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Did you write on stuff when you were little?

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Aliceforgot · 16/05/2022 11:41

I wrote on stuff constantly when I was little. I had pads of paper, but from a very young age I also wrote inside my book covers, on the wall (until I was told off) and on other people's stuff (ditto). I then wrote diaries and later endless emails and I am now always messaging friends. I also have a constant monologue going on. I just wondered if anyone else did/has the above and, just for fun, what job you do or aspired to do. I am an author in my head, if not in reality!

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Sweetpea1532 · 08/04/2023 18:01

@Aliceforgot
Hi! I just saw this and it looks like it could be a fun thread, so I'm resurrecting it.
I used to write my name on things...desks, tables, books, walls,etc... I wasn't very clever because it left a huge clue as to who had done it🙄
I like to draw doodles, too. When I'm on the phone I can fill up a whole 4A page in a pad.

Oh, I forgot...I used to write the names of the people in old photographs ...wouldn't have been so bad if I'd written on the back...but no, I scrawled their name on the front usually having the letters following the roundness of their head. 🫣 I ruined a small portrait of my DF taken in 1930 when he was 4 years old☹️.
Do you tend to be an introvert since it sounds as if you're living in your head? I am definitely an introvert...and I live in my head all the time...thinking thoughts but not verbalising them.

sorrynotathome · 08/04/2023 18:03

I wrote in appropriate places. So not on walls or in books, no.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 08/04/2023 18:06

Yes, everywhere including a wall when I was about 7 and should've known better. I remember walking by it with a crayon in my hand and drew a pic of a person. As soon as I'd done it I realised what I had done!! My grandmother didn't paint over it for years, she said she liked to look at it 😊

TooBigForMyBoots · 08/04/2023 18:08

I did. We didn't have much spare paper in the house when I was wee, so I drew on/in lots of things.

Not the walls though. My ma would've went mental.Grin

HeechulOppa · 08/04/2023 18:12

Once, when I was about 9, I drew a doodle of boobies and a willy on the side of my bedside cabinet. Very out of character for me - I rubbed it off immediately (it was in pencil) but became convinced there was still a trace image left - my face would burn with shame whenever my mum came in, I even took to it with a scrubbing brush and a bottle of jif! I still thought I could see it. That willy and boobs were my Telltale Heart for quite some time!

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Aliceforgot · 09/04/2023 01:16

Sweetpea1532 · 08/04/2023 18:01

@Aliceforgot
Hi! I just saw this and it looks like it could be a fun thread, so I'm resurrecting it.
I used to write my name on things...desks, tables, books, walls,etc... I wasn't very clever because it left a huge clue as to who had done it🙄
I like to draw doodles, too. When I'm on the phone I can fill up a whole 4A page in a pad.

Oh, I forgot...I used to write the names of the people in old photographs ...wouldn't have been so bad if I'd written on the back...but no, I scrawled their name on the front usually having the letters following the roundness of their head. 🫣 I ruined a small portrait of my DF taken in 1930 when he was 4 years old☹️.
Do you tend to be an introvert since it sounds as if you're living in your head? I am definitely an introvert...and I live in my head all the time...thinking thoughts but not verbalising them.

Hi @Sweetpea1532 I had forgotten about this thread! Pleased to know I am not the only one which appeared to be the case 😂 I wrote my name everywhere too. And ruined other people’s things. E.g doodling on my Dad’s Simon and Garfunkel songbook. I still feel guilty about writing my mum’s name and address on a homemade Blue Peter project I had given her, ruining it.

And @MrsPelligrinoPetrichor my wall drawing episode was also a person. I tried to deny it was me but for some reason it didn’t work…

thinking thoughts but not verbalising them. Yep, this is definitely me. I have a running commentary in my head all the time.

@HeechulOppa The shame of realising you shouldn’t have written or drawn something as a child was so mortifying!

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Floralnomad · 09/04/2023 01:18

Aside from the time I drew a shoe on my older sisters foot in non washable black marker when I was 4 no I didn’t and nor did my children .

MyMachineAndMe · 09/04/2023 01:39

Yes. One of my early memories was asking my mum if she was using this book, to which she said no so I drew all over it. It was a dictionary and I wrote all over the blank pages at the front and back. I did that with all of my printed books. I too had loads of notebooks and pens and was always making notes, writing stories and drawing the pictures to go with them. I still love writing and keep a daily diary just so I can but and fill up beautiful books.

LBFseBrom · 09/04/2023 01:42

Yes I did, and drew pictures.

StagsLeap · 09/04/2023 01:53

Yes, all over any blank paper — a friend of my father’s worked in a newspaper and used to bring big rolls of blank newsprint. I now write novels.

Sweetpea1532 · 09/04/2023 07:35

I had a friend who wrote his name on the lounge wall when he was four... instead of getting angry, his mum hung a blank frame around it...and them when they changed the wallpaper, she cut out the section with his name on it and put it in the frame so he could have it forever..it hung in his home up until he died at age 76.

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Aliceforgot · 09/04/2023 10:44

Sweetpea1532 · 09/04/2023 07:35

I had a friend who wrote his name on the lounge wall when he was four... instead of getting angry, his mum hung a blank frame around it...and them when they changed the wallpaper, she cut out the section with his name on it and put it in the frame so he could have it forever..it hung in his home up until he died at age 76.

That is so sweet! I still have some writing on part of my kitchen wall that a child did before we moved in saying “Love this house” which always broke my heart a bit as I think she wrote it when they were moving out. She was an only child and apparently very artistic. We just painted around it.

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Aliceforgot · 09/04/2023 10:46

MyMachineAndMe · 09/04/2023 01:39

Yes. One of my early memories was asking my mum if she was using this book, to which she said no so I drew all over it. It was a dictionary and I wrote all over the blank pages at the front and back. I did that with all of my printed books. I too had loads of notebooks and pens and was always making notes, writing stories and drawing the pictures to go with them. I still love writing and keep a daily diary just so I can but and fill up beautiful books.

I used to write on the blank pages in books too, I still have loads of my children’s ones. Usually just my name a million times or This Belong to and my address. Once I rewrote the end of a story because I didn’t like the original ending. I tried really hard to make my writing look like it was typed 😂

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Aliceforgot · 09/04/2023 10:48

StagsLeap · 09/04/2023 01:53

Yes, all over any blank paper — a friend of my father’s worked in a newspaper and used to bring big rolls of blank newsprint. I now write novels.

You are living the scribblers’ dream! 😀

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watcherintherye · 09/04/2023 11:06

I remember vividly when I was about 8 or 9, an occasion when I stayed with my lovely Godmother. This would have been in the 60s when polystyrene tiles were popular, and she’d redecorated and had her bathroom wall covered with them above the ceramic tiling over the bath. For some unknown reason (no malevolence or deliberate naughtiness!) I genuinely thought she’d love to have my name bodged into the new tiles, so one bathtime I proceeded to oblige. Her face was an absolute picture of disbelief when she came back in with a towel. I don’t remember her getting really cross with me, but I think she must have communicated her extreme disappointment, as I’ve never forgotten the incident, and still feel a bit guilty about it even now!

WotNoLoobrush · 09/04/2023 11:33

I did this. Scribbled all sorts on the walls of my dolls house but no idea why. I also drew speech bubbles in my three little pigs book. I made the wolf say 'you bastard' to the third pig when he failed to blow the house down. I hid that book for years😂

Tessisme · 09/04/2023 12:13

WotNoLoobrush · 09/04/2023 11:33

I did this. Scribbled all sorts on the walls of my dolls house but no idea why. I also drew speech bubbles in my three little pigs book. I made the wolf say 'you bastard' to the third pig when he failed to blow the house down. I hid that book for years😂

🤣🤣🤣

Tessisme · 09/04/2023 12:22

I used to scribble and doodle on everything too! My dolls were covered in graffiti. All my school books had spider webs drawn in the corners of pages with various sizes of spiders hanging off them. And song lyrics plastered across them (not my own songs, I hasten to add). And drawings of all the people I didn't like, with exaggerated features. God I must've been bored. I have been investigating the possibility of whether I have ADHD! I also remember getting into trouble at school for trying to work out a sum on the desk. I have no idea why I didn't use paper - and neither did the English teacher who tracked me down as being the person who always sat at that particular desk for the only Maths class that took place in her form room! I swear, I'm not normally a vandal. But I'm no artist either!

adultdds · 09/04/2023 12:45

Yep doodled my name, hearts, flowers everywhere. When I got older it was song lyrics.

Irridescantshimmmer · 09/04/2023 13:00

Erm.....I used to melt crayons on a hot radiator, I thought it looked better than the plain old white radiator.

Crayon wax in all colours just ran down the radiator, I thought it was great.

I thought it was artistical.

As an adult, I know it was anything but artistical!

HarrietSchulenberg · 09/04/2023 13:11

Not often, no, but I do remember drawing a picture on a beautifully blank end paper in my Now We Are Six book and getting royally told off. I also drew a picture of my Mum's friend's baby doing a poo in her potty in the back of an Enid Blyton (and labelled it) but it somehow escaped my Mum's radar. I still have both of them.
There was also the "scarlet shoe polish smeared on the cloakroom wall" incident but we don't talk about that.
I was deterred from drawing in books when one of my Mum's friend's children (a boy, very loud and older than me) scribbled in my Hilda Boswell nursery rhymes book and I hated him ever after.

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Aliceforgot · 09/04/2023 13:14

Tessisme · 09/04/2023 12:22

I used to scribble and doodle on everything too! My dolls were covered in graffiti. All my school books had spider webs drawn in the corners of pages with various sizes of spiders hanging off them. And song lyrics plastered across them (not my own songs, I hasten to add). And drawings of all the people I didn't like, with exaggerated features. God I must've been bored. I have been investigating the possibility of whether I have ADHD! I also remember getting into trouble at school for trying to work out a sum on the desk. I have no idea why I didn't use paper - and neither did the English teacher who tracked me down as being the person who always sat at that particular desk for the only Maths class that took place in her form room! I swear, I'm not normally a vandal. But I'm no artist either!

I once wrote my initials on a rag doll’s upper lip 😂 My mum was so annoyed!

Oh and song lyrics all over my school books too. Deep and meaningful ones obvs 😉

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Aliceforgot · 09/04/2023 13:16

WotNoLoobrush · 09/04/2023 11:33

I did this. Scribbled all sorts on the walls of my dolls house but no idea why. I also drew speech bubbles in my three little pigs book. I made the wolf say 'you bastard' to the third pig when he failed to blow the house down. I hid that book for years😂

😂😂

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FrownPrincess · 09/04/2023 13:41

In a fit of temper I once wrote “silly bugger” in black felt tip pen across my favourite doll’s forehead.
As it was something I had never seen written, I spelt it “silly bugar”.
I then panicked when it wouldn’t wash off as I knew I would be in serious trouble from my DM, so I made a small bandana to cover it and pretended it was a hippy doll (1960’s child).

WotNoLoobrush · 09/04/2023 13:59

FrownPrincess · 09/04/2023 13:41

In a fit of temper I once wrote “silly bugger” in black felt tip pen across my favourite doll’s forehead.
As it was something I had never seen written, I spelt it “silly bugar”.
I then panicked when it wouldn’t wash off as I knew I would be in serious trouble from my DM, so I made a small bandana to cover it and pretended it was a hippy doll (1960’s child).

😂