Did you enjoy your childhood?
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To a certain extent I did - The abuse effected me really bad though
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there were some good times. There were some uncomfortable times. My only regret is that it went to fast! I wish I could do it all over again.
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I enjoyed it when I as going through it, but looking back it was pretty screwed up. My mom hid things from us.
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Yes I did very much. It was wonderful. I feel very blessed that nothing really terrible happened and that I still have my entire immediate family with me.
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No not really, my family used to run amd manage pubs, so I seem to remember alot of time spent sitting upstairs in our living quaters looking after my younger sisters.
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No, with the dysfunctional family I had, and abuse NO..I remember feeling very alone..
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no
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I enjoyed my child hood.It was like a bed of roses for me.Good parents,Nice sister.
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I hated it at the time, but thinking back on it, it was pretty exciting and different. I don't think I would be the same person today without the kind of childhood I had.
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No, it was pretty bad. I was the last of four great grand children and the youngest by four years. They all played together while I got torchured or ignored. And it was even worse when I went to school. I was the weird kid so the other kids picked on me. Add to all of this my mother was absent for most of it so my brother and I were raised by relatives. And when we were with her she was either dealing with her own baggage or my brother's garbage. I was down right misrable. If it wasn't for horses I wouldn't be here right now.
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I had a lot of good times...but there was a lot of horrible verbal abuse going on which would not make me want to revisit.
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Yep. Good family, great friends, massive games of 20-a-side football on the common, climbing trees until it went dark and you couldn't get down......*sigh* I might climb a tree after work today just to remind me who I am, I feel too old...
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Yep, its was fun I lived in the country so there was a grop of about 5 of us wandering around being kids.. Ace actually...
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My childhood was spent half in the city half in the country so I got the best of both worlds. I moved to the counry just as I started being independant which was good because I got a lot of freedom. Growing up in the country is good as long as you get out at around age 13/14.
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Yes and I'm still enjoying it because I am a child at heart lol.
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I think so. I liked it so much that I still am called a "big kid". :)
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No, because I was sick a lot, so I was often going to see doctors/to the hospital.
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no, iam sorry to say..it was a rocky, somewhat turbulant childhood. i wont go into specifics...but it wasnt happy all the time -only the holidays and birthdays were happy. no, i wasnt abused..but i was sometimes neglected. for instance, i'd come home after school..and had to eat a meal by my self..parents owned a restaurant...a 9 to 5 job..so i was on my own till 5:45pm..i soon adapted to being alone..but at least my mother should have stayed home..
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It's been enjoyed so far! :D
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Not really. It was sub-par at best. Lots of little things really got me down and made me into the mess I am today. But I suppose it could have been worse...
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yes im on second childhood right now
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Yes! I loved my childhood! I grew up in Dublin Ireland and I can remember meeting my best friend for the first time ever! It was the best day of my life so far! Since my childhood I have moved back to the United States and miss her terribly!
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Yes - apart from the bits I didn't like.
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I had a wonder childhood full of great memories. I was adopted at a very young age and grew up in what seemed like a huge house with the biggest back yard I had ever seen. And it had a swimming pool. My Mum and I drew a very close bond and that helped a great deal as I grew older.
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Oh yes scrumping,hop picking,fruit picking,and wot about "bob a job"
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Yes. I grew up fast
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just loved it......those were the carefree days
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Yes...It was much easier then life is now.
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Yes
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yes, untill my sister was born,lol. im 13 now, that wouldnt be considered "child"right?
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There was some good times, but there was some rough times. My dad was overprotective. Which now I am greatful for. Many years I wore hand-me-downs.Kids teased me because of that. I had/have a weight problem. I was tease for that also. I had issues with my mom, because she did drugs. But thank God for my grandmother, through the Grace of God I got saved in the mist of all that. I had terric freinds and some great teachers. Overall, I would have to say that good times out weighed the bad times. But would I want to go through it again? Naaaah
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no, even though i'm still kind of living it... i was/am afraid of my mother most of the time so...
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Not too much. Well, it's because I had a mother who was crazy 101% of the time. KWIM? She was pretty much ****ed in the head and living with her was a nightmare. But now I can enjoy my childhood, as an adult. And I have more freedom.
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I enjoyed some of it, i spent alot of my life being picked on because i refused to follow trends as i got older as i wanted to be unique in a sense, or they found another reason to pick on me, but the parts that were good were really good
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Childhood was fine, being a adult is the tricky part!
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Yeah yo... Can I do it again???
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Not usually but kind of. Most memories I have are of me being alone playing in the woods our in the backyard. Two siblings to old to want to play and the closets to me was to selfish to bother if she wasn't being forced to. Or if I wasn't alone it was with my best friend at his house with him and his sister. But the memories I have being with my family I still like.
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Sexual (uncle), emotional (mother), mild physical and neglect (mother) abuse, welfare mother who yelled constantly, who had a pothead drunk boyfriend (several times in jail) who leashed our dog to a tree and shot him, punch windows out and kicked in the TV, homeless and living completely in tents over one whole summer, phase two - stepfather (different man) who hit on me (sexual advances), poor - got one new outfit for school, not much else (of course my mother smoked and could afford cigarettes on her state aid), picked on in school, loner, slut at 15, unmarried and pregnant at 19, became pot smoker, drank till I passed out, worked low-wage jobs, quit pot, went to college, pregnant again different guy, dropped out of college, met a man online, finally married THEN had a baby together, still married, good job, own a home... yeah, great childhood. I survived and am NOT my mother. I work for a living in a respectable job making good money, own a home, married, and a great mom to my kids and teaching them to be better people. Happy adulthood.
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yep, very much so .. :)
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No, I didn't. But I am making up for it now! I make sure my duaghter has a wonderful, happy childhood, tho. :-)
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More or less :)
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No :)
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No had a very sad one. Due to abuse and mother being a drinker. Grow up to fast had to as mother was pissed most of the time.
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Yes I did... I lived in the tiny islands off of Scotland when I was tiny... not much to do there for a kid, but with a population of around 75... 10 of which are you age you can pretty much do what you like. Then I was sent to boarding school... those were some of the best years of my life... honest they were. The late nights drinking in the prefect lounge, the staggering through the backfields at three AM. The horrid pranks we'd pull on each other and the younger students... oh the trouble me and mine got into... what fun. But the very best bit of my childhood was when I was about 19 years old... my mates and I had the week off uni and I’d just passed my motorbike test, we drove up to north Wales on them and went speeding round the mountains at nearly 200 miles an hour... some of these roads are real killers... that was so stupid... and yet... SO MUCH FUN.
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my childhood was bittersweet...it was difficult for me to deal with other kids who are a LOT shorter than me.i was raised by a loving mother.but me and my older sister always get into fights and she always bully me.in school,i have friends but never had the ideal friend,i cant have all the things that i want,my father is a dumbshit,for not sustenting,then when i was 12 things got worse!!!!!!!!!
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With my family i never had a childhood, I was the youngest of 2 but i was always the older sister in the mess. It got to the point where i thought i was named after a mental institution. "Taylor Manor". My sister had mental illness which caused her to abuse my entire family. Even my father. God love him, he never hit her back. 175 5"3 and all muscle. Thats a big BITCH.
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no i didnt both my parents drank every night and us five children were in bed by 6'oclock ,we werent allowed to do what normal children do and did without what normal children have ,my mum always put herself before her kids she had a wardrobe full of clothes ,shoes ect and we were luckly if we had a wardrobe full between us ,my dad was also a nasty man who would hit you for the slightest thing ,my dad is no longer like this as he dosent drink anymore but its too late the damage has already been done you cant replace your childhood
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Yes and no had a great family, but HATED school, I had my friends but there were so many bullies..
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No. Aside from the weekends I spent with my grandparents from when came the only love I knew, I wasn't wanted and that didn't feel good.
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