somewhat related to a rec from earlier, I was very into Grease and then The Outsiders (movie then the novel) as a child. like (autistically) obsessed to the point where I started trying to dress like my favorite characters (thats a different embarrassing story) and occasionally emulating how they talked. this lead me to when I was trying to approach a kid at my school that I wanted to be friends with but my lack of social awareness told me that I would be cool to them if I used 50's greaser slang- because I thought it was so cool, how could anyone else not? anyway, spoilers, they did not think it was cool, they were confused, and did not talk to me ever again
May 19, 2025
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lmgaooo this is so endearing i can’t think of anything cuter than an earnest greaser 10 year old stuck in the 21st century
May 20, 2025
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my extremely buttoned down parents were very preoccupied with the idea that I would end up uncouth and unladylike when I was 16 (it was the heyday of the demonic and cursed reality show ‘what not to wear’). They sent me to a local short course on ‘etiquette’ that spring in the hopes it would be the full blown makeover I so sorely needed. I blew it off and went and hung out at the skate park instead, where I ran into a chaotic red haired boy I vaguely knew through friends and we made out frantically at various landmarks for the next 3 days until the course was over and he ghosted me.
I stan my 16 year old self for being so wilfully disobedient and unwavering in her self-concept. I still have a bit of a thing for redheads
Oct 17, 2024
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I had a strict self-imposed morning routine starting in elementary school where I would set an alarm to wake up at 5:00 am, get up and go to the backyard where I would do circuits alternating between running laps, jumping rope, jumping jacks, push-ups, and crunches. Then I would sit and watch Pappyland, Golden Girls, and knitting shows until my dad made me breakfast and I would try to get to school very early just so that I could be there before other people were.
I wanted to be a standup comedian when I was four, then a news broadcaster, then an author, to name a few. I wrote a novella in fifth grade and shared it with everyone I could. I loved agility training my dog Holly. I was a voracious reader and checked out every book out in my school library to the point my school librarian started bringing me her own books from home that she thought I would be interested in.
I had approximately one million Barbie dolls and their associated accessories and I liked to make outfits for them and have them act out news broadcasts and murder mysteries. I would take roly polies from the dirt or crickets from the pet store and build habitats for them. I liked gardening with my dad, pulling weeds, propagating cuttings, and planting seeds. I loved going to the zoo and watching movies on TCM with my mom!
My dad is an artist and taught me the fundamentals of art and to use all kinds of different mediums, but my favorite was oil pastel. I enjoyed doing still lives the most. I liked to rearrange and decorate my bedroom—once I made a closet breakfast nook that I was really excited about; I called it Dorothea’s Cafe after my late grandmother and decorated it with her embroideries. I loved Nancy Drew games and other computer games. At night I would take bubble baths in the dark and play whale sounds in my Barbie car that had a built in CD player.
As I got older, I was in youth symphony orchestra (I played viola which is so me), choir, school musicals (wanted to be a Broadway star until I realized I couldn’t dance but also I kept getting cast as a boy), math club, and speech competitions (poetry readings and dramatic readings were my favorite). I liked to write original fiction and comics for my weird goth/emo/scene anime nerd friends to read. I did get into anime and manga at this time and I loved reading nonfiction to learn about as many things as I could.
In high school I gradually retreated into my shell after a series of traumatic experiences, one of which I’m writing about now, until basically I stopped doing all extracurriculars except for Japanese Club (lol). I just really loved my Japanese language teacher and wanted to spend more time with her :-) by that time I would just read classic tones and furiously scribble poetry and drawings by myself. I also liked to collage and do photography and I unfortunately became a Tumblr user. That’s about it…
Oct 18, 2024
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That’s the only one I can actually think of at the moment where I was unusual or stood out. Any kind of physical skill was off the table for me LOL. I was assessed at a college reading level in first grade and I read every book in the school library (even the completely random ones like a random Arnold Schwarzenegger workout book despite having no interest in this—my eyes just wanted to scan text and process information) to the point that our school librarian would bring books from her own personal collection for me to read.
I would go to the public library throughout my tweens and teens and check out 30 books at a time nonfiction and fiction and challenge myself to read them all before they were due. Collecting and finding them all to return to the library was always a struggle.
In elementary school I would finish my work in class long before anybody else and my teachers didn’t know what to do with me so they would just let me sit and read for the entire school day. We had a solar system Accelerated Reader chart for the whole school where the more you read the further out you got from the sun and I was always alone out on Pluto.
A few years after I graduated I ran into someone at a gay bar who had always gone to the same schools as me but below me by a couple of years and they were so starstruck to meet me and said I was like Harry Potter to them 😐
Apr 28, 2024
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seriously though I don't know how to make the first step in making friends on here but my friends can attest that I'm cool 😭 I just need to get over my leaving comments anxiety but until then just know yall can message me if you're ever looking for someone to chat with 🙌
May 19, 2025
I was bullied a lot for my eye color as a kid (because me having very dark brown hair and very dark brown eyes made me look "evil", apparently) and, naturally, began to dislike them. but as I've gotten out of school and away from people who put me down, I've realized how insane it is to bully someone over their eye and hair color and grown to love the color of my eyes. I mean, they may be dark but there's nothing wrong with that. and I can take pretty pictures of my eyes too, I just have to blind myself and almost stare into the sun to do so lol
Feb 27, 2025
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recently, when I wake up in the morning and have time to kill, I've been spending a bit of time reading before or after I get myself ready to go about the day instead of sitting on my phone when I first wake up. I feel like it helps clear my mind for the day and it feels nice to not immediately scroll when I wake up like I used to
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