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 AegentMonty
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 Life Changing Childhood Experience
#8418302 - 05/18/08 09:55 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Name and describe one experience in your childhood that has had the largest contribution to the person you are today. Feel free to go into depth. This experience does not have to do with drugs but it certainly can. This thread relies not on me but on everyone to be either something amazing or something dismal and uninteresting.
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Its unnecessary to read the rest of this thread as the information is not needed. If you want to continue reading feel free to.
I was reading a very amazing thread on another forum, where the original poster asked the forum members to "Point to a single experience in your life, as a child, which you can define as having contributed to the person you are today". The thread ended up with 216 responses, nearly everyone from a different person. (the forum is meta filter, a "group blog", had it been a regular forum, it would have likely continued much longer and received far more responses.) I read the whole thread, some of the better responses are later on, and as a group they are truly amazing and show how an event or even a non event in one case can have an amazing impact on a person's life. I loved it so much I wanted more, thus me posting it here.
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Video games to play while tripping - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=37&Number=8439548
Anger comes from a lack of control - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=11&Number=8423368
Why I play chess - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=37&Number=8422375
Illusion of Free Will - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=11&Number=8423355
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 Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: AegentMonty]
#8418315 - 05/18/08 09:57 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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When I was 12 I took 15mg of oxycodone. That was the first recreational drug I have ever done, even before alcohol. That was really a great turning point in my life. Its like as soon as I felt those oxycodone effects, I fell in love with droogz and I knew I would be getting high for the rest of my life.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: AegentMonty]
#8418321 - 05/18/08 09:58 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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um...
once when I was just a wee lad I was at a large party with my parents. I must have ventured off and ended up playing with helium balloons. Someone saw me sucking balloons and gave me one. Not thinking anything of it, I bit a hole in it and proceeded to suck it all.
That experience was my first with mind altering drugs.
Can anyone guess what I got out of that balloon that was different than all the times prior to that?
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: AegentMonty]
#8418357 - 05/18/08 10:05 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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I got raped in the butt by the entire Catholic Diocese.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: Tangerines]
#8418371 - 05/18/08 10:09 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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so you are not really a virgin?
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: aDoS]
#8418375 - 05/18/08 10:11 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: Tangerines]
#8418385 - 05/18/08 10:14 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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that wouldn't really surprise me.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: AegentMonty]
#8418402 - 05/18/08 10:19 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Also, I once had a friend tie a puppy to the railroads tracks and we watched it get slammed by a train. It exploded.
Also, one time my friend found a bunch of toads and stomped them all and they made popping noises when they exploded.
Also, one time my rabbit died and I looked at it and it's entire head was infested with maggots. There was an open sore in its head and there were maggots crawling in its brain, through its eyes and nose and mouth as well. I washed my rabbit with water and all the fur came off showing its white body. I then buried it behind the barn and then a raccoon dug it up. I was 9.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: Tangerines]
#8418404 - 05/18/08 10:20 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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The first time I got stoned is a big notable one.
The first time I heard Led Zeppelin is also another...
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: Tangerines]
#8418409 - 05/18/08 10:21 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Sounds like a pretty normal childhood to me.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: Tangerines]
#8418412 - 05/18/08 10:21 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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this is a true story, and to this day I still feel really bad about it. When I was like 4, I had a hamster. One day I got really really mad so I took the hamster out of the cage and threw it back and forth across a room into walls. It lived, but, damn, I feel terrible about it.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: Jeebies]
#8418414 - 05/18/08 10:22 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Yup. I grew up just fine I few screws loose but who doesn't have that?
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: AegentMonty]
#8418419 - 05/18/08 10:23 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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there were definitely quite a few, mostly concerning my father (or lack thereof), but one of the most prevalent ones, which i recently realized has definitely had an impact on how i am [with other people], was when my father left me at an airfield when i was five or six
we, my brother, self, and father, had gone to see an airshow and he lost me in the crowd as we were trying to leave mid-afternoon. i made my way to the "lost and found" place and waited for a couple of hours but he never showed up, and i never saw him walking around. luckily some of our neighbors were there and saw me at the booth and took me home. turns out my dad looked around for 15-20 mins. then just left with my brother
there are definitely other experiences involving him where i was either left somewhere or was mistreated, and they have resulted in some trust/abandonment issues as far as getting to know people or keep friends
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: demius]
#8418441 - 05/18/08 10:33 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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In mid-school
I beat the shit out of three kids that tried to jump me..Two kids grab me by the arms, while other one was running towards me.I knock the two kids heads together and kick the other in the face.I got three days out of school for it.No matter, if you didn't hit back you got three days  .
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: Brainiac]
#8418450 - 05/18/08 10:35 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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dude.
that's awesome.
I hope it's true, because the mental image I got was quite respectable
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: aDoS]
#8418451 - 05/18/08 10:36 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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a rating reminded me of another fucked up thing I did when I was either 3 or 4. I was at the park with a babysitter. And I was out playing, and there was this bird (crow) that was acting weird and didn't fly away when I ran at it. So I picked it up, and it was very much alive, I don't know what was up with it. And I played with it for a little bit, and then it was time to leave the park, but instead of just leaving it. I put it on the ground and stepped on it, my shoe was a bloody mess. I have no idea why I did that...it was super fucked up. It was kind of like a "well...I am done playing with this now, better destroy it" I really don't understand it though...why I even did that. I was only like 3, its so fucking weird.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: aDoS]
#8418466 - 05/18/08 10:38 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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There are a few I could mention.
My parents had no TV in their house until I was around 14. No Internet or computers either. I ended up getting a computer before a TV at my disposal. Because of not have those forms of entertainment, I turned to reading. I read A LOT as a child. I which I had read more, and I wish I would read more now. I cant really say if it was a love of learning that fueling my reading or the books I read that created a love of learning and curiosity. I think its a combination but especially the latter.
Now I love learning, and reading. I have access to gaming consoles, TVs, and the Internet, but I spend most of my time either reading books or reading various things on line; news websites, wikipedia, etc.
The downside is I have always used read and daydreaming as an escape from reality, and an excuse not to live my life more actively and full hearted. I think a lot of people here are likely to be able to relate to this since its a website based around video games and comedy, both of which are an escape from real life oftentimes.
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My second experience ties in with that last bit there about escape. At the age of 7 I found my friend dead in his backyard. This event taught me a lot about life many people don't learn for a long time. That was a benefit from that, but there were also negative sides. Obviously losing my friend. But I am speaking in the context of this thread: how the experience shaped who I am now. This experience made me kind of fear doing things dangerous in life, from sleepovers, sports, fighting, diving, jaywalking... I was like an adult when it came to worrying about my safety. I had found my friend dead. I knew death was real and I wasn't invincible. and I knew there didn't have to be a logical reason, and not everyone died at the age of 100. So as i said before, I lived in my world of books to a degree. I had a shallow social life and a rich imagination. Neither is better than the other, it was just how it was.
I think a lot of comedians have lived through dangerous and troubling experiences. Why does a person laugh, from a biological standpoint? I think when a person senses there is no threat, or when a danger is over, their body releases whatever chemical which makes them feel good and feel like laughing. So in an event in real life we may laugh when something very bad almost happens, but doesn't. If you are skateboarding and fall in a way that could have been really dangerous but you are ok, you laugh.
In movies, TV shows, games, and jokes we tell each other, its a little different because we take that natural biological reaction and combine it with our society. We laugh at the surreal. We might laugh at someone getting hurt, or a dangerous situation but its generally because we know it isn't real.
They say laughter is a stress reliever. That makes sense if what I'm saying is true, because stress comes from a dangerous situation oftentimes, and if laughter is triggered when we sense a change in the situation, it makes sense that our bodies would stop telling us to be stressed.
I'm getting off track here, but my point was I developed a pretty good sense of humor after some bad things happened to me.
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Video games to play while tripping - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=37&Number=8439548
Anger comes from a lack of control - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=11&Number=8423368
Why I play chess - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=37&Number=8422375
Illusion of Free Will - http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=11&Number=8423355
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: aDoS]
#8418471 - 05/18/08 10:39 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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And ANOTHER time, when I was 6. I played with this one girl in my apartment complex. And this story isn't real fucked up. She always wanted to see my penis, so we would go behind the bushes and and I would drop my pants, and she would play with my penis...too bad I was 6  , I really didn't think anything of it.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: aDoS]
#8418485 - 05/18/08 10:45 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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you know what's funny?
my mom would always drop me off at her friends' house when she had to go to work.
I was like 6 or 7 years old.
me and the girl that lived there (who was a year older than me) would go behind the barns and "mess around"
I had no idea what sex was, or anything, but there was all kinds of touchy feely going on.
kinda strange now that you mention it.
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Re: Life Changing Childhood Experience [Re: aDoS]
#8418847 - 05/19/08 12:31 AM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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aDoS said:
And ANOTHER time, when I was 6. I played with this one girl in my apartment complex. And this story isn't real fucked up. She always wanted to see my penis, so we would go behind the bushes and and I would drop my pants, and she would play with my penis...too bad I was 6 , I really didn't think anything of it.
I totally did that when I was 6 with the boy next door. I wouldn't call it a life changing childhood experience, though.
I think one of the most life changing experiences I had as a kid was being left behind on a class trip in grade 5. We went hiking and I stopped to tie my shoe and got distracted by something and when I finally looked up the entire class was gone. So, I did what anyone else would do... I built a fort and planned out how I would live alone in the forest. I was actually pretty happy about not having to draw specific plants and listen to the teacher explain about ecology. Honestly, I would have been pretty happy out there by myself for a long time--I was a big nature geek, I knew most of the safe pants, and there were plenty of berries and mushrooms and clean water and such.
On the other hand, no one noticed that I was gone until they'd gotten back to school and my dad was waiting around after the bell rang. Eventually he came inside and got really mad at my teacher, but honestly, no one noticed? For FOUR HOURS? Yeesh. She almost lost her job for that one.
I'm not quite sure how I feel about this, even now. On one hand, it's really depressing that no one would notice I was gone for 4 hours. My best friend wasn't there that day, which is probably part of it, because I know she would have said something (or more likely gotten lost with me), but just that I could disappear so easily is really disconcerting. On the other hand, I was almost excited at the prospect of living alone in the forest. Because of course, being 9 I truly believed that I would be out there by myself forever... and I liked that. I really did.
Sometimes, I wish I'd never been found that day.
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