- a desire to explore wardrobes and secret places
- a difficulty in paying attention
- a difficulty to explain emotional discomfort
- a dislike of medication
- a fancy for colourful and fun stationery
- scented pens, shaped stamps, coloured or shaped erasers, notebooks with designs on them and coloured paper, and always whatever is labeled as "useless"... I have the most fun when shopping before school starts!
- a fancy for puns, alliterations, nursery rhymes, extremely obvious/literal jokes, "bad jokes", and boyish humour (burping etc.)
- a fancy for underwear with pictures and ribbons (and disdain towards bras)
- a fancy for swings, the see-saw, slides, and everything in a playground
- a fear of the night and nocturnal sounds
- a fear towards older people
- more like shyness with adults and a real fear of adolescents my age and younger, or between 12-25 years... or just everyone.
- a fondness of stuffed animals
- giving them names, clothes, family, homes - an identity
- a lack of understanding towards sexual/crude jokes
- a likeness of the mud and rain
- a love-hate relationship with the supermarket
- I love looking at new food and adding things secretly into the basket, but I hate the dread of going there and standing for too long
- a need to hug my parents, grandparents, psych, and sometimes my teachers, and a need to be hugged
- a preference for cartoons and Animal Planet
- a preference for milk and juice (and disgust towards alcohol)
- a preference for simple t-shirts and pants
- a refusal to give away old things
- a refusal to go to bed on certain days
- a resistance to eat disliked food
- a sort of gait that includes hopping
- a strange excitement when I feel sick (meaning I don't have to go to school)
- a strong loathing of going to school
- a sudden obsession with particular big words, tasting them in my mind like hard sweets
- a tendency to make up songs and games out of the blue
- a wittiness that makes adults feel uncomfortable
- a world of my own
- an attraction towards colourful or glittery things
- an attraction towards music boxes
- an attraction towards stickers
- an aversion to bathing/showering and washing my teeth, and postponing it for as long as possible
- an empty feeling when Friday afternoons are spent alone
- an exceeded enthusiasm towards sweets and dessert
- an indifference towards music and popular artists
- an obsession with ballet
- an urge of climbing every structure that has ever stood before me
- an urge to doodle in spite of the situation (school)
- anger when my little sister enters my bedroom, with or without permission
- asexuality and indifference towards romance
- (maybe even repulsion; I find love an amazing thing, but not for me)
- carrying a story in my head wherever I go
- disorientation and getting lost easily
- doing things in exchange of prizes
- exaggerated excitement towards animals
- excitement about holidays, especially christmas.
- on easter I'll collect eggs in my treasure chest, on Halloween I'll dress up in spite of being alone, and on Christmas I will bake, decorate, and try to see through the wrapping paper once the presents are placed under the tree... and I'll forget I don't just have to receive presents, but to give them as well.
- extreme naïveté/ingenuity, an inability to tell apart sarcasm
- fear and frustration towards bureaucracies, college pep talk, and all strictly grown-up things
- having names for people I dislike
- impatience
- for the holidays to start
- in Christmas eve and before my birthday
- in school, before recess or going-home-time
- in the highway
- in the supermarket
- on board
- when I'm sleepy
- when Mother is on the phone
- when studying
- indifference to germs, except for boys
- making the last sip of juice or fizzy drink really noisy
- reactions towards scorning that seem reminiscent of crying
- resistance against the norm when things are dull
- sitting in uncomfortable or inappropriate positions
- the ability to notice favouritism in parents
- the usage of shortened (but not slang) or invented words
- will always prefer class games to classwork
- (and will avoid classwork in every possible way unless it's fun)
jul 31 2012 ∞
apr 18 2013 +