Childhood traumas

[Kitsa]

One time I went to the zoo with my parents. We were in the aviary building and I was passing a glassed-in area. It was dark and I was totally unprepared for one of these things popping up less than a foot away from me.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/freakyassbirds2.jpg

they're completely real, they're called Frogmouths, but they look like some sort of scary-ass muppet shit, don't they?

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/freakyassbirds1.jpg

They just looked so wrong, like their eyes and beaks were too big for their bodies, and it was just staring at me. I went home and had nightmares for weeks.

[Fathom Zero]

15 years ago. Thanksgiving.

Wore a pair of socks that had been treated with formaldehyde. 3rd-degree burns on both feet. Skin grafts taken from my back. Massive scarring on back and tops of feet.

I have to go back in a month when I turn eighteen to make sure that the grafts have grown with my feet (they did) and didn't just stay and pull my toes upward. Still nerves never recovered, though.

[Kitsa]

Wow. Where did the socks come from?

[Fathom Zero]

Some Chinese joint. My family sued, but the firm fucked up everything. Karmic retribution, though, quite a few individuals involved were also convicted of something or another last year. You might know about it. Some guys in Cincinnati.

[Kitsa]

Never heard of it, but then again I'm not from here originally. Maybe the big flea markets in Monroe? They were busted last year for fake purses.

[Gato]

The wall between my room and my parent's is thin.

....I don't think I have to say much more.

[Otto]

Got my head stuck in a Little Tykes garage toy when I was 4. Then I got it stuck in the rails of the porch.

[Evil Robot]

When I was a child, somebody in my village was accused of trying to kill our dear leader, Saddam. When they came to the village to find out who was involved they killed all of us. Now I am dead.

[Fathom Zero]

And the frogmouths are cute, like squashed owls.

[Tadao]

My parents took us to see Sweeney Todd at the Dorthy Chandler Pavilion. I was like 7 years old. They had no idea what the play was about.

And yeah, those owls are awesome looking, I would be freaked out as a kid though. If those things are real, why wouldn't closet monsters be? :eek

[Fathom Zero]

I could see that. The ones on the bottom look like something from Where the Wild Things Are.

[Zhukov]

When I was about nine I hit a cricket ball under the neighbour's fence, we lived on a farm in Woop-Woop so this fence happened to be electrified to keep the cattle in. I didn't know this, and needles to say I got stuck in between the wire constantly getting shocked in the back for a good five minutes. "Get mum OW! Get mum OW! Get mum OW! Get mum OW!" My sister thought I was just joking, so she didn't get mum.

Probably the most traumatic thing of my young life was when I was chased by Papua New Guinean Mud Men during Tribal celebrations. There was a lot of yelling, mostly by the highlanders, and also a lot of crying and running, mostly by me.

http://www.townandcountrytravelmag.com/cm/tandctravel/images/oq/papua-new-guinea-09-sp08-fb.jpg

Reasonably frightening for a five year old.

[DevilWearsPrada]

Straight out of johnny quest :lol

[kahljorn]

being brn was pretty traumatic :O

[Kitsa]

I watched all kinds of TV I probably shouldn't have. My parents got a cable box when it was a brand new thing and there was a lot of trauma to be had.

I watched one show where a guy was lured into a house by two beautiful blondes (twins) who fought over him, then finally solved the problem by telling him to pose for a picture. When he said cheese, instead of the camera going off, a big blade came out of the ceiling and chopped him in half. Had nightmares about that on and off for years. After much research once the internet was around, I figured out it was a Hitchhiker episode (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0602194/). (even found a site with pics (http://www.jabootu.com/hhsd.htm))

There was another show I watched....I couldn't have been more than 5 or 6...where I vividly remembered some woman being taken from behind on a pool table.

[ZeldaQueen]

When I was a child, I was in the supermarket with my dad and brother. At the checkout line, I saw some random magazine (I can't remember the name), but the cover had a cartoon picture of a man and a woman in a movie theater with the Grim Reaper sitting in between them. There was blood all over both of them, I remember specifically that the man had a knife stuck in his chest, and the Reaper was laughing. That really scared me.

Also, I took a book called Scared Silly out of my elementary school library and had my mom read it to me just before bed. It was fine until we got to the final story, which was about a girl named Tilly, who was afraid of going to bed. Each night, she'd hear a voice that would call out "Tilly, I'm on the first step" or "Tilly, I'm on the second step". This goes on for some nights, and the girl is scared but her parents don't believe her when she tells them. At the end of the story, the voice says "Tilly, I'm in your room", and then "I'VE GOT YOU!" The final picture shows a green furry hand reaching into the picture and grabbing the terrified girl by her ankle. I spent many a night after that terrified that I'd hear such a voice.

Oh, and I just looked up that book now to see if I'm remembering it correctly. Apparently, the book was written to help kids get over nighttime fears. Mission accomplished. :rolleyes:

[Tadao]

Yeah but come on, a napkin traumatizes you.

[Babs]

I was about 7 and I was playing with that sweet bat mobile that came out, you know the one where the sides came off like in the Batman Returns so he can fit into the small alley way, well yeah anyways I was playing with that and my step brother and his friend were just playing magic and this guy came up to my step brothers friend and just pulled a gun right to his face (mind you we were outside when this took place). That was pretty intense as well as seeing a motorcyclist drive right underneath a semi truck when he ran a red light, that happened when I was roughly around the age of 11.

Not too traumatic.

[Kitsa]

My mom was in a school bus accident as a kid and still remembers the person in the other car (quite dead) half in and half out their windshield, bloody, brains everywhere.

She also had a kid in her Junior High commit suicide by drinking random chemicals in the chemistry lab.

I don't know if you'd count this as traumatic, but it was my first run-in with a really bitchy girl. My parents had just moved and I'd left the only home, friends, and family I'd ever known for strangers, cold and hostility 12 hours away. This was early 80s. My mom told me if I was lonely to go play on the front step of the apartment and maybe some kids would come over.

So I took my Return of the Jedi action figures and went down to the front to start building treehouses for the ewoks (favorite activity back then). Two little girls a little older than me came over and started talking to me. I was lonely-stupid and didn't detect the bitchiness, I thought they wanted to be my friends.

We started talking about jelly bracelets, which were the big thing at the time, and I had tons of them. They said they'd go get theirs, told me to get mine, and we'd come back and trade some. I was all excited and ran back up to the apartment for my bracelets, telling Mom I'd met two other girls. Then I ran back down and waited. And waited. And waited.

Yeah, long story short, they never made an "appearance", but I heard giggling in the bushes on the other side of the street. At that point I fucking gave up and I think I've hated people ever since.

[RaNkeri]

My friends pushed and locked me into girl's changing room when I was like 7 or 8. I was beaten by few of the girls, they all were on my class, before my friends let me out. We all had a laugh at it later, I wasn't traumatized, neither did I start to hate the opposite sex, which begs the question why the fuck did I bother writing this.

[Kitsa]

Oh, here's a good one I'd forgotten.

About a year after the jelly bracelet incident, we were in a new house, 2nd school in 2 years, and my parents had gotten us a yorkie puppy. We were all running around and getting ready for school. The puppy had a vet appointment, so she was leashed to the leg of the kitchen table, ready to go as soon as we got on the bus.

Yeah, well, my mom tripped over the leash, which snapped the puppy's neck, and we all got to watch her die in slow motion right then and there on the kitchen floor.

That was definitely pretty fucking traumatizing.

[b_squared]

I worked at the zoo for a little bit. One of the runs I worked was the birds. I used to feed the frogmouths. They are cute.

I remember the TV show outer limits used to scare the crap out of me when I was little. Not the show itself but the opening where they show a static filled screen with horizonal lines and the voice says,
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits"
The thought that something...I thought it was aliens..was controlling my TV really freaked me out.

[Shrubfest]

Dav Pilkeys book, 'A friend for Dragon'.

It makes me cry. I don't cry. Ever.

Except at this.

[Gato]

When I was about 7, the family took a trip to Houghton Lake. There we went to a haunted house. It was your typical corny stuff, but, in one hallway they had glass displays with spiders and lizards and snakes crawling about, and, if you stepped on a certain part of the floor it would vibrate like something was trying to come get you.

I had the fortune to step on said piece of floor and completely lost it. My dad had to carry me out.

[ZeldaQueen]

In Kennywood (an amusement park near where I live), there's a ride called "Noah's Ark". Basically, it's like a funhouse themed like the ark. You walk through it and see various exhibits of animals. It's gone through a lot of renovations though. One summer, it was changed and we didn't know about it. So we get in line and enter the ark. One of the first rooms we come to is an entirely new one that has a glass-covered pit filled with fake skeletons that guests had to walk over. I freaked, shut my eyes, and told my mom to lead me through. My mom, meanwhile, didn't know that there was glass over the pit so she was uncertain as to how to get across it for a while (she figured it out eventually). Later, I was further freaked by an exhibit of a stuffed gorilla, programed to lurch forward whenever a guest walked by it.

When I went to see the movie Shrek, I also saw the preview for the comedy Evolution. In the Evolution trailer, there's a part where an alien bug literally gets into a guy's body under his skin and some doctors try to figure out how to remove it. The actual scene was hilarious (they wind up getting it out rectally), but at the time it scared the holy heck out of me.

[Colonel Flagg]

I fell 35 feet when I was 13 - it was back in the day before hospitals had effective trauma treatment. No PET scans or MRI's. I probably should have bled to death internally, but instead survived long enough to go in for exploratory surgery. The doc cut out all the badly damaged shit and stitched up whatever they could and hoped it would be enough.

So far so good.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

Too many horror movies for me when I was under the age of 9.

Normal things don't bother me too much. I can deal with deaths in my family although I'm very close to a lot of them.


When Gremio died though forget about it. I was a wreck. :tear

[ZeldaQueen]

My parents told me that when I was much younger, I was sitting in the living room while my dad watched Star Trek. In the episode, they came to a part where in the future, the captain enters a cave and finds Data's head on the ground. My dad quickly switched off, but I saw it and my mom said that I kept saying over and over "Data's head came off!" I don't really remember that now though...:\

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

He's a Mandroid though. He was probably okay.

[Kitsa]

Even if it was Brent Spiner the man, he'd still probably be okay.

[LordSappington]

When I was 8, I fell down this huge, rocky hill out in the woods and broke my arm and leg. My arm was at a good 45 degree angle, bone sticking out, and my leg was twisted 90 degrees to the left. Apparently, in the shock, I somehow made my way home alone. I still don't know how.

[Kitsa]

The one and only time I was ever allowed to ride a two-wheeled bike, I went down a big hill, lost control, and skidded on my face for several feet. I looked like hamburger.

Worse still, I was knocked out and a car almost ran over me. Luckily they stopped and called an ambulance.

Yep, it's been an odyssey into adult-trike lameness ever since :(

[Gato]

I fell off a top bunk bed and snapped my wrist once. When the Doc set the bone, my mom said I screamed so loud that people in the lobby started leaving in fear.

In the end, I wound up with a bitchin' hot pink cast all the way up past my elbow.

[ZeldaQueen]

Can't remember when this was exactly, but when I was first told exactly how Jesus was nailed to the cross, that freaked me out (the thought of having nails going through one's hands).

I also freaked out the first time I heard the phrase "stabbing someone in the back". I thought it was literal.

[Kitsa]

I'm getting that you come from a religious family, ZQ?

[ZeldaQueen]

No actually. I just heard the story at school or something. I'm pretty sure it was still elementary school though, because I read The Bridge To Terebithia around fourth or fifth grade and in it, they make reference to Jesus being nailed on the cross and I already knew about it.

[Fathom Zero]

It's like you're a barometer for sadness, Kitsa.

[Kitsa]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Downer

"Disney World is fun. It's like being a kid again. I mean, before my two-year stint at Children's."


(which is bonus funneh because I actually did have a two-year stint at Children's)

[JJ_Maniac]

Furry convention at house in front of mine. I was seven. I thought they were monsters. I guess I was right. Also, I was locked outside to play.

[Tadao]

Out of curiosity, how old were you?

[Fathom Zero]

In Kennywood (an amusement park near where I live)

I think I rode that one waterslide like thirty times, once.

[ZeldaQueen]

I think I rode that one waterslide like thirty times, once.
The Log Jammer? That one rocks! If you're talking about the Pittsburgh Plunge, I never rode that, and I only rode the Raging Rapids once (when I had an ear infection, so not so good a move there).

I was pretty freaked when I first saw The Nightmare Before Christmas. Same with Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (which was pretty dark for a Winnie the Pooh movie) and the trailer for Anastasia.

[pac-man]

My parents beat each other up something unmerciful. :(

[electric ninja]

When I was 6, I was climbing a tree and a spider bit me on the hand. I let go of the branch and grabed my hand and fell out if the tree and landed awkwardly.

[pac-man]

Seriously though, my childhood was cool. If I was traumatized that shit's buried deep.

[pac-man]

When I was 6, I was climbing a tree and a spider bit me on the hand. I let go of the branch and grabed my hand and fell out if the tree and landed awkwardly.

Ninja please!

[b_squared]

My parents beat each other up something unmerciful. :(


It was one sided in my home..one hit(dad) the other bled (mom)...
She finally divorced and dated another
Who did the same thing.
so she broke up and married another
who did the same thing...
She finally divorced and never married again...

That was childhood trama... but a huge downer. :(

Anyway, something not so bad as above,

When I was about 12 we had a huge field in front of the house and every spring everything was blooming and bees were everywhere. Occasionally I would see a big black bee. I think they call them carpenter bees. I wanted to see one close up but I was afraid of them. So I got an empty glass jar with a lid and trapped the bee. I was so scared. Once the bee was in the jar it started buzzing and the jar was shaking and buzzing so loud. I screamed and dropped the jar, the lid fell off and the bee came after me. It took me a week to get enough courage to walk through the field again.

[MetalMilitia]

It's weird, for all the obviously extremely dangerous shit I did as a kid I never really managed to injure myself badly (never broken a bone or anything). Well, there is one possible exception.

Me and a mate used to get high and just fuck about in this wasteland/wooded area on a hill. We used to use this big branch as a kind of catapult to launch shit off the hill. One day we decided the branch had lot a lot of it's springyness and opted to find a new one.
We found an awesomely powerful crap launching branch, stripped all the leaves etc. off it, and proceeded to test it. My friend pulled it back just as I was walking in front and the fucking thing snapped causing the end to swing round into my eyeball. Apparently I did a full 360 before hitting the ground. The second it happened it was the worst feeling ever because I didn't know if I even still had an eye left or what. I couldn't open it or see out of it or anything. One trip to casualty later and a sleepless night of extreme discomfort and I was finally able to - more or less - see again. Took ages to heal and I still feel like that eye is less sensitive to colour but at least it's still in my skull.

To this day anything that looks like it's under a lot of stress - taught cables etc. - make me rather nervous.

[Dimnos]

When I was about 5 or 6 I found a pair of tweezers laying on the coffee table. I looked around to find where they go and decided the best place for the two pronged device was the electrical outlet on the wall. All I remember is waking up on the couch :\

When I was about 8 or 9 I was climbing across the top of some monkey bars. My hand slipped and I fell between the bars hitting the bottom of my chin on one of the bars. This caused me to literally bite off a small part of the tip of my tongue. The pain wasnt so bad, the worst part was all the blood that comes spewing out of your tongue filling your mouth to a point it looks like you are literally throwing up blood.

[Kitsa]

Post traumatic stress disorder is a real thing, that's for sure. Not that this is a childhood trauma, but...

About 15 years ago my parents had a minivan and my dad hated it. He kept wishing something would happen to it so he could get something else. One day, he was driving down a country road in a snowstorm. Without warning, all of the power lines collapsed over the road. One line draped over the minivan and dragged it and my dad into a ditch.

He was trapped there for a long time. The live wire actually burned a hole in the roof of the minivan. My dad couldn't do anything but sit there and try not to touch metal; there was water in the ditch on one side, and a live wire draped over the other. There was no way to safely get out.

Fortunately, he managed to get enough of a "car phone" signal to call for help, and the car trapped in front of him belonged to NIPSCo, the power company. They were able to locate them by GPS, shut off the line and help them out.

The fun didn't end there, one of the guys who was stuck was a dwarf and had to be helped over snow piles and fences back to the main road. That had to be humiliating. Anyway, he got his wish. The van was absolutely totaled.

To this day, my dad freaks out if he sees a crooked powerline. I saw something similar happen last fall during Hurricane Ike and have a touch of the freakouts myself.

[b_squared]

My husband is a lineman. I have a high respect for those powerlines.
He was in an underground vault that blew up because the power was not de-energized correctly.

He now has some hearing loss, skin graphs over his face and head, and wrists, some lung damage and some back trama.

But couldn't wait to get back to work. If I think about it too much I worry for him, but he loves it.

[Tadao]

Being a Journeyman electrician, I find that story hard to swallow.

[b_squared]

My story or kitsa's

[Tadao]

I'm not claiming it false, I'm just saying that there was a really fucking stupid person involved. Two actually because work with high voltage transformers (I'm assuming it was a chraged transformer that blew up) should at least be double checked.

[b_squared]

Underground in Los Angeles. Very old cables. called it out to turn it off, ran a meter and got no read, ran a spike and got nothing, cut the cable and boom.
3 tests before the cut and all were wrong.

[Tadao]

Ok, that's just unlucky then :o

[b_squared]

the cable was mismarked. the correct cable was shut off. Later it was found out that sometimes wires when you have three and they twist they sometimes tweek the meter they used and you will not get a read, even if its live. therefore the spike. The spike missed all three wired in the cable, so they didnt ground out or whatever the spike was supposed to test.

[Geggy]

My childhood memories are starting to fade out but I am being reminded of how my phobia of amputees got started whenever I see one. It started in a swimming class at YMCA when I was 6 year old. This kid in my class had only one arm. It was my first time I've ever been exposed to amputees. It didn't get any better after my first time watching the movie The Swamp Thing on HBO. Now my body trembles whenever I am near an amputee. I would soil myself in the pants if I ever were inside the walter reed army medical center.

[Tadao]

And I thought I scared off the one armed girl that showed up here, but you probably sent her hate mail. >:

[ZeldaQueen]

When I was a child, it was autumn and I was playing in a pile of leaves. I threw a few handfuls into the air and thought that it would be a good idea to look up at them. Needless to say, I wound up with two eyefuls of dirt and leafy grit. My mom and grandparents (who were visiting) got me inside and my grandparents let my mom use some of their eye drops to help get the stuff out of my eyes. I was terrified of letting more things get in my eye and I pretty much had to be pinned to the bed and had my eyes pried open before the drops could get in. After that, it was along time before I played in leaves or felt safe with eyedrops.

[LordSappington]

This actually happened to a friend of mine, but when he turned eight, his dad got sick of doing the Santa routine, so he told him and his older brother that he caught Santa breaking into the house, killed him, and buried him in the backyard.

[Kitsa]

That's lovely.

We had some backwoods-style neighbors in one of the places I used to live. They raised rabbits in pens in the backyard and their kids and I would play with them. Then one day I went over and there were bloody rabbit skins everywhere. It was like a horror movie, I was like 5 years old going, "What happened to the bunnies?"

They also had a german shepherd/alsatian that used to chase my family's chihuahua. One time it got loose and chased our chihuahua around the front yard, and it must have been more threatening than I remembered, because the guy came and got his dog and dragged it off and shot it. I don't remember our dog even being hurt.

Gotta love rednecks.

[ZeldaQueen]

Holy cow... that's horrid!

Our city's zoo has a petting zoo which I'd go into when I was a child. In it are sheep and goats. Once, I kept following this one goat around until it chased me, butted me, and knocked me over. I wasn't hurt, but it was kind of surprising.

[MetalMilitia]

I'm pretty sure everyone in the world has at some point in their childhood been attacked by a gaggle of geese.

[ZeldaQueen]

I was snapped at by a bird in a hut in a park (the park, really called "South Park", was very large and had many different areas to it and one area had little wooden roost-type structures with little birds in it).

[The Leader]

(the park, really called "South Park", was very large and had many different areas to it and one area had little wooden roost-type structures with little birds in it).

Please, do tell us more.

[bigtimecow]

when i was younger, my parents and i were in blockbuster looking for a movie to rent. i wandered off to the horror movie section and found this movie "the pigman" or something like that. all i know is on the cover was this little kid, from the side, in like this british school outfit, holding a knife and wearing a pig mask over his head

the bathroom in my house leads into the middle of a hallway that has a light but people never turn it on (quite a big deal when you're like 7) and for the next year i couldn't leave the bathroom without creeping around both sides of the doorway and making sure no one (namely the pig man... or kid) was there waiting for me

i'm still pretty terrified of getting out of the bathroom late at night into the dark hallway :(

[Jeanette X]

I remember seeing the opening of the movie "Lean on Me" where a female student has her shirt ripped off and then she's forcibly groped in the hallway. It really upset me as a kid. :\

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

when i was younger, my parents and i were in blockbuster looking for a movie to rent. i wandered off to the horror movie section and found this movie "the pigman" or something like that. all i know is on the cover was this little kid, from the side, in like this british school outfit, holding a knife and wearing a pig mask over his head

the bathroom in my house leads into the middle of a hallway that has a light but people never turn it on (quite a big deal when you're like 7) and for the next year i couldn't leave the bathroom without creeping around both sides of the doorway and making sure no one (namely the pig man... or kid) was there waiting for me

i'm still pretty terrified of getting out of the bathroom late at night into the dark hallway :(

Might have been Motel Hell. Wasn't that bad.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

My friend was watching Look who's talking when he was young. Saw the fertilization scene in the beginning and threw up. Creeped him out ever since.

[ZeldaQueen]

Please, do tell us more.
It wasn't populated by two-dimensional profane characters, just people who went to jog or walk their dogs. Or visit the stage for a concert. Or go ride the horses. Or go to the Ribs Cook-Off (until they canceled it).

Anyway, I remember when I first saw the Evolution trailer, I was really freaked out when there was the part of them considering cutting off a guy's leg because he had an alien bug crawling around inside of him. Now I think that scene's hilarious. Go figure. :\

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I watched Class of Nuke 'Em High when I was young. I guess that's more like childhood Troma though.

[executioneer]

that pun gave me a fatal aneurysm

[Sam]

when i was younger, my parents and i were in blockbuster looking for a movie to rent. i wandered off to the horror movie section and found this movie "the pigman" or something like that. all i know is on the cover was this little kid, from the side, in like this british school outfit, holding a knife and wearing a pig mask over his head

That's the cover of The Butcher Boy :eek

[Kitsa]

I gave my brother a couple of pretty good traumas. He watched horror movies obsessively; he'd watch the VHS tapes over and over until my mom would hide them. Even though he watched them over and over, they'd still spook the shit out of him.

One day I found a promotional Child's Play bumper sticker someone had left on the school bus. He was afraid of Chucky (he had a My Buddy doll he got rid of), so I waited until he was getting ready for his shower and taped the Chucky sticker in the bathroom closet at eye level. All you could see was Chucky's face leering out of the dark. It was great. After that, he always left the bathroom closet door open.

Then he got into the Blair Witch thing, which I thought was the dumbest shit around. He was one of those who thought it was a true story (he was still in elementary school). We lived out in the woods, so of course I had a great time hanging those stick people from trees and leaving bloody flannel-wrapped bundles of hair and "teeth" (squirrel corn broken and painted white) for him. He was freaked out by that for a long time.

[Tadao]

:lol what a mean sister.

[Kitsa]

he had it coming.

[Tadao]

Most brothers do!

[Colonel Flagg]

Kit, we could have been each other in previous lives .... :spooky

[Kitsa]

???

[Colonel Flagg]

???

Sorry - tormenting and abusing siblings was one of my favorite hobbies growing up.

[TheBigMan045]

not really a traumatic experience but I was feeding the ducks with my grandpa and my cousin when i fell into the water and remembered this massive eel sliding past my legs, of course being around 4, I thought it was an electric eel so i was scared for a little while but got over it

[Kitsa]

lol

When I was really, really small, I was walking a gangplank to get into a little riverboat museum and I looked down into the water. There was this itty bitty gar, couldn't have been more than a foot long. It was just hovering near the surface. I saw its teeth and thought for sure it was a barracuda. I flipped the fuck out.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/gar.jpg

[ZeldaQueen]

One day I found a promotional Child's Play bumper sticker someone had left on the school bus. He was afraid of Chucky (he had a My Buddy doll he got rid of), so I waited until he was getting ready for his shower and taped the Chucky sticker in the bathroom closet at eye level. All you could see was Chucky's face leering out of the dark. It was great. After that, he always left the bathroom closet door open.

Wow. That was crazy! I remember when I was younger, I was perusing the shelves of VHSs in the old video store we went to and was freaked out by the "Child's Play" and "Child's Play 2" VHS covers. I also was freaked out by the pictures on the adult Anime VHSs (as a kid, I thought that if a movie was animated, it was good for children to watch. Hentai anime was a new concept to me, although my parents tried to explain to me why I would not like those movies, in term's I'd understand).

In elementary school, I was going through an old magazine and I found a "Do you know what your child is reading?" ad in the back. Why it freaked me out was that it also showed the cover of a PETA booklet titled Your Mommy Kills Animals, which shows a housewife stabbing a rabbit with a bloody knife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Your-Mommy-Kills-Animals_Poster.jpg).

[LordSappington]

When I was seven, I went in to have a root canal done, and the easiest way for them to do it was to wait for the nitrous to kick in, then give me the Novocaine.
Well, my dentist basically said 'Fuck it', strapped me to the table, and tried to give me the shots, while I was flipping the fuck out since I didn't know what was going on.
Ever since then, I've been terrified of dentists; I either have to be on an assload of Valium and nitrous, or IV sedated.

[ZeldaQueen]

That sounds like some superhero origin story. Dang... :hypno

[Kitsa]

IV sedation is so fucking wonderful. When I had it to have two cracked and abscessed molars removed, I loved it so much I sent the dental office a gift basket.

Put needle in, ____________________________, pull needle out and go home.

<3

[ZeldaQueen]

I seriously hope you go out fast from it.

I'm getting an IV for my wisdom teeth removal. I HATE the thought of anything (tubes, IV, needles, etc) being put in my skin. I'm hoping like heck that I'll be out before I can seriously get freaked out by it.

[Kitsa]

I can't think of going out any faster. I was conscious of them putting a needle in my arm and then that was it. It was even faster than getting general anesthesia for surgery, because even then I'm conscious of being on the table and having the mask put on me and breathing in.

Seriously, to your brain it's the same as them putting the needle in, then pulling it out and you go home. Your brain doesn't have any knowledge of anything going on in the meantime. It's like blinking, or drifting off and waking up. You might be disoriented, but it doesn't even feel like time has passed.

[Jeanette X]

If I were you, I'd have a friend or relative present during the procedure. I've read a few news stories about dentists molesting patients...:\

[Fathom Zero]

I have to be HEAVILY sedated for such procedures. My body's resistant to pain killers.

[ZeldaQueen]

Woot. Thanks, I feel a lot better about it.

And yes, my mom will be present. They refuse to perform the surgery unless there's somebody to drive the patient home (someone not stoned on painkillers).

[Kitsa]

First time I had it done, I was scared to death. I was freaked the hell out and well-attuned to any incoming pain. Xanax had stopped working to calm me down, so I went in without anything.

When I woke up, I thought that they had tried to give me the anesthesia and failed. I didn't realize the procedure was over because to my brain it happened as quickly as blinking your eyes.

The other tooth had to be taken out a year later and I was all freaked out again thinking it was a fluke. I thought I lucked out the first time and this time I would be in for much more suffering. Nope, went the exact same way.

My clothing all seemed to be intact and I didn't have a baby who looked like my oral surgeon nine months later, so I'm fairly sure all went well.

[Tadao]

Did you check your buttons for finger prints? ;)

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

I need to go see an Oraladontist to get my wisdom teeth out.

[ZeldaQueen]

I'm getting all of them out at the same time. I was already panicky when I met the doctor (he said "they'll have to be removed" and added "not now" because I nearly dove out of the dentist chair). He then started telling me about the procedure and the IV and had me sign a notice saying that I realized all of the things that could happen because of the procedure. I was not in a very good state of mind that day.

[kahljorn]

yea when i went under it reminded me of blacking out from alcohol and i was like MAN WHAT DID I DO WHAT DID I DO :(

[ZeldaQueen]

Did you see your picture on a wanted poster in the oral surgeon's office afterwards?

[LordSappington]

Wisdom tooth removal isn't too bad. My oral surgeon even used this cold spray, so he had the IV in and I literally didn't feel anything.
The worst part for me was afterwards; I woke up home alone, since everyone was at the hospital with my sister, who was in labor, and I was covered in blood from rolling over a lot. I basically sat in the bathroom bawling until the sedatives went away and I stopped flipping out.