Did you write on stuff when you were little?

[Aliceforgot]

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!

I doodle on random things but I don't think ever on walls.

My df does too. We were used to as children taking back letters to school with eyes or something drawn all over the back. Any white plain area was at risk of his drawing. I remember the time the boiler man came to check the boiler and dm opened the cupboard to find it covered with his drawings. He must have been doing something in there at some point and had a pencil.

Ds draws on his legs at school. It's a bit of a fiddle thing for him, I think, as he's got ASD and ADHD. You can't always see it when he's standing up, but when he sits down and the shorts ride up a bit you can see what sort of day he's had by how much writing is on him. I've had to remind him not to do it during his GCSEs this summer so he's trying not to do it as much.

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I love that he graffitied the boiler!

@Aliceforgot it was also a large doodle (full length) of a naked lady. Dm was very embarrassed. 🤣

Ha ha! An interesting one to explain to a boiler man 😂

YEP!

In 1977, I ENGRAVED 'I love John Travolta' onto my grandmother's 1950s radiogram (with my school compass, like the one in the pic I've attached...) She never forgave me. 😂 The 'engraving' is still there now. My aunt had the radiogram when she died, and the engraving is still there!

Oh god, I bet she was delighted! I am sure it was very heartfelt though 😂😂

Oh very heartfelt. I was in love with JT at the time. 😍

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This thread is gold!

@Aliceforgot love that you didn't like the ending of the book so you wrote your own😅

I was given a post office set when I was 6 with a stamper in it. I stamped on the bits of paper and envelopes first. Then I used the stamper to stamp on the dining room wallpaper, tablecloth and moved on to our best room where I stamped over wallpaper too. My Dad went mad, and blamed my Auntie for buying it for me. It caused a huge argument and I missed my cinema trip.

I used to write on the rubber soles of my slippers with a biro, it's the most sublime feeling 🤣

I named all my dolls and wrote their names on soles of their feet.

I never drew on the walls - my sister did and the punishment was to sit with her nose on the wall for an entire evening to look at what she’d done. She laughed the entire time; I was terrified. So not the walls, but anything paper and I was writing and doodling on every available space. My teachers often told me off for having ‘lovely work, greatly diminished by such poor, disrespectful presentation.’ I was entirely a doodler and not very good at any kind of realistic art and my school’s art teacher told me not to take art as an option because I wouldn’t pass.

Hilariously one of the weird things I’ve done for work over the years is doodle and letter for greeting cards and wrapping paper, so it’s very possible that my teachers have sent a card where I’ve written the scripty ’happy birthday’ or wrapped gifts with tiny Father Christmas faces I’ve doodled. Some of the things I’ve done for wrapping paper are the same flowers and unicorns that I doodled in my books aged ten.

The thought of you stamping everything in the house made me chuckle! I had a post office set too aged six - it is probably the best present I have ever had. I still have books I have stamped multiple times with my birthdate of that year.

That’s such good payback. What an amazing job!

I still have a book I scrawled on from before I could even write! 😄