Okay, MY earliest memories - thanks for yours.

Posted by Tiggy on February 14, 2000 at 18:51:42:

In Reply to: What's everyone's earliest memories?... posted by Tiggy on February 12, 2000 at 19:42:45:

As I said, mine were all of being humiliated.

I remember when I was three, standing in the sea in Wales without any clothes on because my mother had wanted me to get out of the water and I didn't want to so she had taken my blue and white spotted bikini off me. I was so embarassed. Most three year olds wouldn't have been bothered by this, I'm sure. In fact many three year olds run around naked all the time on the beach, but I felt humiliated and cried a lot. I only have very few memories of my childhood so the ones I do have are important to me.

Another humiliation I remember was me sitting on this little antique blue chair, it's legs were cut off at some point so that it was like a child's chair, (we still have it but it's green now, but when I inherit if I'm going to change it back to blue leather as it was). Anyway, I was sitting there reading as I usually did by the bookcase in the lounge, and I looked up and said something about what I'd been thinking about, and all the rest of my family laughed at me. I guess they were laughing because I'd either said something irrelevant (to them) or something intellectual about Greek mythology or something, cos that's the kind of thing they still laugh at me for, including this Christmas which resulted in a row and me being taken home early from my sisters house.

I can remember my mother being in the loo with the door ajar and me on the landing outside swinging on the stairpole (or whatever it's called) and saying, 'I don't want to go to school'. And my mum saying, 'Well you have to, it's the law, you don't have any choice in the matter. This was when I was 5 and was just about to start school.

I remember wetting my knickers in Infants school and having to change in the stationary cupboard into these awful yellow and brown school spare pair. I suppose they were fashionable at the time, but I thought they were dreadful and only added to the embarassment.

I can also remember when I went to court to be officially adopted at the age of 6 and my nan told me off for running my hands along the railings outside, and I thought she shouldn't tell me off on such a day. We went for a chinese meal afterwards. I remember the judges wig on a pole.

I have more memories of Junior school, my 'best' friend Susan going off with someone else each of the four years. Various humiliations from teachers who hated me. God I don't want to think about it.

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