Have You Ever Read Something Traumatic as a Kid?

[zeldas_lullaby]

What's the Yellow Wallpaper?

[JGannaban]

Now, I really have to read The Yellow Wallpaper.

[Amber9731]

I remember reading the Lottery in middle school for an assignment. I didn't mind the story so much (The Hunger Games reminds me of it for some reason) it was the reaction to it from my class that disturbed me. I was not very popular and I found a few black dots in my locker and in my desks that week. Kids are mean!

[zeldas_lullaby]

I remember reading the Lottery in middle school for an assignment. I didn't mind the story so much (The Hunger Games reminds me of it for some reason) it was the reaction to it from my class that disturbed me. I was not very popular and I found a few black dots in my locker and in my desks that week. Kids are mean!

Oh, ouch! That's awful. I'm so sorry you had such mean classmates.

[stoppoppingtheP]

I remember reading the Lottery in middle school for an assignment. I didn't mind the story so much (The Hunger Games reminds me of it for some reason) it was the reaction to it from my class that disturbed me. I was not very popular and I found a few black dots in my locker and in my desks that week. Kids are mean!

Wow. That is pretty cruel. I remember reading it in class and feeling quite disturbed about the story.

[dhaller]

rsslue, I can empathize. Clive Barker can be terrifying. I read Imajica recently, and there was a character who wasn't male or female but kind of both and kind of neither. It freaked me out something fierce.

But as to traumatizing books, I read Marcos' Millions as a kid. It involves a planet with unusually high gravity, which changes the passage of time for the person exposed to it. Marcos went to this planet to save his kid sister, and when he came back, she was an adult.

Now, every time relativity screws something up for someone, I get teary. I actually cried watching Interstellar.

It's made me

[Mariar3]

I have never finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha for this very reason. I was 13 I think when I started reading it and I got to the scene with Chiyo being examined (I think? It was so long ago) and it really freaked me out when I was young and I've never finished.

[zeldas_lullaby]

I have never finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha for this very reason. I was 13 I think when I started reading it and I got to the scene with Chiyo being examined (I think? It was so long ago) and it really freaked me out when I was young and I've never finished.

I hated that book, too, but I was an adult. I don't know what I was thinking, choosing it to read!!

[Amber9731]

Oh, ouch! That's awful. I'm so sorry you had such mean classmates.

Thanks for the support. I'm happy to say that high school was a much better time for me.

-- 30 Jul 2015, 18:35 --

I have never finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha for this very reason. I was 13 I think when I started reading it and I got to the scene with Chiyo being examined (I think? It was so long ago) and it really freaked me out when I was young and I've never finished.

I actually really liked the book (as an adult). I must like disturbing books, lol. I really want to read the Yellow Wallpaper just to see what everyone is talking about.

[zeldas_lullaby]

You're welcome! I too am curious about the Yellow Wallpaper!!

[Dave]

As a kid I read books about WW2 & the Holocaust. Some of the survivor accounts of the camps were chilling, probably a bit much for a kid my age...

[ChristanWebb]

I don't know that I have ever been "traumatized" by a book, but I have become very emotional. Some of the books that really attracted me and pulled at my heart strings when I was younger were books about dogs. Books such as "Sounder", "Shiloh", and "Where the Red Fern Grows." To this day, I usually avoid books about dogs unless I am in the mood for a good cry. Considering these were some books on our reading lists as children, we read them in class. I was often laughed at for bursting into tears over an emotional scene in a book.

[Sara MCR]

Not me, but I remember my best friend reading Incest when we were 9. She then asked me what is so terrible about being raped. I really had no idea what to tell her...

[VinuW]

Bad Alice by Jean Ure left me in shock for days.I was literally shivering after finishing the book. Now I realize that the things discussed in the book actually do happen, life is not a bed of roses.

[Ashamtly]

"Cujo" by Stephen King
I read it when I was more or less 7 years old. Horrible idea...
My parents learned to keep a closer eye on what I read after that