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

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 07:25 PM

14 hrs ago

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 17 hrs ago OP

When I started my own company and designed and manufactured... S/V Loner 17 hrs ago #1

You are not a dummy because you write in complete sentences, you started your own biz based on .. Botany 17 hrs ago #3

I guess that's true... S/V Loner 16 hrs ago #11

In first grade. I kind of dropped out of kindergarten. Walleye 17 hrs ago #2

What sadistic prison cafeteria mope stopdiggin 17 hrs ago #4

For many years, I have believed I must have been born on the wrong planet. planetc 17 hrs ago #5

" Are we having wine with it?" Botany 17 hrs ago #6

Semi-dry, if you've got it. But I'll drink anything that's not still hanging on a vine. planetc 17 hrs ago #9

About as soon as I became conscious n/t Emrys 17 hrs ago #7

In kindergarten, when I couldn't understand English Wicked Blue 17 hrs ago #8

My daughter had the same reaction when she first attended an American school DFW 15 hrs ago #31

LOL Wicked Blue 14 hrs ago #40

When I recoiled at peas touching potatoes on my dinner plate Zambero 17 hrs ago #10

When I was about three. 2naSalit 16 hrs ago #12

...I may have been only three, yellow dahlia 16 hrs ago #15

Ha! 2naSalit 16 hrs ago #16

Is it possible that when you're a genius, yellow dahlia 16 hrs ago #18

Perhaps... 2naSalit 16 hrs ago #21

Audition? It's not an easy song to sing. yellow dahlia 15 hrs ago #25

Same here... 2naSalit 15 hrs ago #27

Jazz ensemble - awesome. yellow dahlia 15 hrs ago #28

It was a fun... 2naSalit 14 hrs ago #38

When my Dad stood at the top of the stairs and yelled "Why can't you just be normal?" EverHopeful 16 hrs ago #13

I didn't have an answer until I was an adult chowmama 12 hrs ago #41

What a fascinating question. yellow dahlia 16 hrs ago #14

Must've been around elementary or middle school sakabatou 16 hrs ago #17

When I realized I was beautiful and talented and smart, that's when! CTyankee 16 hrs ago #19

I can't remember ever feeling ... surrealAmerican 16 hrs ago #20

That's me, too RandomNumbers 14 hrs ago #34

Remembering the first book, that my mama read to me when I was a small child, "The 300 Spartans." Uncle Joe 16 hrs ago #22

Is that mac n' cheese? Bayard 15 hrs ago #23

I understand EverHopeful 6 hrs ago #43

When I asked "Where are all of the black kids" on my 2nd day at my new private Catholic high school. chowder66 15 hrs ago #24

When l knew eating meat was wrong and l wouldn't do it Raine 15 hrs ago #26

In elementary school. I could make perfect cursive writing of my initials, according to 3rd grade teacher... wcmagumba 15 hrs ago #29

In kindergarten mercuryblues 15 hrs ago #30

When the Sunday School teacher looked at me funny for asking an inconvenient question. ariadne0614 14 hrs ago #32

Creeping hints during my teenage years DFW 14 hrs ago #33

Earliest memories MW67 14 hrs ago #35

I'm a dime a dozen. Solly Mack 14 hrs ago #36

About second grade. markodochartaigh 14 hrs ago #37

age 5 I think 0rganism 14 hrs ago #39

Day one, or shortly thereafter chowmama 12 hrs ago #42

I see I was lucky at my school EverHopeful 6 hrs ago #44