Confess something weird you did as a child, that you don't know why.

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Inspired by the secret thread, which reminded me of this.

When I was about five I drew a house in biro on my parents' single piece of antique furniture. I have no idea why I did this. I was generally an extremely obedient, rule-abiding child, the sort that got nervous when other children were acting out. I was just suddenly overcome with an irresistble urge to draw the house. I still remember the feeling, and I don't know why I did it.

Did you ever do something inexplicable and out of character, that you still don't understand?

With (and only with) Ready Salted Walkers I would chew the crisp and then spit it back in the packet until they were all chewed and then eat them like a crisp soup. It revolts me now and I would tell my children off for doing it but,as a child it was my favourite thing!

I was a model student then randomly one day at school when I was washing my hands in the cloakroom I decided to block the sink overflows with those primary school green paper towels and set all the taps running on full then just casually went back to my science lesson.

About 10 minutes later a teacher came into the classroom and asked if any of us had just been to the toilet. I was taken to the heads office (a big deal at primary school) and questioned as to whether I had committed this heinous deed. I vehemently denied it and no one really mentioned it again. I assume they knew it was me but since I was generally an excellent student and presumably was unlikely to do it again regardless of consequences, they let it drop. I so clearly remember all our PE bags lined up dripping wet on paper towels in the school corridor.

I have literally never recounted this tale to anyone in real life!

Switched the food mixer on full with nothing in the bowl. Motor burnt out.

Also carved into dining table

Stabbed a girl at school in the head with a pencil then hid under the table from the teacher. No idea why I did it I just got such an urge and just went for it. I was about 6 and honestly one of the most best behaved children in the school the headteacher was baffled when she saw me outside her office. I still see the girl (well woman now) and I still can't look her in the eye.

Also left to my own devices in the car while my dad had popped in the shop and I tested how hot the cigarette lighter was by sticking my finger on the end of it 😣

Prank called 999 from the youth hostel pay phone whilst on holiday, don't know why I didn't know better and only stopped because the police showed up!

I was about 7 / 8 and it was definitely before the time of cctv everywhere and no one ever knew it was me. Ashamed.

I used to write my name on the wall then say it wasn't me

Cut a hole in one of my dads tops with nail scissors.

Squirted hand soap on my tongue for sh*ts and giggles. It smelt nice, did not taste nice.

Touched the iron when told specifically to stay away from it as it had just been turned off and was still hot ( I was old enough to know so not sure why I had a strong urge to just tap it with two fingers 😂)

The weirdest one ( for a bit of background, I was a very well behaved, timid child) I came out of my bedroom and decided to stand on the stairs look into the living room where my mum was sat and announce my arrival by shouting "F-ING HELL!" at the top of my voice. No idea why but I felt like I had to do it. Exhilarating but I immediately started crying when I saw the stunned look on my mums face 😂😂😂😂

Put the plug in the sink and left the taps on before I went to school. Whole house was flooded

I used to run the bath then sit in the bathroom not actually getting IN the bath. I've no idea why. Did it repeatedly for several years 🤷‍♀️

Used to pick holes in the anaglypta

I carved my name with my nail in the foam board that came between the false ceiling and the landing floor. It was because there was already a mark in it that looked a bit like my first initial. I tried to blame my sister
When I was nine I melted my rosin for my new double bass on the radiator, just to see what would happen. Nobody found out but there's still a greenish mark. (If anyone was wondering, what happens is that it gets very very sticky and then sets hard as the radiator cools down and there's no way to get it off again).

When I was five I carried around a pinecone with a little paper collar as a pet. He was called, imaginatively, Piney. My DM made me stop when it stained the pocket of my dungarees.

My parents redecorated the whole house one year-top to bottom
New everything-The day my new wardrobe had delivered,I took my leftover stickers from my sticker album and redecorated it
My mother went apeshit at me

Aged about 2 I put my foot in the wheel of my dads pushbike (I was in the bike seat on the back)
It sliced my heel to pieces (I still have the scar)
My dad threw the bike away as it was ‘dangerous’and bought a motorbike instead!

I also once didn’t do my homework but didn’t want to get into trouble so I told the teacher the dog had got to it
The dog had died about 5 years earlier

I cut off my fringe because I was bored of it and thought it would magically disappear and I would have normal hair with no fringe-instead I looked like a toilet brush for a few months.
Also chewed up one of my own teddies and blamed it on the dog so I’d be bought a new one

Pretended I’d taken some of my classmates strawberry flavoured antibiotic medicine. Must have been 5/6 years old.

There was a massive investigation and my parents were called in. It was a big deal!

I was attention seeking/wished I had nice medicine too......
As kids we had to have a leg hanging off to go to the doctors and calpol was like forbidden fruit!

I cut my eyelashes off, no idea why

Stapled my own finger to see if it would hurt. It did. And bled a lot.

Put a huge rose thorn, point side first, as far into my nostril as it would go.

Licked the wallpaper paste brush when my dad wasnt looking, aged 5 🤢

I had some bits of blank film negatives, put spit on them and pressed them on the bulb in my bedside lamp. For a few nights nothing happened except patterns appearing on the film negative, then one night the light bulb blew up with an enormous bang. The bed and floor were showered with shards of glass, my parents came running I was hysterical and my dad picked me up and carried me downstairs so I wouldn’t tread on the glass.

I don’t really know why I did it, but they seemed to believe it had happened spontaneously and and I got a glass of lemonade and a chocolate biscuit and was allowed to stay up and watch TV for a while 😳 I never told the truth about what happened which was very unlike me

We had feather duvet. I used to be obsessed with finding the little bits of feather poking out and pulling them out. I did this every night!

Kicked my dad full in the knackers as hard as I could

I’d seen men on telly reacting very dramatically to a kick in the balls, and I wanted to see if it was that painful in real life.

It was, apparently

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I stuck a tiny bead up my nose to see what would happen if I sniffed up 😂 it shot right up there and it took ages to get it out!

I did exactly the same. Stuck a bead up my nose to see if it matched the size of my nostril. The panic as I tried to pick it out but pushed further up was real. My dad saved the day!

I had a friend around and we pretended to be cave people (I think we were learning about them at school). This involved turning the lights off in the living room, lighting a couple of candles and carrying them around pretending we were in a cave. Of course we dropped wax everywhere and it was probably incredibly dangerous, especially with flammable 80s/early 90s sofas. My mum was understandably aghast.

Not a child, but in my 20’s while working in a nursery.
One child used to always eat the PVA glue. He used the glue spreader like a spoon and would scoop it into his mouth.
I tasted it, to see if it was nice. It wasn’t!

Mine is quite similar OP. In a Victorian photo album of our ancestors I wrote 'mum' on the photos of women and 'dad' on the photos of the men. No idea why, I must have been about 7. I still remember my mum finding it and me lying and saying a friend must have done it 😣