childish traits that stayed with you

Robsweezie

are there any traits you had from childhood that you never really grew out of?? im sure there are many people as a child who always wanted the sweets to themselves, always wanted to be the leader of a game, never wanted to share their toys, spoiled etc. and these become the bossy, selfish entitled adults who were never corrected enough as kids. do you have any traits developed young that have stayed with you throughout life, good or bad? or know anyone like this?

a brother of mine never really has grown up in the traditional sense, apparently he still relies on my da for digouts, ungrateful, cant hold down a job, and just really immature with an attitude problem. this is typical of him down through the years and how we remember him as a kid.

FloatingVoter

Tell him to get out of politics and get a real job.

the evasion_kid

Pull my finger

jacksie66

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Duggy747

Bowl of Coco Pops and some Saturday morning TV is how I still start my weekends.

ProudDUB

My siblings and I still all pronounce certain words, the way that we did when we were toddlers first learning to talk and got them mixed up. Our mother copied us coz she thought it was cute and we just kept on going....

So butterflies are and always will be flutterbies.

Pork Chops are Chork Pops

Etc etc...

There are loads more. We've lost track of which one of us mangled which one, but its like we have our own language at times.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

My friend has a six year old boy, his dad is a DJ and my friend is well into her raves and music. I arrived at the house one day and he was bopping around the living room to some psy-trance and watching a DVD of this trippy fractal-y animation, loudly announced to me that 'these visuals are class!'. First thought was that his parents couldn't deny him, second thought was that I've a pretty good idea what he'll be like in 15 years

brummytom

I'm still a ridiculously fussy eater. I basically just eat chicken, beef and bacon. I don't do vegetables. I find it more to do with texture than taste.

TheBrinch

Pretending I'm a monkey and flinging sh!t at my family members

Kevin McCloud

TheBrinch wrote: »

Pretending I'm a monkey and flinging sh!t at my family members

I would seek legal advice on that one.

Mozzeltoff

When my little sister was a toddler she used to be obsessed with the Teletubbies. She used to greet everyone by saying "Eh Oh" and we used to greet her the same way. Nearly 16 years on myself and my siblings still greet each other by saying "Eh Oh"

Myself and my brother still call baguettes/ French sticks " Duck loaf". Don't know why or how that started. Pretty embarassing pastry class one day when I referred to the baguttes I was making as Duck loaf. The Chef was in hysterics

hdowney

I rock. Backwards and forward like. I do it now when listening to music, concentrating and trying to sleep. Mam says I always did it as a baby

Mister Vain

I still make fart noises with my hands.

PandaPoo

This is going to sound pathetic if my mam walked too far ahead of me in the shop, id get very upset and think she was leaving me. To this day, if my husband walks on ahead of me somewhere I can feel the tears start to fall. I think I had abandonment issues because I was in foster care.

If someone shouts at me I cry straight away, or soon after. I'm very needy but you'd never ever guess to look at me, everyone says I have a heart of stone but it's the complete opposite. I'm very sensitive I also used to cry when I vomited and I do that still, unless I'm drunk.

Basically I'm needy and I cry a lot.

The Master

Sucking on titties

Mister Vain

The Master wrote: »

Sucking on titties

Now you're old enough to appreciate it.

Terri26

brummytom wrote:

I'm still a ridiculously fussy eater. I basically just eat chicken, beef and bacon. I don't do vegetables. I find it more to do with texture than taste.

you're back BrummyTom! !

bb1234567

ProudDUB wrote: »

My siblings and I still all pronounce certain words, the way that we did when we were toddlers first learning to talk and got them mixed up. Our mother copied us coz she thought it was cute and we just kept on going....

So butterflies are and always will be flutterbies.

Pork Chops are Chork Pops

Etc etc...

There are loads more. We've lost track of which one of us mangled which one, but its like we have our own language at times.

Thats so cute!!

razorblunt

Cookies and a glass of milk.

If left alone for the weekend, I will build a man fort out of pillows and a blanket.

anncoates

Wanting to hide under my bed with a packet of biscuits during bad thunderstorms.

PizzamanIRL

Feeling the need to be given step by step details to complete some tasks.

Watching cartoons and enjoying the safe, innocent feeling.

Clearlier

TheBrinch wrote: »

Pretending I'm a monkey and flinging sh!t at my family members

Kevin McCloud wrote: »

I would seek legal advice on that one.

More psychiatric I would have thought?

Zombienosh

I'd still love to mix those mini variety cereal boxes together, sit in a onesie and watch Saturday morning cartoons.

wuzziwig

When I was a young 'un my mother couldn't get me to wear shoes if they didn't have room for me to stick up my big toe. She said I was a nightmare in shoe shops, point blank refusing shoes that didn't have enough wiggle room. Never grew out of it. If the toe can't wiggle upwards then the shoes are staying on the shelf.

jumping out at your siblings from behind doors & over walls & out of the bushes, never gets old.

jumping out of bushes at strangers, on the other hand, ideally stops in childhood

iDave

Not wanting to walk in dark corridors.

libelula

There still are, and always will be monsters under my bed that want to eat my toes.

wuzziwig

I thought of another one. I hate putting my foot out from under the duvet if it dangles off the edge of the bed. I often stick my foot out subconsciously and then pull it in because there might be monsters under the bed. :eek:

Green Mile

I'm 29 and I can just about colour inside the lines now

Zombienosh

Green Mile wrote: »

I'm 29 and I can just about colour inside the lines now

I will NEVER stay inside the lines

Macavity.

I get paranoid a lot of people trying to break into the house.

Ghost Buster

Thats funny. I was thinking of starting a thread on things which have stuck with you from childrens TV.
I always consciously wash behind my ears in the shower and it is purely from a Burt and Ernie sketch on Sesame Street!:D

Ghost Buster

But anyway..
I eat ridiculously fast on account of Im from a large family and dinner was usually pots of spuds, cabbage and a slab of mate in the middle of the table and then eat or be eaten!!

BeerWolf

I still watch the occasional cartoon, like Gumball and Adventure Time...

the_monkey

When I urinate, I pull my pants down and leave them around my ankles ...

Is ok at home, but I get funny looks when in bar toilets .

Renegade Mechanic

I still find well placed bursts of flatulence quite humorous..

BeerWolf

the_monkey wrote: »

When I urinate, I pull my pants down and leave them around my ankles ...

Is ok at home, but I get funny looks when in bar toilets .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV3zy-mCsOc

Ghost Buster

the_monkey wrote: »

When I urinate, I pull my pants down and leave them around my ankles ...

Is ok at home, but I get funny looks when in bar toilets .

I presume youre male..?

KatW4

I still run up the stairs when I switch off the light, just in case there is an axe murder following me!

the_monkey

Ghost Buster wrote: »

I presume youre male..?

Yes


But seriously, I think I used a teaspoon to eat cereal untill I was about 17 ... Just felt more comfortable ..

Magico Gonzalez

Picking my nose and irrational fear of the dentist.

Renegade Mechanic

the_monkey wrote: »

Yes


But seriously, I think I used a teaspoon to eat cereal untill I was about 17 ... Just felt more comfortable ..

I didn't have the patience to curtail the greed.. I think my teaspoon got the boot before I could talk

I get needy and paranoid if either of my parents hangs up the phone before they say 'Love you!'

I've been known to call them back and make them say it.

I'm 28.

Tearin It Up

I have a sister who still tells mammy on me.

Received a nasty message at Christmas time, saying I'm still not done getting revenge on her, blaming me for something I didn't do. The revenge she spoke of was having my bedside light on because she blamed me for breaking the Christmas tree. Its because I couldn't see in the dark, not that I was keeping her awake. I apparently stole her bank card too out of revenge because the bedside light wasnt enough. Revenge, revenge, revenge.

Just because she's a revengeful person and hasn't outgrown her childish ways, I must be too.

We're in our thirties and she still hasn't apologised for her behaviour at Christmas. But I wasn't expecting it, because it was the same behaviour in her twenties and she never did then.

Have fallen out with her but she spent two years in our twenties blaming me for trivial crap before. Accept it at Christmas time, and there will be something else that would be my fault every second week. I wasn't going there.

She can't be adult, I won't deal with her.

uch

Ghost Buster wrote: »

I always consciously wash behind my ears in the shower and it is purely from a Burt and Ernie sketch on Sesame Street!:D

Who ??

fleet_admiral

I soil myself occasionally, usually after copious amounts of ale

LadyAthame

The Master wrote: »

Sucking on titties

In conjunction with this and your avatar I am making some very unfair judgements about you! Fair play!

LadyAthame

Robsweezie wrote: »

are there any traits you had from childhood that you never really grew out of?? im sure there are many people as a child who always wanted the sweets to themselves, always wanted to be the leader of a game, never wanted to share their toys, spoiled etc. and these become the bossy, selfish entitled adults who were never corrected enough as kids. do you have any traits developed young that have stayed with you throughout life, good or bad? or know anyone like this?

a brother of mine never really has grown up in the traditional sense, apparently he still relies on my da for digouts, ungrateful, cant hold down a job, and just really immature with an attitude problem. this is typical of him down through the years and how we remember him as a kid.

I don't really know anyone like you mention.

I have this one habit of (I don't know how to explain it) when I get excited I screw up my face and hands and squeal. I hum a lot. I daydream a lot. I leave people little notes and presents.

On the bad side I let my fears and imaginations run wild with me. I can still be overly stubborn and aggressive. On the positive side though I have learnt as an adult to apologize straight away and be straight up about it. I think I have learnt to harness my strong temper well. It is there though.

I am still overly sensitive. I expect that will not change. You have to pander to it somewhat if you want to be my friend.

I have a curiosity about the world still.

I can laugh at the silliest things.

I have a sweetness that can be overly gauche and annoying at times. It belies my strengths though which is useful sometimes.

'I get needy and paranoid if either of my parents hangs up the phone before they say 'Love you!'

I've been known to call them back and make them say it.

I'm 28. '

I do this too! And even with friends occasionally. Let's not be ashamed Candie!

Shrap

These days I can keep it in, but I still throw a huge hissy fit inside me when my Mum invariably tells me how nice my hair looks when I'm having a seriously bad hair day. It's not as if I see her that often either. I think my hair reverts to frizz as soon as it knows I'm going to see her.

Curses! They're both conspiring against me. :mad:





Oh, and Carr's water biscuits are still the height of sophistication. I feel nearly naughty sneaking them when they're meant to be "for special cheeses". Thanks again Mum ;-):rolleyes:

Lau2976

I was a ridiculously anxious child. I was nervous about everything for no reason. My dad thought me a technique to keep my mind of my nerves, bouncing my leg when sitting. I still do it when I'm nervous. People hate it if your on a bench

Whatsisname

the_monkey wrote: »

Yes


But seriously, I think I used a teaspoon to eat cereal untill I was about 17 ... Just felt more comfortable ..

I'm 20 and still do that