Your Most Traumatic Childhood Memory

[Haliwali]

I still have trouble talking about it. The only way I've found I can tell anyone ever is when I know they won't believe me and I start cracking jokes about it. They usually get pissed off. I've been told told that talking about these things helps... not true. Anytime I know someone believes me, I feel worse. And to think I had it all suppressed until 6th grade Sex Ed.

 

[pigmonkey]

probably when my brother taped me into a cradboard box and pushed me down the stairs, it was 5% fun 5% painfull and %90 terrifieing. or the was the time my sister dress me in a dress and put makeup on me then took a picture, it don't really remeber that happening but she still has that danm picture.

 

[AkujiDelano]

I was being babysat and she let me get attacked by about 10 dogs. Really small little vicious ones...

 

[Ignignoct]

Everyone here has much better reasons to be screwed up than I do. Losing your innocence to a cartoon is nothing compared to being kidnapped or attemped suicide.

Sharing misery is great therapy for all parties involved.

If we can all be honest and get over it, the better off we all are.

 

[Sewblon]

Ok, I think my Optimus Prime story has been beaten by almost everyone that posted here.

Except- this one just sucks.

Chocking on some bubble gum.

Unless you choked bad and almost died, in which case you still beat me and I appologize.

Everyone here has much better reasons to be screwed up than I do. Losing your innocence to a cartoon is nothing compared to being kidnapped or attemped suicide.

I thought that I was going to die at the time.

 

[Sewer Rat]

One of my earliest childhood memory was watching my cousins play Mortal Kombat or some other ultra violent fighter when I was about 3.
Edit: Okay since this is pretty minor I just remembered the worst thing that about my child hood which I really wish could become a repressed memory... I once exposed myself to a cafeteria full of students when I was 4... we went to the pool that day and I did not understand that pants were there for a reason and so I went to change into regular clothes in the middle of a hallway... A teacher just came over and asked "What the hell are you doing!?!" and all the students just point and laughed... I felt like killing myself...

 

[new_age_reject]

Seeing one of my good friends ran over just down the road from me.
She died later in hospital.
That was fairly traumatic.

 

[Ignignoct]

Seeing one of my good friends ran over just down the road from me.
She died later in hospital.
That was fairly traumatic.

Oh damn, that's awful.

It doesn't compare, but on my way to the school bus I saw my dog ran over literally less than 10' away from me. I was chasing after it to get it back in the house, and this SUV came barreling down the road way over the speed limit and hit. It was surreal. The tire came in perfect contact with the skull and just stopped all motion on the running dog completely. Not what I imagined it'd look like. No skid, no bounce, just dropped it to the ground. I think he might have been alive, his tail was twitching, but I had to get to school or else I'd have been dropped from the grade since I was absent so often, usually to babysit my siblings. I felt awful as I sat on the bus, continually looking back to wonder if I could've done anything else to prevent it from happening, or if I should've stayed and tried to resuscitate him.

 

[Jerious1154]

I was kayaking a few summers ago for the first time, flipped upside down, panicked, and couldnt get out of the boat.
I was mentally preparing myself for death until I finally succeeded in thrashing my way out of there. I still can't hold my breath underwater for more than 10 seconds without panicking.
The funny thing is that looking back on it, I was only underwater for about 20 seconds, so the entire thing was pretty much in my head.

 

[new_age_reject]

Seeing one of my good friends ran over just down the road from me.
She died later in hospital.
That was fairly traumatic.

Oh damn, that's awful.

It doesn't compare, but on my way to the school bus I saw my dog ran over literally less than 10' away from me. I was chasing after it to get it back in the house, and this SUV came barreling down the road way over the speed limit and hit. It was surreal. The tire came in perfect contact with the skull and just stopped all motion on the running dog completely. Not what I imagined it'd look like. No skid, no bounce, just dropped it to the ground. I think he might have been alive, his tail was twitching, but I had to get to school or else I'd have been dropped from the grade since I was absent so often, usually to babysit my siblings. I felt awful as I sat on the bus, continually looking back to wonder if I could've done anything else to prevent it from happening, or if I should've stayed and tried to resuscitate him.

In some ways seeing a pet die like that is more traumatic, when your young you have an extra special bond with pets. It's not a way you want to have a pet to go.

 

[Virus017]

Entertaining Physical trauma:Around age 5, riding bike with stabilisers into a lamppost, falling off and having one stabiliser penetrate a tiny bit into my skull! All I can think of was the look on my 15 year old sisters face

Not really social trauma, just feeling of extreme anger: When deputy head of my school made fun when I stuttered doing a presentation to the class. This doesn't seem so bad initially, but it didn't happen because I was nervous, it's the medical condition which has caused me to have to put up with a lot a ignorant fucks over my school years. I didn't especially care, the kids in my class knew me well and were very understanding. The teacher has taught me for 6 months too. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't screw him over for discrimination, he would have been sacked for sure had I told someone, before he left for a new school 2 years later. Ah well, my rage will spill out on some unsuspecting victim.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

Nothing too bad i guess, other than my sister (who is 12 years older than me) turning around and telling me i was her slave for the night. Literally minutes after my parents had left.

Oh and my aunt kicking me in the gnads with the steel-toed boots cause i was 8 years old and annoyed her.

 

[Combined]

A lot. I have a lot. I'll share just some. The rest are a bit personal and only for those who know me better.

+ Seeing an episode of X-files. Had to be monitored while I was in the bath.

+ Nightmare on Elm Street. Spent many days not sleeping.

+ Horrible secret about my family.

+ The Beginning of Arachnophobia.

+ Fear of the Darkness.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

as much as i enjoy from time to time examining and deriving joy from other peoples sorrows, is this really the type of discussion thread that belongs on a gaming information website? i know that half of the people who create these miscellaneous threads just do so in order to gain posts and therefor garner attention, however there are other more appropriate places to do this.

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

do us all a favor and keep these self pity generating threads off of this site.

This is the off-topic forum. You want gaming stuff, go to the gaming forum.


On-topic, probably being verbally abused on a near-daily basis by my stepfather for about 4 years. Took two psychologists to straighten me out.

 

[Mr Kipling]

I'm starting to value my childhood a lot more now after reading this thread...

Mine would have to be splitting my head open while 'wrestling' with my mate, and having to go to the hospital to be glued together....and all on my birthday.

Still, I managed to make my party though.

 

[Tsuki Tanaka]

Getting arrested.

/thread

 

[ellie91]

My mum died of cancer and before that she was ill with it for almost a year. my childhood ended the moment i saw her.

But wow i feel so sorry for some of the stories here

 

[Gamine]

A lot. I have a lot. I'll share just some. The rest are a bit personal and only for those who know me better.

+ Nightmare on Elm Street. Spent many days not sleeping.

+ Horrible secret about my family.

+ Fear of the Darkness.

Same here...

Some stories here are really...Traumatic..

Theres been a Death in the family, a baby, saw my mum crying and all. .

My Friend in secondary school died of a brain tumour, it was diagnosed too late

we all thought she was naturally butterfingered and unstable. .