What do you miss/don't miss about your childhood?

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07 Mar 2015, 1:41 pm

Not being treated like an object with no emotions but that was before 1974 :(



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08 Mar 2015, 8:39 pm

Well, being almost 54 years old, I miss having my whole life ahead of me.
I don't miss being depressed about having my whole life ahead of me.



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10 Mar 2015, 5:13 pm

I don't miss anything really anymore accept how time used to seem frozen and adult life seemed so far away. And legos.



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18 Jan 2016, 7:31 pm

I miss .. I guess the entire era
I miss the carefree lifestyle of being in a wealthy stable large family. Being given free reign and autonomy that actually became restricted as an adult later. I miss my dreams when they were still a possible direction to go.


I don't miss being in charge of the household from age 7 onward just because I was more reliable than my mother.
The entire period of my teen life after my mother sorta remarried (she ran off with this unknown pervy backwoods yahoo to other side of country and never checked to see if divorce was actually final) and we started that "adventure" living in house that back room off mine had a dirt floor and we only had food because I helped a blind 99 yr old woman maintain her garden and she shared the food with us when she cooked huge batches for canning.
I don't miss the expectations to be a wonderkid in engineering college before I was even in junior high.


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29 Feb 2016, 12:57 am

I miss the stray cats I use to play with, before people started calling animal control

I don't miss my abusive father



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23 Jul 2016, 4:50 pm

I miss my ex-girlfriend, Rachel.


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23 Jul 2016, 6:48 pm

I miss the quiet seclusion of living in the woods without close neighbors.

I don't miss the confusion and embarrassment of feeling different and not knowing why.



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23 Jul 2016, 11:06 pm

What I don't miss about my childhood is the dark days of elementary school. 8O


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26 Jul 2016, 4:06 am

I had a lousy childhood, so there wasn't much to miss about it. I don't miss being constantly tormented by the other kids, and I don't miss the adults who let it happen.


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03 Aug 2016, 4:03 pm

I miss not having to pay bills and having responsibilities.
I don't miss school.


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03 Aug 2016, 5:23 pm

I miss the luxury of having loads of time to read fairy tales and fantasy books.

I don't miss the MeanGirls of Middle School.


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03 Aug 2016, 7:31 pm

I really miss NOTHING about my childhood.



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03 Aug 2016, 7:44 pm

I don't miss the dad I never knew.


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03 Aug 2016, 7:46 pm

I miss having a family that is a family... funny how people turn out later

I dont miss the bullying at school.


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02 Aug 2017, 11:28 pm

I miss getting excited about birthdays & Christmas.
I don't miss riding the school bus.



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03 Aug 2017, 12:23 am

I miss the sheer amount of time I sent as a kid wasting time on clearly pointless endeavors and having a blast with it. I distinctly remember spending an entire afternoon trying to see if I could jump-kick over the invisible walls outside of the castle in Super Mario 64. Realistically speaking, the game's physics made doing so entirely impossible, and even if I had managed it, the game would just glitched out anyway. Nothing interesting would have happened, at all. In a sense, I knew that even at the time, but I wanted to try anyway, and try I did.

Nowadays, everything I do has to have an end-goal. I like video games, but I often struggle with just... playing, without setting constant achievable goals for myself.


What I don't miss? Gym class. I was so, so, so painfully uncoordinated. I still am. I almost always forgot my shoes, which was in large part an executive functioning issue, but I... also wasn't exactly motivated to remember them? I was always kind of was relieved whenever I forgot them since it meant I had to sit out, even though I'd always get my ear chewed out over forgetting them again.