I was the most popular person in my elementary school. I was a good soccer player when I was a kid. What was your life like when you were a child? Also the coach of NC state university…. asked me if I wanted to play soccer for his team. When I went to his soccer camps when I was a kid. Also the girls liked me when I was a kid.
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I just remember being sad 
. My parents were divorced and I felt unloved. I remember sitting outside in the warm weather talking to our pet black lab telling him how sad I was. He listened.
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I decided never to have kids because of how I felt as a child.
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I had a nice childhood but raised by my sets of grandparents I had until I was 6. Lots of fun and love…can’t complain…makes me feel bad for those that had a rough childhood.
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I felt like nobody loved me and I was all alone and I felt abandoned.
I also got bullied and never fit in with anyone or group etc
I hated being a child.
Abused and molested and raped etc too
I can isolate now from bully ones etc with my dog which helps.
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Ironically, in 9th grade I was voted most likely to succeed…if only they saw me now! But in reality my childhood was good, I was really good in school and was popular as a “brain”. And even tho I was a fat kid nobody ever teased me cuz I was very good at sports. I wish I could’ve been a kid forever!
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My life was mostly good when I was a kid. I went to school then went to my mom’s apartment and watched TV then I went to my dad’s apartment and played Pokémon on my Game Boy Color until bedtime.
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My dad was in the army we moved around a lot mostly a good childhood. Parents had big rows though. Hated secondary school. Childhood was good until I started to get ill
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Not popular. Single, handicapped mother on assistance who dated abusive men. Physically and sexually abused over many years. No good at sports because of being born with a crippled heart.
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I went to a really fun private school I played a lot of card games and computer games , gameboy ect during break times we went to the park often and to the swimming pool life was so simple I had a lot of friends
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I was one of the guys until about 7th grade. I was friends with everybody. Things started to go downhill in 7th grade, I became withdrawn and quiet. I was never outgoing and talkative in the first place but it became really noticeable in 7th grade. I had one good friend in middle school. Then things got worse because I skipped 8th grade and went from 7th grade right into 9th grade where I was behind everybody physically and socially by a year. I was extremely shy and couldn’t make friends at school though I had a couple of friends out of school. Yeah, I spent the first 2 months of high school alone, took breaks and lunch break alone. Didn’t talk to anyone. Finally made a friend and things got better.
But all that said…I had a lot of fun as a kid. I had two good friends that lived a couple of minutes away from me and we rode our bikes together and played sports and got into mischief and went over each others houses to play. One of my friends family had a swimming pool so we went swimming all the time. We climbed trees and fences and had fights with rocks and homemade slingshots and water balloons and every July some kid somewhere was always selling firecrackers and we bought some and lit them off and blew up stuff. As we got older we got into weightlifting and smoking pot which were both popular pastimes for us.
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Elementary school was okay.
Middle school was okay.
High school was when it got weird-
Being picked on for being “fat” and being sexually harassed. Had inappropriate photos of me showed and sent to everyone.
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If I didn’t have pets growing up I don’t think I would have survived childhood. I told my pets all my woes and they looked like they were listening.
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I was held back in kindergarten because of emotional trauma from an abusive father. I would act like I had a stomach ache and not go to school. Then the voices started and i was pretty good until 5th grade then the grades started to drop and by high school I was a mess. Dropped out in my sophomore year of high school and got my GED. My dad would set up visitations with me and not show up. He would flatten the tires on my mom car and we would be late in the morning. He clipped our brake lines and my mom crashed into an embankment. My pdoc says he probably had schizophrenia but he just drank booze all the time to cope. Life is much better now.
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Really boring, but still was able to get interested in stuff easier than now
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Pretty difficult child hood for me but still easier than my adult life.
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I will also not be having children because of the way I felt as a child. I often felt excluded and unloved. I suffered great abuse as a kid and blamed it all on myself. I’m older now and know none of it was my fault but it still hurts to think about the childhood I could have had.
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Scared into schizophrenia at 5 { ( PTSD ) hearing voices}
At 7 to 13 living in a tent creating social anxiety
At 14 sexually abused.
Pretty easy
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Unadulterated hell because of my father. 15151515151515151515
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I was afraid all the time, I used to check the whole house before going to bed, my parents thought I was just being silly. I always thought I was going to die.
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