Remember Something Fun You Did As A Kid

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I'm telling you, we're sisters. I'm hooked on Indian Darjeeling tea lately, but I do love me some fine British or Chinese varieties as well. Irish Breakfast is another of my favourites.

Memory:
Puppets. I was obsessed with puppets, especially The Muppets. I didn't want to be a puppeteer and supply the voice, but rather I wanted to write the scripts for the puppets to say. My dream was to move to Manhattan and live in a loft by myself, writing all the scripts for Grover on Sesame Street. I collected finger puppets, marionettes, sock puppets (lol), and many Muppet characters. I spent hours just looking at them and writing scripts. Perhaps this explains my mutism because I wanted someone else to make the puppet actually speak.

We did this too. The perfume thing. I've been a tomboy since forever, except dolls, but even I got into that one.

It's great isn't it because it's your own scent and nobody else can have it except for the people who made it with you? And it's really creative to mix it together too.

Those were my (probably selfish) reasons for liking it anyway.

It was me and my younger but oldest cousin.

And we played volleyball and sticky catch. This is sticky catch. I can't remember what we called it:



Interesting that says it's for disabled kids but I didn't realise it was cos I was dyspraxic, I thought it was just a regular toy.

Oh that is so cute (again, lol). Grover was too
I really think ASD women are very similar seeing the posts here.

I wanted to do corking (obsessed as Iwd talk about n think about it n try to find books on knitting with instructions etc). I read about it in a book by Beverly Cleary. Beezus was corking (Ramona’s elder sister). I could never succeed.

My little sister (who pIcked up on most of my obsessions ) got a kit and did it successfully. She offered to teach me many times but it was too complex for me. Even knitting and needlework despite many attempts.
However I wd read books on them for hours.
My parents did not think it strange that a child would reading books on needlework for hours and looking at pictures of quilts, crochet, etc. Buy books on it with allowance saved up. Too clumsy to do it and did not usually want to play with kids? Does anyone ever look back at their childhood and wonder how adults could have missed it?


I tried to make corkers countless times with toilet paper rolls n nails and other things. I could not manage to find a bobbin that was large enough n ideal n it always fell apart.

Memory- collecting acorns n looking at them for perhaps up to an hour at a time (as long as possible). I had an idea of making a locket in which the top of the acorn was on a hinge n wd open n u wd stick a tiny photo inside, and keep it on a chain.
I think it was inspired by Peter pan.

Again i attempted many times and the best i cd do was tape n paper to make the ‘hinge’ for the locket,

Oh yes sticky catch! We had it in our schools (i went to several due to moving) and all kids could (and wanted to) use them

However the disabled kids got priority on that. Now I understand why

Oh i cut up large soda bottles in half n taped the ends n played ‘lacrosse’ with that with my sister n brothers.

Poverty can actually make for fun childhood memories as it wd motivate me to make my own toys.

That looks familiar (Sticky Catch). I think I might have seen or played it.

What about Jumpsies? It was like a "beginner" version of skipping rope or Double Dutch.


I also had this:

Those children and you must have had very healthy hearts! I tried to learn that n I had a few kids at school try to teach me but I did not have the dexterity. I was very very clumsy n fell all the time n it was too complicated fr me.

Such a cool thread really!

We used to be able to do that on horseback. Living in a farm/ranch community where we knew everyone and everyone knew us, there was nowhere the we were not allowed to ride within five miles from home and not many where we weren't allowed to go within ten miles from home.

Pack a lunch, tie it to someone else's saddle (I usually road bareback), and head out for the day.

WOw that is so awesome! Any child’s dream! Sorry fr hanging out in this thread n bombarding it. It really is a great idea fr discussion

One thing that I really liked was to sleep with my window open in the winter time. There were no pipes upstairs to freeze and no central heat. Our only heat source was a gas stove in the living room which we turned off at night and back on in the morning. So when it was about 20 degrees Fahrenheit or lower, I'd put about 5 blankets on the bed, open the window, and climb in.

That did make it a bit more difficult to get up in the morning, though.

I saw a picture some time ago of a rather expensive old house in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a second floor covered balcony that had a bed on it. Wouldn't that be a great place to sleep in the winter?

Reminds me of another version of Skip it.

I was always too dyspraxic for skip it or double jump or any form of skipping except skip to my lou walking skips.

We used to make crisp sandwiches and swap food. I was really popular because I lived a long way away (I got excluded from my local school for being a regular 4 year old autistic kid... mum pulled me out before it was official but... that school was stupid... it wasn't cos I kept eating paint cos the colours of paint looked like milkshake ) so all my food was different as it came from a different neighbourhood.

And when it came to food I also made Nesquick milkshake and Angel Delight I could actually cook ok when that counted.

Its funny how popularity can be influenced by food as a child. That’s really true as i remember there was a girl who was the most popular n got on with everybody (some ppl are just like that idk how).

The extra reason she was popular was bcuz of the interesting n foreign n snack foods her parents gave her. She was kind n would usually share it n everybody seemed to vy for her attention during lunch time

That was grade 1 in saudi.

In canada i was made fun of fr my food cuz my mom used to send healthy food that was either carrot sticks n an apple or an egg sandwich ..very simple n plain



Other kids got fancy Twizzlers n Cheese strings n TV dinnner trays (make your own nachos/pizza) as well as jell-o, fruit by the foot and other trendy things

I wonder how some parents know the right foods that are trendy n popular with kids

We had a swimming pool, and we were the kool-aid house.

Kids would come around in the summer to go swimming, because we also had a diving board and a swimming pool slide with water jets. My mother would give out kool-aid or freezie pops, and make ice cream sandwiches. The kids liked the food and the swimming. When the pool closed in autumn I lost all my friends. It was cyclical.

kokopelli:
I still sleep with my window open too, but only in the cold winter. I love it. In the summer it's too noisy outside.

I used to love renting old B-list horror movies from Video Warehouse as a kid. My favorites were of the zombie genre.

Got into the steam tunnels under the school and connected an administrator's unlisted "private" phone line to the building's PA system.

That's how we all found out about him and the girls' PE teacher, both of whom were married...

^

Spoilt kids like me asked for it/ask for it (probably less now everyone has to be healthy) and got/get it.

I had food sensitivities so I deserved to be a bit spoilt but mum would buy literally anything I wanted.

When mum was in hospital I was most popular but also most selfish. My grandma used to bake for me every Sunday night By Wednesday I let the other kids have it.