Reliving childhood trauma

TheBlackCupid · Post by **TheBlackCupid** » Thu Mar 01, 2001 6:27 am

Aaaah, I see we had some similar childhood angst. My Dad taught me to read, as well, and it made my life a living hell.------------------
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Vermininoh · Post by **Vermininoh** » Thu Mar 01, 2001 7:06 am

Maboo dearest I must know if that saccarine nursery school teacher has any basis in reality whatsoever????how did you manage to make it to adulthood after all of that exposure to treacle???Verm

Maboo · Post by **Maboo** » Fri Mar 02, 2001 2:41 am

Basis in reality? Thankfully, not QUITE. Though I do remember one classroom assistant like that... Instead of saccharine, we had God's Gift To Brats. Instead of slimpering, it was Religion. A really churchy lot of teachers, but I was too young to really be swayed into atheism as a result. But I know the simpering ninny type....Our dinner ladies were ABSOLUTE sadists though, and would be splashed across the tabloids with tags like "EVIL MISS CABBAGE, (55) WHO FORCEFED TOTS WITH THEIR OWN SPAT-OUT FOOD" et cetera if they were still around today. Heck, they may still be, oh horrible idea.Mab

Kitsune76 · Post by **Kitsune76** » Sat Mar 03, 2001 2:09 am

Eh, I was taught to read at a very early age. Never gave me many traumas. Over active imagination and tendancy towards escapism, maybe...Kitsune------------------
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Vermininoh · Post by **Vermininoh** » Sat Mar 03, 2001 4:50 am

Me too, Kitsune...however, i got bullshit on one end for not being on the same level as my classmates, and then chided for attempting to conform in the face of unpopularity....thankfully, i came to my senses... <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">

U2QueenBee · Post by **U2QueenBee** » Sun Mar 04, 2001 4:53 am

Oh, Mab, honey...If this storyline is a thinly-veiled autobiography (particularly given the fact that you look exactly like Francis)...well I just want to give you virtual huggles. <huggles> I learned to read when I was 3 and I never really got stupidity from teachers like that, but I was really pushed to be perfect academically and I quickly became a "nerd" and an outcast among the other students. The pathetic but real fact is that girls just aren't encouraged to be smart and strong in elementary school - it's all about being cute and ladylike and planning your wedding when you're 6. It disgusts me more than I can express. But now isn't the time for another one of my feminist rants. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">It hurt like hell when I failed my Masters dissertation after pouring my whole heart and soul into it. I've still never gotten any explanation and given the insane rigamarole that &^%$$*# university put me through to even be able to finish it...God it pisses me off. If I didn't have Dave and the wedding to look forward to, I don't know what I would do. For most of my life I've seen myself as just a big festering brain with a few atrophied bits that nobody cared about, like a body and a soul, attached to it, and now I don't even have that, and I'm just gutted. For someone who was voted 'Most likely to succeed' a $9-an-hour job and no real chance at a future in any career doesn't feel like success to me. It's humiliating. But hey, them's the breaks, right? :/Oops...this has turned into an excessively long and boring personal post...sorry guys!*blows air into paper bag and pops it*Wakey wakey everyone! It's over now! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif">Queen Bee

Maboo · Post by **Maboo** » Sun Mar 04, 2001 5:58 am

Awww! I'm SO sorry about the dissertation! *huggles back* Yep, in many ways, today's Sunday is a bit of a mini-rant, though it sounds damn odd coming from someone who isn't deaf. To me, at least. But the fact remains that I went to a school that promised what it failed to deliver, which claims myself as a Jewel In Its Crown when in fact it has done remarkably little to merit such a claim, et cetera, rantum ad infinitum. Heck, I wonder what on earth happened to those running around in fields, playing with other kids, splashing in the sea and frisbees and French cricket and stuff that you're supposed to have in your childhood. My past is so FULL of crap to do with school and learning and stuff that it sometimes really gets to me. There's something very wrong about a childhood where all your happiest memories seem to be out of the books you read and the drawings you did and the stories you wrote... Having said that, one of my happiest memories is of sitting in a wheelbarrow with other kids while a bigger one pushed us around the gardens of a manor house (which was run as a retreat for Quakers). I remember it as a source of such joy and happiness that it raises my spiritsThat, and February depresses me. And I truly, really couldn't think of a storyline because all that crap was weighing on my brain so it all came out in the comic - but now Spring is icumen ici, Spring is icumen ici!! I'm chipper and perkier and happier than I felt last month. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"> I hate February, and that's why the last month has been a tad unhumorous and more brooding and dark in its undertones.Having said all that - Glad you're still around! I was beginning to wonder how you were, and hoping that the funart I did for Framed!!! didn't make you run away screaming in horror.DanielWe really need a blank message icon for posts like this....------------------
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U2QueenBee · Post by **U2QueenBee** » Sun Mar 04, 2001 6:32 am

Hehe no I used to wonder the same thing about strapless dresses. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">Now that I've got to wear a strapless bra/corset/bustier/medieval torture device thing under my wedding dress, I know how it stays up...you're just so trussed and stuffed in there your body couldn't move if it wanted to. Bleah. Damn breasts, they're such a pain in the patoot...lord knows why men are so obsessed with them.It does give me some pretty wicked decolletage though...I'll be plucking Dave's eyes out of there all through the ceremony I suspect (hehe!) Maybe I should get one of those "face" shirts with the arrow that Bea (or is it Mandy?) has!Good gravy I can't believe I'm posting about my cleavage on a public message board. But then I can't believe my ex-boyfriend e-mailed me last night either so it's just been a surreal weekend all around.Keep up the good work with Blotto Mabbie - in my (potentially somewhat biased) opinion you have possibly the best-looking strip out there from an artistic point of view. The unique shapes and overlaps you do are just wonderful, and I love the way you draw your characters - it's kind of a lot like how my people look when I draw them, only a lot better. You draw how I wish I could draw (but then who doesn't?)Oops I'm babbling again...have a good (and hopefully less bizarre than mine) day![This message has been edited by U2QueenBee (edited 03-04-2001).]

TheBlackCupid · Post by **TheBlackCupid** » Sun Mar 04, 2001 10:02 am

Oh man. I am sniffling a bit now, and not because of the cold I have, either. Sunday's comic made me sad, really. It just hits uncomfortably near the bone.I was also hailed as some sort of genious or something. I don't think I was or am-I just read better and have a clearer view of reality than most people. I too feel used by the educators and various people who claim to have created me. Feh, I wish they could see me now, show them what I really became...But anyway, you are a lovely writer Mab. Don't say different.

Maboo · Post by **Maboo** » Sun Mar 04, 2001 12:02 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by U2QueenBee:

Good gravy I can't believe I'm posting about my cleavage on a public message board. But then I can't believe my ex-boyfriend e-mailed me last night either so it's just been a surreal weekend all around.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I remember the days when you were You-Know-Who's Sugarplum... a long time ago! That certainly SOUNDS weird, after the way he treated you and the subsequent events. Still, I hope it wasn't TOO weird in a freaky way.Re: cleavage on public boards... you really wouldn't believe some of the things that have been said on these boards. Oh hang on, you've seen the Its Walky boards, you probably would.Mab
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Gwalla · Post by **Gwalla** » Mon Mar 05, 2001 5:30 am

It felt similar to my experiences in the "Gifted and Talented" program during my early school career. That basically amounted to an extra day off from school on Fridays, where they'd ship us across town to another school, and where we had to do projects. However, the projects didn't take much time (I cried at one point because one work station was an introduction to magnetism, and I felt insulted), so it basically ended up being a day of playing Tetris on the school Macs.------------------
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