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chowmama

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41. I didn't have an answer until I was an adult

Reply to EverHopeful (Reply #13)

Thu Feb 19, 2026, 09:45 PM

10 hrs ago

The answer is "The same reason I can't be tall, thin, stacked and blonde. I didn't come out that way".

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ATTN when did you know you were not like other people [View all] Botany 16 hrs ago OP

When I started my own company and designed and manufactured... S/V Loner 16 hrs ago #1

You are not a dummy because you write in complete sentences, you started your own biz based on .. Botany 15 hrs ago #3

I guess that's true... S/V Loner 15 hrs ago #11

In first grade. I kind of dropped out of kindergarten. Walleye 15 hrs ago #2

What sadistic prison cafeteria mope stopdiggin 15 hrs ago #4

For many years, I have believed I must have been born on the wrong planet. planetc 15 hrs ago #5

" Are we having wine with it?" Botany 15 hrs ago #6

Semi-dry, if you've got it. But I'll drink anything that's not still hanging on a vine. planetc 15 hrs ago #9

About as soon as I became conscious n/t Emrys 15 hrs ago #7

In kindergarten, when I couldn't understand English Wicked Blue 15 hrs ago #8

My daughter had the same reaction when she first attended an American school DFW 13 hrs ago #31

LOL Wicked Blue 12 hrs ago #40

When I recoiled at peas touching potatoes on my dinner plate Zambero 15 hrs ago #10

When I was about three. 2naSalit 15 hrs ago #12

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

Ha! 2naSalit 14 hrs ago #16

Is it possible that when you're a genius, yellow dahlia 14 hrs ago #18

Perhaps... 2naSalit 14 hrs ago #21

Audition? It's not an easy song to sing. yellow dahlia 13 hrs ago #25

Same here... 2naSalit 13 hrs ago #27

Jazz ensemble - awesome. yellow dahlia 13 hrs ago #28

It was a fun... 2naSalit 12 hrs ago #38

When my Dad stood at the top of the stairs and yelled "Why can't you just be normal?" EverHopeful 15 hrs ago #13

I didn't have an answer until I was an adult chowmama 10 hrs ago #41

What a fascinating question. yellow dahlia 15 hrs ago #14

Must've been around elementary or middle school sakabatou 14 hrs ago #17

When I realized I was beautiful and talented and smart, that's when! CTyankee 14 hrs ago #19

I can't remember ever feeling ... surrealAmerican 14 hrs ago #20

That's me, too RandomNumbers 13 hrs ago #34

Remembering the first book, that my mama read to me when I was a small child, "The 300 Spartans." Uncle Joe 14 hrs ago #22

Is that mac n' cheese? Bayard 14 hrs ago #23

I understand EverHopeful 4 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 14 hrs ago #24

When l knew eating meat was wrong and l wouldn't do it Raine 13 hrs ago #26

In elementary school. I could make perfect cursive writing of my initials, according to 3rd grade teacher... wcmagumba 13 hrs ago #29

In kindergarten mercuryblues 13 hrs ago #30

When the Sunday School teacher looked at me funny for asking an inconvenient question. ariadne0614 13 hrs ago #32

Creeping hints during my teenage years DFW 13 hrs ago #33

Earliest memories MW67 13 hrs ago #35

I'm a dime a dozen. Solly Mack 13 hrs ago #36

About second grade. markodochartaigh 12 hrs ago #37

age 5 I think 0rganism 12 hrs ago #39

Day one, or shortly thereafter chowmama 10 hrs ago #42

I see I was lucky at my school EverHopeful 4 hrs ago #44