What were you up to in 2007?
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I was a kid, can barely talk, didn't even speak a word of English, I was still in mainland China, probably in kindergarden or something, no internet access (too poor and live in slums), bored as fuck when at home, barely any entertainment, I don't think I had much toys, if I did, I broke them, my parents would leave me and my older brother* at home and my parents warned me not to climb near the windows (lived live around 5 stories high), there's a "safety cage" around the windows so like I wouldn't fall out or anything, but still I had intrusive thoughts, also told me not to touch the electricity stuff so I don't get zapped to death, also don't touch the plant fertilizer stuff because... poisonus to humans or something... (lived in the city, but there are houseplants and there are people that grow stuff on land in a mountain nearby).
I vaguely remember Mr. Bean, 猫和老鼠 (Cat and Mouse... aka: Tom and Jerry), and um... yea I don't remember much, since I kinda suppressed the memories because something bad happens around this time.
So... shit is about to go down...
So basically, because... you know... I was a kid, I kinda touched my older brother's toys... he's like 5 yeard older than me btw... and I'm not even sure if those count as "his" because resource in the house is kinda pooled, I viewed it as communal property (unrelated to the political-economic system btw, it just my worldview as a child, since my parents always used the words “你哋”/“你们” (you in plural form) when on the topic of buying toys and stuff, so I assumed its shared).
So I think this is how it goes: I might've touched "his" toys, he got mad at me, he used plastic zip ties and he fucking tied me up. WHAT THE FUCK?!? Also "CPS" isn't a thing, so I was just his hostage for a FEW HOURS, until parents got come. WHAT THE FUCK FUCK FUCK.
Also dude plays with fire in the house (separate incident), he pours white-out liquod onto a piece of paper, then IGNITE IT ON FIRE. My retrospective reaction rn:
Like how the f we didn't die? Concrete/cement buildings is probably a factor, if it was a wooden house, it's GGs.
And then shit went down when one time, we had fight, he was chasing me around the house, so I ran and went to find my mother, grandmother was at home but bitch didn't stop shit. I could've gotten kidnaoped that day. Cops were searching the neighborhood but they didn't expect me to take a bus all the fucking way to my mother's workplace. (Bus drivers didn't give a fuck lol), I couldn't find her, so then I later came back home. I missed a few stops and then I had to backtrack. My most lonely moment in my life, and my first Adverse Childhood Experience. I wasn't even 8 years old at the time.
*For context, I was not supposed to be born, my mother violated the "One Child Policy" and gave birth to me.
God damn, my older brother has the "Little Emperor Syndrome", got so jealous that other kids were their parents sole attention, but my parents had to split attention, dude was probably so furious he didn't get all the attention he could've gotten had I not been born, since that's the situation in almost every other family.
Wrong spawn location, I need to restart this game, it sucks. NORWAY PLSSSS
Actually fuck Earth, give me a Type III civillization, and PLS NO "HIVE MIND" SPECIES, I HATE THOSE.
Wow is crazy glad I had an older sister she was mean sometimes but in less life threatening ways
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Finishing senior year of high school, completely unaware that it was nothing but downhill from there.
It took me over a decade after high school just to find a job that actually paid enough to move out of my parents house. And then another 8 years for me to find someone and settle down. But now I feel too old and out of energy to start a family. I'm just barely starting my life and it's already halfway over.
We don't get enough time on this planet.
Hugs but you got there! And you have the energy I bet! You got this!
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In highschool with a huge red mohawk and playing bass.
Honestly late 2000s had the best athletics was in elementary school and through you guys looked dope
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
We had heated debates about force fields in my kindergarten class during recess lol
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My side hustle website got big enough in 2007 to allow me to quit my day job and go all in with it.
What was it called?
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Sex drugs and rock n roll
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Playing Supreme Commander on a PC I just built.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Finishing up high school. Had a passion for animation, was practicing flash animation for a while.
Was in scouts, specifically venturers. Was at the age where I finally was able to have some confidence and just enjoy life, had some camps that I remember fondly to this day.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
wrote last edited by [email protected]being a grad student and living on 10K a year income.
i used to buy expired food a lot to not starve and barely ate any protein. but i was living the dream and realized it was actually a nightmare.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
I can't recall anything in particular - I was working, I had a dog... But I had a look at a "what's in my bag" photo I took that year, and it included a cheque book, a diary, a Nokia phone, a Palm Pilot, an MP3 player, a compact digital camera and a portable radio. All of which have been superseded by one single device. Amazing.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
That was my junior to senior year of college. I was majoring in aeronautics at ERAU.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
My son was also born in 2007. So, I was up to all the excitement and worry about becoming a new dad, is what I was up to the most of 2007!
Also, painting and putting together a lot of baby furniture. And reading the baby books. And feeling more terrified than I ever had before. And also more excited, than I had been for anything in my life.
Great year.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Jumping on the bed while at our cabin in the woods. I was five years old, and my parents had a big bed you could jump on.
The cabin is now gone, but I recently found a dvd with videos taken there, one of them even has the voice of my grandfather in it, which I haven't heard in thirteen years.
The cabin got tore down last year after a disagreement with the owner of the plot we were renting. I guess being there with my family for over 45 years, and paying for her entire education was not good enough. -
I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
I'd finally secured a permanent, full-time job in IT at the age of 29. Then my new girlfriend, who was a charming alcoholic with borderline personality disorder, convinced me to quit and travel the world with her. Which I did. We broke up somewhere in Malaysia. I sent my 30th working on reception in a Backpacker joint in Brisbane. I regret nothing!
Now happily married, 2 kids (11 an 9) and working as an IT manager back in my hometown.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Finishing up my medical college and starting my internship one of the most fun I had in a year. Where I could actually play doctor. Working for 36-48 hours covered in blood, pus, urine, luckily no faeces.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
In high school, in another country whose language I was leaning
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
Just moved abroad for the first time.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
wrote last edited by [email protected]going through the motions of being a student in CCollege system, plus struggling. additionally found out how many people were struggling due the schools some courses were even harder than a state university, they wanted to match an IVY league level coursework, so naturally people were delayed or loss motivation to transfer to a uni, a not small but significant portion stay for more than 2+years(alot are around 4-10+years). english courses are brutal to people who arnt natural good writers,(part of the cause is people in hs arnt graduating with much proficient grammer, or essay writing to begin with), almost every course, theres usually only 1-2 naturally good writers, everyone else is expected to struggle in english course. even the lower-level english course is not very kind to students.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I was running around in my underwear playing with rusty sharp objects.
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I was born that year and I’m curious what others were doing around that time.
I have a terrible memory for what year events in the past took place.
Luckily I keep all my old resumes! So I just found out that was the year I went back to school to study music, after having dropped out of high school and working random jobs for the previous 5 years.I quit a boring office job to work part time in a comic shop at the same time as studying.
Music school was great until a minor drunken injury cause me to defer my studies until the following year.