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35 Random Things People Did As Kids And Realized Only Years Later Were Actually Not OK

35 Random Things People Did As Kids And Realized Only Years Later Were Actually Not OK

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Whenever my wife gets upset about one of our children's latest pranks, I ask her practically the same question: "Listen, think back to when you were a kid! Didn't you or I do exactly the same thing, or even more recklessly?"
Looking back, I'm actually amazed my peers and I even made it to adulthood. We'd do parkour on garage roofs, eat ants and other nasty things on dares, hang off passing cars with skateboards... basically, me-dad would've gone insane over me-son's antics. Incidentally, as it turns out, many other adults also reminisce about their own strange childhood behavior.
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Two kids smiling outdoors, showcasing childhood moments that people now realize weren’t exactly normal.
Proudly telling my dad I have 5 bf (they're crush)😭💀
8points

#22

Young child holding a lost tooth and smiling, illustrating random things people did as kids that seem unusual now.
Pulling out my teeth before they were ready (as a kid I wanted to. So I pulled our my front teeth bottom teeth)
8points

#23

i ate glue
8points

#24

Toddler in yellow jacket playing with sand on the beach with an adult, illustrating random things people did as kids.
I ate sand it's just tasted good I even filtered it😭😭😭😭
7points

#25

Young girl smiling outdoors, holding leaves, capturing random things people did as kids that weren’t exactly normal
Ate leaves idk they taste good 🤷‍♂️
7points

#26

Young girl standing with arms outstretched on grass under clear blue sky, representing quirky things kids did.
Talking to the wind and thinking it was telling me to form a group to take over the world then forming a group worshiping this voice 💀 Our main focus was to stop climate change and war then everyone left coz they thought it was a game.
6points

#27

Young girl sitting indoors holding her head, reflecting on random things people did as kids that weren’t normal.
whenever i got a headache or any other kind of pain i just hit myself harder in the place where it hurts, idk why, maybe it was some weird way of saying ‘it could be worse’??
6points

#28

I would always imagine myself dying and how my parents would cry and feel empty without me
6points

#29

Young girl touching feet playfully on couch, representing random things people did as kids that weren’t exactly normal.
Bit my siblings toes
5points

#30

Colorful plastic bottle caps scattered randomly, representing odd childhood things people did that weren’t exactly normal.
i would eat rocks and chew on bottle caps
4points

#31

I use to catch frog and put them in my mouth 👄
-3points

#32

Close-up of a fly resting on a green leaf, illustrating random things people did as kids that weren’t exactly normal.
I tored off the fly's wings 😃..
-5points

#33

Close-up of a small lizard held gently in a person's hand, illustrating random things people did as kids.
Between ages 8 and 11, I used to catch lizards, cockroaches, sparrows, rats, mice etc, (I'd injure them if there was a risk of them escaping) and feed them to some big red ants that lived in a sand-hole at the back of the house, in the yard. Mostly because I enjoyed watching the poor rodents, birds and insects get eaten alive bit by bit. I'd crouch for hours, just watching them. I read a book later, In my early teens, which said that animal t*****e in children is a trait of future serial killers 💀😬😬
-7points

#34

eating extremely poisonous plants and just sleeping it off😂
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-9points

#35

Set fire to my friends yard
-9points
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