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Did y'all ever do stuff when you were kids that genuinely was just childish fun, but would be totally different now that we're grown?

When I was little, one of my favorite games was "guess my parents". A better name would have been "guess my race", but "parents" was how six year olds put it lol. And I loved it because I'd always win. The little red head girl? Imma guess Ireland or Scotland. The girl speaking fluent Spanish? Easy. But then they'd get to me. And I knew I'd win because nobody's going to guess Native American, African, Mexican and Scottish. But as we got older, we realized "oh, maybe assuming that girl is Mexican because she has brown skin ISN'T okay". But we spent many many recesses playing that game up until we were about eight or nine, and then some white girl ( a sweetheart really) got to me and was like um .... I'm only going to guess for the white people. And oh ok 馃槀
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SavannahMay22-25, F
We played that TOO, we just didn't have a name for it haha. It would be random. We'd all be bored and someone would just be like "guess where my family came from" and we'd all start guessing. We got chewed out by a teacher though because some girl started crying because nobody believed her when she said she was African and we called her a liar (she was white as hell, but apparently her white parents had actually grown up and met in Africa and then moved to the USA. So they actually WERE from Africa, she just wasn't the type of African we were trying to guess for). So that got shut down for us in first grade
Lucyy22-25, F
@SavannahMay "ah yes, you're THAAAAAT kind of African" lol