19 Oct 2011, 2:37 pm
My mother used to ask me this all the time. "Why can't you become interested in something else?" "Broaden your horizons!".
Next time she asks that I will ask her why she can't become interested in Transformers, Cartoons, and The Simpsons. 
19 Oct 2011, 2:38 pm
19 Oct 2011, 3:13 pm
+1 to "sneak-watching" TV (well particular programs, especially if they were on at 4:30 AM!)
Haha. Yep! There's nothing like being able to watch a favorite program or play a favorite game without interruptions.
19 Oct 2011, 6:27 pm
Next time she asks that I will ask her why she can't become interested in Transformers, Cartoons, and The Simpsons.
My mom used to tell me this all the time and when I asked her what was so wrong with meerkats she said nothing but that it wasn't healthy for a person to only like one thing. My mom now tells me she would have gone insane if she had to hear about meerkats 24/7. Then why was I always labled as the "selfish" one?
19 Oct 2011, 7:26 pm
I remember in fourth or fifth grade the school therapist wanted me to draw a picture of a person. I refused and drew a picture of a cat.
I did this as well. People are the main thing I refuse to draw. I draw myself as a meerkat/cat hybrid.
Ooh, this reminds me of when I was in 5th grade and we drew a classmate once every week. I would always draw them as animals. The teacher liked it!
22 Oct 2011, 2:10 am
I remember in fourth or fifth grade the school therapist wanted me to draw a picture of a person. I refused and drew a picture of a cat.
I did this as well. People are the main thing I refuse to draw. I draw myself as a meerkat/cat hybrid.
Ooh, this reminds me of when I was in 5th grade and we drew a classmate once every week. I would always draw them as animals. The teacher liked it!
My teachers would have chastised me for that. I highly believe that the majority of my school teachers became teachers so that they could live out their God complex.
22 Oct 2011, 8:37 pm
22 Oct 2011, 9:31 pm
I was obsessed with a certain musical during my teens, and I joined an online text roleplaying forum. My mom made a big deal that I was spending all my time shut in my room on the internet, and decided I had joined a cult. 
As for growing, the internet did help me develop a marketable skill - first, the text game really developed my communication skills. I still mainly wrote storylines involving my own characters and didn't interact a whole lot with everyone else on the board, but I did learn to write collaboratively eventually. And then, spending so much time on the internet got me obsessed with coding HTML. Hopefully when I'm done school, I'll be a web designer at least as a second job.
