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2006-10-21 13:09:45 · 32 answers · asked by phil_maquim 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
When my little brother died accidentally of poisoning at age five.
It was a Sunday at the club and was not well, but ran into the
the dark so that nobody could see him eating peanuts taken
from the bar. In the dark, he tripped and the peanuts fell to the
floor. He picked them up and unknowingly ate rat poison. Being
a Sunday, the doctor‘s did not attend him quick enough to save
him. On the following day, I was sent to boarding school and
was only told of the tragic after my father died. He did not want
us to know the true story. There was another kid with him who
did survive. I was seven at the time, and only really got to know
my parents after leaving boarding school in Edinburgh. I was
brought up by my uncle who was a naval architect working in
with Barclay & Curles shipbuilders on the river Clyde. I have
always regarded him and his family as my true parents. This is
my second reply to you on this Sunday and once again I thank
you for asking because I have never admitted this to anyone.
It is good to get it off your chest and clearing one‘s mind. By
the way, you seem to be my confessor! And a good one at that.
I really think that this Q&A is meant to be a site of mutual help
and it certainly has been exactly that to me. Yours aye, Iain
2006-10-21 13:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by Ricky 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was a very quiet child...painfully shy too...the school I was sent to at that stage did not seem to concerned about what people they hired for Pre-school...they weren't even proper teachers...
Anyway, they decided that because I was quiet I was stupid...and they said so while I was around, thinking I was too dumb to understand.
Being as young and innocent (I was like 5 or something) I thought that this was true, so I believed what they said. But I passed the test to go on to the first grade.
They insisted that I wasn't ready, but my parents intervened, so I was put into the first grade.
It was later to be revealed as part of a teaching conspiracy (the pre-school teachers and the first grade teacher were sacked after this), the teacher purposely ignored me, she did not help when it was obvious I struggled. She would stop by and talk to each student and walk right past me.
The other students bullied me because of this...after a while things got so bad, that I couldn't tell dreams from reality.
2006-10-21 14:36:55 · answer #2 · answered by Chio 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was sent to buy cigarettes for my mother and was kicking an empty youghort pot. I crossed the road on a blind spot and ended up in hospital. First thing my stepfather asked me where i got the money to buy the yoghort from that was splattered all over my shoe (maybe the pot wasn't empty, i never figured it out).
I was 6. At the end of my hospital stay for concussion i got a bollocking of my mother over the amount of bottled water i had drunk. They had to pay for every single bottle of Spa Reine i had drunk and it was a lot, i remember that much.
Everything they threw my way after that i took in my stride and i left when i was 13.
There is nothing cheerful about my childhood i'm afraid. Although i have got one or two pictures i'm smiling on.
2006-10-21 13:24:50 · answer #3 · answered by Part Time Cynic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Grandad dying. We were really close and everyone loved him. I was only 10 and I remember that phone call it was a Tuesday before school and I answred the phone but they didn't speak to me. I actually went to school but came home at playtime. I was the eldest of 5 grandchildren so its so sad that I'm the only one that remembers him. And even me not that well just bits and bobs like his smell, his hair cream and the way he rolled his rollies. I still miss him now.
2006-10-21 13:22:28 · answer #4 · answered by Katie G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've sat and stared at this paper for ages, and I honestly can't think of a one. Not one. We were poor, not many toys that I can remember, but it obviously didn't seem to worry me. Isn't that weird. Even my most depressing moment as a child is how happy I was!
2006-10-21 13:32:07 · answer #5 · answered by Val G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every single time my psychotic father walked in the house was depressing for me, I had a horrible childhood but thankfully adulthood has more than made up for it.
2006-10-21 13:46:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
my mom was in the hospital for mental illness. I lived in Idaho and I remember taking her and dropping her off in Salt Lake City Utah. I cried all the way home and she came home for a visit and brought all the other kids a gift but she had forgotten I was born and didnt bring me a gift. it really made me sad. I was about 3 years old.
2006-10-21 13:12:52 · answer #7 · answered by Grandma of six 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I had a Jacobs Club (blackcurrant flavour) hidden in my drawer, and when I went to get it, it wasn't there. Turned out my brother had eaten it. He even left the empty wrapper in my bin.
2006-10-22 01:37:59 · answer #8 · answered by Snowth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I put a bracelet around a cats neck. It went on easy and when I went too take it off the cat opened it's mouth and it got stuck around it's neck and mouth. Dad shot my cat after speeding 3 hours trying to remove the bracelet then he yelled at me for doing it......
2006-10-21 13:12:39 · answer #9 · answered by ▒Яenée▒ 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I was depressed because the first gash I ever seen belonged to my mother.
2006-10-21 13:11:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋