MAMEWorld Forums - Welcome to the War Room - Re: Okay, here's another way I'm a special snowflake....

> Eh, yeah. I'm at a loss for words here. All I can say is... It's creepy as shit, and I guess it explains your.... eccentricity.

> Shit!

Hehn hehn hehn hehn hehn. Yeah, an my folks was growed up Catholic, too! But they weren't too interested in keeping on with that stuff, and since as far as I can remember, I refused religion. I knew it was bullshit. It wasn't sensical to me, and when I imagined God and all that, I saw nothing in my mind's eye. Even my imagination wouldn't much touch it.

My parents were educated, and educational. When we were toddlers, my mom read us books about how babies were made - like real ones where mommy and daddy are in bed (under covers) and the reproductive organs were shown, etc. She read us The Joy of Sex when we were in grade school. Very early on, they would periodically sit us down for 'family council meetings', where they told us about things in the world, drugs, family economic stuff (that's why we decided as a family what cable package we wanted), or just anything we wanted to talk about with them, if anything. They told us we could tell them anything, and I remember one time, when I was perhaps ten, saying I just couldn't imagine not wanting to tell them anything; my dad said, "You'll see...." An while he was right about some cases, ultimately I've told them about everything.

My parents were affectionate and attentive. If they wanted a hug, we wanted to give them one, and vice-versa. We're still this way. Sometimes my dad would come and pin us down and 'eat kid arms'. One time I was on the couch watching TV, and he came in the living room and squashed me and bit my kid arm! I said, 'AHHHHH'. My cat, laying above me some watched this and then bit my other arm!! My dad bit my arm again. I said, 'AHHHHH'. Cat looked at my dad then bit me again!!! This went on several times. That's one of my favorite stories of that sort.

I didn't experience an adult 'touching' me. I didn't know of any kids who had, either, though they may have been.

People are eccentric because they're born that way. Whether they allow it out is something else, and how it develops is dependent on what experiences one has. Most of my experiences have been collaborative with my nature, and I've discarded those that haven't been.

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