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ariadne0614

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32. When the Sunday School teacher looked at me funny for asking an inconvenient question.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:25 PM

Feb 19

I tended to ask a lot of questions that challenged the status quo, and my father often chastised me for thinking too much.That was another clue.

If you ask me, mashed potatoes and peas looks like classic comfort food, especially when it isn’t tainted with cooked animal flesh and bones.

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ATTN when did you know you were not like other people [View all] Botany Feb 19 OP

When I started my own company and designed and manufactured... S/V Loner Feb 19 #1

You are not a dummy because you write in complete sentences, you started your own biz based on .. Botany Feb 19 #3

I guess that's true... S/V Loner Feb 19 #11

In first grade. I kind of dropped out of kindergarten. Walleye Feb 19 #2

What sadistic prison cafeteria mope stopdiggin Feb 19 #4

For many years, I have believed I must have been born on the wrong planet. planetc Feb 19 #5

" Are we having wine with it?" Botany Feb 19 #6

Semi-dry, if you've got it. But I'll drink anything that's not still hanging on a vine. planetc Feb 19 #9

About as soon as I became conscious n/t Emrys Feb 19 #7

In kindergarten, when I couldn't understand English Wicked Blue Feb 19 #8

My daughter had the same reaction when she first attended an American school DFW Feb 19 #31

LOL Wicked Blue Feb 19 #40

When I recoiled at peas touching potatoes on my dinner plate Zambero Feb 19 #10

When I was about three. 2naSalit Feb 19 #12

...I may have been only three, yellow dahlia Feb 19 #15

Ha! 2naSalit Feb 19 #16

Is it possible that when you're a genius, yellow dahlia Feb 19 #18

Perhaps... 2naSalit Feb 19 #21

Audition? It's not an easy song to sing. yellow dahlia Feb 19 #25

Same here... 2naSalit Feb 19 #27

Jazz ensemble - awesome. yellow dahlia Feb 19 #28

It was a fun... 2naSalit Feb 19 #38

When my Dad stood at the top of the stairs and yelled "Why can't you just be normal?" EverHopeful Feb 19 #13

I didn't have an answer until I was an adult chowmama Feb 19 #41

What a fascinating question. yellow dahlia Feb 19 #14

Must've been around elementary or middle school sakabatou Feb 19 #17

When I realized I was beautiful and talented and smart, that's when! CTyankee Feb 19 #19

I can't remember ever feeling ... surrealAmerican Feb 19 #20

That's me, too RandomNumbers Feb 19 #34

Remembering the first book, that my mama read to me when I was a small child, "The 300 Spartans." Uncle Joe Feb 19 #22

Is that mac n' cheese? Bayard Feb 19 #23

I understand EverHopeful Feb 20 #43

When I asked "Where are all of the black kids" on my 2nd day at my new private Catholic high school. chowder66 Feb 19 #24

When l knew eating meat was wrong and l wouldn't do it Raine Feb 19 #26

In elementary school. I could make perfect cursive writing of my initials, according to 3rd grade teacher... wcmagumba Feb 19 #29

In kindergarten mercuryblues Feb 19 #30

When the Sunday School teacher looked at me funny for asking an inconvenient question. ariadne0614 Feb 19 #32

Creeping hints during my teenage years DFW Feb 19 #33

Earliest memories MW67 Feb 19 #35

I'm a dime a dozen. Solly Mack Feb 19 #36

About second grade. markodochartaigh Feb 19 #37

age 5 I think 0rganism Feb 19 #39

Day one, or shortly thereafter chowmama Feb 19 #42

I see I was lucky at my school EverHopeful Feb 20 #44