe correctly over time. Thank god.
#70
I used to drink my own blood whenever I got cut because I thought I had a limited amount and would die if I didn't
#71
When eating a bowl of vanilla ice cream I'd put some in my mouth and then spit it back out into the bowl, and then stirl. I'd do it a couple times and essentially make my own soft serve. I told an ex about it 'bout a year ago. It was the first time I ever talked about it out loud and that's when I realized it was pretty f**kin weird
sivanphoenix 5 years ago
Nope! Not weird at all. I used to do it when I was a kid. Still do it sometimes 🤣🤣
Idontwantto 5 years ago
That doesn't make it not weird. Which it definitely is
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Yuri Cameron 5 years ago
Regarding Ice cream. I used to finish my ice cream and then lick the inside of the bowl to get the last of the ice cream. I did it recently (about a year ago: 19 years old).
Melissa Delorme 5 years ago
my brothers and I would do this. we would compete to see who could get their ice cream soft serve consistency first.
#72
I used to open my mouth and do a really loud "CHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" sound because it vibrated my sinuses and made them feel less painful for a couple minutes, turns out I had terrible allergies and having massive sinus pressure in your face isn't normal, We didn't figure this out until I was like 10 and my parents had my doctor give me allergy meds.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
My son, now 19, used to do the mouth click thing with his tongue and the roof of his mouth. He could do it so loud. If we were in a car with Windows rolled up it could make your ears ring it was so freaking loud.
#73
I still cringe when I think about this.
In elementary school when I got a good grade I did the crash bandicoot dance.
#74
Before a shower, I would get naked, run to my front door open it, shake my naked bum, then go shower.
#75
Whenever i killed an Ant I would think I was going to Die that night and tried apologizing to god every time I accidentally killed one.
Idontwantto 5 years ago
When I was 5 or 6 I killed a few tadpoles I found in a puddle, thinking they were insects. I was totally distraught for days after my mother told me they were actually baby frogs. In my mind, at that age, killing bugs was fine but killing baby frogs was terrible lol.
#76
I had an old telephone handset. I took it when we changed the house phone. I used to pretend i had loads of friends and at night would have conversations with my imaginary friends.
#77
I was that kid who kept pots of bugs in their desk (my school still had those lifty lid desks). I got into trouble for it because a lot of ladybugs got loose one day.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
We had those desks too. I kept a teeny live plant in an ammo cartridge I had found.
#78
I used to keep the last piece of food I was eating in my mouth even for an hour. For example, if I was eating pizza, the last piece of the last slice would remain in my mouth while I went playing and running around. I stopped at the age of 9 when I almost died of asphyxiation
Be Potato 5 years ago
We learn everyday, don't worry about it. :) Asphyxiation is when you're being deprived of oxygen, which may lead to death or loss of consciousness.
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#79
Pooped my pants, then picked the poop out of my underwear and hid it under the sofa so my parents wouldn’t know.
Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 5 years ago
kid logic. What I want to know is how did they find out?
#80
I for some reason had one mission as a kid. I would try my best to make people believe I was the smartest kid ever. I would talk gibberish to make people think I could talk another language, I would also make words up to give the impression that my vocabulary was so advanced. But it all backfired when I lost the spelling B in the 1st round then I failed 1st grade. I was a sad kid.
Brandi Chafins 5 years ago
omg!!! I did the same thing when I was probably... 7-9yrs old! I'd make up words and use them in regular sentences so people would think I was smart! bahahaha! I never once got called out for it lol Kids are weird.
#81
I loved the way the air that comes out the back of vacuum's smelt. I used to follow the vacuum cleaner around while my mum was cleaning with my face against the vent. I would turn it on when other people were not around and smell it. Also, I'm not sure if this is normal or not but when I was about 8 I used to run around with nothing but a towl singing 'duna duna duna duna duna duna FLASH MAN' to the tune of batman, then show everyone my di*k.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Did anyone see that episode of hoarders (I think) this girl would cry if her vacuum lint was thrown away? She would save it all and display it in a glass cabinet. If I remember correctly.
#82
Wearing velcro strap shoes so tight they'd probably cut off the circulation in my feet because I was worried my shoes would fall off. I used to eat butter straight out the tub too, my 5 year old niece has started doing it... maybe it's a family trait
Pawton Sansders 5 years ago
For the first one, whenever we went to Disney or universal, I wore keens and had the strap tucked in so the shoes were tighter so they wouldn’t fall off.
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Yes. Sometimes, I was hungry super late at night, (well, super late to me. My bedtime was 8:30 or 9:30 at the time) so I'd sneak into the kitchen, open the fridge, and just snack on butter. It looks a lot tastier than it is. I was super underwhelmed every time I ate it.
#83
In 2003 for roll call I always replied with a different star wars quote, made it my mission to never repeat a line
#84
Oh! In elementary school, I’d do this thing where some girl and I stuck our tongues out and then made them touch. I’ve done this with like 10s of girls, it wasn’t anything romantic/sexual it was just for fun. Straightest part of my life tho...
#85
I ate my mom’s silicone bra fillers. Thought they had a top-noch flavor, plus it was fun to remove the material protecting the silicone with my teeth. I still remember the flavor and honestly? Not too bad. I never fell sick because of it and I often joke about how eating it gave me the weird qualities I have today. I also ate toilet paper by deconstructing the paper so it had all of its layers separated. Then I’d rip small pieces off and let it melt on my tongue. Sometimes it tasted just fine but other times it tasted way too chemical-y, so I mostly did it for the feeling.
#86
I was convinced someone was going to break in our house and come after me. So, logically, it only made sense not to sleep in my bed and instead sleep in the closet.
Anxious Pansexual Nightmare 5 years ago
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Kid logic.
#87
I lived in a fridge box in the lounge room for a while when I was about 6 years old. Had an eye slit in the front of it so I could watch tv. It was my own little world full of comfy pillows and blankets and toys. Fond memories.
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago (edited)
In the early eighties was about 5. I had one of those wire framed houses made of thin plastic that was in the corner of my mom's room. It was just big enough for me, a tiny chair and table. I had a plastic suitcase thing with my portable record player. I would sit in that house for hours and hours listening to my monster mash record and coloring.
Luna Lovegood 5 years ago
I did this!!! Tbh I would still do this if I ever have a big box. Mine was for reading and just being cool by being in my box. I cut windows in it, decorated it, and everything. A big box is the coolest thing cause you can be inside a secret box hideout :)
#88
Around 5 years of age I plucked out all of my eyelashes because my eyes would itch. But my eyes were itching because I was touching my eyes. My parents had to explain to my kindergarten teachers and other parents why I looked so odd.
#90
I hunted down ants when I was 4, and put them in a jar. When I had 10 or so I would eat them alive Also, I would sit on the toilet while pooping with a paper on my hand and grab it as it fell. Then, I would slowly pack like a Mc donalds employee would pack a hamburger. When it was wrapped with toilet paper I'd let it down. This was a way to do a "fast food dor the fish". I imaginated they would open the paper and eat the crap.
#91
I thought I was pregnant because I was fat. I watched this TV show that described water breaking before birth and went swimming the next day being worried my water would break while I was in the water and I wouldn't know and I'd have the baby right then and there.
Katie Allen 5 years ago
I read about this 4 year old kid who had a lot of weird ideas about pregnancy. This kid thought guys could get pregnant, that it was caused by eating too much (obviously confusing it with fatness) and that good babies came out your belly button and bad babies came out your butt.
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Yeah, it would be horrible if your baby just slipped out in the water without you noticing.
#92
I poked out the eyes of all of the photos of friends and family in my room... must have scared the sh*t out of my parents
#93
I saved up all the cream from my Oreos in a tupperware then made it into a ball and gave it to my dad on his birthday. I mean ngl he looked happy, But i could never bring myself to tell him on how much saliva was in the damn thing.
Cat Nip Gal 5 years ago
Ok, weird fact, if you stuck on the oreo cream long enough, it tastes and feels like unsalted butter or something...
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
That is a magnificent question, I was just about to ask the same thing.
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I would steal people's house keys then return them later without them knowing. In elementary school, all of the kid's backpacks were placed under the table. I would crawl under there and try to find people's house keys. But I would only keep them until I found out the person had replaced his/her keys, then I'd sneakily return them back and it had to be in the same place I found them.
#95
I used to stick my head in the empty dryer and sing my heart out! I “opened” for Michael Jackson like a hundred times...
#96
I used to eat mechanical pencil lead. No idea how I got into that habit, but I think I enjoyed the crunchiness of it. Did it for a little while, but showed a classmate and she immediately went to the teacher who then called my mom who scolded me and told me to stop. Goodbye 0.7 mm, you will be missed.
#97
I didn't know that people could see my eyes move and used to have my head in one direction and look with my eyes somewhere else. It wasn't before a girl saw me looking at her and said « what are YOU looking at» I figured that out. I Was 7 or 8 years old and my mind was blown, my eyes move???
Omar Pearson 5 years ago
I know grown people who still peek out of the corner of their eye like no one knows...
#98
Me and my mates used to poop on the road then wait until a car ran over it then celebrated.
#99
I have a memory of when I was maybe 3 or 4. I tried to nurse a kitten lmao
Katie Allen 5 years ago
I shouldn't even bother posting comments here if they're not even gonna be there next time I look.
#100
Classify/name my poops based on size, shape, consistency.
#101
Age 3, wasn’t allowed to put water in my toy teapot to pour drinks at the tea party I was hosting for my dolls - so I pissed in the teapot and served steaming piss instead
#102
Couple things actually, one when I was really young I used to play with lint and other fabric from random things and pretend they were people and play with them. I’d flick them around like they’re jumping around or attacking each other. Family thought I was weird. Another thing I used to do was draw video game characters and cut them out to play with them and use them as toys. Kinda forgot about this when I got older
#103
When I was alone I used to narrate my life like I was on a TV show just incase I was. I'd try to be all funny and clever and I'm pretty sure I thought I could get famous that way.
Katie Allen 5 years ago
There's a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin does this, even doing theme music.
#104
I had three imaginary friends. Their names were Zalek , Malek and Talek, with Zalek being my favorite friend. I used to play with them, talk to them and I guess I scared the shit out of my parents lol. Then Malek and Talek faded away, with only Zalek staying. Parents got me a robot toy and I kinda projected Zalek into that robot and when the robot broke Zalek kinda left with it.
#105
I ate cupcake wrappers after finishing the cupcakes. Like I would just suck on it (the paper ones) and chew until there was zero flavour, then spit it out.
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
Lots of people do this. I still do this. 0 wasting, is what I call it ;)
Kitsune Fox Girl 5 years ago
i used to try to lick it off but ended biting holes in the wrapper
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
My son does this but eats the paper AS he is eating the cupcake.
#106
I liked the taste of rock, my mother told me I used to pick up rocks and taste them when I was 3. I wonder if I ever had my own gourmet and if I had different types of “meals” like bricks and stuff
Nancy Curtiss 5 years ago
My twin sister and I used to pick up burnt matches and eat the burnt head. It tasted good.
#107
I picked up ants and licked their butts. Tasted like citrus. I was about 10 or 11.
#108
I used to like chewing sponges. Bath sponges. I'd get them wet, wring them out a bit then put the whole thing or as much as possible in there and just chew
#110
I would "talk to myself " and say good things about the ghosts in my house so they don't f*ck me up or something
#111
I used to put red split lentils up my nose until they tickled and I sneezed them out. It was one of my favourite secret games.
#113
Well, when I was 5 I decided to just run out of the house, break into another in the street and jump on the bed for an hour.
#114
I used to put all the insects I would find under a rock into a bucket of water and watch how long it took them to die. I had noticed that if you left a bucket of water outside after about a week or so things would start growing in it. I didn’t know where those things came from and assumed they were bugs. So by testing all the bugs under a rock in the water I could work out which ones were growing. Which is pretty scientific for a 5 year old. And also a bit ghoulish. I never did find out what it was that was growing in the water, but I did discover that woodlice can survive underwater for a good few days. (They have gills and are related to crabs and lobsters). I’m still waiting for my Nobel prize.
#115
When I was 6 I started to chew on my dog's teeth cleaning bone things, because it tasted like chicken and I thought I didn’t have to brush my teeth anymore. Ngl that sh*t was Gourmet as f**k
#116
In kindy, I ate glue. Just the glue off the glue sticks. I ate it, not just licked it.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I got a call from my daughters school advising me that she ate 3 glue sticks. When I picked her up I asked her why. Apparently she was hungry even though I sent her to school with a full lunch box. I then asked if they tasted nice, she said no. So I say why did you eat 3 to which she replied I didn’t, I ate 4. Hahaha we since discovered that she has Sensory processing disorder and is an oral sensory seeker so often mistakes the need to have something in her mouth with hunger.
#117
Get butt ass naked every time I needed to poop. This was from about 3-8. Even though I don’t usually do it anymore I’ll stand by it being way more comfortable than pooping with clothes on.
LottieH 5 years ago
My son does this, he is 10 now, but I still find the odd pile of clothes in front of the toilet every now and then when he has gone to bed. It makes me smile to be honest, he has asd and I love his quirkiness.
Nicole 5 years ago
I'm also on the autism spectrum (I"m 26) but there are so many cute things about us as children
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I ate dirt. Fruit and veggies come out of dirt so it must taste like them, right?
Jayne Kyra 5 years ago (edited)
My great-grandmother and her siblings used to do that, but that was during WWI and for poverty reasons. Edible clay is apparently a thing though.
Pretty Pangolin 5 years ago
Yes, I just searched and apparently it's called Bentonite. This produced some very strange Google results.
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I was obsessed with the 'cool side of the pillow'. I would bring my pillow around to breakfast and dinner, since I'd either just woken up or as the pregame to sleep. I'd sit at the table with my head on the pillow or just running my hands over it and even getting the edges like I was tweaking a radio tuner before flipping it over and starting again.
#120
I used to suck on rock salt like it was candy.
#121
Me and my friends bought Katana swords in a Chinese shop. The swords were fake, of course. They were much smaller and not well made. But they were made of real metal and they had a sharp blade. Each one cost about 10€. Of course, it was cool for us to play, especially if we take some stuff and try to cut. But the best was when we fought each other. We stopped doing that after a fight when the blade came out of the stand where the blade just fell off and almost hit my friend in the stomach. That's when we just stopped and threw the swords away, and we didn't want our parents to know. When I think about it now we were just idiots when we bought them, especially since we were 14,15 years old.
#122
I used to run around the house shaking my head and laughing like ed from ed, edd and eddy because it felt funny. I now realize that my mom was probably looking at me and wondering what went wrong XD
#123
Purposely spill toothpaste on my school jumper so I could chew and suck on it throughout the day sh*t was cash tasted like polos
#124
I wiped my nose on the carpet all the time
#125
I used to eat the ends of burnt matches. I just loved the taste. I did this from as early as I can remember until I was like 15.
Spring Fisk 5 years ago
Match heads used to be made of poisons chemicals (probably still are). I have a distant relative that died young because he ate them.
#126
In around 3rd or 4th grade, I would stay up really late and have to use the bathroom. Because I didn’t want my mom finding out I was up, I would lift up the rug next to my bed, piss under it, and put it back down. I was not the brightest kid
#127
Sometimes I chewed up mouthfuls of Saltines and spit them into balls that I kept in a drawer to eat later. I thought it was more convenient because I wouldn't have to chew them.
#128
I used to draw on my penis....
#129
y'all know how people sometimes create scenarios in their mind while daydreaming? yeah that, only i was a bit of a lonely kid in a pretty large house so i used to act them out and imagine the things and people actually around me. i sometimes still catch myself doing without realizing but atleast it's made me a decent enough conversationalist.
Kitsune Fox Girl 5 years ago
i did this, making up characters for myself and being a character from X-Men or Star Wars
#131
Hold funerals for the dead worms after my father used them to fish. Make each a raft and send them off into the lake/river.
#132
A lot of things. To name a few, I liked eating fish food for some reason. I guess I wanted to try it cause hey, if the fish eat it it must be good? If I tried calling my friends and no one answered the phone sometimes I'd call repeatedly, like 5 times in a row. I didn't realize how wacky it is to do something like that. I don't remember why, but I think one of my friends once called from her grandma's house, so sometimes I'd even try that number to see if she was there, and or call it repeatedly. Oof, I feel so bad in hindsight. I had no idea how weird it was back then. Oh yeah, and usually this was only with family, but sometimes I'd leave ridiculously long messages on the answering machine. Like they'd be so long that I'd hear the beep which meant it was no longer recording the message, and sometimes I'd even call again just so I could finish what I was saying cause I got cut off. Yeah pretty silly.
#133
Whenever I say something funny I'd keep saying it until someone tells me to shut up And even then I'd find someone else to share the funny with
#134
Only draw monsters. My pa said he worried I'd be a serial killer
#135
We used to play hide and seek, my favorite place of hiding was inside the trash can outside.
#137
I used to lick the screen door
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
Anyone ever tasted crepe paper? Like the wrinkly streamers you hang up at birthday parties. Just stick your tongue to it. Very weird, unexpected flavor.
Kallyn Desmarais 5 years ago
I ate that stuff...turned my tongue green. My mom asked me if I'd eaten it, I said no, and she said nice try, and took me into the bathroom to stick my tongue out in front of the mirror. Oops.
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When I was young I went fishing a lot with my dad. He would prepare the fish food with the local lake water and I would eat from it while he wasn't looking. I am very lucky that I didn't catch a prion or something else nasty.
#139
I used to run like sonic the hedgehog going home from school when i was like 8 and now i have my friends remind me all the time...f*** you sonic
#140
Put snails in my pants... A lot of them.
Adam Rindegård 5 years ago
PLS tell me you said" hey snail, theres a party in my pants and your invited" at least once
#141
I used to heavily believe ghosts, demons, and monsters were real, so before bedtime I would check under my bed 10-15 times and pray to any gods that I knew of at that time to not let the demon and ghosts kill me. Afterwards I would place a chair under my door knob to keep the demons and monsters at bay (In my mind, I actually thought it would work as a kid.) then I would surround myself in pillows and cover my whole entire body with a blanket besides my mouth and nose because I truly thought that would prevent me from being killed lmfao.
#142
adviced a pregnant lady to eat less,and she's getting too fat.
Kallyn Desmarais 5 years ago
My brother would do that. Or he'd pick the skinniest oldest lady around and ask her "are you pregnant?" And then when she'd say no, he'd ask if she was really sure. I have no idea where he got that idea, but I was always so embarrassed!
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If any of my shirts had a front pocket, I would put a Kraft single in it— and just sort of walked around with cheese in my pocket
Arctic Fox Lover 5 years ago
XD I have the same feeling sometimes! It just looks so perfect to fit in my pocket, so I just stick it in there and walk away.
#145
Chewed gum off the wall. I thought of it as free gum so why not? Some of them still had flavor.
#146
I would rub my mom's elbow while falling asleep something about the texture comforts me
#147
I would stare at women's breasts with my head angled upward. I didn't think people could see eyes moving.
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I ate my mums expensive eyeshadow kit, it smelt nice so I thought it would taste nice too. One time I thought my head was gonna fall off so I was holding onto it for dear life because I had just been at the Drs where I had a stone cut out the side of my head. I used to think Baked beans were beetle brains coz that’s what my dad told me they were and I believed him for years. I used to spray deoderant on my bedroom walls pretending I was doing graffiti. And they are just some of the things.
Acceber 5 years ago
Dreamt someone grabbed my foot whilst in bed - so started (and despite being 28, stil do this) I make a pocket for my feet with the duvet (just kick the end up enough to pull it under my feet to about ankle height. - no monsters can get you! Oh, and no bedding can touch the wall and the open side of the pillowcase must be away from the wall incase a spider tries to climb into my bed..and always, without fail, I check the bed, under the pillow and the ceiling directly above the bed for spiders.
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
Uncle Mike told us that when the trees wave their arms, that makes the wind blow. Still makes perfect sense to me!
Justanotherperson 5 years ago
I used to put those little kisses chocolates on the heaters until they were all mushy. Then Id lick the sticky,thick chocolate. Not that bad actually.
Joanne Hudson 5 years ago
I never turned on a light or flashlight when I got up at night. I memorized where furniture was so I didn't need a light. But if a burglar came in, he'd have to use a flashlight and he'd get caught. I never use a light.
LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
I ate Cetaphil thinking it was icing. What's worse is that I didn't stop once I found out it wasn't lol
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
Grandpa comes out of the bathroom, cussing, "This Brylcreem toothpaste tastes like c**p."
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Coffey Murphy 5 years ago
I let candies get stale so they would last longer..now I find out you can dehydrate marshmallows!
Hannah Anderson Carroll 4 years ago
I would make up and act out play stories for my toys/dolls. Sounds normal. Only thing was I wasn't always with them at the time. So it would be just me wandering around talking to myself.
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I ate my mums expensive eyeshadow kit, it smelt nice so I thought it would taste nice too. One time I thought my head was gonna fall off so I was holding onto it for dear life because I had just been at the Drs where I had a stone cut out the side of my head. I used to think Baked beans were beetle brains coz that’s what my dad told me they were and I believed him for years. I used to spray deoderant on my bedroom walls pretending I was doing graffiti. And they are just some of the things.
Acceber 5 years ago
Dreamt someone grabbed my foot whilst in bed - so started (and despite being 28, stil do this) I make a pocket for my feet with the duvet (just kick the end up enough to pull it under my feet to about ankle height. - no monsters can get you! Oh, and no bedding can touch the wall and the open side of the pillowcase must be away from the wall incase a spider tries to climb into my bed..and always, without fail, I check the bed, under the pillow and the ceiling directly above the bed for spiders.
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
Uncle Mike told us that when the trees wave their arms, that makes the wind blow. Still makes perfect sense to me!
Justanotherperson 5 years ago
I used to put those little kisses chocolates on the heaters until they were all mushy. Then Id lick the sticky,thick chocolate. Not that bad actually.
Joanne Hudson 5 years ago
I never turned on a light or flashlight when I got up at night. I memorized where furniture was so I didn't need a light. But if a burglar came in, he'd have to use a flashlight and he'd get caught. I never use a light.
LittleMissLotus 5 years ago
I ate Cetaphil thinking it was icing. What's worse is that I didn't stop once I found out it wasn't lol
Marcia Cash 5 years ago
Grandpa comes out of the bathroom, cussing, "This Brylcreem toothpaste tastes like c**p."
Load More Replies... Coffey Murphy 5 years ago
I let candies get stale so they would last longer..now I find out you can dehydrate marshmallows!
Hannah Anderson Carroll 4 years ago
I would make up and act out play stories for my toys/dolls. Sounds normal. Only thing was I wasn't always with them at the time. So it would be just me wandering around talking to myself.
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