Weird stuff you did as a child

I got myself and my siblings banned from anything Rocky And Bullwinkle related when I was little (yes, something as innocuous as Rocky and Bullwinkle) because I kept repeating a phrase Bullwinkle said in some old PC game starring them whenever you quit ("Aw shucks, do you really have to go?"), and caused her to think I had picked up a swear word from it when I Mondegreened it (specifically the "Aw shucks" part) into something sounding like a swear word. (She smashed the CD as well.)

"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"

While not as odd as other entries to this thread, I guess these few things deserve a mention.

• When I was in like, kindergarten I believe, I had trouble socializing with the other kids (not that my social skills ever improved, heheh) so I would typically run around the playground pretending to be Yoshi. I had (still have) a SNES on which I loved to play Yoshi's Island and SMW because I loved Yoshi. But...I would run around making Yoshi noises, and it was stupid. I also liked to be Link if I were to find a stick, and I would "sword fight" with air.
• Also, when most of us were little kids, we had pretty creative imaginary friends. Mine was perhaps the most boring and uncreative in the history of mankind. His name was Triangle Head, and he's exactly what he sounds like... imagine basically a flesh colored bald naked man of Barbie Doll Anatomy with a sideways triangle for a head. He had no mouth; just eyes and a pink ball for a nose. I think he was the first character I'd ever created. Kinda Hilarious in Hindsight because once Phineas and Ferb came out, my parents always said Phineas looked exactly liked a clothed Triangle Head.

...Admittedly, he does.

edited 8th Dec '16 10:09:29 AM by arimothereindeer

"Don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened."

I ate notebook paper, hair, and alfoil.

Tried to make a country of my own...named after my cousin.

Oh, and also had an imaginary friend that made some adults pretty creeped out. Considering that I explained her in some detail (well, for a 5-year old).

Kind of a tame example, but I used to melt crayons (or pieces of candle wax) with my desk lamp.

edited 10th Dec '16 7:25:47 PM by ActualBeatrice

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My hatred of Animaniacs as a kid led me to do some rather extreme things:

• I stopped watching anything on FOX Kids and never touched Kids' WB.

• After making the mistake of telling a classmate which segment of the show I hated the most, he continued to tease me well into 9th grade for it. I spent a lot of time going out of the way to avoid him, but finally buried the hatchet with him before high school ended.

• After the Warners made a cameo in a Freakazoid episode, I swore off that show (which was easy, since I didn't get Cartoon Network at home at the time, and only watched it at my aunt's or grandma's).

• I happen to have relatives with the last name Warner, and it took some convincing to get me to go their family reunion.

• It also took me some convincing to play a Pac-Man clone called "Maniac" because the name was similar.

• I swore off Arthur books because one of the characters was named Brain.

• I stopped eating ice cream for a few months because one of the Happy Meal toys was Dot in an ice cream cart.

Seriously, it's amazing how quickly I went from "we gotta get home in time to watch Animaniacs" to "The theme song is stupid, but the rest of the show is OK" to "KILL IT WITH FIRE" all within the summer of '94.

Something I did as a kid that still sticks with me today. I love burgers. They're one of my top 47 favourite foods. And how does the normal human eat a burger? 2 of the most common ways are:

1. Simply grab it with two or one hands and chomp it.

2. Cut the burger in half and eat it like a sandwich.

And personally, I go with number one...on one occasion. When-ether we get takeout (usually Mc Donalds) I would take my buns off, peel the pickle...and then take the patty and eat that like a meat snack. I don't know why, but with every other burger I eat, I eat it like normal but for some weird reason, take away burgers require that one way to eat it. I have no idea why.

" I'm the princess! Everyone has to do what I say!"

I used to take tissue paper, wet it and eat it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u8p-tnJWGo

There was a time when I was little when I would always go commando for little to no reason. That wound up biting me in the butt numerous times, such as one time when I went to church like that and wound up having to hold my pants up the whole time because they were too big. The incident that made me never go without underwear again, however, was one day when I was about eight and put on some sweatpants that I didn't release had a hole in the front and....well, I won't go into the details, but let's just say that I immensely embarrassed myself and there's a perfectly good reason why I always wear underwear after that.

"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"

I once used the I Wish It Were Real trope for a different than expected purpose.

This one time, I said "I wish Pokémon were real. :) Then I could train them to be my unholy army of the night. " My friend Max's reaction to that was priceless: "Aw, not Pikachu! He's too cute to be evil! D:" XD

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Pikachu's too cute to be evil? Are you sure about that?◊

I haven't played the particular game that Tango is from, but still... robo kitty. :D

Touche. XD

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I could never get mad at losing at Super Mario Bros. 3 because I thought Mario's/Luigi's lose-a-life sprites looked completely hilarious, like they were making a silly face as they jumped off the screen. The usual music didn't help much. (The only time I got mad while playing the game was from outside influences like my older sister blocking the screen as I was playing.)

(Also, Twentington, I'm curious as to how you developed such a hatred for Animaniacs that you rejected anything that barely had to do with the show. Was there a particular story behind how you wound up hating the show so much as a kid?)

"I shall not be foolish again, my dear Gwendolyn!"

That reminds me...

Have you ever played a game since you were young and gotten worse as you got older? I used to be able to beat Boolossus, but now I'm stuck on him!

I haven't played the particular game that Tango is from, but still... robo kitty. :D

There was a certain segment that I absolutely could not stand. I made the mistake of telling a classmate, and both he and his peers would tease me about it. Constantly. For years. Even after the show went off the air.

Which segment was it?

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Wheel of Morality. See, when I was a kid, I had this odd assburger hangup on how things had similar or identical names. Like, I got mad whenever I saw someone else who had my IRL name, and I couldn't watch Pepper Ann because it was already confusing enough that two different foods were both called pepper. And I've always been a big Wheel of Fortune fan ever since I was a little kid, so having a segment only one word off from one of my favorite TV shows was just infuriating.

Granted, it's far from the only issue I have with Animaniacs...

edited 11th Jan '17 4:34:09 PM by Twentington

At age 4 I had a 'pet egg' (it was raw and straight from the fridge) that I tried to hatch by sitting on it and keeping it warm. I named it Zindow.

The Protomen enhanced my life.

I used to sometimes eat paper as a kid.

Drinking detergent.

Throw a puppy off the stairs into the mud below during a storm. It survived and my mother chastised me.

Believing adults where conspiring and secretly training children to become heroes.

Being afraid of the moon.

Mixing chocolate powder with cheese.

Throwing myself on the ground for no reason.

Having a crush on a boy who was laying on the bed to my side. We both had made an operation that left us immobile.

Oh yeah, being thrown in a deep pool and almost dying. The puppy was avenged.

Adopting a dying chick as my pet. I named it Torchic.

Wearing my blouse like a toga in school.

Learning futhark in 2 hours. I never forgot.

Telling my aunt I wanted to get pregnant. I didn't knew it involved sex.

Speaking of it, a cousing once asked me if I wanted to have sex with her. I obviously refused.

Eating plastic. Actually I used to eat anything my teeth could crush.

Being haunted by a drawing I made.

I think that's all I can remember.

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Also, since some tropers mentioned having an imaginary friend...

I had imaginary WORLDS, full of imaginary people. I still do that, altough my current imaginary world are either solipsistic or Equestria.

But I disgress. Go on and keep talking about your Early Childhood Weirdness.

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I was doing RP self inserts with my twin sister before I even knew what those were. Good times

I was the kid who ate glue. ...That's really all you need to know.

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The being afraid of the moon thing reminds me of my little cousin who used to be afraid of trees for who knows what reason. At his house in the living room was a large fake tree, so people would tease him by pretending they were being assaulted by the tree.

"Don't cry because it's over, cry because it happened."

And the tree fear reminds me of a character from a webcomic I read, who thinks all trees are evil eldritch abominations.

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I really, really liked hugging people when I was a kid.

I was also a fan of anything cute. (Still am, honestly.) I have a lot of stuffed animals because I wished for at least one new one every Christmas. I named them all. In my mid-teens, I actually became glad that I was getting fewer and fewer stuffed animals because I had trouble coming up with new names for them. My first and my favourite was a teddy bear named Kosti Karhunen. When I was about 9 or 10, I actually got an ECKSBAWKS HUEG teddy bear that I named Iivari.

Also, I had an obsession with knowing things. I loved reading encyclopedias and maps. I made it a point of pride that I knew the name, location, flag, and capital name of every last one of the over 200 countries in the world. Not kidding.

Krieg wasn't even the coolest villain of his own arc. He wasn't even the second-coolest villain of his own arc.

I once had a cheesy Literal-Minded reaction to one of Kerrigan's lines in Starcraft: Brood War. ^_^;;

Kerrigan: Cerebrate, it's time to separate the chaff from the wheat.
Me as I play: You dork. This is war, not agriculture.

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