The Funny Things You Did As A Child.

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I was a climber. Even when I was a toddler, I would climb on things. I think I was two when my mother found me sitting on top of the refrigerator. when I was a bit older and could go outside by myself, I'd climb up a fence to get on the roof of the garage. Later, I'd get up on the roof of the house. It was a two story with a big pine tree right up next to it. I'd climb the tree and walk out on a branch until I could step onto the roof.

I also liked being under water. I sink, not float, in water, so I'd drop to the bottom of pools or lakes and sit there until I had to come up for air, then repeat. It was so nice and quiet down there. I loved it.

I told my little cousin that all the coins were worth the same amount they were just different colours and shapes. I swapped my 50p for her £1 cos my 50p was multiple coins.

I like to read.  We had an encyclopedia in the house.  Sometimes, when my parents would have friends over, the adults would argue of the meanings of words or things like biology, geography, history, et cetera.

If I was nearby, I might chime in with the correct definition, and then tell the adults in which encyclopedia volume it could be found.

Some of them appreciated it, some didn't.

When I was 4 or 5 years old I often used to sit on my 2nd floor bedroom windowsill, legs dangling over the edge - on the outside.
I really didn't understand the talking-to I received from my father, somewhat shocked, after a neighbor had spotted and reported me.

And I crawled out of the second story window and walked around on the very slanty roof. I wasn’t worried. It was one of the few free spirited things I could get away with.

When I was 14, I was looking through my Almanac for Kids 1999 book. First we were talking about something and then we were talking about Ronald Reagon and his Alzheimer's and then my mom said if I can find something else to talk about than Ronald and his Alzheimer's. So I flipping through the book trying to see if anything else catches my interest and then my mom says "You are actually looking for something to talk about" and she starts laughing. I didn't know what was so funny and she explained she asked me to talk about something else and she hears these pages flipping so she looks at me to see what I am doing and I am looking through my pages in the book so that is how I was talking about weird things, it was all from the book.

For Halloween one year, my dad had borrowed a clear face shield and I was expected to dress as an astronaut (about 1953.) However, the costume didn't appear to have an air seal at the edge of the face panel, and I flatly refused to wear it.

I was about 12 when I built a parabolic microphone out of a snow-saucer and an 2" speaker, and then aimed it at the neighbor's house across the creek.  I overheard (and recorded) them plotting a burglary.

When they broke into their victim's house, they found the cops waiting for them.

I learnt to hum and whistle at the same time. Did not sound particularly good, which is why I don't do it as an adult.

That's a nice mix of hysterical, terrifying, and beautiful.

I used to lime to scare people. I'd do things like hide under a dresser for hours and wait for someone to walk by so I could yell and grab their ankle. Once I tied fishing line to an old wig of my moms and started to slowly pull it across the floor and casually called for my mom from the other room asking her what that thing was. She screamed, jumped on the couch and went into full blown panic. I think I might have been a jerk as a child now and then.

Thank you.

While aspies may have a reputation for being "Little Professors", I had the reputation of being a "Little Mad Scientist".

I used to be classy and wear suits all the time B)

When I was about 7 I was at my friend's house washing my hands and face after getting all dirty from a game we were playing, and I got soap in my mouth by mistake. My friend said that if you swallow any soap you will breathe out bubbles for the rest of your life. I don't know why he said that, but at the time I believed him and I was terrified, so I spent the rest of the day spitting in a bucket because I could still taste soap in my mouth.

There was a road show and one of the games was 'win a toy rabbit by guessing her name'. Big fat pink fluffy thing.

I said 'Fatty'. Her name was 'Fluffy' but nobody guessed it.

They gave me the rabbit cos I made them laugh the most through my honesty.

When I was a kid, I thought it was "major look" than "made you look." It was a word kids always said when they tricked you. So I would say "major look" whenever I teased and tricked someone.

When I was also a kid, I would test rules in my self contained class because I was trying to figure out what rules didn't apply to me because I noticed some kids in my class had special rules so I thought my teacher assigned special rules to each student and I tried to figure out what my special rules were. Then I figured out I could scream in school so I did just that and it was appropriate behavior at school. I thought appropriate behavior was behavior you do at school. My parents found out about all this and pulled me out and put me in mainstream where normal behavior would be modeled for me and never again did they want me in any special classes and no special schools where there would be innaproppioate behavior or else I would learn it and think you do it at school. I think this is rather funny now and cute because I was only 6 and 7 then. At least I understood that rules were different at each place but I took it too literal. And lot of kids test rules anyway and I was testing mine at school because I was a child and rules were inconsistent for me so I was trying to find the limits like any ordinary kid. I even remember breaking a rule on purpose to see if that rule still applied like the year before because our teacher didn't tell us the rules of the class again that year. I might have been testing my mom at home when I started screaming at home to see if I could do it at home too and my mom put a stop to it. That was how she found out I was mimicking other kids in my class.

When I was 6 I was on my granddad's shoulders in Edinburgh zoo. I kept taking my shoes on and off cos they were annoying me. He said 'if you don't like those shoes so much why don't you give them to the hippo over there '. I picked my shoes off and threw them into the hippo enclosure.

Both of us got into so much trouble with the ladies in our family