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Fen
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 What you were like as a kid.
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Hey there every buddy ^_^. I figured this would be kinda fun as well as a bit of research on my part. I'm looking for trends basically and common things among us. So if you don't have a problem with it please post up as how you were as a kid if you don't want to thats fine don't worry about it.
Thanks guys ^_^
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 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:50 am
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Luinbariel
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I don't mind in the least.
I had a brother and a sister, one five years older and one ten; I played with them when they would let me, but a lot of my time was spent playing alone outiside on the farm.
I was a very caring kid, always worrying about my friends first, well almost always 
I read a LOT. I spent all of my free summer time reading outside in the backyard in the shade of the trees. I absolutely DEVOURED books.
I was very hyper for awhile there; a very active imagination and the like. I had some close friends but there were issues with almost all of them where I would be invited over and then simply ignored, so... I learned not to trust others much. There were many cruelties at school as well based on my weight and though I was still quite innocent about believing in others, I gradually became aware of how to sheild myself against that and not be open to those kinds of attacks.
As school progressed I became less shy and gave less of a damn what my peers thought; in the end I lived for myself and was happier because of it, though of course my friends stilla lways came first, and still do.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:53 am
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ivy
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neither do i
when i was little i was pretty much the most loving little girl you could ever imagine, like ask jade it was creepy how sweet i was, concidering im the exact opposite now, but i absolutley adored animals like i still do.
lol but on a funnier note every day riding to school in elementary i would cry and pretty much have a panic attack, not from being seperated from my parents, but just from the thought that i might do poorly on homework or a test that day, i did that for about 6 years.
then i started slacking in 5th grade....thanks to mr kennedy when he told me the world wouldnt end if i did bad on a test.
and when i was 10 i began to come to realize my kin form, but this was wayyyyy before i knew what the kin were
but in 8th grade i kinda snapped and became the crazy person i am today
lol interesting bio, i know
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:34 am
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Nanara
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Um... can you be more specific about your question hun? I mean... what I was like as a child is a pretty broad subject. I could write a novella on it...
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:42 am
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Fen
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Personality wise and just some experiences you've had.....
I'll go I guess....
Well I was an only child so I spent alot of time alone. I was very close with my grandmother and loved her dearly. I was a fun loving kid and social when put in that situation. But I liked being alone so I didn't do much. When I was about 8 I got my first real friend and came out of my shell alittle bit more. I still spent time alone but also alot of time with my friend. I was never a shy child I just didnt like people. I still dont. Um I was never really close with anyone but my grandma who would later basically leave for her new husband. My father is an alchoholic so he never was really a father to me.
I wasn't very out going and was fine with it. I didn't have to have straight A's or anything to validate myself. I was always attached to animals particularly anything that could fly and canines. I started to come undone in about 6th grade when I knew something was wrong with me.
I awakened slightly around 7th grade and almost fully during 8th. Because of my awakening I've become even more with drawn and embrace my being alone alot more. Now I have trouble talking to people and telling secretes about myself. I completely isolated myself from humanity and society for two years and only did what i had to do in terms of interaction.
So thats me in a nut shell....
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:36 am
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kahoku
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my childhood was terrible. i was abused (not sexually), beat up, neglected, isolated, mobbed, and many more things. only now i got the chance to go through all that again with a psychologist who is openly amazed at my sanity after all this. as am i.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 2:28 pm
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My childhood rocked. As a teenager things also pretty much rocked, and I was what I think is termed a "smart jock". Anyone surprised by this really shouldn't be.
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Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:34 pm
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Shiari
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Letsee... As a child, my mother and I moved around a lot. My parents divorced when I was only 5 or 6 so it didn't really impact me that much. I have one older brother, by 7 1/2 years.
Even from the earliest I was terribly terribly protective of animals. I would go after other kids who were doing things like pulling the legs off of a beetle, or chase cats that had just caught birds. I did then, and still do, 'rescue' potato bugs and worms from sidewalks and puddles. I was exceedingly tomboyish, and pretty much shunned most other females who wanted to play with dolls or just sit and chat. Boring. However, the boys weren't too sure what to make of a girl who went "ooooo!" at toads thrust into view rather than "EEEEEK!", so I didn't have many friends. But even then, I prefer a few close friends to many acquaintances. I had an early love of horses, and running, and even at age 6 would play at growing food and making shelters and weapons and stoofs. I made a pretty decent bow-thing out of two rods tied to form a wide X with a rubber band set in notches across the top. My mom was amused by it and asked to try.... and shot a small dowel straight across the living room and through the safety of the fireplace. That thing could have easily taken out a bird. I think I was 9 when I made it.
I also loved dinosaurs, specifically the small theropods. Around age 9 or 10 whenever I and my friends would play 'pretend', I was *always* a troodon that could hover in the air. Starting 6th grade, I had evil spiteful teacher from the darkest depths of hell... She actually encouraged the class to mock me. I did have major attention problems (woo! ADHD of unusual severity!), but still. If I tried to defend myself, I got in trouble. This led to my development of an extremely formidable temper, which often got the better of me. The last time my temper got away from me I stabbed a kid in the arm with a pencil. I ... whited out... for it. O_o It was like I was sitting in a white place, watching a movie of my body's actions. I even walked myself to the principle's office without prompting... after putting the pencil back neatly on my desk. The aggressive part of me is not at all ashamed by this, but the healer part still feels bad for having done it. Typically the aggressive part wins over because it has 4 months of torment to back it up. After that I moved schools and all was fine and dandy. At age 10 to 11 I began repressing the feelings that the "hovering dino" WAS me, because I wanted to be a good christian, and had finally "realised" that according to christianity, I couldn't have a non-human soul because only humans had souls to begin with... (BAH I SAY!). Then about 4 years later, when I was 14 or so, I got Cluex4'd with full phantom everything. By then my personality was pretty well set (though I've gotten much more cynical/jaded) into the role of guardian/healer. Will defend with great vigor, but I'd rather be helping things than harming.
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:55 am
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Nanara
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I had a pretty crap childhood. Some of the real bad stuff I ain't going to put up here. My mum ran away from my dad after he went ape and starting hitting her and doing crazy things like jumping out of second story windows and jumping into the acid bath at the meat works where he worked (he was later diagnosed as severely bipolar and severely suicidal.. so.. ah well). Mum grabbed some clothes and my bother (3) and I (5) and ran. We lived for about six months in an abandoned house, until social services and family friends helped mum into a real house with furniture and stuff. From then we moved often, about every six months. I changed schools a bit.. so I didn't really make many friends.. I was social, but also solitary, and I prefered one-on-one social connections rather than group stuff. When I was ten we moved about six hours drive away from my crappy family and a lot of the worries of living in a province in the middle of a three way gang war. We moved in with a guy, who became my step dad, who was a teacher at the local school. We stayed in one place for about four or five years.. which was nice. I got a little more social... even got into a group of girls who were the "cool" kids.. that was before cool meant mean and bitchy of course.. I was like 13. Then I committed the most heinous crime amongst other preteen girls.. I was made a hall monitor at a dance.. and my responsibility was to tell the teachers if I saw cigarettes, alcahol or drugs. My group of cool friends... drunk and smoked a lot.. and being the serious moral I was at the time, I dobbed on them... social suicide for three years. I spent the next three years hiding in the library reading and/or writing because no one wanted to befriend the dobber. I was very lonely.. but I made the most of it by immersing myself in fantastic worlds of fiction and science fiction. At the age of 14 I had the reading age of a 20 year old. When I was sixteen a small group of "freaks" came together, and let me into their group. So for the last two years of my highschooling I actually had friends.
I was always an independent individual, even as a little child I wouldn't do something because someone told me to do it, they had to tell me why. My dad.. when I was like five or something, decided that I had to be a girly girl. I was a singlet shorts and gumboots girl.. and he tried to put a frilly dress me. I sat on the bed, arms crossed in my undies and simply refused to put the stupid thing on. When I was about six, one of my aunties was getting married, and I was chosen to be the flower girl (mostly cause I was the only female cousin out of diapers). But my aunties converged on me... and tried to curl my hair (I was a blond up until the age of about 12, but my hair was dead straight then). They tried to curl a six year old's hair.. would you believe it?? But I willed it to fall out, I liked my hair the way it was.. and I knew I was never going to be good at girly anyway. And it fell out! I felt so victorious .. it still makes me grin.. I don't know how old I was.. but I had a favorite uncle, he was a real sweetheart.. but, he liked to eat fish eyes, and I thought it was disgusting. One day, he tricked me into watching him eat fish eyes. I didn't talk to him for several years. In fact, I don't think I directly spoke to him ever again.
I never fitted in anywhere, at any age in my life, even now. The only way I managed to fit into places and with people was to learn to mimic their words and their behavior. When I am completely myself, I often get all sorts of negative reactions. So, since I was 9 years old and I realized how strange I was to other people, I started learning how to mimic "acceptable" behavior so I could fit in enough to keep under people's radar. The only place I am remotely myself is here, everywhere else is a mask of conformity, enough to fit in but not so much that I suffocate.
Hrm... any more anecdotes needed? Maybe not.. can't think of any more.
(Edited for typos *puts the Axe of Typo Gremlin Obliteration away*)
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Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:38 am
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kenshin
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Um, I'm not even an adult yet legally, so I don't know what I can really say.
I can say that over the years, I've grown more critical, pessimistic, better with friends, and open-minded to trying new things. Other than that my general personality has been pretty constant (I've always been inquisitive, disorganized, a bit odd, had unique interests, had a great relationship with my family, etc.).
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Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:01 am
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Rein
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When I was a kid...I lived in my own little world. I was always a bundle of energy and imagination. I lived out in the country with my mom, dad, and our animals. For a good while I was hardly aware of other human beings. They were like two-dimensional background characters I only saw once in awhile. I mean, we had neighbors. I just didn't care about them. I was only interested in nature. I used to love fishing and taking walks through the reeds with my dog and cats.
I was the same as I am now, I guess. Always thinking, making up stories. If things didn't make sense, I made them make sense. I had no limitations. Fairies, magic, all that was a daily thing. And I was spoiled, really spoiled. Back then my dad still had a high-paying job so I got whatever I wanted.
For awhile, I'd say between the ages of 5 and 7, there was weird stuff happening to me. Like, once I jumped off the top of the stairs and I could swear I floated down. I used to wake up with glitter-like dust on my face. (My dad interrogated my older sister about this because he thought she'd done it) Still do this day I can't explain it. But I guess that's why I've always had such a love for the paranormal. It was just a normal part of living for me.
Of course, eventually I found out that other people existed. I found out some people really SUCKED. We moved, dad lost his job, I was culture-shocked by the suburbs. Got let down alot. Got picked on alot. Went through a period of trying to fit in and trying to learn what was so cool about rap and boys and sex. Made enemies. Found out that painting graffiti was kind of cool. For awhile, between ages 9 and 13, I was busy being a scene kid, but still fighting imaginary demons and monsters with my friends on weekends. Eventually I found magic again, or rather magic found me. Did some really stupid things, got over it, went on to become a better person.
And here I am at 16. Basically my life has been Fairytale-Sucky-Fairytale.
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I had a rather nasty childhood. I was the result of a teenage pregnancy so I spent the first couple years of my life living with my mother and grandmother. My father disappeared when I was two and my mother married some abusive jerk. When I was three I was molested by a police officer. At one point I was living in a tiny run-down house with 18 other family members. My mother divorced the previously mentioned abusive jerk and we moved back in with my grandmother. Eventually my mother married another abusive jerk and maintains that marriage to this day. I moved around quite a bit and before 5th grade I had gone to nine different schools. I'm the oldest child of three girls. I developed my Psi vampirism when I was 10, developed Sang vampirism as well with I was 13, and awoke as an Otherkin when I was 15. I was diagnosed with Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Social Anxiety, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder when I was 15, and Severe Clinical Depression when I was 16. And last but not least, two suicide attempts.
I was always a scaredy little kid and was constantly afraid of doing anything, so I was never very adventurous. I would sit in my room, avoiding my family, and would either read or play by myself. I was always quiet, shy, and reclusive. I was a little odd and didn't attract many friends, but I liked it that way because I am misanthropic and distrusting of people in general. I was rather intellectual and love learning about anything outside of the norm.
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Yes, I'm totally reviving this thread, because I wanted to make a topic on it, but searched first. 
As a kid, I moved around a lot during the the younger part. And I probably seemed pretty bipolar; I could be sweet and caring, but then turn right around and be a mother's worst nightmare. I was also an adventure-aholic: I did all sorts of dangerous things that would probably make my mother cringe to this day, if she knew about them. I'm talking about walking on the edge of a cliff; trying to rescue a vulture that got hit by a car; climbing on and old, beaten down barn and nearly falling through; jumping into the river from high up in the trees; throwing rocks at cars from the top of fore-mentioned cliffs, etc.
I almost always had friends growing up, usually a best friend or two that I would latch on to, and then a few acquaintances that I would play with here and there; I made friends easily. I loved recess, as most kids did. I was very athletic, trying to play football with the guys, or being chased by guys with mistletoe. I also liked to play a lot of pretend games: pretend to be an animal (usually a cat). Or, alternately, a dinosaur. I had three main animal obsessions as a kid: dinosaurs (Coelophysis ftw), cats, and horses.
I also loved to make things, and draw. Like Shiari, I liked weapons I can't tell you how many wooden daggers I made out of cedar. I would carve them until they had a nice point, then put electric tape around the bottom to make a handle. I also distinctly remember making toy animals at recess out of twigs and acorns. ...I made forts and hung hammacks and all sorts of fun stuff in the woods; I loved the woods. I would spend most of my time there. Having hundreds of acres, I loved to explore.
And I just loved animals in general (heh, hasn't changed). I almost always had a pet that would follow me around, and I loved to watch the birds and such. I tried to rescue so many animals, heh.I also absolutely loved riding horses; I did a lot of that as a kid. I have a picture of me as a young child, probably about 4 years old, sitting on a horse (yes, horse, not pony) and being led around by my mom. I could ride a horse on my own, no help, since I was about 8 years old. I also racked up a lot of interesting stories about how an animal would trust me immediately when he/she wouldn't trust anyone else.
As I got older, probably from about 9 on, I became wilder and more rebellious. As a young teenager (and later, too) I got very into drugs, alcohol, partying, graffiti, rule-breaking, and even law-breaking. But hey, I absolutely loved it, and had a blast. Up until I was about 17, I was very social, and knew pretty much everybody. I had a close group of friends, but also many less-close friends. I went through several boyfriends and girlfriends, and just basically had the time of my life. But still, I needed my daily dose of alone time, and had no problem asking my friends to leave to get it. Luckily, they always understood. And even during these years, I spent a lot of time outside. During the summer (and the warm parts of the rest of the year), you could find me at the river with a bunch of people for at least 14 hours a day.
Anyway, that's me in a nutshell- a total hooligan with a soft side for animals.
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I moved every four years or so growing up because of one of my parents being in the military.
Before I was four, I was a relatively happy kid--very friendly and outgoing and I enjoyed being around people. After I was four, due to a medical problem that arose and that persists to this day, I grew withdrawn and pessimistic. I became kind of anti-social and not wanting to be with too many kids because I was constantly being picked on about the way I walk. It was hard for me to make friends, so whenever I moved it I would usually have one or two friends I would socialize with. It was never anything too deep, I'd move again and never talk to the people again. I started to write to help me get my feelings out and not go crazy. I rarely hung out with anyone outside of school, and I stopped staying over at houses when I was 12.
So, that's what I was like as a kid. I'm still like that--I'm still terrified of talking to people and am socially awkward, even when I'm trying to be nice people have a tendency to stay away from me.
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:31 am
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Talin
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I don't remember most of my young childhood, due to a few specific, traumatic incidents and the on-going abuse by my older brother (he's older by 9 years). Apparently, up until I was 5, I was extremely outgoing, energetic, adventurous and the like. When I was 5, I started to become more withdrawn and quiet, although I can remember playing in the sand pit in our yard with our landlord's grandkids. I was a huge bookworm, too. I was in a K/1 split class, so I learned a lot, and even got awards for reading 100 books in the year. At 8 I had another personality change, becoming even *more* withdrawn, and beginning my spiral into depression and anxiety. My parents and I suspect that I was sexually abused from ages 5 to 8, but we don't know for sure, it's more impression and extrapolation than anything else, and we all came to that idea separately.
Also during the time I was 5-8, we lived in a very... "active" house. I was terrified of the pool house, the basement, my room was dark, even with the sun shining in and all the lights on, and I once saw a black shadow move across my bedroom wall. I'm also pretty sure that a woman was murdered on the property, although I have no proof, never heard anything like that, it's just an impression I had.
My memories don't really start until I was 10. I remember my favorite thing to do at school was play with my one particular friend, Charlie. She was awesome. Sometimes we'd go to the library and draw and write stories, other times we would play this really crazy role-playing game. She managed to play 3 characters at once LOL A wolf, my character's sister and their father. The family members were nuts, but her wolf was awesome LOL
Anyway. By grade 6, I had to beg and plead with the librarian at my school to let me take out books from the high school section. Despite being very intelligent, my grades were sliding down, since I didn't see the point in school and just didn't bother to apply myself to it. Oh, and back in grade 5, I'd started having health problems, headaches mostly, and started going to the doctor and specialists for it. By grade 6 it was affecting my school work.
The summer between grades 6 and 7 I was suicidal for the first time, although I never attempted. My fear of disappointing my parents was stronger than my desire to stop living. In grade 8, my socials/French teacher, who apparently liked 13-year-old girls, spent the semester "accidentally" feeling me up. I went to the cops, they couldn't do anything, but she was fired, and never did go back to teaching.
Never finished grade 9, or 10, or 10 the second time, or 11, or a third of the university courses I took after that. Combination of health, depression, anxiety, etc.
And that is my childhood in a nutshell.
As an aside, though, I've finally been officially diagnosed with depression, GAD (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) and OCD, and am on medication for it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:50 am
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