What were you like as a child?

ha ha i was a bad bad kid! in daycare i used to beat up all the little boys then in kindergarten i danced on the tables (tap danicing) then all the grades after that i was like a big bulley. I made guys do stuff for me especially in highschool. I had this one guy scared of me (dont know why lol) but he would do whatever i said. All the other ones just thought i was pretty and did it for me. I had that sweet/but mean attitude to me! still do! lol i can get whatever i want!!!

i am very quite when i was a child, i really love reading books. there is one time that we have visitors who offered my mother a very nice book, i love it's color of the cover and the photos inside, my mom didn't got the book, i am very upset with my mom until i reached 16 years old i got the book. i read it and finished with in 2 days a 256 pages book. the title of the book You can live forever in paradise on earth. my mom and my dad always caught me every night i am reading and studying my lessons in school. i am very smart when i was a child. when i become teenager still i am quite and prefer to be alone reading any materials, i studied teaching of different religions, i love writing letters to anybody specially from other countries. but now it's quite different, a very talkative man and reading is not my habit now instead i am addicted with the internet.

I was always backward and quiet as a child. I was always teased and taunted and felt that no one liked me. I had no friends to call a true friend either. I was all alone. I am still like that to this day other than having my husband and my daughter in my life. I have no friends because they all use me and leave and I still stay to myself because of it.

I am the youngest of one sister and four brothers, You might think I'd been boisterous to compete for attention but actually I was rather shy. I started reading young and almost always worked crossword puzzles as I would sit at houses that my Mother worked in. She did light housekeeper and cooking for the elderly. I was expected to behave myself while she did her job. I didn't always go to work with her though. Often one of my older siblings watched me. I also was a real big tomboy. I used to climb trees to the top and I loved listening to baseball games on my transistor radio. Hmm Dating? For some reason the fellas always followed me around. And have I changed? Yes and No. I am a mix of all I have experienced in my life as we all are. I have matured you might say but at times I just can't resist doing something totally childish that embarrasses my kids. I expect to embarass my grand kids some day too. lol!

I was the 4th daughter and had to be the tough one since my oldest sisters weren't able to toughen themselves up..I had to and got them into wearing makeup and pantyhose. I'm still the one they come to when they need help and advise. I wasn't shy and no means the most popular, but i was well liked. My children and grandchildren still say i'm an old toughie and will stick up for anyone

Iwas very shy too and soon after I got a girlfriend I was more outgoing, but then when we broke up I just was left loosened. So I lost benig shy and from then onn just loved to go out ot eat and go to the movies. I was a big spender and still are.

I was very shy as a child. Since my siblings are so much older than me I pretty much grew up alone. I would spend my time in the basement rec room watching my favourite shows (Brady Bunch, Partridge Family) and playing with my Barbies or my dolls. In the summer the two friends on my street would go to their farms and stay there all summer so I really had no one to play with, except for one girl who was a couple of years younger than me. We would ride our bikes. Because 3 of my 4 siblings had moved out by the time I was 9, I was very quiet at family gatherings. I had nothing in common with my adult siblings so I was pretty much wallpaper. Even when I grew older I still couldn't catch up to them because then they were parents and I still didn't have anything in common with them. It's only been since I had children that I have come out of my shell. I have just as good of a sense of humour as the rest of my family members, which we all inherited from my father. I love it when I can make my siblings laugh. It makes me feel so good. Even better when I can make my husband and children laugh. My 15 year old thinks I am so cool. I really make an effort to make her friends feel comfortable when they are so shy. I am still shy in the company of others, especially groups of people. I am good one-on-one but when someone else enters the fold I pull back. So I have changed around my family but not around others. There is a quiz going around the emails where you are asked to answer questions about the person that sent the email (as opposed to telling everyone about yourself). One of the questions is "Am I shy or outgoing?" and another is "Am I a rebel or do I follow the rules?" Pretty much everyone pegged me as a rule follower (though one said both and I asked her why), and everyone said that I am shy in most situations but outgoing in others. My family ignored me when I was growing up so you can see why I am so shy and not very sociable.

I was really shy myself growing up. Once I got about 17 or 18 then I would talk a lot more. I have a younger sister. We had are times of fighting when we were younger of course I am almost 7 years older then she is so that is a big age difference. Of course when our parents were working. I was in charge of house cleaning and having dinner ready. Yeah a lot changed my parents got divorced. Sometimes I think it is because of them working together and also living together.

I was a pretty happy child, until all the bad crap in my life starting happening and let me see way too early how cold people can be and how horrible life can be. I'm still in therapy this day for my childhood issues and issues that have hapened since then. I miss my childhood before all of this crap happened - when I was innocent and naive (sp?).

I was a shy child and my twin sister was more forward and outgoing. She got along with anyone and everyone and I pretty much stayed to myself or hung out with a few friends in the neighborhood. I loved playing sports though and was always out running around doing some kind of sport being it netball, basketball and sorts. I didn't like school very much and preferred studying as adult and enjoyed it a lot more. I have changed a lot and am not the same ole shy person. I am very outgoing and have a bubbly personality and I think its because of the friends and family I grew up with that brought me out a bit more.

I was a big reader myself when I was younger. I still am. I also never shut up. I was always in trouble for not staying quiet. I still am a big talker to a certain extent.

I think I was born to be a performer. We are only 2, both girls and I'm the youngest. My sister was the quiet one and shy one. I am more outspoken and is the total opposite of the word shy. When I was in around 2 or 3, our family together with some friends ate out for lunch. There was this good dance music that time. My dad and a few of their friends, told me to dance since they know I love to dance and I know the dance step. With any hesitation I stood up. Got my dads glasses (they were very big for me at the time) then started to dance in the center of the restaurant. In the end of my performance I heard people clapping and congratulating my parents. I never outgrew my love for dance. I studied ballet and became a semi professional. But had to leave it to pursue my career in relation to my college degree. But even though I became a dancer, I am not as confident as I am in my younger days. I am a lot more hesitant to performs in front of a crowd. During ballet performances I usually feel so nervous I have to pee for a couple of times just to steady my nerves. I guess some do stay the same as when they were younger but majority usually outgrew their old habits and personality.

I was different to most other children in that I much preferred the company of adults. I wasn't shy, but could be reserved at times and that's something which hasn't changed as I've aged. I was very timid and nervous when it came to playing with other children and when I was at school, and though I had a small circle of friends, I was an easy target for bullies due to not being very assertive. I'm not sure why I was like that, as both my parents were confident, extroverted people. I did toughen up a lot when I hit my teenage years, and now in life though still quiet, am a lot more confident.

I have always said I had it made when I was three or four years old. That is my earliest memory of childhood and it is so vivid I hope I neve forget it. My family lived in Chicago then and I had two older brothers that I idolized dearly. I was the only girl so you can imagine I was spoiled rotten. My whole world existed on that street: my grandparents lived four doors down, my best friend and her brother (my first boyfriend) lived three doors down and the best recluse neighbor who took me and my BF out for ice cream at the local restaurant lived next door. Oh, and my brother and his friend "married" me and my boyfriend under the law of macaroni in our alley behidn our house. LOL And I was stubborn and outspoken (I forgot how old I was but I began reading b/4 everyone else) and I would stand up to the neighborhood bully, I even rammed him with my big wheel. LOL Oh and b/c I was homeschooled I never went to kindergarten and my boyfriend who was two years older said he wanted a girlfrien who went to school during the school yr and I could be his girlfriend during the summer....well my mom tells me I can in the house and slammed the door and she asked what was wrong she said I yelled out "Our marriage is anulled." (how did I know that word?" haha) Like I said I had the world and I can still smell the fresh cut grass and the cool shade of our yard in Chicago even though it is states away now. Good topic starter.

I read constantly, ice skating was my passion. I was the leader of the pack when it came to getting into trouble, was pretty fearless and never wanted to back down when I believed in something.

when i was a little girl, before i went to school, i too was very quiet. my parents had initially thought there was something wrong with me mentally. they would put me on the table and i'd sit there the whole day. i won't ask to come down or even talk. i'd just stare into space all day. however, this changed the moment i was sent to school. it was like making up for lost time. i became the most talkative girl in the class. up till today, i love to talk to people.

HM!my growing up as akid was an interesting time of my life,i was the shy type but always full of mishief but never got caught except once,i enjoy movies and love books too,no particular title but read more of james hadley chase,romance books were out of it ,i dislike them as i think they arecunrealistic,but the most intersting part of it si the fact that i had so many friends who will always stand up to defend me even when am guilty of an offence they will always find a way to excuse me and what more i was more of a pet to my family even though am the second of seven kids,(i dont know why)but its an interesting part but funny i was still well disciplined,its a great time.

When I was growing up, I hid a secret that no child should have to carry. I never told my parents because my brother threatened me. My parents thought I was weird and told me I was over-imaginative. I had one sister and three brothers. I blocked my childhood from my mind until I was in my thirties when the memory fell into my consciousness, shattering my soul and fracturing my mind. I don't remember too much of my childhood because by blocking one memory, I blocked many other memories. I think I was always withdrawn and afraid of everything. I read all the time and excelled in school, trying to make up for some guilty feeling I never understood. I dated a few guys, but I was afraid of them and I didn't know why. I married a man who played psychological tricks on my mind and really messed me up. I met him in college and we were married for fifteen years. I have three awesome kids though, which makes up for a lot. We divorced, which was a relief, but between my brother's transgressions and my husband's unusual brain warfare, I didn't have much of a chance for success. Later in life, (after I remembered my childhood) I saw a psychologist for years. I get so frustrated though, because I still fall for the wrong kind of men. Gosh, You think I would be over it by now! I overcame most of my past, and it feels like I escaped from those terrors, but the mixed up thinking comes and goes. I guess I'll stay away from men, the way I used to. Now we have the internet and I have a new freedom to live, hidden safely behind my Dell computer.

When i was a little girl I didn't say much at all. I was the second child, and my older sister did a good job of saying everything for me, so I didn't have to say anything. Of course, I grew up with a terribly low self-esteem, and it got to a point that outside of home, no matter how close I was to the people, I couldn't utter a word. It's just by the grace of God that I was set free. Now, my voice is a very important part of my life. I sing publicly, have a lovely narrative voice, I teach in Sunday School and I help out in my local radio station, sometimes. God is good, all the time!

My parents thought that I would be a Tomboy when I grow up because all my friends were boys. I do have "Barbies" since my uncle always buy them for me but then he would still buy me soldier toys, watergun, "Bioman" costume and bikes. So, I play with my other toys but not with my "barbies" lolz. The only girly girly stuff that I watch when I was a kid is "CARE BEARS" then I always watch robots and other "human" animes like bioman, maskman, maskrider black (japanese/chinese series traslated in "filipino" language for kids)... hahaha I was more of "tomboyish" and "playful" as a kid. That is the right word for me. Cheers!