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Anonymous !Girlm.WryU Wed 03 Aug 2011 14:47:00 No.7191994 View View Reply Original Report

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ITT: Greentext stories about traumatic childhood events.

>Be 10.
>At Disney World.
>For some reason, I decide to kick a duck (weakly) in the head at Animal Kingdom…I was 10.
>Some old guy sees me do it.
>Follows me around EVERYWHERE for literally 10 or 15 mins yelling at me and my parents.
>Tears streaming down my face.
>Parents mad at me for kicking the damn duck in the first place.
>Never went back to Disney.

I'm 24 now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Aug 2011 23:53:00 No.7196708 Report

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>Be 5.
>Parents leave me with teenage cousins.
>Cousins lock me out in basement to play video games.
>I sit on the other side of the door crying.
>The floor was cold.

This happened every time my parents asked them to babysit. It gave me a serious mistrust of people and anxiety later in life.

And they wonder why I hate my cousins.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:01:00 No.7196820 Report

Quoted By: >>7196882 >>7196974 >>7196988

>7th - 8th grade
>christian school
>thought I was SO COOL AND DIFFERENT telling everyone that I'm an atheist
>a teacher overhears this
>school's faculty ends up hating me
>principal holds grudge against me until the very end of school when she herself says to my parents at confirmation, "See? I knew he wasn't atheist"
>school tries everything possible to get me expelled
>detentions and referrals for not tucking my shirt in
>detentions for talking to someone else
>it gets really bad
>end up getting expelled because I was about to shit my pants in the middle of an english test, explain to my teacher that I HAVE to go or else I'll crap my pants, she says no. I just walk out of the classroom and go to the bathroom, come back, and I get sent to get expelled

I'll continue if anyone wants me/asks me to

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:05:00 No.7196882 Report

Quoted By: >>7196979

>>7196820
I'd like to hear some more

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:12:00 No.7196967 Report

Quoted By: >>7197017

>>7196481
I fantasize about doing that all the time...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:13:00 No.7196974 Report

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>>7196820

intredasting

please continue

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:13:00 No.7196979 Report

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>>7196882

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:14:00 No.7196988 Report

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Alright then,

>>7196820

>end up being given one last chance out of "pity" from the principal
>sitting quietly in english class
>get pulled into an empty classroom with 4 other friends by teachers
>they start yelling at us about somebody drawing swastikas and stars of davids and shit in the boys bathroom
>I knew which friend drew swastikas and stars of davids all over the bathroom
>principal immediately blaming it on me
>friends are saying that it wasn't me, she isn't hearing any of it
>gets PISSED AS FUCK and calling me intolerant that I called the star of david a "jew star", lose my shit and end up passive aggressively telling her to stop yelling at me, that I didn't know any better and that she's diverting from the point
>she's fucking furious
>end up getting expelled at the VERY END of 8th grade, didn't matter
>my life is still completely normal

>end up becoming muscular and attractive and everything over time
>add teachers over facebook along with saying to them "u mad?"
>added a teacher who straight up called me ugly and fat to my face
>she keeps declining and inevitably blocking me
>lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:16:00 No.7197017 Report

Quoted By: >>7197069

>>7196967
About what? having that done to you or doing it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:19:00 No.7197066 Report

Quoted By: >>7197104 >>7197287

> Be 8 or something.
> Living with heroin addict stepdad and disabled, cannabis smoking mother.
> Find one of my stepdads hypodermics on the kitchen counter. It's been used.
> Fascinated by it.
> Steal it to play doctor with my toys.
> Giving my teddies "shots" when my mother walks in.
> She's screaming and going ape shit, takes the needle off me and throws it, picks me up and takes me to hospital.
> On the way there she tells me to tell the doctors and nurses that I found the needle in the woods near my house and not in my house.
> Tells me if they find out about my junkie step dad I'll be taken away and put in jail with murderers and rapists.
> Absolutely terrified. Start screaming and crying, my mother tell the doctors it's just because I'm scared of needles.
> Get alot of blood tests because I could have hepatitis or HIV. Didn't understand what they were at the time.
> My mum throws out all my teddies that I was giving "shots."
> Stepdad steals and sells my Gameboy that my dad bought me for Christmas.

> My mum and stepdad are arguing constantly because of those events.
> Stepdad goes to a party at the local dealers house and gets drunk.
> Dances with a girl and apparently she accuses him of rape, runs down the street screaming and calling him a rapist.
> He comes home in a state about 4am, he's drunk/high and my mum's trying to calm him down.
> He appears to have calmed down.
> Goes to bathroom for 10 minutes. I come out of my bedroom and he gives me a hug and tells me sorry.
> I watch as he staggers up the hall and collapses. Just then I realise I'm covered in blood.
> He slit his wrists.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:19:00 No.7197069 Report

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>>7197017
I want to do that to a boy. I don't but I do... I know its wrong but idk if I always fell that it is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:21:00 No.7197104 Report

Quoted By: >>7197294

>>7197066
Holy shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:28:00 No.7197207 Report

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>>7195041
Funny, my parents both deny having ever laid a hand on me, and if pressed with only admit to spanking me "once or twice". Weird, I guess I must've just made up the times in my childhood where they beat the shit out of me, shook me, choked me, threw me around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:29:00 No.7197230 Report

Quoted By: >>7197557

I am one of the 13 kids that Ol Dirty Bastard had.
All your issues are small time.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:33:00 No.7197287 Report

Quoted By: >>7197358

>>7197066
Welp, you officially have the worst life ever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:34:00 No.7197294 Report

Quoted By: >>7197341

>>7197104

Such is life in a council estate in Scotland.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:37:00 No.7197341 Report

Quoted By: >>7197441 >>7197849

>>7197294
My wife grew up on a council estate in the west of Scotland and she claims to have had a lovely childhood.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:37:00 No.7197342 Report

Quoted By: >>7197427 >>7197439 >>7197544

>5 years old
>My father works for Exxon, and he moves the whole family to Saudi Arabia. I often get beat up because I'm white.
>8 years old
>Return to America. One of my first friends back gets cancer and dies within a year.
>12 years old
>My older sister is diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder. she beats my mother on a daily basis and makes my life a living hell
>Until the age 18, she pulls a knife on me every so often, and I carry a switchblade in my pocket, ready to duel her to the death if she gets too worked-up one day
>17 years old
>Another friend dies of a heroin OD
>18 years old
>I get an auto-immune disorder. A bad one. It makes me extremely sick and nearly kills me.
>I start doing drugs and soon get addicted to opiates, benzos, and do way too much acid
>At age 23, I sober up
>At age 24, my girlfriend of 6 years breaks up with me to fuck a hipster dude

What a ride.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:38:00 No.7197358 Report

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>>7197287

Yeah I have a load of similar stories too. But it's all good now, I pulled myself out of that shithole. I have my own place, I'm currently doing a degree and I have an awesome group of friends and life's pretty good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:42:00 No.7197422 Report

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>>7192275
Oldfag detected.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:43:00 No.7197427 Report

Quoted By: >>7197468

>>7197342
Continued...

>I lived in a crackhouse from 20-22
>We never took out the trash, EVER. When we moved out, there was HUNDREDS of bags we removed
>Large portions of the kitchen were covered with mold
>My friend's heroin dealer friend once pulled a gun on me and threatened me in my own house
>I routinely do too much acid or meth, then have paranoid panic attacks where I think the cops are coming for me or someone is out to kill me
>Finally decide to go sober at 23
>My family hates me, and I lost all my friends
>So alone, depressed, going through withdrawal, while suffering from an auto-immune disorder

Don't do drugs, kids. Nobody "gets it." They think it's all a big, fun blast. Truth is, it was living hell, and nobody should have gone through what I did.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:43:00 No.7197439 Report

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>>7197342

Fuck, sounds like you could write a book about this shit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:44:00 No.7197441 Report

Quoted By: >>7197769

>>7197341

It's not all bad by any means, but it's got progressively worse. Like maybe when your wife was growing up it wasn't bad, but now every second house in most council estates is a heroin den. It's rough but if you're brought up in it you get along fine. I had a shit upbringing but I didn't let it affect me, I knew it was bad so I just rose above it. Alot of people blame their area, but it's completely down to your parents and how they bring you up...alot of my friends have lived in similarly shitty areas and you'd never guess, they're all polite, well rounded, intelligent folk.

Where exactly in the west of Scotland was she brought up, if you don't mind me asking? It'll probably ring a bell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:46:00 No.7197468 Report

Quoted By: >>7197509

>>7197427
bullshit if you did acid or meth you would be dead right now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:47:00 No.7197499 Report

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>Be 13
>Masturbate in my room on my bed
>Suddenly step-sister and the girl I love storms into my room
>They told me they knew what I was up to
>Told me they would tell everyone at school about it
>Ask them to not do it
>Step-sister tells me they will shut up if I masturbate in front of them
>Start masturbating in front of them while listening to them laughing at my dick
>Hear them talking about the horrible smell and how disgusting both my dick and myself look
>Cum anyway
>The girl I love become disgusted
>Tells me I'm a sick perverted psycho
>Be 20 years old
>Still can't masturbate again

I know this is a fetish for some. But for a young innocent anon this was a very traumatic experience..

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:48:00 No.7197503 Report

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>Ever since I was a child I was beaten, neglected, and mocked by parents
>Whenever I cried they would make it worse by mocking and laughing at me.
>Parents also used guilt and blamed me for everything, even stuff that had nothing to do with me.
>Nothing was ever their fault
>Bullied at school all my life
>Always thought anything hurtful being done to me was because I was lacking in some way.
>Grow such a thick avoidant personality that I literally had no interaction my entire childhood.
>Grow up with the lower self-esteem than you could imagine.
>Never had a gf or anything even close to it.
>Never felt anger or hatred towards anyone, I felt they acted that way due to my flaws. I was nice to them even as they made fun of me and beat me.
>Realize that even though I was called stupid and a failure by everyone, everyday of my life, I was actually a straight A honors student my entire life.
>Could have applied to a uni and gotten a scholarship.
>BTW did i mention my parents made me turn down valedictorian? They said an idiot like me who doesn't study, doesn't deserve it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:48:00 No.7197509 Report

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>>7197468

What... you're fucking trolling, right? If not, you're really fucking stupid.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:50:00 No.7197544 Report

Quoted By: >>7198179

>>7197342
Continued...

>19 years old
>Life was hard, and I was sick from my auto-immune disorder
>Decide to visit NYC for a few days for spring break with my friend, who promised I could stay with him
>At 4 a.m., after a party, he ditches me, and I have no place to stay and little money
>It's March and raining, and I'm tripping on LSD
>Find a subway station in the ghetto of the Bronx
>Spend the rest of the night shivering and trying to stay warm, while tripping and alone in a subway station
>I was so cold and wet I couldn't feel my arms
>A couple times, crackheads came down and starting picking on me
>Maybe because I was tripping, but this was the single most traumatic night of my life (aside from a couple bad meth ODs, maybe)
>When I finally got back to my hometown, I beat the living shit out of my "friend" in front of a bunch of people at a party

Charles Barkley !!hcBuIw2wV2z

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Charles Barkley !!hcBuIw2wV2z Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:51:00 No.7197557 Report

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>>7197230
BULLSHIT! I'M EDDIE MURPHY'S KID!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:53:00 No.7197574 Report

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>be 10 years old
>mom made cookies
>decide to try and steal one
>she sees my hand at the cookies
>slaps it
>later try again
>"ANON I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR FUCKING HAND ONE MORE TIME"
>Be 24 year old
>Haven't shown my hand to a single person since then

once when I went to the doctor I had to take my shirt off and passed out because he saw it..

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:54:00 No.7197591 Report

Quoted By: >>7197637 >>7197663 >>7197706

This is the first time i've thought about this for years

>Be 12
>Walking home from school with brother, about a 20 minute walk
>start to need poo
>brother has the house key
>ask him if i can have key and run home
>he says mum told him he has to keep the key
>well then can you run with me, i beg
>he says no
>i sheepishly walk along for 10 minutes before shitting my pants, run home in tears with shit sliding down my legs
>brother laughing
>brother laughing
>brother laughing

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 00:58:00 No.7197637 Report

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>>7197591
>brother laughing
>brother laughing
>and then I force fed him my feces
>he stopped laughing
The next time you hitch a ride in a time machine you'll know what to do.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:01:00 No.7197663 Report

Quoted By: >>7197718

>>7197591
>start to need poo

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:04:00 No.7197706 Report

Quoted By: >>7197718

>>7197591
>need poo

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:05:00 No.7197718 Report

Quoted By: >>7197735

>>7197663
>>7197706
Do Amerifats not use the expression 'to need a poo'?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:08:00 No.7197735 Report

Quoted By: >>7197767

>>7197718
Absolutely not. I'm a 28-year-old American male, and I've never heard that before.

If you said that to an average American, he'd probably think you meant, "I really want to acquire poop."

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:10:00 No.7197762 Report

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>16 years old
>Brother is at work from 9-6, dad works overseas, other brother in university
>I'm home alone with my mom most of the time
>She always takes out all her passive-agressiveness on me
>Turns out she's pissed at EVERYONE for one reason or another
>Since I'm a chick she expects me to want to 'talk it out with her'
>In public she acts like everything is fine 'n dandy

Didn't mess me up very much, just pissed me off throughout my teenage years.

>My 13th birthday
>Mom and older brother fight all the fucking time over trivial shit
>come home to a card
>While I'm reading it, my mom yells out "FUCK YOU [my brother] WHY DON'T I JUST FUCKING KILL MYSELF"
>My mom and my brother fight like fucking banshees while my dad turns on the tv and pretends nothing is happening
>go downstairs
>mfw my family is fucked

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:10:00 No.7197767 Report

Quoted By: >>7197801

>>7197735
*sigh* Trust Americans to only be able to compute the literal meaning.
>>7197741
0/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:10:00 No.7197769 Report

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>>7197441
Oh don't get me wrong I know all too well what it can be like. I was fortunate enough to be raised in a quite nice area however so only really saw what it was like when going to her house or any of my assorted friends.
She grew up in Sighthill (the Glasgow one)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:14:00 No.7197801 Report

Quoted By: >>7197813 >>7198018

>>7197767
*sigh* Trust elitist Europeans to assume Americans are dumbfucks then act superior.

I know what you meant. It was obvious to everyone you were talking about how you had to poop. I just thought you sounded stupid.

0/10

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:16:00 No.7197813 Report

Quoted By: >>7198018

>>7197801
>If you said that to an average American, he'd probably think you meant, "I really want to acquire poop."

Your words, not mine. You dumbfuck American.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:19:00 No.7197849 Report

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>>7197341

Ahh, I know where that is, just outside Glasgow city centre? I have a few friends that go to uni that live in and around there. How odd to find a fellow Glaswegian on /adv/, heh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:35:00 No.7198018 Report

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>>7197801
>>7197813
This is the second damn time this exact issue has been discussed in this thread.

>this is traumatic for me

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:36:00 No.7198036 Report

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>Be 16
>I inherited horrible acne from my father
>Mom won't stop reminding me of how her skin was smooth as a fucking babby's when she was my age
>Mom forces me to wear makeup
>Makeup makes me look like I have leprosy
>Makes my acne worse
>Refuse to wear makeup
>mfw my mom is disappointed in me because of this

Or how about:

>Be 16
>I try getting gel nails once, just to see what it's like
>Not really my thing, so I decide not to get it anymore
>Mom keeps making me appointments
>she makes me pay for it
>mfw it costs sixty fucking dollars every three weeks
>The girl who does my nails is mean to me because I don't talk very much
>Tell my mom this, she gets pissed at me for being introverted
>Tell her I'm sick of paying to get my stupid nails done, and I hate the way they look anyways
>mfw she's disappointed again

The fuck mom

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:44:00 No.7198109 Report

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>be eight
>playing truth or dare with my 10 year old brother
>he tells me to suck on his dick or lick his ass, my choice
>I don't remember if I did or not

>later versions of truth or dare with him he wants me to touch his dick/masturbate in front of him
>he also tells me he cums faster when he "thinks of family members"
>freak out, leave room
>this is happening in between him hitting me in the ribs/back kicking me in the jaw for stupid shit like not giving him the remote when it was my time for the tv
>I once told my mom he was doing this stuff she said I was making it up

>now
>whenever he visits and I'm talking on webcam with someone he tells me to flash them
>I'm pretty sure it's so he can watch
>tell him to leave, sick of his shit
>I stop camming so I can send him to the door
>he throws me to the ground
>kicks me in the ribs
>leaves

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:50:00 No.7198179 Report

Quoted By:

>>7197544

I actually have a similar story, believe it or not.

>Friend just moved to a new city, invites me over for some beers.
>I go over, we get drunk, smoke some weed, catch up.
>His girlfriend then turns up unannounced at about midnight, lets herself in and freaks the fuck out. Apparently her dad used to be an abusive alcoholic, and she'd made my friend promise to never drink again.
>she starts yelling at friend, he immediately loses his balls and starts begging for forgiveness
>she comes up to me and says 'I think you should leave'. I figured it wasn't worth getting involved, and figured I'd go outside, and wait until she left.
>10 minutes later she walks out to her car, FOLLOWED BY MY FRIEND. they drive off, and I'm left drunk, stoned, and lost in a strange city, with no money and 9 hours to kill until the first train. Oh, and I was also in just a t shirt, and it was snowing.
>worst fucking night
>mfw i threw bricks through his windows three weeks later
>mfw i have no face

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 01:53:00 No.7198219 Report

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>Be 12
>Walk up to ghetto cousin on the computer
>Ask him what he's doing
>He screams it's none of my business and shoves me away
>Head breaks fiber glass, back slams against bricks, I was bleeding
>My cousins worry about is the broken glass and never ask about me
This multiplied the 6 years I basically lived with them

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 03:03:00 No.7199136 Report

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The whole lot of you need to just go on a fucking tirade to your parents when they get all pissy or bitchy or whatever about why you don't like them, or your siblings, or your relatives, or that one guy, or let them handle your kids, or meet your girlfriend, or what-the-fuck-ever.

They fucked up your life. The least you can do is make them realize it and feel like shit about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 03:32:00 No.7199579 Report

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>7 year old boy
>completely clueless about sex
>have a friend who is effeminate
>he pulls me to a bathroom and we touch our genitals
>my dad finds us in the act, we walk home and he is crying and I have no idea why but understood what happened is wrong
>26 now, not gay yet a forever alone kissless virgin who is afraid of intimacy

I am also a drunk with anger and trust issues.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 03:34:00 No.7199615 Report

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>be 14
>have social anxiety
>in spain on holiday with parents
>in the city exploring
>in part of city that's crowded as fuck
>lagging behind parents
>reach entrance to other part of city
>dontknowwhatthefuckisgoingon.jpg
>have to give passport to gain entrance
>i'm lagging behind them as they go through the gate thing
>i try to go past
>security guy assumes i'm not with them
>have to scream "MOM" like five times around like a hundred people to get them to come back
>fucking nightmare

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Aug 2011 03:42:00 No.7199723 Report

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>be 9-10
>father constantly goes on tirades about how if I ever have sex or have a girlfriend, I'll get her pregnant and owe child support for the next eighteen years
>continues to do this until I join the Army and move out
>still goes off about it on occasion
>I'm now 24
>mfw I'm terrified of sex because of it

>be in 4th grade
>be the awkward shy kid
>suddenly invited to sit at the cool table during lunch and before school starts
>everyone starts being really friendly to me
>two weeks later, they stop
>one of them tells me I made him lose $20
>they had a bet that they could make me popular and liked, like in that fucking movie, whatever it's called
>become even more shy and introverted because of it
>always suspect people who are friendly to me of having an ulterior motive from then on

>be in 4th grade, still
>go to gym class
>two girls start kicking the shit out of me for no real reason other than that I was the awkward shy kid
>really, really fucking hurts
>screaming and crying
>they stop
>stay curled up in the fetal position in the middle of the gym sobbing for the next 10-15 minutes, partly because it hurts, and partly because I'm shocked at how everyone reacted
>half the class was there when it happened, along with two of the coaches
>nobody said or did anything, or even acknowledged that it happened

I want to go find my yearbook, figure out the one chick I remember's last name, and go slash her fucking tires. I think I'll do this next time I'm home on leave.

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