What was the most annoying thing that you did as a child?

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One night, when I was nine I wanted to stay up late and watch TV with my mum. I was expecting that special treatment, because I still had a cast on my right leg, and I thought that it would be a great idea to act up. I was stirring the stick a little, and combining fast food restaurants, with nightmares.

"Mum!...I just had a Taco Bell nightmare! Mum!...I just had a McDonald's nightmare! Mum!...I just had a Burger King nightmare! Mum!...I just had a Wendy's nightmare! Mum!...I just had a Dairy Queen nightmare!"

My mum got really angry, and she yelled from the living room, "Stop having nightmares and get to sleep!"

Evern back than, I was obsessed with food. :O)

The most annoying thing I did when I was a child was to do with clothes.
I refused to wear new clothes, because I trust/understand they were mine.
My mum would have to leave my new clothes in my room for about 3 weeks before I would accept they were mine and put them on.
Even then my mother, who had worked with low functioning autistic children for 10 years, had no idea I had Asperger's.

I think the most annoying thing that I did was to always insist on sitting in the front seat of the car. I wouldn't take turns with my brother. I would literally scream my head off if I was to sit in the back seat, so my mother gave in and I always sat in the front seat.

It sounds really bratty, but it was based on familiarity and comfort zone. I was used to one thing and didn't want to switch.

Question my history teacher during each lesson.

In the end she got so fed up with me she'd just respond with : yes, you're right, okay..absolutely right, now, can we continue?

She also said I was like those tedious and nitpicky people that end up going to VWO (highest level of education after grammar school over here) when they get to highschool.

In the end, I did go there lol.
^_-

I probably annoyed people with all of weird nonsensical things I would say. It was like a compulsion, a regulation problem perhaps, a thought filtering problem or maybe a desperate attempt to connect and it never worked. People would ask "why don't you act normal?" and I never understood what to do about it. Even as recently as a few months ago a friend told me that I need to filter my thoughts better, and I suppose she's right. Why bother to say something that won't get me something I want?

These things aren't a feature in my writing, but in speech, there are a few phrases and words I feel compelled to say at times. I also made a youtube video of making my truck backfire, which gives one a feel for how my sense of humor works, and some may not like it! It is only when I watched the original footage and began editing that I became aware that I make a lot of small vocal sounds in speech, and that I also do a lot of awkward freezing. I edited those out, because I don't want people to think I'm weird!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsugVB9R9l4&feature=channel_page[/youtube]

Oh well, maybe I'm still annoying, especially to the cyclist!

The most annoying thing I did as a child, according to my mom, was that I never stopped talking. She said I would talk and talk and talk, whether there were people around or not (apparently she would walk past my bedroom and I'd just be talking to myself, she'd come in and I'd be laying there talking to myself). Everyone could be completely ignoring me and I'd continue talking (I actually have an example of this on my home movies). Well, now I'm told I'm way too quiet. But the people who I'm actually comfortable with tell me that I won't shut-up. So at least now I don't do it all the time.

The most annoying thing I did would be to come home and tell my mom about my day no matter how horrible it was, it could be really bad with the bullying I endured, and focus on all the little details, to the point where she would ask me to be quiet and my response was always, "But there's just one more thing!" and I would continue talking.....rinse/repeat, til she got really mad at me and then I would get insulted and cry.

I was extremely annoying from ages 3 to 9. I forced adults to participate in my play activities because I got upset when the other kids wouldn't follow my rules. I also gave monologues on my special interests to adults and I would give a "pop quiz" if I sensed they weren't listening or understanding me. I was never the type you could just tune out without me noticing. I demanded everyone's full attention. I also threw temper tantrums whenever I got bored because no one would play with me. The thing that bothered everyone the most was that I talked back to adults and asked "why" all the time. Basically I acted like a brat. I can admit that I was a difficult child. From 10 on my personality changed and I became more anxious and shy though I still had some melt-downs and rages.

Using my AS as an excuse in my teens and thinking just because I have it, I should be allowed to slam doors in the high school and disrupt classes during my recycling for Voc rahab. My parents sure set me straight.

My mom says that hands down the most annoying thing I ever did period was kick the back of the driver's seat in her "most comfortable car" so hard it came off its track.

LMAO. I have one similar to yours. Whenever we slept over at a place that wasn't home (like my grandparents' house) in the morning, I would just yell "Moooom" over and over until she, or someone else, came and got me. I didn't want to get out of bed by myself because it was quiet and spooky in the morning and the halls were dark.
Sometimes I had to do it for half an hour before anyone came in. OTL;;; I guess I used to wake up early.

(edit: SWEET, I'M A RAPTOR.)

Like some of the of the other posters, I'm going to go with constant talking. I was so quiet all day long at school that when I got home I just started talking, and wouldn't stop. I'd even follow my mom to the bathroom where I'd stand outside the door, and keep talking. I'd also talk the ears off of any teen aged girl on my bus that would let me. I'd ask to see their textbooks, and I'd go on, and on about the subject matter. I'm not sure if they thought it was cute, or annoying, or possibly both!

I also used to run in circles around the dining room table, and sometimes just around the house making all sorts of noises. It really used to irritate my dad, because he'd be trying to watch T.V.

Around my elementary school years , when the extended family would go somewhere; it had to meet my conditions or I wouldn't go..... if it was a vacation things had to be this way or that way . If food was served at someones house I could be picky and plaintive ;I remember my grandmother's luke-warm milk , the fridge was old and hence marginal; I was told : "just drink it" ; but I wouldnt.

Through hissy fits at school because
some jerk wanted to fight with me,
then tell the teacher I started it.

Elementary school was all right, but middle school was three years of HELL!

During middle school, a small group of 2-4 students would
pay one in their group to make me through a hissy fit.

Break things and lose things.

I've always had extremely poor motor coordination and when I was a child I broke or damaged or lost $1000's of dollars worth of stuff. Several more memorable occasions come to mind:

-Accidentally kicking a money bag out of the car with $6000 in it in cash without noticing (we never found it).

-Over time, breaking or chipping every single wedding present my parents own (we had lots of decorative stands and drawers and stuff in our house, and they'd put the expensive glass and china items on them for display, and when I'd walk past due to poor coordination I'd walk into the stand, knocking the breakable to the floor where it would smash or chip). I couldn't imagine the total cost of that, and I don't even want to.

-Fumbling and accidentally dropping a (several thousand dollar) marble table top while I was trying to move it to one side so I could play in the backyard. It broke into two pieces.

- Losing my entire sports uniform approx. every two weeks, and my parents would have to buy me a whole new one (over $100 each time).

- Once broke 8 dinner plates at once by fumbling and dropping the stack while unloading the dishwasher. (I'd break plates and glasses every week - we used to have to replace our entire set of glasses about once a month - but this time was particularly memorable).

- Losing my mobile phone (on many occasions, one quite recently) and my parents would have to buy me a new one.

My parents used to say I'd lose my head if it wasn't screwed on.

I'm surprised I didn't send them broke while I was growing up - All in all I probably would have lost or broken over $100,000 dollars worth of stuff. I was a very, very, expensive child to keep.