Do you miss your childhood?

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I don't miss my childhood. My parents tried to raise the autism out of me to the point that I've resented them for a long time. They didn't use ABA, but they chastised me for talking about my special interests too much, not giving eye-contact and speaking with a Cockney accent. I was born and raised in Canada into a very patriotic family that swore off of normalcy. It was a nightmare. I was happy to finally move out on my own in 2006 when I was 32. I now get to do the things that I've always wanted to do. Living the life of a man, being a Kinks Fan and allowing myself to walk around the city looking like young Mick Avory. I'm 300% happier now than I was back than.

Always,

Although, I do not know if it is just because I would have another opportunity to do things differently.

I don't miss my childhood.
I live in the present, not in the past.

I sometimes wish I had a childhood to miss. It passes. Finding time to comfort myself in small ways helps. Plush, furry things... smooth things... new sights, a spectacular sunset maybe.

What I miss most about my childhood is being nonverbal and wanting to kill every living thing on earth. Starting with my parents.

No, i really don't miss it.

I don't know. I think I for the most part miss the period before my parents' divorce. That was I guess the period of actual childhood. Maybe before 5th grade. Childhood innocence and all that. Since 5th grade, I've felt the same really.

Oddly, looking back, I miss most out of my childhood, my Bosnian babysitter's family, and hanging out with my father.

However, now as an adult, I'm afforded some measure of freedom to pursue what I want. But I feel in essence, because my childhood was disrupted by the divorce and all accompanying things that caused my life to spiral out of control, I only work to regain back the happiness I had as a child, and achieve basically my childhood goals (as a kid I wanted to be an athlete.) In some sense, everything has come full circle.

The question I ponder a lot lately is, would childhood me think adult me is cool? And... I used to think not, but after some examination of myself... Yeah, he would. And I think that's what counts. I only wish it didn't come with the hardship. Maybe I'm still a kid, though I feel like a 90 year old man, too. What a weird dichotomy.

As a kid, I always wanted to get older, so I could be more capable of pursuing what I want. And I've reached that point. So I guess the answer is no, because being a kid again would just make me wish to be an adult. However, as a kid, I did have a fear of "growing up" in that I feared having to give up "kid things" like Winnie The Pooh, cartoons, etc. However because I'm an adult and afforded freer agency, I'm freer than I was as a kid to pursue things like that (I have a Hamtaro plushie on my shelf right now) as when you're a kid people judge your "growing up" on giving up things like that, and it's looked at negatively if you don't. So again, I guess no.

If I could go back with the knowledge I have now, then yes. I don't want to go back as it is.

Absolutely not.

Nope . . . it was by far the worst time of my life (so far.)

I was teased a lot as a kid, but the one thing I miss from my childhood is the annual New Year's trip to Walt Disney World with my family. We had to stop going after 1993 when I was eight because my parents didn't want my brother and I to miss any more school. Dad and I went again in 96. Afterwards we went in the summer every year. I worked for Disney on College Internships. I long to go back there just for fun and maybe someday to work there permanently.

Have you seen my childhood?-Michael Jackson

To an extent, yeah. Even though my parents were kinda strict and conservative, I didn't worry about the world so much, like I do now.

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Not particularly, I suppose there are some things I miss about it....but I certainly don't miss the bullying, being singled out by teachers and such or my parents not getting along and arguing/yelling rather often. I guess I kind of miss the determination of 'I have to get through this school stuff, just deal with all the crap and it will get better if I am patient.' I guess its mostly because that was some sense of direction but now I don't have any.

Not quite. Sure, the lack of responsibilities sounds nice, but I like having money and a constant internet connection, as well as not being hated by nearly everyone I knew. I didn't really feel bad then, but looking back now, I'd say being a kid sucked for me.