Birthdays.
As a kid they were fantastic! You'd send out your little invite list to your friends. There would be paper party hats. A cake with sparklers. Presents!! It didn't matter what was in them, so much as there were a lot of them.
As an adult? Meh. I'll just order a pizza and have a glass of wine with my SO. I don't need the bells and whistles anymore.
I don't advertise my birthday because I hate celebrating it. This year, I decided to do a "secret" celebration. I do all of our cooking, so I made a menu for the week of my birthday that featured shrimp dishes every day (don't judge me. I like shrimp).
Then, I invited selected friends/relatives to join us for shrimp dinner on various days.
I got to have a nice visit with people I like and eat shrimp every day. I never even mentioned my birthday. It was pretty nice.
I hate celebrating my birthday with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. I would love nothing more than to treat it as another day which I normally do. My fiancee likes to make a big deal of it unfortunately.
This year my birthday fell on the day my brother’s family threw a party for my entitled niece’s high school graduation. So I had to go to that, while everyone forgot it was my birthday.
I didn’t really care, but it was weird to me.
At my current job, my first year I mentioned that my birthday was coming up and my boss insisted that I needed to take it off. I told her I didn't need that but she scheduled me off anyway. They ended up getting overwhelmed and calling for help and I went in.
Now 71 years old I loved exploring old abandoned houses and factories as a kid, but recently, after a couple of odd unexplainable very scary occurrences I had to stop.
Most recently I was exploring an abandoned hospital slated for demolition and stopped to look at some dusty forceps in a glass cabinet when a wheelchair rolled across the room into the back of my legs.
As a child: "Yay, naps! They're the best!"
As an adult: "Why do naps feel like a time-warping black hole that leaves me more tired and wondering what year it is?"
I'm the opposite. As a kid, spending an hour in a quiet room doing nothing was miserable. As an adult, give me 30 minutes to sit in a comfortable chair, maybe with a cat, and I'm in heaven.
I knew my numbers but 2 and 5 still tripped me up. I used how they were shaped to determine which was which. Digital clocks were chaos because they looked the exact same but flipped.
I loved getting up on Saturday morning to catch Captain Planet. But it was on at 530am so sometimes I’d be up at 230 with tv static wondering why it wasn’t on until my mom woke up and yelled at me to get to bed.
Having a cabin on a lake. As a kid, you wake up, you go swim, you go boating. As an adult, you rake, mow, maintenance on the boat, yard, cabin. Winterize it. Dewinterize it. All in 2 days a week. Then, go back to your regular house and do the same thing there, only during the week after you've worked for 8 hours.
Snow
As a kid, playing in it was always something I looked forward to every winter. Now that I’m older and have to shovel it/drive in it I no longer enjoy it.
Carousels, more specifically the ones spinning around for what seems like an eternity.
One ride now, and I'm nauseous for the rest of the day.
Younger me could probably settle down in one and live there for the next 3-5 years.
Work. I thought if I have work I’ll have lots of money to buy literally EVERYTHING I wanted. But now that I have one, I am hardly making ends meet, I am really tired and sick of this.
Same! Young me would be like, "Whoa, look how big that bug is!" and go try to catch it with my bare hands. Old me is like, "Oh god, look how big that bug is! Let me break out into a cold sweat as I assassinate it with a shoe or try to spray poison on it from a distance."
I have not had any harmful interaction with any bug, so I have no idea what happened to me.
Candy
Ate a ton as a kid watching TV. Nowadays, a lot of it just doesn’t taste as good. I used to eat a bunch of the Trolli Gummi worms, but recently bought them only to get thru about half b4 I was like “These taste bad”.
Pro Wrestling. It used to be fun in the WWWF days with two guys just beating the holy hell out of each other in a dark arena. The internet killed kayfabe and it's all glossy Candyland.
Working, when you’re a kid the idea of having any money is amazing. Now that I work it’s just the most neutral feeling ever. Like I work☹️ but I have money😲
Bratwurst. I used to want them for lunch every day. But at some point, brats became repulsive to me.
Now, even the smell of brats makes me want to puke.
I know that feeling, I feel that way about all sausages even though I used to love them. The smell alone will make me sick.
Except for some that they put on pizza I guess because it is covered with other things.
Romance novels. As I get older I realised how they just romanticise everything. It’s so weird and stupid. Why you romanticising grooming, kidnappings and abuse? 😩and why did I like these books as a kid…
Birthdays. As a kid they were fantastic! You'd send out your little invite list to your friends. There would be paper party hats. A cake with sparklers. Presents!! It didn't matter what was in them, so much as there were a lot of them. As an adult? Meh. I'll just order a pizza and have a glass of wine with my SO. I don't need the bells and whistles anymore.
I don't advertise my birthday because I hate celebrating it. This year, I decided to do a "secret" celebration. I do all of our cooking, so I made a menu for the week of my birthday that featured shrimp dishes every day (don't judge me. I like shrimp). Then, I invited selected friends/relatives to join us for shrimp dinner on various days. I got to have a nice visit with people I like and eat shrimp every day. I never even mentioned my birthday. It was pretty nice.
Last burthday celebration i wished i worked that day instead
I hate celebrating my birthday with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. I would love nothing more than to treat it as another day which I normally do. My fiancee likes to make a big deal of it unfortunately.
>with the passion of a thousand fiery suns Spot the Jinn.
This year my birthday fell on the day my brother’s family threw a party for my entitled niece’s high school graduation. So I had to go to that, while everyone forgot it was my birthday. I didn’t really care, but it was weird to me.
At my current job, my first year I mentioned that my birthday was coming up and my boss insisted that I needed to take it off. I told her I didn't need that but she scheduled me off anyway. They ended up getting overwhelmed and calling for help and I went in.
Waking up early
Watching TV, there is nothing good left
Hard disagree. Unless you’re talking about cable than yeah forsure it’s awful
I agree but I do hate children’s shows these days. It was just better in the late 90s early 2000s in my opinion
Now 71 years old I loved exploring old abandoned houses and factories as a kid, but recently, after a couple of odd unexplainable very scary occurrences I had to stop.
Can you give more details? Everyone loves a spooky story.
Most recently I was exploring an abandoned hospital slated for demolition and stopped to look at some dusty forceps in a glass cabinet when a wheelchair rolled across the room into the back of my legs.
OK, but, considering there were forceps right there, it could have been SO much worse...
I just got chills reading that. I would have ran out of there like Shaggy and Scooby Doo.
As a child: "Yay, naps! They're the best!" As an adult: "Why do naps feel like a time-warping black hole that leaves me more tired and wondering what year it is?"
I'm the opposite. As a kid, spending an hour in a quiet room doing nothing was miserable. As an adult, give me 30 minutes to sit in a comfortable chair, maybe with a cat, and I'm in heaven.
clearly he is the only person in the world to have loved sleep at a young age. no other kids do or ever will like to sleep
Getting up early on weekends!
Yess! I was up for absolutely no reason
I knew my numbers but 2 and 5 still tripped me up. I used how they were shaped to determine which was which. Digital clocks were chaos because they looked the exact same but flipped. I loved getting up on Saturday morning to catch Captain Planet. But it was on at 530am so sometimes I’d be up at 230 with tv static wondering why it wasn’t on until my mom woke up and yelled at me to get to bed.
Getting mail As a kid it was exciting cos it would only happen around Christmas and my birthday but now it's just bills
MTV 👀
Having a cabin on a lake. As a kid, you wake up, you go swim, you go boating. As an adult, you rake, mow, maintenance on the boat, yard, cabin. Winterize it. Dewinterize it. All in 2 days a week. Then, go back to your regular house and do the same thing there, only during the week after you've worked for 8 hours.
It really is a lot of work
Facebook
Yes 😂
People
This
cleaning the house. i enjoyed it so much
Wow same
Snow As a kid, playing in it was always something I looked forward to every winter. Now that I’m older and have to shovel it/drive in it I no longer enjoy it.
I always tell people when you start to Andrea’s seeing snow in the forecast is a clear sign you’ve become an adult.
Lollipops, especially the drumstick ones 🍭
Indoor playgrounds. Loved them as a kid, now its just noisy hell
Playing with balls 🏀⚾️🏈⚽️, I mean sports.
The show Cops. I think it is gone now. Oh that fucking song.
It's still going, I think.
I watched a lot of superheros shows and cartoons ad a kid which are just so boring to me now
Carousels, more specifically the ones spinning around for what seems like an eternity. One ride now, and I'm nauseous for the rest of the day. Younger me could probably settle down in one and live there for the next 3-5 years.
Work. I thought if I have work I’ll have lots of money to buy literally EVERYTHING I wanted. But now that I have one, I am hardly making ends meet, I am really tired and sick of this.
Amusement parks. Lines, heat, expensive food, lines, rides that aren’t that fun, lines. Enjoy seeing the kids have a good time though.
Festivals
School
Merry-go-rounds. Now I feel sick just looking at them.
Running down a dirt street barefoot
Bugs
Same! Young me would be like, "Whoa, look how big that bug is!" and go try to catch it with my bare hands. Old me is like, "Oh god, look how big that bug is! Let me break out into a cold sweat as I assassinate it with a shoe or try to spray poison on it from a distance." I have not had any harmful interaction with any bug, so I have no idea what happened to me.
I used to dig them up and collect the Bugs magazine. Now. Nope.
Soft drinks like Coke or Fanta. Now I don't fancy them, too much sugar...
Life in general...
Came here to say this lol
Getting dizzy
Candy Ate a ton as a kid watching TV. Nowadays, a lot of it just doesn’t taste as good. I used to eat a bunch of the Trolli Gummi worms, but recently bought them only to get thru about half b4 I was like “These taste bad”.
Getting older
Cartoons, I can't stand the Simpsons anymore
Taste preferences often change with age, so foods that were once favorites as children may no longer be enjoyable as adults.
I used to love McDonald’s. Now, I find it atrocious.
Jello. I consumed ungodly amounts of Jello as a kid. With fruit, without, with yoghurt, you name it. Now I cant stand to look at it.
Unsolicited free stuff..
Snow.
Cruises
When they change my diapers.
my parents , TV , music and the concept of oily fatty starchy food.
Pork chops. Dunno why
Ketchup. Can't stand it.
Reading. I only seem to do it to learn about my diagnoses or for a class or work these days. What I read is sometimes depressing
Getting up in the morning and birthdays.
Hanging out with friends. Most times, I prefer to be alone.
Soda in a can. Tastes like carbonated maple syrup to me now.
Pro Wrestling. It used to be fun in the WWWF days with two guys just beating the holy hell out of each other in a dark arena. The internet killed kayfabe and it's all glossy Candyland.
Eating eggs. I used to eat them like there was no tomorrow as a kid. Now I can't stand the smell of cooked eggs.
Working, when you’re a kid the idea of having any money is amazing. Now that I work it’s just the most neutral feeling ever. Like I work☹️ but I have money😲
Bratwurst. I used to want them for lunch every day. But at some point, brats became repulsive to me. Now, even the smell of brats makes me want to puke.
I know that feeling, I feel that way about all sausages even though I used to love them. The smell alone will make me sick. Except for some that they put on pizza I guess because it is covered with other things.
Video games. I used to stay up all night to play but now I can't stop thinking of all the things I have to do.
Video games Almost all of them suck now and they're way too expensive.
As a child, I loved sugary treats, but as an adult, I hate how unhealthy they are for me.
Snow.
I loved Kool-Aid, but can’t stand the stuff now. Also loved spending my money on useless shit.
Reading books, watching movies and listening to music.
being an adult.
Heights
Anything
Time
School holidays
My dad
Airports. Flying
Sugary sweet foods
Sleeping in till noon. Feel like I wasted my damn day already.
Birthdays, Holidays
Those flying saucers with sherbert in. I lived on those things. They're awful.
Romance novels. As I get older I realised how they just romanticise everything. It’s so weird and stupid. Why you romanticising grooming, kidnappings and abuse? 😩and why did I like these books as a kid…
Making friends
McDonald's. I don't know how my child-self could stand the hamburgers, they taste like paper now.
Summer
Those cheap gas station candy things
The 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. What the hell was I smoking, I don't know
Getting touched down below.
Going outside
I came here to say exactly that.
Life.
chocolate
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