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Childhood; During our happy, carefree days
Topic Started: Sep 28 2006, 04:23 AM (269 Views)
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What were you like when you were a child? What silly things did you do which you wouldn't do now? What did you believe? Just discuss any random things that happened when you were little :^_^:

I remember when I'd look up at the sky, I always loved the stars... And then there was the moon. I always wondered why there was a star bigger than the rest of them. And why that star was still around during the day... So I believed it was the exit in and out of Earth to space lol :roll:
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I was always really independent. Hahaha. I suppose a lot of things have changed, and at the same time, nothing has changed.

I remember a lot of fighting. My older bro used to beat up on me. Plus, I would get into tangles with the neighborhood boys and somehow always won. Hah, that was awesome.

Also, I could often get myself into trouble pretty fast, as well as just being stupid about things. If anybody's read the manga Yotsuba&/Yotsubato, then you'd understand me saying that I was exactly like her. I would get into trouble, but I wasn't really a bad kid.
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I was the complete opposite to what I am now. When I was little, I was very loud, out going, happy-go-lucky... Oh life as a kid was great. I was friends with everyone, have to admit I was happier. I was more active... Yeah... And then that all went astray when I moved. See, when I was little I grew up on an island... Then when we moved to the mainland, things were different and yeah... I basically did a full 180 and completely lost my confidence in everything... Heh, yeah.
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Heh, I'm sure that must have been something.

I guess the biggest changes I went through were emotional. I used to be pretty normal, but after a lot of things happened, I've been the way I am. Heh, some call me a robot. I used to be quite warm, I think; it's been a while. :P I never used to be as rational as I am, when I was a kid. I guess it has its blessings and curses, just like everything else.

Also, I used to yammer on a lot about just stuff. I don't anymore. I'm kind of different, just because I feel like I don't have to talk when in the presence of other people in order to feel comfortable.

Of course, though, I'm only 16... So, I'm still growing up. :P
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Well, I'm not so bad now as I was in high school. It's still taking some time for me to be more confident but I admit now that I'm at least accepting things. Not like when I was in high school I was always like, "My life sucks... Why don't I have any close friends... Do people hate me... I'm stupid... No one cares for me..." And blah blah blah. I'm somewhat over that now so that's one step lol

But yeah, lets see... I loved playing outside. And I used to know DOS very well as at that time there wasn't Windows programs or anything. Heh, now I hate outside activities and DOS is completely alien to me :roll:
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I didn't have the best childhood. Parents, to one parent, to no parents.

I was shy, difficult to coax into anything, I missed out on a lot, I was quiet, I loved to draw and I loved to read.

Currently I'm out going, loud, sociably, can't draw to save my love, and love to read. Still no parents. Haha.
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I briefly went through a stage of "My life sucks ass" when I was 8, but I changed, and pretty quickly.

Let's see... I went from one parent to no parent to foster parent to two parents and now back to one parent at any given time. Hahaha. I wouldn't say it's ever had any sort of effect on me, though. I've almost always had the "gotta get through it" mentality.

I suppose I've always been shy, but I have enough will to get myself into some social situations and loosen out all the knots that occur. Doesn't mean that I'll, like, go out to a school dance, but my shyness isn't that severe. And it doesn't get in the way of my goals, which is always a good thing. Though I suppose it might if I was any normal teen, out to get a significant other.
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My childhood was hellish. And I'll explain why.

My birthmother was a crackwhore. She did all kinds of drugs, alcohol, you name it. The shitty part was she did it the most when pregnant with me. Was she trying to hurt me or hurt herself? I still don't know that. I was born a crackbaby. You know what that is. If not, Google/Wiki it.

At 18 months, I was adopted by my grandfather and step-grandmother. They are now my parents, and when you see me mention my "mom and dad" that's who I'm referring to. My real father was a convicted rapist and also a big drug dealer who was in prison for.. well, many years... close to 18, I believe. We still worried about when he would get out and what he would try to do after being released.

All three kids were born by the same mother, but my brother had a different father. He wasn't any better. Shows who my birthgiver hung out with, huh? -_- Well, needless to say, and I'm not bragging, I feel like out of us three, I was the one who came out decent. I had the worst effects of what I like to call "crackbabyism." Yet I am more intelligent, I am more responsible, I have a beautiful girlfriend whom I will be spending the rest of my life with, and most importantly, I have a career goal. My brother is the worst. He's sneaky, worthless, and will rob you blind in a second before you even realized what happened.

My sister is turning out like him. And she seems to fall in love with every guy she's ever been with. EVER.

I was the first of all 4 of us (including my older sister, who was originally my aunt) to get my license. I was the first of all 4 of us to graduate from high school at 18. That includes being held back a semester because of two classes I failed my senior year. And most importantly, I was the first of the 4 of us to go into college with a set major in mind. My older sister has chosen at least 6 now. My younger sister doesn't know what she wants to do. My brother is basically a failure. I hate to say that, but--actually, no I don't. He really is worthless.

I never really had much of a childhood. Mine came to me after my parents divorced and I was actually allowed to ride my bike away from the house. That was when I was around 13. I didn't get to play many video games as a kid. My dad was the one who bought me my first Playstation. Funny thing is, I still have it. And it still works.
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They say that the average person will take quite a few career twists, sometimes going on a completely different path. I don't consider it abnormal, but if you don't, hey, more power to you.

I think it's interesting that you know so much, but I guess that's just because you weren't adopted outside your extended family. I hardly know anything, other than the fact that I was born, like, a month early, weighed a little over 4 pounds, and had moderately bad health problems. I know the names of my birth mother and birth father (actually, they're suppose to be "confidential", but really, black markers are useless for crossing out names), their ages (16 and 25, respectively), and that I was abandoned by my birth mother because she considered it "financially and socially impossible" to raise me.

I don't really think anything of it, though. I was adopted when I was a baby. Most of my life consists of things that happened afterwards. The only thing I can think of that could have had a lasting effect on me is that I'm not very trusting, and this could possibly because of all the stuff that happened when I was that age. Oh, and my family gets ignorant questions from people because I was adopted from Korea and my parents obviously aren't Korean (but that doesn't bug me anymore).

Really, I like to think that the "bad things" in life can be made to make people stronger. Sometimes it hurts, but you just gotta go with it. My parents were really harsh, but I'm grateful, because I actually have manners, unlike my little brother. He's arrogent and takes advantage of people. My mom spoils him and she even admits to it. I don't go "boo-hoo, unfair", because it'll eventually come back to bite him, and that will be his problem. I just ought to focus on the things that I'm confronted with. My older brother is a good kid, but he drifts throughout life. That, and he isn't a critical thinker. It just seems to me that life is full of things you can do, so why waste it? That being said, I also think that I'm the "best-off" out of us. I suppose I also have a step-brother, but I don't know a lot about him.

I didn't get my first gaming system until I was, like, maybe 10 or so. I just liked to play with the kids in the neighborhood. Didn't spend much time with my family; my dad has been and still is always away from home. He even spends extra time at his work when he doesn't have to. And my mom used to be chronically sick, so she just would lie in bed all the time, but now she just spends her time reading cruddy romance novels, lol. Like, all of it. So, there's no real "family bonding" in my life, but I don't really care about that. I'm independent, and that's a good thing.
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Well I know a lot about my childhood for another reason too - I've met my birthmother more than enough times. She admitted to me that those times she was pregnant with me were "rough times" but I knew what she was doing. She's straightened up a bit, but hasn't cleaned up. Last time I talked to her was the Tuesday that I was coming home from boot camp. I called my dad's house from the train station in Chicago to let him know (I don't live with him, and didn't at the time), and my birthmother was there because she was going to my graduation. >_> Well whatever.

I like to think that as well. All the bad stuff in my life has affected me to the point where I feel like I'm a better person than my siblings and I'm a better person now than what I used to be. I used it as an excuse to complain, but I now use it as an excuse and a good reason to explain why I am this way today.

So I got a bit of a temper... that's the downside to it.
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DM, my family was much the same. My mother used Heroine and Pot, plus other things that were never confirmed. She was in and out of jail, and my father was left behind in life when I was four... And he ended up in and out of jails as well (I know because anytime I got a letter from him meant he was in Prison again and was lonely).

I was taken by my grandparents twice, each time after my mom went to prison.

Life's stupid like that sometimes. And then there's me :)
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Yeah, that's about how it works nowadays.
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To be honest, I don't remember much about my childhood, especially not my elementary school days. I think the memories all blend into one, for the most part (and I've definitely repressed a lot of the school memories, I can tell you that much). I can remember three things that were really nice, though:

1. Playing a Donkey Kong machine at an arcade in Seaside, Oregon (I would later return to that same arcade years later to play F-Zero AX and DDR)
2. Faint traces of memories from Hawaii (like, the heat outside of the hotel, a small little Pizza Hut thing in the airport, a festival with games and stuff)
3. Also faint pieces from my trip to Disneyland

I can also remember stuff from the 8th grade trip to Washington DC (which included me getting denied when I tried asking a girl out...hey, at least you can't tell me I've never tried...)

I really had a normal childhood. My parents have never had drug problems or any other risky behavior and the like, and we've lived a somewhat comfortable middle-class life (although I suspect that we're actually somewhat lower-middle-class, we always seem to be low on cash after all the bills are paid, and since my dad doesn't have a college degree he can't put his natural intellect to good use). My brother and I have rocky moments, but otherwise we get along well. The only real problem with my family is my dad's dad, who is locked up for growing marijuana in California or something like that. I'm told that if he ever comes to the house to not let him in, so that'll tell you a lot about that situation.

The one thing that interests me is that my mom told me once that we could have had an older brother (seeing as how I'm the oldest, that would make me a middle child). I actually think my life would be pretty different if I'd had two siblings instead of just one. Just how, I'm not sure. But it's interesting to think of sometimes.
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1. Playing a Donkey Kong machine at an arcade in Seaside, Oregon (I would later return to that same arcade years later to play F-Zero AX and DDR)

I know that arcade! Hahaha. I go there every time I go to the beach. Which isn't that often at all, but I still am familiar with that one. I think it's pretty cool.

I try to be careful with memories... Most people think that memories never change. But after reading about them, you kind of have to wonder sometimes. I did an activity for psych class where we had to write down what we remember about an event that happened a long time ago, and then we got someone else who was there to write about it also, in detail. When you compare the two... Well, it's just amazing, what doesn't fit up. But neither person can convince the other that their view is correct. So, you just have to wonder...
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I have to say I've never had any real major problems with family. I mean, they were strict, but hey, it makes you a better person in my opinion. I can't say I got very strong from it though, I got depressed about it for about 2 years. Mainly to do with my mum as I couldn't handle the crap that came out of her mouth sometimes. Like she would say to me I should be more like her friend's daughter, or that I'm stupid and fat and useless. Yeah, it bothered me, and it made me drift from my family a bit. Of course you can never drift totally as you live in the same house, but I did pretty much single myself out of things. Or if I did want to make an effort, I felt I was being singled out like I was an ousider. So meh... Whatever.

Life in itself has been hard, as my parents have had lots of money problems and me and my brother's would have to suffer for it too. When we lived on the island it was nice, we owned a hotel and it was always very busy. We had a lot of money and we had a big living place for all of us which was nice. But until we moved to the mainland, the money we had when selling the hotel went towards another business. It was a snackbar in a shopping complex. And it started off well, but then business dropped dramatically... It dropped so much to the point where my dad once had 4 staff including himself... Then it went to one and himself. And to make up the numbers, me and my mum needed to work there. I had to spend my time after school in that place so I hardly had a life. We bought the place at $150,000 and sold it for $10,000... That's how close we were to going bankrupt. We had to eat left overs from the store all the time so it wasn't the healthiest food. But we didn't have money to buy anything else.

And during this time, we were constantly renting houses as we had no money to buy our own. So while we would rent for like, 1-2 years, we would have to move onto another house in a whole new location. When we sold the snackbar, we ended up living with my grandpa in his house. And after a while, we got him to stay in a nursing home and we ended up inheriting a house. So yay, we finally got a place to stay perminently. And my dad is now a taxi driver - but a very good one in fact. He makes a lot of money from this job, he works about 10-12 hours a day but it pays off. My mum can't really work right now as she has kidney problems, although she is slowly getting better so she is working a few hours here and there. And I'd have to say, ever since we sold the shop they have been a bit more easy going... I guess it's because of the stress they had to deal with in that place.

There are four of us, me and my three younger brothers... But I could have had an older brother or sister. Makes me wonder about how life would have been with an older sibling. I wonder if the responsibilities I have had would have been theirs and I would have been more carefree and happy? Not sure... Not that I'll ever know but yeah, makes you wonder.

But with whatever we usually need to deal with, we are alive and well and all we can do is keeping moving forward. You never know when it will be the end so you just need to keep going and make the best of it right?
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You know, I think my family situation was and continues to be interesting...

My father is filthy rich. He doesn't say much, but he is. Thing is, he won't spend it on anything, so we're left eating food past the expiration date. Also, he's a surgeon, but he's a total fool when it comes to any of us being sick. My mom had to tell him that a temp of 108 degrees was not "just a cold".

On the other hand, we're worrying about whether or not we'll be able to keep my mom's house, because she has no money. Really. So we're really careful about these sorts of things. Needless to say, they're quite different situations, and I never really get over the surprise I get when I move from one place to the other.

I sometimes wonder about my birthparents and how many siblings I potentially have... But no matter how much I think about it, I'm not really getting closer, and I don't really have a strong desire to know, so I just leave it. No big, really. Though I would be surprised if I ended up having, like, a ton of half-siblings.
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My mum is a pretty good bargain shopper. We don't technically earn all that much money, but just enough to get by. My dad's money usually goes to paying bills so my mum only has what she earns from the government. She has started working a little in order to gain some extra money, as she doesn't have a choice even though she's sick. But whenever she shops, she always manages to get cheap stuff no matter what it is. Don't know how she does it, must be experience lol. But she mainly buys things that are close to expiring, damaged products that aren't technically bad, just torn or dropped boxes but the stuff inside is still perfect, bread which needed to sell the day it was put out but doesn't all sell so it's really cheap by the end of the day... stuff like that :P
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My childhood was normal, far more normal than all of yours, it seems. The man my mom was married to until a couple months ago isn't my biological father, but I never knew until I was almost 15, and so afterwards it didn't matter. I don't even talk to him now that they're divorced, and I've only seen my real father three or four times around when I found out. I had to pretend like I didn't know and he was supposedly just a friend of my dad's, so it was a pointless ruse.

I was generally pretty quiet at first, apparently to the point of the teacher of whatever grade I was in wanting my mom to get my tested to see if I was, well, "special". I'm glad she didn't, since even though I would have passed, I'm sure the stigma of it would have affected me and caused me to get teased a lot. I knew I liked computers and video games early on, I think I got an NES when I was about 4 or 5. I started branching out a little, but then we moved out of town, so I didn't have the chance to hang out in town like a lot of kids. Looking back, it was good, since most of those kids are now druggies. My brother was always favored over me, at least by my dad, and it's obvious why, though of course I didn't know it at the time. He's also outdoors-y and I'm not, and of course they were harsher on me and let me do less than he got to do at whatever age.

I was pretty naive, looking back, and kind of followed the suit of others, not really in the trendy sense, just mentality. It was around the beginning of high school I became who I am now. One of my friends was the trendy, impatient type, so he always decided everything, we'd always make fun of people behind their backs, even my friends, not his friends though, looking back. I always felt kind of inferior to others because of that I think. It carried on in high school, along with another friend, we kind of had egos I suppose, and then one day I just kind of realized that it was pretty lame and my morals kicked in and I distanced myself from them. A good thing, since they were part of a group along with a few others, and I think they all looked down on me. After that I was still naive, but I matured a lot.

Heh, I've had my fits of depression and despair, but none of it was really caused by my childhood, which is kind of weird, it's only been the past 4-5 years, but nonetheless, I'm a decent person now and not an influenced prick.
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