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Based on this cool thread. ... What sorts of odd and inexplicable things did you do as a kid?

I had a million insane habits...I was borderline OCD and diagnosed with "magical thinking" which is a cool symptom to have IMO.

One thing I would do is sit for several hours in the shower everyday. This went on from when I was maybe 8 to 11 y.o. I would pretend that I lived in ancient Rome and was a homeless ascetic holyman of some bizarre religious sect who lived in a one room cell with a view right onto the street. Sometimes I would travel through time to the middle ages and live in Elizabethan London or Baroque Vienna. Imaginary people would come to me for advice and I’d don my washcloth and have conversations with them in which I’d instruct them about the mysteries of the universe and foment revolutionary political action. The ruling authorities always wanted to get rid of me but they knew my secret society of disciples would revolt if they did.

“Who are you talking to in there?” my parents would ask.
“I’m not talking…what you mean?” (Crazier than telling the truth—you make the call!)

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Next round's on me.

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Oh,Georgia Ave.

We are some kind of crazy. I think I did weird stuff...but I don't know if I could really elaborate the details. I had a horrible need to apologize to inanimate objects after I would get really angry and treat them improperly. Not necessarily out loud. But I would have to make it right by like picking them up and in my head telling them I was sorry. I'd get wicked anxious if I didnt.

I also would sit in my closet (which was just big enough for this plastic toy box) and I would sit in the toy box full of toys. I would just talk to myself or read in there.

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards of a week without doing so.

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I used to spend like a whole day dreaming up scenarios in which everyone I knew was engaged in apocalyptic battles in warehouses with Nazis and stuff. This was when I was 7 or 8. I would get really worked up over it too.

I also used to sleep completely covered by blankets with just a tiny hole to look out of, no matter how hot it was.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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I used to spend like a whole day dreaming up scenarios in which everyone I knew was engaged in apocalyptic battles in warehouses with Nazis and stuff. This was when I was 7 or 8. I would get really worked up over it too.

I also used to sleep completely covered by blankets with just a tiny hole to look out of, no matter how hot it was.

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I did that last part. But it was because I was afraid of ET and Gremlins. I didnt even have a hole to look out of. I'd be covered in sweat when I woke up sometimes.

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards of a week without doing so.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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Weren't you people in pain? It must a) hurt to not poop for so long and b) be even more painful when you finally do have to poop that rockhard gigantor [censored] out.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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i thought this too, but not because i didn't poop. i was a total hypochondriac. i convinced myself i had AIDS when i was ten years old.

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ET SCARED THE PISSED OUT OF ME as a kid. LOL. Look at the thing, it is like a rejected california rasin

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I also used to sleep completely covered by blankets with just a tiny hole to look out of, no matter how hot it was.

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I did that last part. But it was because I was afraid of ET and Gremlins. I didnt even have a hole to look out of. I'd be covered in sweat when I woke up sometimes.

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Wow...its like an OOt-epidemic...I did this too. I got the idea from some Bill Cosby record that if I didn't do it the monsters would get me. But I also had to sleep on my back in case a scorpion tried to sting me on the ass (got this idea from some awful kids book). This continued until I was 12, though... [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Wait you were afraid of ET? You're freaking nuts, dude.

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In 6th grade I wrote stories for my English class about this one kid in the class. I called him Deadly Dan, and in each story he would kill other kids in the class in crazy, violent ways. I read them aloud in front of the class sometimes and everybody loved them.

I also used to notes and fold them up in that way that you fold nots in middle school (you know what I'm talking about) and them leave them right on top of the trash can so someone would take them and read them and start a controversy. I remember one specifically had a drawing of a stick figure in the middle of crosshairs. An arrow pointing to the stick figure said "Alan" (a kid in class), and an arrow pointing to the crosshairs said "my gun's sight". Another one had a creepy poem where I talked about killing myself. Neither of them was serious, I was just hoping someone would find them and there would be a big fuss all over the school trying to figure out who wrote them.

Weird.

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards of a week without doing so.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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Weren't you people in pain? It must a) hurt to not poop for so long and b) be even more painful when you finally do have to poop that rockhard gigantor [censored] out.

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Yeah, it was basically a vicious cycle of putting it off for a week and then finally crapping out this monster rock-hard turd when it got too painful. My parents thought something was wrong with me so were constantly making me drink prune juice and take constipation medicine but the reality was i just didn't want to go. I did this till like middle school btw. By that point I wasn't "afraid" of it per se, it was just a habit.

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A neighbor-kid, now a top executive with a large broadcasting company, used to like to be "nature boy," using various spots in the neighborhood as his personal latrine. He was a couple years older than us but we still would throw snowballs, acorns, pebbles, etc. at him whenever we caught him dropping deuce in someone's yard. The kid kept this up until we were in middle school. By then we had graduated to BB guns and pellet guns.

So if you're on Newbury St. in Boston and you see some dude hop out of his Benz in a $5000 suit and then drop trow in public, that's the guy. Crazy mfer... now a crazy rich mfer.

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The Bill Cosby thing reminds me of something else, on one of the few episodes I saw (my parents generally didn't allow me to watch shows with black people in them) Bill was talking about grounding one of his kids. I had never been grounded and didn't know what it was, so somehow I got the idea in my head that the kid was actually being ground up, like in a meat grinder. That alone made me a really good kid for like 3 years because I was so terrified of getting "grounded."

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i was a total hypochondriac.



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me too. i had various forms of imagined cancer growing up. actually i'm still a nut job about this kinda stuff.

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards of a week without doing so.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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Weren't you people in pain? It must a) hurt to not poop for so long and b) be even more painful when you finally do have to poop that rockhard gigantor [censored] out.

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yeah it was pretty painful. on the bright side i have a really high tolerance for pain and discomfort now.

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards 2 weeks without doing so.

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The Bill Cosby thing reminds me of something else, on one of the few episodes I saw (my parents generally didn't allow me to watch shows with black people in them) Bill was talking about grounding one of his kids. I had never been grounded and didn't know what it was, so somehow I got the idea in my head that the kid was actually being ground up, like in a meat grinder. That alone made me a really good kid for like 3 years because I was so terrified of getting "grounded."

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This story is hilarious but this made me totally sad. WTF?

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OP's thing is fantastic. I do that now once in a while to a lesser extent. Get in the bath (not filled up all the way) and turn the shower on. It's like you're in a tropical paradise. The lighting should also be carefully planned.

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True story. My parents are somewhat racist and also somewhat anti-television in general, so combine the two and they would get kind of mad whenever they caught me watching The Cosby Show or The Jeffersons or whatever.

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I was afraid of pooping for some reason and would often go upwards of a week without doing so.

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ha me too. i was like this up until about the third grade i think. good times, good times. i also thought there was no way i'd make it to 18.

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Weren't you people in pain? It must a) hurt to not poop for so long and b) be even more painful when you finally do have to poop that rockhard gigantor [censored] out.

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yeah it was pretty painful. on the bright side i have a really high tolerance for pain and discomfort now.

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On a related note, I have a friend nicknamed poocasso (given by his mom) as a kid because of the scatological masterpieces he would leave on the wall.

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In 6th grade I wrote stories for my English class about this one kid in the class. I called him Deadly Dan, and in each story he would kill other kids in the class in crazy, violent ways. I read them aloud in front of the class sometimes and everybody loved them.


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Wow, that reminds me of something i haven't thought about in a long time. In our 6th/7th grade English class one kid started this whole ongoing story about one of the guys named Greg who was Gerginator in his stories and would try to kill an ewok (Lindsey in our class) with a highlighter. I don't know why, but we all loved it. Except for Greg and Lindsey, who were now referred to solely as Gerginator and Ewok for the next two years.

Weird stuff I did:

-I remember whenever i was in the car as a kid i'd take the ice scraper and pretend to shoot things out the window non-stop.

-My brother was really good at video games and i wasn't so it wasn't fun to play against him so i became his "manager" in a car racing games. I'd track all the medals he won and how much they were allegedly worth and stuff.

-I don't know how i didn't get beat up for this, but i somehow convinced myself in grade school that i needed to run laps around the playground during recess to train for my future professional sports career. I think i did it from 1st-3rd grade. I wouldn't do it the whole time, but i'd run a couple laps then go find my friends.

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Haha, I did this too. Pretended my parents' station wagon was a WWII bomber and I was the tail gunner.

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wow.

I was expecting to read things like "I ate my boogers" or "I used to stink-palm" myself.

I was a normal kid growing up. Basketball, baseball, football. GI Joe, He-man and the Masters of the Universe. [censored] like that.

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I used squashed bugs on the windshield to aim an imaginary laser.

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I was playing hockey on my bed with my toys and I was keeping accurate stats for teams and players. My favorite toys always ended up winning the scoring title.

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wow.

I was expecting to read things like "I ate my boogers" or "I used to stink-palm" myself.

I was a normal kid growing up. Basketball, baseball, football. GI Joe, He-man and the Masters of the Universe. [censored] like that.

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WHAT ARE YOU HIDING SHAJEN

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NT:

Ever read The World According to Garp?

I was like Garp's father when I was 6.

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I ate dirt. You guys were much more interesting little kids.

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wow.

I was expecting to read things like "I ate my boogers" or "I used to stink-palm" myself.

I was a normal kid growing up. Basketball, baseball, football. GI Joe, He-man and the Masters of the Universe. [censored] like that.

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I think not having a strange childhood quirk would make you abnormal.

FREAK!

I alway tried to be a good kid. So when I did bad things I was convinced it wasn't me, it was the germs inside my head. I would say things like, "Mommy it wasn't my fault, the germs mixed up my mind." Of course this would make my parents even more angry because they thought I was trying to lie to them. But I was really convinced at the time the germs were [censored] with my head.

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Wow, there are some weird MFers in this thread, with GA probably winning the crown right out of the gate.

I grew up playing jr. golf, and we had a gravel front yard. My old man was mostly sedentary and pretty useless as far as house upkeep went, so he didn't seem to mind that I turned the front yard into a golf course. The house was on a somewhat busy corner no less.

I used my feet to clear out bare patches for nine greens and two teeboxes per hole. I used a putter to carve out a hole on each green - which, since they weren't too deep, would punish putts hit too hard as they would roll out the other side. I then made a double-sided scorecard, one side had a little map, the other side had the distance for each hole from each tee (in feet), par, handicap, and several rows in which to write your score.

You'd just play with a putter, obv. It was a pretty legit par 36 with two par 5s and two par 3s and enough terrain, trees, and obstacles to make the course interesting. To me, anyway. Plus the gravel created enough variance that hitting it onto the bare "green" meant something.

For some reason I never considered that people driving, walking, or riding by may consider me putting on our gravel front yard to be a little strange.

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I was playing hockey on my bed with my toys and I was keeping accurate stats for teams and players. My favorite toys always ended up winning the scoring title.

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I did something similar to this. I would throw a tennis ball at the steps in front of my house and, depending on where the ball ended up after it bounced, I would determine if it was a single, double, etc. I'd have the Phillies play somebody, and I'd keep stats for how they did. I used to keep full rosters. I guess that's pretty weird.

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I set leprechaun traps over clover patches as late as 2nd grade or so.

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When I was a kid me and a friend of mine had a whole lego city with stores, a castle, people, friends etc. We played with that for like a month.

We also used to dress up in full army fatigues and run around out neighbor hood doing all different types of missions.

I wonder what people thought driving by seeing three kids decked out in military clothes donning bb guns. he he he

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I think this is normal...everyone I know did this.

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Me, my brother and a couple friends invented this game where we were all either drug dealers or undercover agents, and the drug that we dealt in was called "boap," which was actually soap, represented by the courtesy soap bars they used to give out in Hiltons.

We had thousands of them from years of going swimming there and stealing a few each time.

So it was a pretty elaborate game, with badges, busts, boap deals gone awry. We had currency, which a few of us went to Kinko's and counterfeited one time.

Inflation was a bitch, we were all worth trillions.

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I just thought of something else. A friend and I set up a detective agency to combat all the crime going down in our rural south jersey neighborhood. We determined that someone our age had a major drug problem. That was our biggest case. I think we were 7 or 8 years old. We used code names for everything in case someone found our files.

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These elaborate games are a little odd, but if you had friends then it was just being imaginative. No offense but you may be normal.

Another weird thing about me is that I was basically a never nude. When I was really little (6-7) I refused to change my underwear because if I did the monsters would fly through the windows and kill me. When I did change I did it very quickly so they wouldn't notice. I would cover my junk with washcloths in the shower, even when I wasn't time traveling. I was never sexually abused either--just plain weird. I'm odd now, but so much less than you'd expect based on how f-in nuts I was as a kid...

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This isn't that weird but me and my friends would play American Gladiators in the backyard. The best one was the assualt. Since I had every type of nerf gun we would make cardboard box stations and have a different gun for each station, while the 'gladiator' sat on top of the monkey bars with the target next to him. His gun looked like this:
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It was a badass game.

I also started my own comic strips. One had aliens I made up and the other was called revenge of the turkeys. They were pissed off about thanksgiving so they went on a rampage and started killing humans.