I was a Depressed Child.....how bout you?

[SassyLady]

Our childhoods were similiar, only I am the baby in my family and i was very quiet I blended in, I was pretty obediant as a child. My sister was the lippy one in our family.

Did you family make white rice with milk melted butter and sugar for dinner? When I was little my best friend came from a family of 7 and thats what they had constantly for dinner LOL>

OMG ... I thought we were the only ones that did that! Everything came from the welfare office...the rice, the butter, the powdered milk, sugar ... we would also put some cinnamon on it. When you have seven kids it goes a long way ... we had it for breakfast a lot. For dinner we had cornbread and milk.

Oh, and we didn't call it dinner .... it was supper.

[chloe]

OMG ... I thought we were the only ones that did that! Everything came from the welfare office...the rice, the butter, the powdered milk, sugar ... we would also put some cinnamon on it. When you have seven kids it goes a long way ... we had it for breakfast a lot. For dinner we had cornbread and milk.

Oh, and we didn't call it dinner .... it was supper.

nope

[KartRacerBoy]

Youngest of three. Two older sisters, a year and two years older than me. I learned early that girls are inherently evil. Probably the one story I believe from the bible! One sister would make me play Barbies (usually about a half an hour) before we played cars and trucks outside in the dirt for hours. Ken doll would regulary get his ass kicked by GI Joe with the Kung Fu grip! And the Barbies usually lost limbs to Tonka truck accidents. Years later my sister said "Of course I didn't really like playing Barbies. I just LOVED making you play Barbie!"

[fj1200]

I just LOVED making you play Barbie!"

That explains the toes.

[KartRacerBoy]

That explains the toes.

You are such a jealous bitch, fj.

[cadet]

My family would say I stood up for my family, my friends, but not myself.
Basically, I almost beat the crud out of some kid when I was 5 because he was picking on my sister.


I'd say I was quiet, anti-social, and a doormat for my "friends."
was this way all the way up till my sophomore year in high school.
that's when i took my dads advice, told all those so called "friends" they were a-holes, and that I hated them all. Made new friends, and now you couldn't get me to shut up if you tried

[CSM]

Second oldest. I guess my family would say I was the comic. Pretty much an independent spirit. Played outside ALL the time; did lots of hunting and fishing from the time I was twelve. Liked to read a lot, mostly science fiction. I wasn't a "social outcast" but did prefer to do my own thing. Girls were just strange but fascinatiing creatures and I was pretty shy around them. Homelife was stable and definitely not abusive. We were dirt poor but always managed to have plenty to eat and durable if not fashionable clothes on our backs. I was a poor student in high school because I just didn't care about things like algebra and biology. Hated French class the most. Joined the Army at 17 and found my calling. Loved being a soldier.

[DragonStryk72]

What kind of kid were you, how does your family describe you were as a child when telling about you to "outsiders" of the family?

I disassembled stuff as a kid, locks, whatever I could pry apart or use my little fingernails to loosen the screws on. One time I actually disassembled the tv, back when it still had glass tubes in the back, and yes, I got those too, apparently. It took my mom all day to get the thing back together

[logroller]

I disassembled stuff as a kid, locks, whatever I could pry apart or use my little fingernails to loosen the screws on. One time I actually disassembled the tv, back when it still had glass tubes in the back, and yes, I got those too, apparently. It took my mom all day to get the thing back together

Oh yea! Me too. I'll never forget the time I disassembled a camera and when I cut the wires to the flash capacitor, it flashed alright-- I saw spots for a day.

I was alawys a bit of a loner, playing endlessly in my room with legos or watching TV while reading encyclopedias-- I'm a huge nerd.

[DragonStryk72]

Oh yea! Me too. I'll never forget the time I disassembled a camera and when I cut the wires to the flash capacitor, it flashed alright-- I saw spots for a day.

I was alawys a bit of a loner, playing endlessly in my room with legos or watching TV while reading encyclopedias-- I'm a huge nerd.

legos were the BEST though! I accidentally trapped myself in a lego village I was building at one point, because I kept building around, and lost track of time.

[Abbey Marie]

With so many new people, I thought we could revisit this old thread. Maybe others would like to post.

Yes, I'm necromancing again.

[aboutime]

With so many new people, I thought we could revisit this old thread. Maybe others would like to post.

Yes, I'm necromancing again.

Abbey. I appreciate your efforts to revisit this thread again. Unfortunately, for me. So much time has passed, and life experiences have been so many...it would literally take too much time, other than in book form, to ramble-on here.
I look at life as one, very long...uninteresting story for many. And I also feel...sharing so much I would like to talk about here...would merely become a target for some. Some who wouldn't possibly believe some, if not most of the things I have Personally experienced without sounding like fabrication.

As for being a depressed child. Back when I was a child. We had no idea what Depression...2014 style was. Life was too crowded with trying to survive day to day, and week to week.
Can't imagine how life might have been back then with IPOD'S, CELL-PHONES, and BUSY-BODIES trying to run our life in every way.

[jimnyc]

What kind of kid were you, how does your family describe you were as a child when telling about you to "outsiders" of the family?

I'll take a stab at this a few years later!

I was full of energy and always on the move. They would tell you that I was a little wise ass. A trouble maker. One with dead on aim that was learned from tossing rocks and snowballs at cars, that turned into the football and baseball on the field. That I was shy underneath. That I was perhaps dropped on my head soon after birth. That I might have some emotional issues. Who the hell knows, I wouldn't listen to shit them bastards say anyway!

[jimnyc]

With so many new people, I thought we could revisit this old thread. Maybe others would like to post.

Yes, I'm necromancing again.

Never heard the term necromancing before, but I can see how it fits! I thought you wrote necrophilia when I first did my speed reading. And now you know that I can't speed read worth a damn!

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I was the middle child of the 13 kids my parents had. I was very advanced from a young age because by second grade I was studying and reading on weekends my fifth grade brother's text books --all of them . Back in those days you had to pay for a locker, we never could afford that until much later in high school for me so we brought our books home everyday. . By my sixth grade year I was heavy into my older brother's Senior year text books. He indulged me by bringing most of them home every Friday. I still found time to hunt almost everyday it seems. We ate what we killed back then, rabbits, squirrels, etc.. My mother picked me to take her anger at life out on. Because of that I became more stubborn and very mean as a teenager(15) ,especially so after my father's death. That totally broke me spiritually and I spent the next 14 years in total rebellion against God and world. My second wife brought me out of most of that and now I am a mellow fellow! At least when compared to my wild younger years I am! Still as stubborn as a damn Missouri mule and ready to fight at the drop of a hat.. - --Tyr