I was such an avid reader as a kid

I would often get caught reading my fiction books in class when I was supposed to be doing school work. After so many times being caught, the teachers would call my mom, who would then ground me...from reading. 😩

It was so miserable for me!! To have my precious books taken away, even for a week or two, was torture.😞

One good thing it did for me- it caused me to start writing. My grandmother had replaced her electric typewriter with a computer (this was the 80s, people) and gave me the typewriter. I spent the entire summer of 1988 typing stories in my room.

I want to get back into writing. 🤔

Top | Newest First | Oldest First

SW-User

I love this post. I wrote & drew comics in my childhood. Also I spent considerable parts of my summer vacations in the late 90s/early 00s writing short stories on Microsoft Word. Sometimes I would daydream I was a journalist working for a newspaper and come up with imagined weird "news", haha

SW-User

I remember one time reading an entire goosebumps book in a day in like 2nd grade! . Now I bought the green mile back 5 years ago and can’t even get to the middle ..

knapsdad · 46-50, M

Mine was the last class at my high school to learn to type on electric typewriters. They got computers the very next year!

DoubleRings · 51-55, F

I used to teach a kid like that. In 4th grade he was reading the Rise and Fall of Hitler. (That one would never fly nowadays) Never once paid attention to me - he had a stack of books to read always on his desk. However he Aced all his tests. So I let him read. Idk how he did it, but he did. Prob the smartest kid I had ever taught.

View 1 more replies »

DoubleRings · 51-55, F

Yeah you just have to be wary of some kids who read that much bc sometimes it’s a defense mechanism like avoidance. For whatever reason some kids disassociate from the real world or from people by reading. It’s sometimes a red flag. @DearAmbellina2113

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

@DoubleRings well I definitely had a lot to escape from back then. Home life certainly wasn't great.

DoubleRings · 51-55, F

Bingo. @DearAmbellina2113

jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

This was me too. I read anything I could get my hands on, and I was always getting into trouble in class for being distracted by either comics I brought in, choose your own adventure books, or those usman puzzle books.

Never too late to get back into writing. If you've got stories in you, you should let them out, even if it's just for you.

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

I was always an avid reader, and my parents would never have thought o taking books away. But I did get into trouble because I was always drawing in class. But I didn't get punished for that either, maybe because even sitting there drawing I was an A student.

Add a comment...