What Childhood Experience Did You Realize Later Was Actually Disturbing? (AskReddit)

what was a strange experience you had as a child that you didn't know was incredibly disturbing until you were older I was playing at a friend's house in grade school I went looking for the bathroom but opened the door to the laundry room instead my friend's mom was sitting on top of the dryer and completely freaked out when she saw me it didn't occur to me until about 20 years later that she was probably masturbating I had a childhood friend for about a year or so who lived just down the street from me he was a pretty normal kid from what I can recall I remember him getting really excited one day about an upcoming visit from his uncle he told me about a game that he and his uncle would always play together called toilet II from what I remember him telling me the game involved his uncle trying to finger dollar coins out of the kids naked ass and the kid doing the same to the uncle this was only ever played in the kids tree fort and he was allowed to keep all the dollar coins when the game was over thank Christ no one was allowed to play except my friend and his uncle I moved away a short time later and never saw the kid ever again it wasn't until many years later that I remembered it and thought to myself holy [ __ ] that's super [ __ ] up when we were five to six years old one of the teachers at my primary school had a favorite kid in my class he wasn't our teacher but if he was on playground duty he would come out to the playground when we were there find her crouched down on the ground and tell her to sit on his knee then when she did he would stroke her hair and tell her what beautiful blonde hair she had at the time the rest of us were kind of jealous of her because we thought it just meant she was important she was kind of quiet but from a fairly rich family I guess and always had nice clothes and stationery and this teacher would openly say she was his favorite and asked us where she was if he couldn't find her I remember walking around her corner or something and seeing them by themselves with her on his knee as he talked to her softly years later I feel really quite disturbed by it that poor kid I found an unloaded real revolver in the street behind our apartment when I was about five to six put it with my other toy cowboy guns that was a thing played with it didn't like it much the real gun was heavy and too hard for me to pull the trigger the plastic ones were much more fun eventually my mom found it and in retrospective surprised didn't freak out just made it disappear I have a good one when I was around five or six I was at Mart with my mom this was back in the 70s so as my mom shopped I would hang out by myself in the toy department I especially loved the Simone game where you press the buttons and try to match the pattern so one day I was standing there at the display playing Simone and an old man started talking to me he talked to me for a few minutes and then he told me to come with him he took me by the hand and started walking toward the back of the store where there were double doors that led out to the back parking lot I remember wondering where we were going but not being particularly concerned as we were passing the last couple of aisles I suddenly saw my mom at the end of the aisle I kind of snapped out of it realized that I should go to my mom rather than go with this guy I pulled away from his hand and ran to my mom I didn't say a word because I knew she had told me not to talk to strangers later on I realized that there were several unpleasant scenarios that I had been very lucky to escape eater I've told this story before on reddit and I misspelled sim and then - I clearly have an issue I was 7 had to be really bad but my mum was in the bathroom after waiting and knocking and complaining I just went in without waiting for a response found my mom sitting on the toilet and slumped over pale as hell as calm as I can be I call my aunt over who freaks and calls ambulance my mom was gone for over a couple of months family just told me she was travelling whenever I asked about her years later alla and I screwed up my mom's suicide attempt and she had been in a psych ward for months when I was around 9 I went snow sledding with family and friends it was a populist leading area with a few different hills some words this older guy in his forties had an awesome toboggan with a flashlight rigged up on the front he was flying down hills 10x faster than anyone he was there by himself and it was getting dark out he came up to me and started telling me about this secret hill in the woods that was huge he told me I could use his sled I followed him for about two minutes until I realized I couldn't see my family or friends anymore I was maybe 20 feet into the woods before I was overcome with a horrible gut wrenching feeling I dropped my sled and ran like hell back toward my family I remember hearing his footsteps behind me moving as quickly as I was by the time I got to my family and told them he had disappeared I'm 100% certain I would have been molested and/or murdered in those woods telling this story makes me feel the way I did when I was 20 feet into those woods 21 years ago scary as [ __ ] when I was about six or seven my cousins and I had a lemonade stand in front of my house this younger couple drove up and asked me specifically if I wanted to go to jungle bungle it was like Chucky chesses but way more fun my cousin's didn't even let me answer and quickly ran inside with me in tow they told my parents and we weren't allowed outside the rest of the day due to the couple still circling the area I don't remember if my parents called the cops or not I didn't realize how close I got to getting kidnapped since my dumb bus probably would have went had it not been for my wonderful cousins I was at a store with my mom when I was about 8 and I was wandering around in my owner these two guys kept staring me down and following me every corner I turned it seemed like one of them was there I followed my gut and ran to my mom she thought I was being dramatic but it was fine after that three or four hours later my dad a police dispatcher called and said there were two guys caught trying to kidnap a little girl at that same store just a little bit after we left my mom didn't tell me that part until about 18 years later thank God I followed my gut even as a kid when I was about five my family went to a new park to play baseball it was in an area we hadn't been to we lived in Denver but didn't typically stray too far and I wasn't thrilled [ __ ] baseball anyhow after much pleading I got permission from my mom to go play up on the hill about 100 yards away there was a huge swing set that was still within view of the field there engrossed in their game arguing over who has to sit in the outfield yada yada and I'm just chilling on my swing minding my own business playing neverending story when a couple of girls that were young enough to not be scary but old enough to be super cool 12 maybe showed up start screwing around on the slide then asked me what I'm doing they asked about my life talk nerdy aters and early 90s movies with me and asked what I like to do I say dancing and they say all us - yeah Marc loves watching us dance in my naivete I say my dad loves coming to my dance recitals - they giggle and tell me no Marc is kind of like their substitute dad since neither of them have dads he's a man that takes care of them because they don't have moms or dads and he wants to take care of them they explained they aren't related just friends that didn't have a home so they live in the same home together but Marc is great because he takes them to travel and meet other girls their age well I like to travel I say really come meet Marc they say we think you'd really like him he's nice to us he would love to have a friend that's younger to spoil he gives them lots of presents they say especially when they have fun with his friends I want to mark sounds like a cool dude they're really nice girls non-threatening never talk to strange at ult's right but these girls aren't adults an advantage for Marc however that morning the discovery of a Lee barrel as his body had been in the local paper my mom typically a free-range parent had been loathed to let me stray from her sight that morning so reluctantly I tell them no I'm going to go see what my family is doing and I run down the hill before they can protest I didn't have any reservations about hanging out with them I just knew if I disappeared my mum would be pissed I told my mom she blew it off as a funny story and I mostly forgot about it it wasn't until this past year when I did training on investigations into human trafficking that I remembered those girls I hope they were either 100% full of [ __ ] or turned out all right when I was around six my family rented a smaller house on a farm the farm was way out of the way and had a long road that led to the main street the owner of the land had a very smart and large German Shepherd named lady I would hang out with her a lot one day lady took off running all the way down the road and I ran after her so as I was convincing to have her follow me back a blue truck pulled up and a woman hopped out she went on about lady and how she used to earn her when she was a younger before putting her up for adoption I don't remember much else of what she said I responded here and there but I do remember her offering to give me a ride up back to the house the entire time lady stayed right in front of me staring the woman down and not moving the lady took a step forward lady just growled at her and stayed her ground eventually the woman gave up trying to coerce me and left that night I mentioned it to my brother saying that I had met late his previous owner because at six I had no [ __ ] idea he said uhm you know she was probably trying to kidnap you right mrs. Anderson has had lady since a young puppy it didn't really hit me until I thought about it a few years ago when a dog knows someone especially a previous kind owner they're usually pretty [ __ ] excited and greet them but for her to protect me the way she did it didn't even cross my mind scary to think back on it when I was in seventh grade also I had a best friend Sammy she lived with her dad and brother her parents were divorced and the father was raising the two kids her father was pretty funny and liked to joke around one particular day Sammy and I were in her room she had one of those folding room dividers between the door of her room and her bed her father came in and demanded that she change her underwear right at that time when I was also there and while she was changing her underwear he was popping up and peeking over the divider I thought it was funny at the time and that he was joking around now I'm not so sure growing up I was a quiet and shy kid but I've had vague memories of me at a young age screaming at the top of my lungs and being forced to take some sort of medications I also had reoccurring intense nightmares about being kidnapped it wasn't until last year I'm 27 that my mom revealed a piece of my past that made everything click into place when I was 4 a man lured me away during recess at my daycare and I was missing for about six hours nobody knows what exactly happened during that time except that he eventually dropped me off down the street from the daycare and sped off after that I started having severe episodes slash fits that required sedatives to calm me down they stopped with time because I think I repressed the incident I still don't know what happened while I was missing but the nightmares now make sense I think I was like four or five and my mom's side of the family was having a camping trip in Colorado idk why I ran off but I did and I found this other campsite and there was a van with a bunch of kids playing in it some guy told me I could go in there and play with them and I did and he shut the door I was oblivious to the whole thing and I was just playing with the other kids meanwhile my family is freaking out and looking for me and they finally found me and tried to get me out of the van but the door was locked they told the guy to get me out that he was being weirdly persistent about it and saying that I was just playing and he'd bring me back later my grandpa basically said if he didn't open the door he was going to actually kill him so I got out of the van and we left and I was sad that I couldn't keep playing I'd had a couple dreams about the incident when I was older and I always thought they were just until the story got brought up at a family reunion a few years ago it shook me to the core when I realized just how close I was to being taken away from my family forever when I was in sixth grade in 1984 my social studies teacher would reward students with trips to the movies with him or going out to eat or coming to his apartment to hang out the cutest boys in class would win all the time and it would always be weird reasons like doing his best or being extra helpful I was jealous because girls never got to win years later I realized it was really sketchy I even tried to find him because it was possible he was still giving good boys special treatment but he had died from lung cancer years before I was 10 and my brother was 9 my next-door neighbors were the same age as us we were swimming in a state park we went into the bathroom and found a gay porn magazine in a stall nothing graphic just make it gay dudes we were going through the pages and laughing our asses off when we walked out of the stall there was a naked man standing there looking at us all four of us started laughing hysterically and ran out of there about 25 years later I remembered it I realized that naked man planted that magazine and was waiting for us still gives me the creeps my prof my sister and I were going door to door in the neighborhood to see which kids were available to play one summer one of the boys down the street has his friend over and they want to play something about a fort they built in the wooded area at the far end of our subdivision so we walk away from the houses and into the woods for a while the boys ahead of us not really talking to us as we follow my sister grabs my hand and shouts to the boys we have to go home now and immediately turns around taking me with her we got a little lost but nothing too serious I remember mud and my sister crying but I figured it was because her pants were dirty we eventually get back to houses and walk home my sister cried to my mom for a bit and for some reason we got two snacks pretzels and goldfish each and mom sat with us at the table while we ate them ultimately a pretty decent looking back I was 4/5 my sister was 6/7 and the neighbor kid was 15 at the time my sister realized something wasn't right and knocked us out of whatever the [ __ ] was going to happen to us in the woods and my mother 100% recognized that I've talked about it with my sister a few times as adults and we agreed that was some serious for Cooper II that we avoided that day I can't imagine what must have been going through my mom's head and now that I'm now near the age she was at the time I really want to talk to her about it

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Length: 15min 56sec (956 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 11 2019