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Okay here's the worst one I got. It tore me up for over ten years lol

I was 13. 3 friends and I were at Splish Splash, a local water park. I had been dreading the trip because I was the only fat kid in my friend group at the time, and I had very obvious moobs. Well I somehow got the wherewithal to shake that off and walk around in just trunks and flip flops like everyone else. No one drew attention to my flabby boy boobs and I kinda let myself forget about it

We'd been there prob half the day when we decided to hit the tallest ride at the time, the hollywood stunt rider. Line was phenomenally long. Always is. Anyway I was just chillin with the boys having laughs and hyping up for the ride (and the super scary, super tall stairs).

This mother in front of me was with her boy. Probably 4-6. They were in front of us in line. Kid just looks right at me, points, and goes "Mommy why does that boy have boobies?" Killed me on the spot. I don't even think I responded. I don't even remember her chiding him, or my friends laughing or remarking or anything. I just completely shut down and don't remember anything about the rest of that day. Kept me up for years, fed into my self-loathing, made me self-conscious for life about being fat

tl;dr - at a water park. little boy asks his mom "why does that boy have boobies"

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I once posted a flopic on CE

the date was march 24th 2021, as i recalls it

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I had a project about space fall about while I was presenting it. And honestly, I was ashamed of most my childhood projects. They always looked like crap compared to the other kid's.

It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I learned parents generally helped kids with their projects.

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Squall28 posted...

I had a project about space fall about while I was presenting it. And honestly, I was ashamed of most my childhood projects. They always looked like crap compared to the other kid's.

It wasn't until I was in my 20s that I learned parents generally helped kids with their projects.

holy shit i felt this. sucks man, solidarity

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Mom walked in on me jerkin it when I was either 15 or 16. She was walking over to my room to say goodnight and I had the door slightly cracked to where you could peek inside, but I couldnt hear her footsteps approaching so I had no time to prepare. She started saying goodnight right before she got to the door then basically stopped mid-sentence when she looked in and saw me. She walked away without saying anything but I know that she saw me given her reaction. She never did bring it up but it was definitely awkward as fuck between us for the next few days lmao

In 4th grade, we were doing some project that involved painting a big mural on the side of our classroom.

I wasnt paying attention and knocked over a ladder that had some cans filled with paint. They all ended up falling on me and I had to stay covered in paint because my parents couldnt get out of work to pick me up and change.

pretty sure I have some pics somewhere around.

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I once grabbed a catcus plant.

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It was probably more humiliating in my head than it should have been but I remember as a kid I used to walk home from elementary school because it was only like six blocks or so from my house. Lived in a small town so lots of kids walked, and there was a candy store two blocks down the street from the school that sold penny candy and stuff like that. I remember stopping there one time and trying to buy some candy because I thought I had a quarter but when I went to pay it was actually only a nickel. It was my first experience of not having enough money to pay and having to like, put things back? And it basically destroyed me. I felt like I was this huge idiot for not realizing, but it was just a simple mistake and I was probably only in the second or third grade.

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zDonKEY_K0ngz posted...

Mom walked in on me jerkin it

oh geez i dont think i can even read past here lol

PokeCris posted...

I wasnt paying attention and knocked over a ladder that had some cans filled with paint. They all ended up falling on me and I had to stay covered in paint because my parents couldnt get out of work to pick me up and change.

aw :(

BloodMoon7 posted...

I once grabbed a catcus plant.

and that embarrassed you fierce huh?

MrToothHasYou posted...

It was probably more humiliating in my head than it should have been but I remember as a kid I used to walk home from elementary school because it was only like six blocks or so from my house. Lived in a small town so lots of kids walked, and there was a candy store two blocks down the street from the school that sold penny candy and stuff like that. I remember stopping there one time and trying to buy some candy because I thought I had a quarter but when I went to pay it was actually only a nickel. It was my first experience of not having enough money to pay and having to like, put things back? And it basically destroyed me. I felt like I was this huge idiot for not realizing, but it was just a simple mistake and I was probably only in the second or third grade.

aw geez this one's actually sad lol. you didn't even do anything wrong and felt so bad over it

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Eyeratosthenes posted...

aw geez this one's actually sad lol. you didn't even do anything wrong and felt so bad over it

Yeah in retrospect it really was just a simple mistake that anyone could have made but looking at it now my overreaction was a pretty obvious sign that I was gonna end up with an anxiety diagnosis as an adult lmao

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In the third grade I randomly projectile vomited on my teacher. That day we had to bring in an invention we made and I made a coat hanger with velcro so that it could hold pants too. lmao my invention was an embarrassment too.

Also in the third grade I said fuck you to a kid and had to give a speech the next day on why what I did was wrong, lol.


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MedeaLysistrata posted...

In the third grade I randomly projectile vomited on my teacher. That day we had to bring in an invention we made and I made a coat hanger with velcro so that it could hold pants too. lmao my invention was an embarrassment too.

Also in the third grade I said fuck you to a kid and had to give a speech the next day on why what I did was wrong, lol.

all three of these made me actually laugh irl

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Eyeratosthenes posted...

all three of these made me actually laugh irl

the funny part about the last story is that later in the year I heard him say "fuck" after seeing a rare pokemon card (it wasn't rare, it was just the jungle set that he hadn't seen yet) and he fucking BEGGED me not to tell on him like he told on me

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were you a merciful god?

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When I was 10, I was out shopping with my family. I noticed that some fat little kid was starring at me, so I starred right back knowing he'd blink first. After, I want to say 20 seconds, I noticed I was starring at my own reflection.

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Eyeratosthenes posted...

were you a merciful god?

Naturally

Actually I dont remember. I might have told on him bit I know he didnt get in trouble or anything. I'm pretty sure I didnt though... Pretty sure I just let it slide though after having a bit of fun

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Leaned over in middle school class to pick up a pencil and farted super loud out of nowhere. The whole class went silent for awhile and I was called Da Bomb for a few days

good times

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One morning I couldn't find one of my shoes so my mom called in to the school and excused me for the day. However she flat out told them I couldn't come to school because I couldn't find my shoes. The next day a kid in my class who was in the office at the time said the secretaries and office staff were laughing at my sudden lack of footwear.
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MrToothHasYou posted...

Yeah in retrospect it really was just a simple mistake that anyone could have made but looking at it now my overreaction was a pretty obvious sign that I was gonna end up with an anxiety diagnosis as an adult lmao

I can trace my anxiety's origins back to a couple of huge things but a lot of it blossomed from having a family full of assholes who liked to tease and humiliate people until they cried for making simple mistakes.

I used to have a big problem ordering food at restaurants because the first time I ever tried to order food myself, I very proudly and enthusiastically told the waiter I wanted a "Grand slam!" Everyone looked at me before laughing their asses off because we were at IHOP, not Denny's. I was 8 when that happened and for like 6 years, I wouldn't order food. My older brother had been ordering his own food since he was like 5 or something, so he relentlessly mocked me every time after that when my mom ordered my food for me. He would do this dance where he'd point up and move his hips side to side saying, "Grand, slam," alternating which arm he extended with each word. Some of my other siblings would do it and even my mom did it one time, though I was like 13 at the time and really should've gotten over it. They wouldn't let me though. I think I was like 27 before I ordered food and didn't think about that. Take any facet of life, and I mean any, and there's some kind of emotional damage related to that behavior. Everyone in my family is an asshole, including me though I try not to be, and we wonder why we're all fucked up and unsupportive of each other.

Anyway, most of the most embarrassing moments of my life are dumb things like that or things that are just depressing, like when I realized I was the fat kid, the poor kid, and the cat pee clothes kid or things related to those.

Developing gynecomastia at age 9 is easy mode for this kind of thing. Also being a fat kid with digestive problems who didn't know he was lactose intolerant until 30 but loved his chocolate milk at lunch. There's at least 3000 embarrassing memories with just those two things.

There was the time I choked a kid at church camp because he was cheating at a game and the new pastor walked in and just stared at us with an awkward smile that said, "Nobody prepared me for this."

You can find these and all my greatest hits in my memoir, due out this fall.


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Not from childhood. I was 25ish, and I'd moved to Montreal without knowing any french. I made an effort, and am bilingual now, but it was a hard first few years of learning.

Anyway, I lived in the gay quarter of the city, and every time I'd go into a sub shop, I'd ask for a sous marine, except instead of pronouncing it like it's supposed to be, I said "sous ma rein," which roughly translates to "suck my queen." I never understood why the clerks would laugh until a year later my gf told me my mistake.

Yeah... i've never been back to those shops again.

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