I Was a Strange Child

I wasn't ever much of a 'typical' child.

1. I spent most of my time alone. Much of it was spent finding books and reading in my room for hours on end, going through several books in a single day some times. I spent a lot of time...

Sometimes when I see family I haven't seen in a while, my strange childhood behavior still gets brought up. Some things I do remember having done as a child, others I don't, but other family members do and they tell me. My sisters...

Let's put it like this: my best friends were flies and spiders.
Whenever I saw a spider I'd carry it around and show it to everybody, one friend of my mum always ran away and started shouting haha. I never really understood it, I...

I was different as a kid. I won't kid around, I'm different now. As a child though it stood out more because of all the eyes looking at me trying to decide about me. Parents, teachers, counselors and family. "What's wrong with her" some...

i use to love learning about world war two i remember in fifth grade i actually taught the teacher some things, and in third grade i was obsessed with ancient Egyptian culture i loved it , and when i was even younger i was into religion...

When I'd just started at a new school,I was a bit nervous on my first day,as no doubt most kids are in this situation. The lady teacher(in her 20's,old I thought when I was 8. Well,at 8,you have no perception of older people's ages...

In elementary school we were expected to do a weekly current events summary. Some people would do sports... some did politics.... others did celebrities.
 
ME? What did i do summaries on?
 
Obituaries. Between 2-5 grade i...

I have always been very different from other people. I was the kid who you'd see in section of the playground all by herself. If I was with a crowd I was ether getting ignored or verbally bullied. I never had many friends becuse other...

If you think about it, being a child is about being stranger than you are now. It was normal to talk to yourself, normal to have a crazily wild imagination, normal to run around in circles, normal to have imaginary friends, and normal...

...i was so unloved and badly treated at home by my father and stepmother that, yearning for love and normalcy so badly, i sought the love of people who were not in my immediately family--whether family members outside of my immediate...

when iwas a child i would have vivid dreams. I would dream i was a young woman in ancient egypt and a child slave. I was about 6 when this began. My father refused to listen after i told him i had witnessed him being put to death on a...

When I was little I was afraid to use the bathroom because I was convinced there was a monster that lived in the toilet. I would hold myself til I couldn't hold it anymore. I tried to hurry up I didn't want to sit on the toilet to long...

Since I was a child I was a strange creation, my parents said I always said things that made them take a double take with a "huu?"
For example, my mom and dad were talking about someone, I was about 4 years old, and...

I was really into Greek mythology when I was a kid. I was always putting a little stuffed owl on my shoulder, a sheet around me, and running around being Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and War. My best friend at the time was really into...

Because I know that a good deal of the stories I can foresee putting on this site will be rather melancholy in tone and content, I thought I would share something of a more humorous, if embarrassing, nature.
I was five years old and...

I have HUNDREDS of notebooks from when i was a kid. I'd fill them up with drawings and stories, poems and lyrics...sound familiar? yeah. Not too far from this account. Haha not much has changed. Still weird.
I was really popular in...

I used to wear weird clothes - or wear things that weren't supposed to be worn that way (a vintage skirt as a dress & add belt)  or make something (badly).
 
I now justify that by designing clothes...heehee