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What did you do as a kid that set the stage for the person you became as an adult? What story about your childhood makes people go “yeah, that’s definitely a you thing”?

I was a girl scout for 13 years because my mom insisted I socialize somehow and not just read all day. At a competition where each scout troop needed its own name, I responded to another girl’s excited “we should be the butterflies!” with “I want to be the ghoul scouts.”

your name sounds better.

I was a stupidly stereotypical tomboy. Nothing much has changed to be honest.

Getting in trouble for reading in class after I was done my work, probably. Or going to kindergarten with no underwear on. I still don't wear underwear (unless I'm wearing a dress and I have to, which is hella rare).

i'm not sure how common this is in other countries, but over here, there's a kind of... school gardening class in elementary school. basically, kids learn some basic gardening-related skills, grow a little bit of weird-looking produce, mostly it's just a lot of weeding once a week. anyway, it's not a bad thing, except seven or eight year old me really hated this class. so much so that i organised a strike.

yes, we had signs. no, weeding didn't happen that day.

yes, it was one of the many, many times my mother was called to meet the elementary school principal. she loves the story, though.

Okay, I love gardening (weeding is no fun though) but that is awesome! Also I’m in the US, and while some schools have small gardens, it’s not a universal thing.

Lol That's pretty awesome, OP. My school had a garden in a greenhouse and only the older kids were allowed in to help. I was really excited when my turn to help came and I did like growing stuff, but weeding sucked ass.

When I was five, i was playing with a deck of cards, and my older brother took them away and sort of fountained them up in the air, all over the floor, and said 'now pick them up'. I picked up one card, ripped it in half in his face, and said 'no, *you* pick them up', and walked off.

My mom always said that that was basically me, and I have to agree.

I am reminded of the time when my cousin asked me if I wanted to play "52 pickup" and I wanted to learn a new game so I agreed and he tossed all the cards on the floor...

My brother did exactly this. I was a super gullible kid. :(

Yup. That was a 'game' we played a few times when i was a kid, too.

That and snipe hunting.

I had my heart broken when a local history class was cancelled because too few kids signed up for it. It was replaced by pottery, but I didn't want to learn pottery.

I got into trouble on a field trip because I stopped to pet a cat and ended up lagging behind everyone else much to the teacher's panic.

At the beginning of each school year, we had to go to some sort of book depot at our school to borrow the textbooks for the upcoming classes. Everyone had to go and it was only open during recess so it took ages to get them. We would have been bitched at by our teachers if we didn't have the books, so we stayed a little longer one time and were slightly late for our next class.
We all had to write a three pages long essay as a penalty about why it wasn't okay to go get our books during class time.

I wrote the most passive aggressive, sarcastic essay I could. Friends loved it. The teacher was pissed.

There's video somewhere of me dancing to a Prince song at age two or so. I mean absolutely tearing it up, bouncing around, cackling, looking like an absolute goofball. While my sister is trying to jump in front of the camera and show off, while my brother sits on the sofa looking embarrassed and like he's trying to pretend it's not happening. I think it was pretty on brand for all three of us.

my parents spent a lot of energy yelling at me that I read "too much" (whatever the fuck that means) and was supposed to "go out and play" and I had zero interest in just running around randomly like some dog.

Ugh. I work in a place that's part bookshop and had a customer complaining to me, right in front of her son, that he buys "too many" books and needs to "do something else." I said to her that I'd rather my kid be into reading than glued to his phone/Xbox/tablet/whatever and that she should be proud of him. He sat there beaming while she scoffed and said I'd "understand one day when I had kids." Reading is awesome and kids interested should be encouraged, dammit.

hell yeah. you're awesome.

Nah, you are. <3

My parents used to tell me that too, but I actually used to go out and play. Then my playmates moved away and there were no other kids my age to play with, so I stopped going outside, but they still wanted me to go out and play.

I read the dictionary for fun one summer. (Judging from a lot of similar replies, I would have been great friends with most of you.)

I'm a picky eater. When I was four or five, my mom tried the whole "she'll eat what we put in front of her if she's hungry" thing. Apparently I stopped eating for three days. I have no memory of this. But she got worried and fixed me whatever I wanted.

When I was a kid, all I wanted to do was read and my grades suffered for it, especially my math grade. I would stay up all night reading and would read at my desk at school. The teacher ended up writing a note home and I got grounded. How did my parents ground me? By returning my library books and taking away my library card. I threw the biggest temper tantrum and it actually scared my mom a little because I was a quiet, well-behaved kid and I was getting hysterical over books. My grades did start to improve after that and I was allowed unrestricted access to the library during the summer, but it's the story my mom liked to tell my boyfriends in high school and they'd crack up because I get annoyed when people want to take my attention away from a really good book.

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