What is the most on brand thing you did as a child? Our 27 favourite replies
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when I was a kid my sunday school teacher told us to spread christ to others and i did this the best way i knew how: asking my classmates whether their dad was strong, then immediately informing them that their dad would lose to jesus in a fight https://t.co/9YyfUwSMTu
— rii abrego (@riibrego) February 22, 2019
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I was exiled from my friend group for being insufficiently into Duran Duran https://t.co/RQZVmxXuB1
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) February 22, 2019
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when i was 5 or 6 i told my mum that when she died i wanted to crucify her and display her in the family room because i had deeply misconstrued the lessons of religious education and thought crucifying was what you did to people you love a lot https://t.co/gQbpKzAQbT
— Ariel 'Buy Witchy 2' Ries (@cousineggplant) February 22, 2019
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https://twitter.com/AlbertsonB2/status/1098769441217753090
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wrote and signed a note forbidding others from assassinating me https://t.co/whGkTozZNb
— DMW! @your mom (@damnyouwillis) February 22, 2019
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My classmates referred to me as a walking dictionary, so I purchased a keychain-sized miniature thesaurus and started regularly carrying it in my pocket so that I could reply, "Actually, I'm a walking thesaurus." https://t.co/pDVgnnAZCh
— Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social (@GretchenAMcC) February 22, 2019
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https://twitter.com/emilyvgordon/status/1098755538740015104
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https://twitter.com/SaraLePew/status/1098754208264867840
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https://twitter.com/kvanaren/status/1098752644108222465
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my parents had me participate in a study of prematurely born kids, and I thought the investigators were v. condescending, so I corrupted their ~data~ https://t.co/eODmauCn7y
— Nicole Chung | @nicolechung on Bluesky (@nicolesjchung) February 22, 2019
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https://twitter.com/little__tunny/status/1098751456989990917
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https://twitter.com/apadillafilm6/status/1098749213381410818
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Writing a story in high school in which I murdered off all of the teachers in ways idiosyncratic to them. These days that shit would get you expelled, but back then the teachers wanted to know how I was planning to do them in. https://t.co/r50WODtjuX
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) February 22, 2019
We’re glad to see this person grew up to be a doctor and put that scientific curiosity to better use.
Putting hotdogs in my grandparent's heating. Entire house smells like burnt hotdog.
It was discovered I did it. When confronted "Why did you put the hotdogs in there?"
"I DID IT FOR SCIENCE!"I was like… 5 https://t.co/hS6BpQXuNA
— Doctor SWOLverine, STRONK medical doctor (@Doc_Wolverine) February 22, 2019
If the stories are on brand, we have to say, we’re a little worried about how some of these people turned out.