People Break Down Which Seemingly Harmless Thing They Saw As A Kid That Would Horrify Them Now
Itās weird how much stuff we let slide when weāre kids. Even if you look at the TV shows we watched back then, we had such a high threshold for the bizarre (early 2000ās Nickelodeon, anyone?). So itās no surprise that some of us straight-up didnāt react when we saw weird crap in person.
Here are a few wild examples of seemingly harmless things we saw as kids that would be horrifying to see now. Brace yourself, this one gets crazy.
Kids and water arenāt a great mix sometimes. It can get real gross, real quick.
Not worth the tranquility.
I've always loved the tranquil feeling of being under water. When I was a kid I would just hold my breath and float around. Sometimes adults would think I was drowning and run up and scoop me out. I don't remember this (it was when I was pretty young) but my parents have told me about it
I used to think it was a funny story... people thinking I was drowning when I was just trying to relax
....until I watched a video explaining child drownings and yeah, the way I acted in water looked exactly like a drowned kid.
I don't think it's funny anymore.
Uhhhhhh.....ew?
Flood water. It was fun and games for the kids, and we even splashed around in it, much to the horror of our parents (who immediately scrubbed us down). We didn't understand then, but now, oh wow...sewer, insects, rats, parasites, etc.
Thatās actually hilarious.
My friend and I were walking along the road in about thigh high flood waters. A small boat with two men comes up to us. We were about 9 years old and I think they were National Guard. Anyway, one of the men asks if we remembered exactly where the manholes in the road were. We answered no. He told us that all of the covers had most likely been washed away in the flood but not to worry because it would probably only take them a few days to find our bodies if we were sucked down one of the holes by currents they produced. He spoke in a matter of fact tone and then left.
As an adult, I have zero doubt those two men had a good laugh as they looked back and watched us nope out of that water like two roadrunners in a cartoon.
Edit: It was Fish and Game Wardens. The NG didn't come until later.
Not to mention the crazy injuries that kids somehow are constantly surrounded by.
Had a jogger get hit by a car outside my house once when I was about eight or nine. My nephew came running inside yelling at my parents and my sister to call the ambulance because he was bleeding pretty badly.
I could even see him from our playrooms window and I wondered what he was doing lying on the grass. Turns out he was bleeding out pretty badly, deliriously yelling at my parents when they tried to help.
Eventually, an ambulance came and picked him up, but my parents always told me he made it out okay. The day after, in the spot he was found someone had put a lily in the grass in a vase.
It took me longer than I care to admit to figure out he died from the hit and run.
How sharp were they, though?
A kid f*cking sharpened his fingers with an automatic pencil sharpener at grade 2. Everyone didn't know what was going on until the teacher started freaking out.
I just remembered I tried to stick my finger into electric pencil sharpeners as a kid and disliked how my fingers were too big to fit in it. What the hell was I thinking?
Rock climbing can definitely be dangerous.
We did climbing in PE (sixth to eight grade). Like rock climbing and we had to do our own harness and stuff. PE teacher (supposedly) checked it after we were done to make sure it was done right. One day my neighbor broke an arm and leg because she wasn't properly strapped and fell.
This was at an international American school in Egypt around year 2000, for all those wondering what type of school does rock climbing.
Kids are, in fact, made of elastic.
We used to jump of our roof. First time hurt a little, but after a few times you learnt how to land.
Did it regularly and would try various items as 'parachutes' to see if it slows you down any.
I look at that height now and wonder how the hell we never broke anything - kids bones are more elastic I guess.
āItās amazing what adults can get away with right under kidsā noses.
A casual hit-and-run.
My babysitter was running late to take me to piano lessons and rear ended an old man at a stoplight. She told me that he must not have noticed because he didn't get out of his car. I thought nothing of it, and she drove away and took me to my piano lesson.
I forgot about it, and it didn't click until I remembered the incident years later that I had been unknowingly involved in a hit and run.
Big yikes.
Not so much something I saw - but when I was 5 or 6 I was at a family wedding, and there was this really friendly adult guy (who I didn't know) who told me he was really worried about his nice new car in the parking lot and how he wanted to check on the car but didn't want to leave the wedding.
He asked if I could go check on it and he would pay me $5 just to go see if his car was "okay" being that age $5 was a crazy amount of money so I couldn't believe my luck.
On the way to the parking lot, my mom intercepted me and was absolutely horrified, I remember not understanding why, like trying to tell her no she had it wrong he was nice and paying me! And as an adult now I'm like that's so messed up and I wonder how close a call that could have been.
Go grandma!
Until the age of 12 my grandma had custody of me. I used to sleep with her and she slept with a baseball bat next to her bed. It wasn't until I was much older that I realized she did it dads friends wouldn't be able to do anything to me.
Dad was a drug addict and drunk and when he was out of prison he had all kinds of people in and out of the house. You would never know what would be missing the next day - often my Nintendo :(
She did everything she could to protect me from God knows who/what and I had zero clue!
Edit: Damn this blew up while I was sleeping!! Thank you so much to everyone for the support :)
Im adding extra details to help understand the situation.
My grandmother was born in 1914, had a third grade education and was a housewife her entire life. She was already 71 when I was born! My grandpa died when I was 4 and it was just her and I. We lived in a tiny 2 bedroom house in a terrible neighborhood. It was paid off and that's all she could afford. She lived off of the social security death benefits from my grandpa and food banks. She couldn't just "leave" and go anywhere else.
Also, for those suggesting she should have called the cops - cops don't do anything if you say "I'm scared these guys will do something bad" cops have to wait till something bad happens.
She did her very best and raised my right! Now my father is back in prison (shocker) and is pissed at me for not letting the past be in the past and welcoming him with open arms. Meanwhile I'm a 2x college graduate with a great job, my own house and recently married! She definitely did something right. Unfortunately she died when I was 12. Id give anything to be able to tell her how grateful I am to her for doing everything right.
We see some scary stuff as kids. No wonder most of us are so messed up years later. Often these things donāt even register as something terrible- a lot of times, the things we witnessed were just a part of life.
The best we can do is to take our trauma, and learn from it, so we donāt pass it down to our own children. Because kids donāt deserve it- they deserve to have happy childhoods and not think about the horrors of the world.
People Share The Weirdest Rule Their Parents Made Them Follow As A Kid
When you're a kid, most of the time, adults make no sense. Parents always seem to devise arbitrary reasons to stifle fun under the guise of "safety and concern." Of course the best reason I most often recall is... "because I said so!" That one in particular always seemed a little fishy to me. But if we knew what was good for us, we acquiesced. However, in hindsight, every so often, parents have some weird motivations.
Redditor u/Korn_makes_me_horny wanted everyone to tell us about the times in childhood parents made some "questionable" decisions by asking.... What's the weirdest rule your parents made you follow as a kid?Menu Choices
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDc5NTM2OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMjg3MTU3OH0.REHzvm12XnCNhN4D3NCAafMRM5CEtmvpKiEquyVrf6M/img.gif?width=980" id="f10b3" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="920d3e25901942866aa1590b31e05495" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="480" />GIF by Pop-TartsGiphy<p>Chocolate PopTarts are dessert and therefore can only be eaten on Saturdays. Fruit PopTarts are obviously nutritious and are to be eaten during the week. (There was no healthy option instead of PopTarts.) </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck2696?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">AnarchoNAP</a><span></span></p>Be Home
<p>If someone asked me to hang out with them, I had to go (unless it was after curfew or someone my parents didn't like). As an adult I understand that my parents wanted me to be social and wanted me out of the house, but how it felt as a kid was that I needed to give other people what they wanted, my time was not my own, and my feelings always came second to others. Not a great lesson to give your kid. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck2bmu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">daintyladyfingers</a><span></span></p>In & Out
<p>My friend's Filipino mum would only let us play his Sega Megadrive for 15 minutes before literally kicking us out the house and locking the door so we had to play outside. After 2 hours outside she would give us another 15min on the Megadrive.</p><p>I once pooped myself in his driveway because she wouldn't open the door. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck5x4w?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Reddit</a></p>On the Throne
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDc5NTM3MS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNjQxMzA3MH0.V1CtADa21wXp8VnDrjzgeqoVL2QfOOlETFHIrjIxaEU/img.gif?width=980" id="b05dd" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="95b619596e7f15714c8046ae3d56e76b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="384" data-height="350" />king yes GIFGiphy<p>If you farted, you had to sit on the toilet till you pooped. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck7vv4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">MorgainofAvalon</a></p>Them 90's Shows....
<p>Grew up in the 90's and 00's my mother would not let us watch king of the hill specifically. when I was about 15 I asked my dad why and he said "besides the fact that it is not funny, I have no idea." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck83yu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">bluntsportsannouncer</a></p>Wardrobe Malfunctions
<p>My parents were very chill for the most part but they (particularly my dad but sometimes my mom too) would get on a high horse about the most random issues.</p><p>One of them was hats. My parents HATED us wearing hats. Any hats. It was the craziest thing. We really were only allowed to wear them like dress-up clothes and sometimes not even then. Even if it went with our outfit, you couldn't have it on in the house for thirty minutes without hearing one of them snap, "Take that hat off your head!" Going out in public with a hat on was forbidden, unless it was actually snowing. Sometimes, for Christmas and such, relatives would give us hats that they thought we would like, but we were never actually allowed to wear them anywhere.</p>Wordplay
<p>Not really the weirdest but the only one I remember: we were allowed to say the word 'a**' but not 'a**hole' because that would make it too inappropriate/descriptive. Still funny to this day.</p><p>Another one is where my dad buys new things and doesn't allow anyone to use them. "Why are you taking your new umbrella out? It'll get wet!" or "Don't wear your new shoes, they'll get dirty!" These are all things he has said before, lol. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck8cnu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">hanes77</a></p>TV or Not to TV
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDc5NTM3NS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTIyODE0NX0.Sn830NMH3hpTIaXBLpvyJS2uC5UMQ6UcaIW1bY9COGA/img.gif?width=980" id="7722d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fc128912d2cd1c22129dcb574c17d9a9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="282" />flying harry potter GIFGiphy<p>We were not allowed to watch <em>Harry Potter</em>, but we were allowed to watch <em>Wizards of Waverly Place. </em></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gcjyyx9?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ghostyrae</a><span></span></p>Meh?
<p>I wasn't allowed to say, "I don't care" when I was a kid. My parents viewed that as leading to a callous attitude about the suffering of others.</p><p>Of course, the emotional burden of having to care about everything has left me jaded. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck5oab?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">edgarpickle</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck5oab?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><span></span>"Do you want peas or carrots for dinner?"</p><p>"I don't care"</p><p><em>Gets smacked!! </em></p><p><em></em><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gckau9l?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Ancient-Concept4671</a></p>The Greens
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDc5NTM3OS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2MTA3OTQwOH0.kveNRqJ5HGuIdEJwa7sm9aKjPxIvP3CwY6ZbgXjw6QQ/img.gif?width=980" id="c731e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="12175e0f9f365016809644ccb0631d6e" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="500" data-height="500" />Wet Hot American Summer Cooking GIF by NETFLIXGiphy<p>I was not allowed to mix my salad dressing in with my salad. I had to just hope it coated the leaves while I was eating it. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gckhawq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Different_Number_879</a><span></span></p>in the pocket....
<p>I was not allowed to put my hands in my pockets (unless I was getting something out of them). "Only lazy people put their hands in their pockets..." </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck9w5u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">QuetzacoatlsTears</a></p>JTT Forever
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDg0NjA4My9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNzM5NTk3OH0.As1njnuflR5d4Tz3rP2gYkROOhKur6IGBb9LQzS_WgQ/img.gif?width=980" id="b8407" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="60b1112393d7c158372cdbd368466aa7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="250" data-height="145" />justin timberlake GIFGiphy<p>My mom wouldn't let me put posters on my wall because she said it would start a fire. Ya know, because my JTT posters might spontaneously combust. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gckolyj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HarryBallsbald</a></p>The 90's
<p>I wasn't allowed to watch the show Martin because it was full of dirty jokes and bad black stereotypes.</p><p>I could watch In Living Color, however. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck0733?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Stevie-Avail</a></p><p>My parents let me watch in living color with them when I was around 4 years old. Homey D. Clown and the Head Detective defined me. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck6d4o?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rcg90</a></p>Free Dogs
<p>Every morning when I woke up we had to eat a hotdog because my dad worked at the hotdog factory and he got unlimited free hotdogs so basically every meal for my entire childhood was hotdogs. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gcki9l8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">supersecretsecretary</a></p>Superstition
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDg0NjA4NS9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3MTEwMjE4Nn0.jX6yjCG5ovV0f04_RXrC2ASq_G-F6OQ7VMbBhDXTyAE/img.gif?width=980" id="796ed" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="222213fa4a2176874e776e0935c18e2c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="480" />Super Bowl Football GIF by Frito-LayGiphy<p>For several years, everyone had to wear a hat while watching the Steelers game, because my mom decided it was good luck. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck04v7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">strum_and_dang</a><span></span></p>"Crude"
<p>Watching The Simpsons, ever. I was 10 when it premiered; now, in my 40s, I'm still not allowed to watch it in their house while visiting. The main reason I was always given was "It's so crude!" "Crude" meaning the fact that Smithers is gay and Marge thought of cheating on Homer in one episode in 1990. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gckp3sk?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">squishedgoomba</a></p>Clip Clip Here.... Clip Clip There....Ā
<p>Flush my nail clipping (as opposed to just throw then in the trash can). </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck2nmu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Past_Froyo</a><span></span></p><p>Just gonna put it out there that some people, particularly more witchy peeps, are super careful to discard their hair and nail clippings in such a way that it cannot be collected by another person and used against them in like a spell or such. </p>Stay Awake
<p>No sleeping over at a friend's house whatsoever because "little girls shouldn't be doing that", but my mom is a Jehovah's Witness so it wasn't that unexpected along with the no birthdays or holidays rule. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gckd08y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Lil_Nanc</a><span></span></p>Girl Crush
<p>I couldn't cut my hair above my shoulders⦠When my mom found out I was gay, she for bid me from going over to any females house except for the one girl I had a crush on. The girl I had a crush on was Mormon so she knew nothing would happen. She thought I was sleeping with all my female friends even though they were straight. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gck6z6h?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shyanneabriana</a></p>After 16
<img lazy-loadable="true" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8yNDg0NjA5OC9vcmlnaW4uZ2lmIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1OTM4NTQ3M30.EFeK8-RH6koNLrbiWXWexKUqeYiE_NF4MhOQY8kiZ34/img.gif?width=980" id="db689" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="27952cf6492c749dce1fb98f9ba6017a" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image" data-width="480" data-height="480" />drag queen avon pride GIF by AVONBRGiphy<p>For the boys, no parting your hair down the middle until you're 16. For the girls, no make up/eyebrow plucking/shaving until you're 16. </p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvhb1f/whats_the_weirdest_rule_your_parents_made_you/gcklw0v?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UnflippedPancake</a></p>"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me." We're supposed to believe that adage and live by it, brushing off any negative comments that may be thrown our way.
We're supposed to be so confident in our own worth that insulting commentary and critique are meaningless.
But that is simply not real life. Truthfully, things people say can really hurt. And the insults can stick with us, lingering for years as we try to feel a sense of self-worth in the face of that thorn in our side from long ago.
When You Let Your Guard Down
<p>"When I was younger an older 'friend' that I used to look up to back then told me while we're having fun in a group: 'If could see yourself laugh, you would probably never laugh again.'"</p><p>"I'm still self conscious about my laugh 10 years later."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbc435r?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">fruitydude</a></p>Toughest Meal of the Day
<p>"'You're poor ewww.' And 'Why is your lunch so smelly.. DOG EATER.' Yeah, I grew up not super wealthy like other kids being first generation with immigrant parents. It really hurt."</p><p>"I hated eating the lunches my mom made while other kids ate lunchables and pre-packaged foods or bought food from the cafeteria."</p><p>"Looking back I shouldn't have been ashamed given my mom was making really nice bentos. So I'd forego eating lunch almost every day. I'd eat maybe a small bag of chips since that was cheap to get."</p><p>"To this day I don't really eat lunch :(."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbc61rb?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">SeattleCoffeeRoast</a></p>Simply Abusive
<p>"I had an awful step mother, her and my dad locked me in my room aside from school with nothing but a sleeping bag for 2 years. Changed the doorknob on my door so it locked on the outside. </p><p>"She would bring me my dinner, set it on the floor and say 'here doggy doggy.' It ruined me in every way."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbc4ag3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">shoebillstork84</a></p>Made Trivial
<p>"'It was probably something unnecessary again' - my best friend who constantly told me this when she didn't really hear what I said."</p><p>"Doesn't sound too harsh but it made me stop talking as much and thinking of myself as a boring Person people don't enjoy talking to."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcjqp7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">_yum_yum_</a></p>Bad Connotations of a Cute Thing
<p>"My ex and I had a common friend. When we were still dating he told our friend, 'she's like a puppy.' Our friend confided this info to me."</p><p>"I thought it was a good thing until he said that he added 'you can do whatever you want and say whatever you want and she'll still be happy to see you.' My forgiving personality was taken for granted."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbc84m4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TheOnlyJynx</a></p>Poetic Justice
<p>"When I told my father I wanted to come home to the family property and work on it and he said that was not going to happen. He said that he had 2 useful sons to run the property why would he want a useless daughter to be involved."</p><p>"The irony is that my brothers were given the family farm and lost it, I was given nothing and now have my own farm."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbc4xv2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">blazingstar308</a></p>An Overshadowing Identity
<p>"'Like, why did you even go to Vegas? You're so boring. I bet you ruined it for your friends.' - My coworker, completely 100% unprompted, weeks after I had returned."</p><p>"My other coworkers jumped in basically immediately and called her out, but the damage was done. Years later I still can't help but label myself as the boring friend."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbd5vvc?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">KaygeR9</a></p>The Last Thing They Needed to Hear
<p>"I have stretch marks because I'm very tall for my age and had a growth spurt during Quarantine."</p><p>"'You look like a tiger with these stretch marks, Everybody will think you're ugly.'"</p><p>"Thanks mom for making me hate myself even more."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcne6z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">AegoWaffles</a></p>Utterly Deflating
<p>"I was trying to learn guitar and I fell in love with it, I would practice everyday after school." </p><p>"I tried showing my dad how i was progressing and he told me 'is that all you can do?' it's been 5 years and I've never touched my guitar since then."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcqsn5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ErebusTheCat</a></p>Just CruelĀ
<p>"oh boy. I was around 7 years old, my mum invited her friend round and she brought her daughter along. we were playing and the girl told me about her ballet classes."</p><p>"I asked my mum if I could go to ballet class with her and she said they'd take one look at me and tell me sumo wrestling was down the hall and I was in the wrong room."</p><p>"this was about 15 years ago and it still hurts to think about. I've brought it up before and she conveniently doesn't remember. thanks mum!"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcjid4?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">averagebun</a></p>Bad FormĀ
<p>"'You run weird.'" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbc84zu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ashish19982001</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Duuuude! I got this one back in grade school and to this day it makes me avoid having to run at all costs. Need me to hurry? Best i can do is fast-walk." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcmmda?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">JosephSmash</a></p>An Unwelcome Return
<p>"My 2nd grade teacher the day after I came back to school from being sick 'the class was better without you in it'" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbccu4b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">c00kie912</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"In 2nd f***in grade? Damn." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcitsr?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TheBlueLightbulb</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I've heard that teachers sometimes mentally stoop to the age that they are teaching. It explains so much about some of those grade school teachers I had."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"Not that that's an excuse; that's absolutely a horrible thing to say to any child." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcybe3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">mmm_unprocessed_fish</a></p>Teeth Scrutiny
<p>"I got made fun of for my teeth when I was young. They were all over the place and I had to have braces TWICE and a permanent retainer to fix them."</p><p>"No notable insult comes to mind, but the other kids would laugh if I smiled or laughed because they were making fun of my teeth."</p><p>"I'm 31 with a beautiful smile now and I'm still weird about smiling."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbc4err?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">muspellart</a></p>Cyber Insults
<p>"When I was in school I was often called a 'Garden gnome' because I was short and fat I guess. I never forgot that. I remember seeing a picture on someone's Facebook of me in a crowd and someone had wrote 'look in the back! Found the gnome.'"</p><p>"It hurt, because I was never even mean to these kids but they hated me enough to do that."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbci2qy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Starsandlittlefish</a></p>Priorities
<p>"This one time when I was a kid I was wearing my soccer shoes and running from my house to the car to go to a game. My dad was waiting for me inside the car and he saw me running."</p><p>"When I got inside he told me, 'don't run with those shoes on again,' to which I said, 'you're right, I might trip and fall, and hurt myself'..." </p><p>"...to which he replied 'I don't give a f*** about you but those shoes were expensive'... it's been about 28 years since that happened and I still remember that moment and how deep my heart hurt like it just happened."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcqc06?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">mahnu212006</a></p>Tough to Flirt After That
<p>"At a party, the host's girlfriend told a room full of her single friends that I was a shy guy, useless to date, and a lost cause."</p><p>"Still hurts like a motherf***er today."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbd8yd0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Wandering_Tale</a></p>Corporal Punishment
<p>"'You are the worst I have EVER had! Worse than the guy who raped me! And if you ever want to keep a girl or marry someone then you should never have sex ever again!'"</p><p>"So you know what? I won't. Ever. Because now I f***ing hate the thought of sex or being that vulnerable with someone who could destroy me that easily ever again."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jp3oj3/what_insult_was_so_mean_that_it_permanently/gbcmjnp?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">prozacorgasm</a></p>People Explain Which Unsupervised Childhood Activities They Did That Could Have Gotten Them Killed
When some people talk about the good old days, they paint a picture of freedom, simple pleasures, and youthful imagination. They describe a simpler time when everyone worried less and being playful came easier.
The Boy Who Lived
<p>"I grew up in Kigali, Rwanda. After the 1994 genocide there were land mines all over the place."</p><p>"We used to walk to our primary school (about 1.5km). As kids we used to place soccer on the street while walking to school, so 1 day the ball fell in the bush as always, and I went for it."</p><p>"Little did i know the the stone-like thing under the ball was a notorious landmine, I got the ball and I asked the other older kid what it was."</p><p>"10 min later the entire neighborhood was on site talking about how I just cheated death. Never will i ever forget it. If i stepped on the mine that afternoon, i would n't be writing this today."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gack7ld?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">chyco4j4j</a></p>All Hazards Present and Accounted For
<p>"Swimming in the drainage canal by my house. Barb wire, horsesh**, concrete, fertilizer runoff etc." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gabyh2y?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Singdownthetrail</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"I grew up on an air force base and back behind the school was an old pond with suspicious rainbow ripples that was surrounded by 50 gallon barrels. We called it the Devil's Claw and spent the entire summer there every year."</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">I looked it up recently and yep, it's a super fund site because it was the jet fuel dump." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gacqxwa?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">goffstock</a></p>Safety First...A Whistle Should Do It
<p>"My cousins and I, from the time we were toddlers, were just sent out into the forest in the morning with nothing but whistles to 'scare the bears.'" </p><p>"One time I chased a bear."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gacddm5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Katy-L-Wood</a></p>Up and Up
<p>"I grew up within the boundaries of Tufts University's campus, at the end of my street was a campus building that was six stories high."</p><p>"I remember climbing to the top of the fire escape, stepping over the railing onto the slate pitched roof. I held onto the dormer and made my way on top of that roof, then I would walk up to the pitch of the roof and straddle the pitch and look out on the Boston skyline."</p><p>"I was under 10 years old. Well over a hundred feet up, one slip and I was sidewalk pizza."</p><p>"I can't believe I survived being a latch key kid in the 80s"</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gac5tv3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">MikeErk67</a></p>Unknown Gases
<p>"Previous owner of my childhood home left a bunch of random chemicals in the garage (he was into home improvement and stuff) and my siblings tool to playing 'mad scientist.'"</p><p>"Several instances of unknown gasses spreading through the garage later and we're still around." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gabuzcs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">pandawrath617</a></p><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gabuzcs?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank"></a>"We used to play with chemicals in my neighbors garage. Like combine all different kinds of chemicals we could find, I would assume lawn care and car chemicals , in her garage into a hole in the cement floor."</p><p>"At least we were smart or lucky enough to keep the garage door open." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gac1qun?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">rrt527</a></p>A Wildly Popular Death Trap
<p>"I used to roller blade off the roof and onto the trampoline....it hurts to think about it now. I'm still shocked I never got hurt!" -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gabuwk1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Melrob17</a></p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"My backyard was lower than my front yard, so the back deck was eight feet or so above the back yard. We would jump off onto the trampoline." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gac5oh7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">TheVentiLebowski</a></p><p style="margin-left: 40px;">"Everyone had bad ideas involving a trampoline." -- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gac657c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">Melrob17</a></p>Never a Dull Moment
<p>"I used to fill balloons with my dads oxygen/acetylene torch from work and throw them in bonfires. The explosions were so thunderous we'd have cops riding up and down the block. I can remember doing it one time and flaming debris burning a sand dollar sized hole in my starter jacket."</p><p>"Oh and going hunting with my friend at 13 and shooting shotguns at trees that we were standing near when one of us wasn't looking to scare each other."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gac5a22?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">unhappilymarried1991</a><br></p>Just an Innocent Breaking and Entering
<p>"<strong></strong>Back in the old days when folks didn't lock doors, my dumb a** used to go in my neighbors houses and wander about while they slept. Then I'd get scared and leave."</p><p>"Very dangerous as a 6 yr old young lady."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gacbun7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">magicmoonflower</a></p>Ahead of Their Time
<p>"I used to have free reign in the woods behind the base housing at Fort Bragg. My friends and I would ride our bikes through the woods for hours in the summer at the tender age of 7 like it wasn't a big deal."</p><p>"I'd never let my 7 year old now wander around the woods like that now-a-days."</p><p>"One day we found a vine that was dangling next to a ravine and do a Tarzan Juno across it. It was probably a good 30 foot drop to the bottom of a pit filled with jagged rock and dubious puddles of ick."</p><p>"I wasn't supposed to show my parents, but I did one day and they freaked out and cut it down."</p><p>"My friends were mad at me for like a minute until they all agreed it was indeed incredibly dangerous and for the best. Perhaps the most logical conclusion I have ever seen kids come to in my life."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gabz2p3?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">GeneralLoofah</a></p>Structurally Unsound
<p>"We used to dig tunnels through the hay that they stored in the barn that would be like 10 metres high in places."</p><p>"The tunnels would regularly collapse and we'd just shrug it off and dig another."</p><p>-- <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jjd4mi/what_unsupervised_childhood_activities_did_you/gabwfkg?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3" target="_blank">ifitwasonlytrue</a></p>Adults are suppose to act.... like adults. However, that thought process tends to come off more like a suggestion or a myth when you get to know more of them, or become one. Humans are humans, and we will find our ways to exert power and pettiness, no matter how small or young the opponent. Some kids are too much for their own good anyway, helps them build their shade game when we utilize our selfishness.
Redditor u/x3Nekox3 was wondering if people can recall the times adults were definitely shady, shady by asking..... What was the most petty thing an adult did to you, when you were younger?