Odd/ strange things you did as a child?

[Thecatistheboss]

My mum found an old picture of me, around 6 - in the picture I had a piece of wool fastened as a necklace! I apparently insisted on doing it all the time, I used to walk around with various colours of wool around my neck 😂😂 I’ve no clue why!! I also used to write in colouring books, I’d never colour them in but used to write on the pages, no idea to that one either

I was desperate to have riding lessons but that was never going to happen, so instead I used to tie a skipping rope to the handlebars of my brother's racing bike and fly at top speed around the roads of our estate, steering by pulling on the 'reins'. No helmet or anything obviously. I don't know how I didn't seriously maim myself.

I used to do this too. I used to put multiple tights on my head at once and pretend they were beautiful curled tresses.

When I was about six, I had a pink dress that I never used to wear knickers with. Only ever that dress. It was a spring-dress for days like today when its warm but not hot with a bit of a breeze. I think I liked the feeling of a warm breeze around my minge.

At about three or four, I was obsessed with pipes and chimneys. One of our regular days out was me and my mum going and sitting on a bench opposite a chip shop to look at the ventilation chimney thing. Said bench was also popular with the local alcoholic community 😬

I used to swallow a piece of cooked spaghetti, whilst holding on to the end, so it would go down my throat. Then I’d pull it back up again 😂🤷🏼‍♀️ somehow I didn’t gag on it!

when I would have hula hoops to eat, I’d chew one up and then kind of smoosh the chewed up crisp into the centre of another hula hoop, before eating it. Gross really!

This reminds me! I was about three and trying to grow my hair long but it took forever. I used to tie my grandad's ties to the little bit of hair I had and swoosh them about. He was in stitches.

Oh god, I used to do both those things. Also with strawberry laces, I graduated to strawberry laces with a flump tied to the end.

Did similar with my brother. There was a place behind our backgarden that we called the junkyard, that we could see from my bedroom window, and we'd spy on and make notes on anyone who went there - suspicious characters

You win 😆

when I would have hula hoops to eat, I’d chew one up and then kind of smoosh the chewed up crisp into the centre of another hula hoop, before eating it. Gross really!

I used to chew up half a rich tea biscuit, then spit it on the other half to eat together.
I think we would have been friends

I suppose it’s not that weird but I remember when I was 5 I used to swim about in the pool on my own, making up and singing love songs based on the lyrics of pop songs I knew. Of course I had no idea about love, relationships etc, but would get really into the heartfelt lyrics. One I’ve always remembered went “don’t go baby, your love is so fine, I only feel happy when I know that you’re mine. Like a puppy in a park, it’s never dark (?!)” 😂 Can sing the tune and everything. They were all similarly shite.

I used to eat pencil shavings, pencil leads, bits of rubber, things like that. Not because I wanted to, but because I wanted to impress my friends.

Used to pretend to be a dog, but not just any dog, I was Diefenbaker from Due South.

Whenever we travelled in the car I would always put the lock down on the door, just in case, for some inexplicable reason, I would open the door while we going down the motorway or something. I don't know why I feared I would do this but it was a really big fear of mine.

I was absolutely obsessed with glow in the dark things. I had a Barbie which had a pink ball gown with glow in the dark stars on it and matching glow in the dark shoes. I'd charge them up and sit under a blanket staring at them until they stopped glowing. Then, I'd charge them again and repeat.

Oh I used to do this too and impersonate Kate Bush on Top of the Pops doing Wuthering Heights 😳

Me too! The airing cupboard in our house had a handle on the inside and I always used to close myself in so it was pitch black and I could look at my glow in the dark toys! Lego ghosts were a favourite and a few happy meal type toys too.

My cousin and I lived next door to each other and spent a lot of time together. Every year we would walk up to the nearest church which had a conker tree and collect all the conkers then try to sell bags of them to people 🙈😂 we also used to pick daffodils and wrap them up with newspaper and hand them out to our neighbours.

Also, my grandad had a beautiful garden, and when his flowers started losing their petals, we would collect them and mush them up in our hands to die our hands red.

I used to bite off my Barbie’s feet too so there would just be the thin white plastic rod underneath!

When I was in primary school I was a big fan of libraries and post offices. In particular the satisfying sound that the big stampers they used made. At home I put numbered stickers on the spines of all my books to make them look like library books and (since I didn't have a stamper) I would bang the first page of any book with my fist, or sometimes a toy car, to recreate the sound. I also added coloured dots (in felt tip pen) to the front of every book to indicate the difficulty level (like in school). My parents still have some of my old books with these stickers and dots. No one ever questioned why I did this.

Not so much odd/strange just downright horrible . From the ages of approx 4-6 I would catch insects and pull
their legs / wings out , squish ants , ladybugs, anything or keep things in jam jars just to see what happened. My mother wasn’t very nice (looking back it was emotional abuse / neglect) and when one of her (many) boyfriends got her a kitten and she showed it so much affection I was insanely jealous and would hurt it all the time when she wasn’t looking , nothing obvious as I knew if she saw I’d be in serious trouble but every time she was affectionate to it or cuddling it I was furious. I would pinch its ears and stomach with my nails so hard , pin it down under blankets and take its food and throw it away. I’m utterly ashamed now but age 5-6 me was just so unhappy

In the 80s we use to dig up council shrubbery and knock on peoples doors and try to sell them for 20p
My mum went mental when she saw me and my friends walking down the road with about 6 small bushes

I was a weirdo when I was a kid 🤪 When I was around 6/7 I used to wear tights on my head, plat them & pretend I had long hair 😁 Yep, I'm still a weirdo, no longer wear tights on my head though, lol 😁🤪

I thought I was the only weird child to do that. Used to hide behind the sofa while doing it 🍪

I was given several barbies by my aunt on my 8th and 9th birthdays. I had no interest in dolls. I think she was trying to encourage me to be more 'girly'.

I shot all of their heads off with my air rifle. I even drove them off on my moped to summarily execute them in a field.

My sister used to eat entire pages of newspaper, sweetened with a spoon of sugar. My brother insisted on wearing a tutu until he was around 8 (defo straight and not trans).

Tbf I think most of my weirdness came from my parents... we're all relatively well adjusted adults now!

I used to regularly pretend orange segments were baby hamsters etc, and they needed an operation. I'd get a knife and cut a really small opening and then with my mums eyebrow tweezers I'd remove the "tumour" (which was a few of the tiny weeny segments within the orange segment) , and then patch it up with kitchen towel. Sometimes they'd also need a transplant, so I'd remove some of thr orange, and carefully stuff the donor organ in (usually a raisin) before patching it up. What a fucking nutcase.

And no, I didn't become a vet... Allergic to anything with fur 😂

No but that screams future surgeon to me!

no nutcase vibes from me.

So many gross things, but this crosses the line 😂