Have You Ever Read Something Traumatic as a Kid?
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Re: Have You Ever Read Something Traumatic as a Kid?
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Oh, ouch! That's awful. I'm so sorry you had such mean classmates.Amber9731 wrote: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!
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Amber9731 wrote: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.
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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
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I hated that book, too, but I was an adult. I don't know what I was thinking, choosing it to read!!Mariar3 wrote: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.
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Thanks for the support. I'm happy to say that high school was a much better time for me.zeldas_lullaby wrote:Oh, ouch! That's awful. I'm so sorry you had such mean classmates.
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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.Mariar3 wrote: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.
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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