Weird, funny, or embarrassing moments from your childhood?

Post Reply New Topic

I've got so many embarrassing s**t I done as a kid.
When I was 14 I felt depression for the first time in my life, and I didn't know what was wrong with me, plus my hormones were all over the place (like most typical 14-year-olds). I had things going on that were worrying me, like my mum and dad splitting up, and also there was another family issue going on (it's a long story). It all got to me, and made me do weird things that were out of character even for me as an Aspie. I done something that will make me feel embarrassed for the rest of my life. I had a false belief that this group of girls at school were fascinated by me even though they didn't even know I existed. But I recognised them and I made myself sit with them at lunch. They talked to me a little, and I no longer thought they were 'obsessed' with me, but I wanted to be part of their group. So for the rest of the week I followed them about around the school, not really thinking about what I was doing. I saw them whispering about me and I knew deep down that they were creeped out by me but for some reason my mind didn't want to believe it. They went to the head teacher's (principal's) office and of course I followed them there, but I knew I couldn't follow them in there so I waited outside. After a few minutes they came out and suddenly I was called into the office. The deputy wasn't angry but she told me to not follow the girls around. I came out of the office completely emotionless and carried on with the rest of the day.

I may be Aspie but THAT was not what I would normally do. I always had conscience and I could always tell if other kids didn't want me playing or hanging around with them, even when I was as young as 5, and also I would naturally react with emotion. But this time it was as though my Asperger's had turned into severe autism for a week, or I temporarily had Schizophrenia because of the voices in my head telling me that these girls wanted to be my friend even though rationally I knew they didn't. I had never done anything like that before and I have never done anything like it since, but I still feel embarrassed to this day whenever I think about it.

I didn't really talk much til I was about 9. But sometime before that, when I was 7 or 8 ish, a girl from my class gave me her phone number, "In case I decided to learn to talk!" I decided I would call it, even though I really didn't know how to talk to people, but her mother answered, and I didn't have the words to answer her back! I handed the phone to my little brother, who then said "(My name) wants to talk to you" and handed it back! We were panicking and handing the phone back and forth while this grown up lady was saying "Hello? Hello? Who is this?" until my mom came in and took it from us and apologized to her and yelled at us.

Another embarrassing moment I remember when I was about 14 was that I had a temporary obsession with window-cleaners, and one time I went to my aunt's house with my mum and dad in my dad's car. I noticed my dad had one of those squeegee things to clean the car windows with (I think that's what they are called), and I developed a fascination with it, but I was intentionally overreacting a bit. When we arrived at my aunt's, they went to the door but I stayed by the car, observing this squeegee thing and seeing if I could clean the car windows with it, even though they didn't need cleaning. My mum and my aunt must have wondered what I was doing, because mum yelled, "come on, are you coming in or what?" in an irritated voice.

I believe I was stupidly overreacting and I feel embarrassed whenever I remember it, but I also laugh at myself and feel glad that I'm not like it now.

I remembering kids at school knowing that I could be naive, once they told me a virgin was opposite of what it really meant and I better tell people I wasn't one so I went around the playground shouting "I am not a virgin!"

I would repeat stuff I saw on TV I saw and I was told I used to ask people if I had gingivitis or gum desease after seeing a toothpaste commercial.

One some boys started kicking my sucker around I left on a window ledge for later for some reason and I screamed "why are you bastards kicking my sucker?" The teacher made me look up the definition of the word and I started crying "I am a bastard" (my dad was deadbeat and hes even passed away now)

When I was bullied in school as a little kid I had all my classmates convinced that I knew witchcraft and would put a curse on them for messing with me. I had them completely convinced and my teacher who knew I didn't actually have powers was laughing about it to my mom.

In pre-school, we couldn't go to the bathroom alone, so we had to line up as a class and wait for our turn. I had to pee really badly and i started getting annoyed, so i kicked open the stall door while a girl was in there and yelled "MY TURN!" it got very silent and everybody was staring, and the teachers led me to the back of the line. I can't remember if they scolded me/how they scolded me but that memory makes me cringe.

*Not from my childhood, but a few years ago*

Forgetting/neglecting sexual consent (as a concept) was a factor in a breakdown, a few years ago back. For that I am embarrassed.

When I was 6 my mum yelled at me because I broke the door of the glass cabinet, and I didn't like it when she shouted, so I said, "there's a man at the door, Mum", there wasn't anyone at the door but I was being ironic and I was hoping she would ask who it was and I was going to say "the man next door, telling you to be quiet!" and I figured she would get that I was being ironic. But she didn't ask who it was, she just got straight up and went to the door, then yelled at me again for lying about there being someone at the door. I think I cried after that.

Also when I was little I used to dress up as something like Santa and go downstairs on a skateboard for a sleigh and use stuffed animals for the reindeer, and I was hoping my parents literally would think it was the real Santa and not suspect me at all. But obviously my parents weren't that stupid.

I think probably the most embarrassing thing for me, in retrospect, was being placed in a special class because I didn't know English (they didn't have ESL classes then). My kindergarten teacher assumed I was slow. It turned out I learned quickly, reading at a fourth grade level (in English) by first grade. It still embarrasses me to this day. Autism spectrum disorders weren't known about in the 1970s, except for very low-functioning children in institutions. I never heard the term Asperger syndrome until I was 32. I read about it and wondered, "Is this what I have?" So much fit me. I don't think I was hyperactive, as they said when I was a child.

I had a good vocabulary, but there were times I completely misunderstood the meanings of some slang words my classmates used in school. I didn't know what the "F word" was until I was in fifth grade and looked it up. I was horrified at the meaning and vowed I would never intentionally use it.

When I was a kid I used to confuse the words 'remember' and 'memory' and would wind up combing them and saying "I rememory' something.

My mother had this big old car back when I was like six years old it was a Grand Marquis in one night when she fell asleep on the sofa I go into a purse pull out her keys and goto the car and start it up and try the backing out of the driveway. My mother tells me later that she wakes up and screaming through the house trying to find me. finally she opens the front door to see her six-year-old sitting in the driver seat of this big freaking car with it in reverse and hitting the curb of the neighbor's yard.

And there was another time when I was young but I don't remember how old that I woke up in the middle of the night wearing button up pajamas and they turn on the TV in the living room it was like 3 in the morning and there was some cheesy gangster flick on. I wanted to be cool like the gangsters sew-in button a few buttons on my pajamas and then go to my moms china cabinet grab a bottle of cooking Sherry out of there and start drinking it while watching the movie. Needless to say I get caught in the next day I'm kept home from school because I'm hungover for the first time. This was my first experience with alcohol unfortunately later in life I became an alcoholic but sobered up and been sober over 7 years now.

I used to wake up early a lot as a kid and annoy my parents I was an ADHD kid one of the things that used to like to do when I woke up super early was sneak into the bathroom connected to my mom's master bedroom. One night I decided to lock the dog in with me we had this medium size black long hair dog in what I decide to do that morning is poor black hair dye all over the black dog. And my mom said when I let the dog out she left a lot of black hair dye spots all over the carpet in the long streak down the White Walls we have in the house.

Probably the most embarrassing thing was the few times my mom caught me dressing up in her clothes. It was a big shock to everyone when I turned out to be bisexual.
.

My birth.

Mum told me once I was a little fish because I was so good at swimming in the water. I thought she was making fun of my costume which had little fish on it so I told her she was a big black. (Her swim suit was black)

I hid in a suitcase because I didn't want to lose my cousin. Of course, they found me and I couldn't go up to Scotland with her. By lose I mean, so she couldn't go away without me for three months because I'd come too.

I insisted on being called various names. The least embarrassing is when I was 3, mum's friend was pregnant and kept getting attention so I put a cushion in my clothes and kept insisting on being called her name...

There are others but I'm not going to post really embarrassing stuff online.

When I was 12 my teenage brother had his mates round, and I came up to them holding plastic toy food on plastic toy plates from my old toy kitchen. My brother told me to put it away because it was embarrassing. I suppose 12 is a bit big to be playing with little kids toys, especially in front of other people.

Another time I remember embarrassing my brother when I was about 12 or 13, my dad was having a bonfire in the garden and I wanted to pretend I'm an Indian around the fire. I got a stick and lit it one end then waved it around. My brother and his mate came along and I spoke to them in an Indian accent, still waving the stick about. Then I heard my brother mutter, "the f**k's wrong with her?"


Oh, and I used to wring my fingers when I was aged around 10-14.

I wasn't like most other children I was nonverbal up until age 7 and I was in my own world and I had no sense of danger
but nothing I have ever done was embarrassing to me cos all I remember of me as a child is that cute innocent autistic little girl