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What shocked you as a child?

by TheAngstyPoet in Six Words Questions on Aug 21, 2012 | | T-shirt

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My parents used to fight a lot. They still do, but not as often or as violently and with far more ambivalence toward each other. My older sister was usually pretty quiet and even-tempered but one time she couldn't take my parents screaming anymore. She went downstairs and stood between them and told them to stop fighting. My dad, who never lay a finger on us EVER, chased her through the front door, punched the glass and screamed at her for jumping out of the way of the flying pieces. That kind of shocked me.

Wench says,

(I should clarify - "violently" referred to their temperament, the literal spit flying, and occasionally the odd piece of furniture. But my parents never hit each other and only very, very, very rarely did my mom hit us - like four times in a childhood.)

MO_Thoughts2 says,

I grew up in the country with dogs, cats, cows, horses, pigs, goats ... and it shocked and amazed me that some some kids and even adults had not nuzzled a puppy, fed a calf, rode a horse, played with a goat.

ba_miracle says,

Things did not really shock me as a child. I had sort of accepted certain things as they were and childishly resolved to make the other things different.

Life with my mother was pretty extreme but life during foster care had it's own series of shocks, disappointments and "stuff".

As I grew older things became more shocking in retrospect.

marymc says,

This sounds stupid by comparison, but when I realized having sex and fucking were the same thing.

TheAngstyPoet says,

Marymc I have the similar thoughts, everyone is commenting awesome responses and all I can think of that shocked me is when I found out what homosexuality was.

Actually I do remember something that kind of rattled my world. When my aunt told me my sister was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I kept that so secret. Even now I hesitate to tell people. One time a substitute teacher asked if she was going to a special school. The whole room stopped, I lied and told her no. I was mortified, thankfully no one asked me about it.

SingerSomewhere says,

When I found out I had Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. Up until that point we thought my fingers were just broken. I remember being shocked that I was able to get an "old person's" disease.

TheAngstyPoet says,

SingerSomewhere, I know exactly what you mean, I had a similar reaction when I found out my friend had arthitis.

maryjane31 says,

When I first found out how babies were made. I thought you went to the hospital and picked one out and paid for it.

Dhani says,

Being raped at the age of 5/ surrounded by bikers who wanted to hang me from a tree at the age of 33/ diagnosed with cancer in 2006/ later determined I was cancer-free in 2008/ any WAR news as seen on SEE-NN.

Dhani says,

(A 'child' at heart, even at age 33...)

mzejay says,

Visited a museum and saw a picture I always think of as the lady and the tiger. It was a modern painting of a naked woman standing next to a tiger. I remember being shocked that the lady was naked. As an adult, whenever I visit that museum, I always visit that painting.

Level1 says,

When my best friend in day camp (who was a year younger than me) told me that girls had two holes "down there".

Loon says,

my great grandmother's knee-low boobs as her towel slipped and shouted at my five year old world...

KharisJo says,

i have a deep affinity with and love for animals. animal cruelty touched my life as a child. I still hate it.

TheAngstyPoet says,

I never thought they could get that long!

l8leigh says,

Finding out the truth about Santa.

Mourningdove says,

That meat was from cute animals.