[ SECRET POST #2456 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2456 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[China, Illinois]


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[The Mortal Instruments]


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[Community]


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[Hunter x Hunter, Senritsu/Melody]

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[Hetalia]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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[Ghostbusters]


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[Teen Wolf]


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[Malik Ishtar from Yugi-oh Duel Monsters]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #351.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Am I seriously the only one here who can see why someone would consider 12-14 a different period than "childhood?" Like, the stuff I liked from about 6-10 is entirely different from what I liked when I was in the same age range as the OP, and the stuff I liked from my mid-to-late teens is different from what I like now. They're all separate periods of life, with markedly different levels of understanding/maturity.

I don't know; I just think most people here are being too harsh. I think most people from 12-14 wouldn't define themselves as "children" but as "preteens"/"teenagers", even if "child" is technically correct.

I didn't at all read this secret as the OP trying to say they're SO GROWN UP!!!!1!, and am honestly surprised at the largely negative reaction to someone just reminiscing about a simpler time in their life.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

So how old are you? I'm sensing that for most people that answer changes with age. The more perspective you get the closer the behavior of 6 and 16 year olds get.

[(Anonymous)]

Mid-twenties. Even though I do generally use the term "kid" IRL to refer to anyone from preschool to college age, I see a pretty huge difference between a 6-year-old and a 16-year-old (or 19, which OP apparently is). Of course there are idiot teenagers, but then there are idiot adults too. I just didn't think OP came off as one of those idiots or even deserving of scorn.

Of course, I know I'm years younger than some people here, but I also know I'm the same age or older than some others whose views on this differ from mine, so I don't think my opinion on this is likely to change dramatically anytime soon. Maybe I've just seen some really mature people years younger than me in some of my fandoms, so I'm more inclined to defend OP on this. I'm just surprised that I'm apparently in the extreme minority here, and feel kind of sorry for the OP receiving so many condescending/mocking comments.

[bringreligiontothewamwams]

Hah. I used to see really mature people in fandom all around me, until I got older and realized they weren't as mature as I'd thought.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, I mean mature in relation to the common stereotype of shrieking, yaoi-obsessed weeaboos associated with that age group in fandom, not that I'm so deeply impressed that I've become some sort of white knight/champion of youth (which I'm afraid I'm coming off like now).

What I was trying to get across, anyway, was that it just seems like a lot of vitriol for a pretty harmless, non-confrontational secret.

[caecilia]

Slightly OT but when I was 15 I had a bunch of online friends ranging from 26-50s and dear god the relationship drama. That was the least mature group of people I've ever associated with.

[i_id]

I'm almost 30 and now a spate of relationship drama is usually how we ferret out the people too young to be in our comms (per TOS).

[caecilia]

Oh, huh. I don't think this was that. We mostly got together on the old MSN chatrooms, and they knew how old I was. They pressured me for pics, too. It was a fucked up time.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't see what anyone's been saying as scornful or mocking, condescending sure. It's kinda hard not to come off kinda condescending when someone is going on about "nostalgia childhood for yesteryear" when yesteryear was less than 5 years ago and they're technically still in childhood.

This all just seems like verbal eye-rolling at teenage melodrama.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I can see the split as well. But I think it's an overlapping thing- all preteens are children, but not all children are preteens. Does that make sense? Like it's a different phase of childhood in the long run (life). I'm pretty much always going to think the part of my childhood where I got introduced to Tarantino movies is a different from the period where I liked (original) My Little Ponies.

[caecilia]

I didn't really mean anything negative by it. I'm all for being nostalgic. I still watch cartoons and do other 'childish' stuff, and I'm in my mid-twenties. I just think 12-14 still can still count as childhood, so OP shouldn't feel too weird about it. I don't remember a lot of stuff from my earlier childhood. Aside from Sesame Street, I couldn't really process what was happening on TV for a long time. I think around 10-12 is when I really started getting interested in ongoing plots and thinking more deeply about what I was watching, and I don't know if it's like that for everyone but if OP was like me it makes sense that those are the things they bonded with.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean yeah there's a difference between child, preteen, and teen. But when it comes to feeling nostalgic about things from your past, having 12 being the cutoff year seems way too limiting. I mean I get all reminiscent about cartoons that came out when I was in high school.