<p>From what my parents told me, I was very hyper and curious. I never grew out of the curiosity phase, but I'm not as hyper as I used to be. I also drank a lot of apple juice; I preferred that over milk. I probably drank one gallon a week. Right now, I rarely drink apple juice. Weird. I also choose to play by myself in kindergarten. I cried a lot in school because I was more sensitive; when the teacher rose her voice, my face was already watery. I also told made-up stories randomly to my family, neighbors, or someone new that seemed friendly. I also watched a lot of scary movies; I didn't understand them and the graphics did not even affect me whenever I went to sleep. Looking back, I changed dramatically.</p>
<p>When I was three I wouldn’t go to sleep unless my parents put me on a blanket and carried me outside to look at the stars. I have like 50 photos of me just sleeping on a stretched out blanket with my tired parents holding the corners.</p>
<p>I lived with my grandparents (and whole extended family) up till I was four and I was the only child during that time. So I was pretty spoiled. haha</p>
<p>I loved to make illustrated cards for everybody except my great-grandmother who I was scared of. Also I was kinda philosophical and thought of the weirdest things. Like I would wonder if reality really existed as we know it (of course I didn’t say it like that, but I wondered if we were all just like puppets in the theater of some giants or something.) Yeah, I was pretty strange. Also I was a terrible party-pooper when it came to things like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny - I was always arguing with my cousin that they weren’t really real and that the Easter Bunny was a guy with a costume.</p>
<p>OP - you sound exactly like me when I was five! The apple juice over milk (lol), being hyperactive, really sensitive (especially in school), making up stories, watched a lot of violent films lol…</p>
<p>I didn’t realize how stubborn I was when I was little. I have like several self-afflicted wounds and scars from all the times when my mom or my grandparents didn’t give me what I wanted. I also wanted to be exactly like my brother and hung out w/ him and his friends non-stop. (He really hated that, but he never told me off lol). I also LOVED drawing on the walls and got into way too much trouble for it. The nerd was pretty early in me lol - I remember how I kept begging my grandpa to teach me like everything he possibly knew. I practically forced him sit down with me for hours and teach me to read, write, do math, and learn basic science. I’m still amazed (and eternally humbled) by how much patience he had for me especially when my parents weren’t around…</p>
<p>Now I’m like the polar opposite of how I was when I was younger. I guess I changed a lot…</p>
<p>Wow you guys sound like really annoying little kids. I was shy and slept all the time.</p>
<p>I’m not that shy anymore but I still take naps and sleep excessively.</p>
<p>yup, seventeen years of mono. that **** is incurable.</p>
<p>I was almost exactly like Olive in Little Miss Sunshine. Not kidding, I watched that movie and swore they knew me or something as a kid. Yeah, she’s like 8 or 9 in that movie, but I was pretty much like that at 5, lol. I even had the long hair and always had a braid and I wore the weirdest clothes.</p>
<p>I was a strange child.</p>