Weird Stuff You did as a Kid

[Georgia Avenue]

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!)

[samjjones]

Next round's on me.

[Tennenbaum]

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.

[miajag]

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

[NT!]

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.

[george w]

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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.

[Tennenbaum]

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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.

[TiK]

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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.

[NT!]

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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.

NT

[Big_L]

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