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29 Apr 2025, 2:35 pm

When I was seven I thought seventeen would be really old.

When I was seventeen I couldn't remember what it was like to be seven and I could not imagine what it would be like to be seventy.

Now I am seventy and I remember almost nothing about being seventeen and can only guess what it will be like to be seven hundred.

But I'm willing to be patient and wait to find out.


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29 Apr 2025, 4:31 pm

When I was seven a teacher asked me to draw what I imagined I'd look like when I was 21. I drew a stick figure throwing up.

I'll be 21 in a little over a year and I'm not feeling sick yet...


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29 Apr 2025, 7:47 pm

When I was 7 I thought 17 was a grown up.
When I was 17 I didn't feel grown up.
I hope I remember what I did when I was 7 when I'm 70, because memories are important to me.


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29 Apr 2025, 8:27 pm

I change every seven years and gets triggered really hard the year after every those seventh years.

7th, 14th and 21st were all bad.
My 28th... Is when I finally got a good one.


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30 Apr 2025, 2:23 pm

When I was 13 I didn't understand at all why girls my age wanted to be or just look like they were at least 16, or even 18. I didn't get this whole "kids in their early teens wishing they were older" thing at all.

You tend to remember the years of your life where really major events happened. I remember a lot of things from when I was eight years old, but nothing from when I was seven.



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30 Apr 2025, 3:31 pm

^ Same. I don't remember being 7 at all. Not one thing. I can't even remember the name of my teacher, who is someone I saw ~8 hours/day at 5 times/week for 9 months. I can remember teachers from grades 3-5. No idea at all who my 2nd grade teacher was. I have suspicions of who my Kindergarten and 1st grade teachers were too. Still, nothing at all for 2nd grade.

Being 14 sucked because kids at school were so mean. Possible trigger warning about bullying.

I don't think I had one real friend at school that entire year. It was just kids that would let me hang out with them for a little. Additionally, I remember the biology teacher explicitly ridiculing of me in front of the whole class, while everyone else laughed at me. That teacher was also the coach of the track team and scornfully laughed at me because my shoes weren't track shoes; I didn't know track shoes even existed. They put me in the long distance running group despite me having no history of long distance running, so when we would go for runs, they would leave me behind alone. They didn't try to get me up to standards, and I dropped the team. Later in the year, I wasn't allowed to swim for the school because my grades were too low. That seems like a counterintuitive policy to me. I hated that school, and it's when I dropped liking Michael Jackson and got into metal music. I went to a new school the following year, and despite it's much poorer reputation and lower income neighborhood, the kids there were soooo much better and I eventually made captain of the swim team :p


Being 21 was a bit intense. I think I had a relatively unique 21st birthday that I rather not share.

I just finished a 7th year, so I should be good for the next 6 years tho :)


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30 Apr 2025, 5:00 pm

I started 2nd grade while I was 6 and finished it while I was 7 and I am still grateful to my 2nd grade teacher, 60+ years later.

I usually found class to be a little boring so, during class, I often tried to sneakily cut out snowflakes from folded paper. Apparently I was not as sneaky as I thought. My parents were called in for a parent-teacher conference with the teacher and came home with a book: Tom Swift and his Giant Robot.

I have loved Science Fiction since then! And for it I am eternally grateful to that teacher.


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30 Apr 2025, 5:44 pm

I remember when I was about 2 stuck in a play pen and no way to escape without help.

Then they stuck my younger brother in with me. He was no help. All he did was lay there. I thought he was pretty useless.