Babydiaperedgirl said:
My mother denies this but I remember distinctively coming home from kindergarten and drinking a bottle of chocolate milk while watching a Dinosuar show . Barney or something . I loved it .
As they age and get older, your parents will remember less and less about when you were a child. I have a very good memory in certain areas because I have Autism (which of has mostly been a thorn in my side, as being Autistic in itself already leads to being bullied), and I remember a lot of things from even preschool years or kindergarten. But my mom who is in her 70s, not really that well anymore. My brother who isn't Autistic (40 years old) and is married with a wife and two boys has said to my mom "do you remember this from when I was a child?" and my mom doesn't remember. I've found this to be true of other people's parents as well. For instance, I went to kindergarten in 1981 to 1982 (I'm 45 years old), and one of my best friends I met in kindergarten who is my age (45), wore these light brown (more like burnt orange) T strap Mary Janes when we were both in kindergarten. I remember clearly, but my friend's mom does not remember and those were shoes she bought herself for my friend in 1981! I remember what I wore too as a 3 year old in 1979 as well. I also have old photos. I remember these unicolor burnt orange saddle like tie lace oxfords made by Jumping Jacks Children's Shoes I wore. I have photos to prove it. The thing is, I more vividly remember the shoes (from when I wore them) and pushing my shoes kicking the back of the front seat of our 4 door Ford Fairmont. There are no photos of me doing this, but I vividly remember. My mom doesn't!! I remember the leather creasing too as I kicked the back of the front seat while sitting in back. But remembering what the shoes looked like was much more vivid when I was 6, then when I was, say 22. I guess because at age 6, I hadn't worn the shoes that long before (2 1/2 years prior). I remember these yellow overalls I wore too as a 3 year old. I tend to remember things for a long, long time. Some people with disabilities can have a long memory too. I know this 57 year old lady who has an intellectual disability. Maybe she's like a 10 year old intellectually. The thing though, is, if you don't talk to her for 4 years, she'll pick up from where she left off the last time she talked to you. Her mom and her now deceased dad always told me her memory was incredible. They couldn't even remember that well...
You mentioned about watching Barney. Haha. My mom was fondly remembering I used to love Barney the dinosaur about a year or two ago. The thing about me though, is, I was already in senior year in high school when Barney came out. It was no secret at my high school that I loved Barney, either. Although I was bullied most of my life, I was not in my junior and senior years in high school. In fact, I was well respected and no one even made fun of the fact I loved Barney. I was a student body rep for 2 years (there were maybe 35 reps out of a high school with a little over 900 students), a Homecoming Prince in 12th grade, the school's weatherman, and the year I graduated, I won a most valuable student award. Only 9 or 10 students out of 900+ got that honor. So no one ever bullied me about liking Barney. I watched Barney when I was in community college and university too. And then came Wimzie's House, Arthur, and Teletubbies. I was a big Teletubbies fan in university in 1998 to 2000. I must have watched every Teletubbies episode at one point. I have several Teletubbies backpacks (some of which were only available in the UK or in Australia or New Zealand). I was also a big Maurice Sendak's Little Bear cartoon fan (the one that was shown on Nickelodeon). Pink Panther and Care Bears too. My point is, my mom did remember that I loved Barney. It's interesting that she has fond memories of me liking Barney at age 17 to 21, because that's not usually an age where parents have a fond memory of their child liking Barney. Most parents might remember their child liking Barney at age 4 or 6 or 8, not age 17. But also remember I have Classic Autism and I'm quite developmentally disabled and that even now, emotionally and socially, I am like a 4 1/2 to 5 year old. (Actually it isn't unusual for autistic college graduates to be emotionally and socially like 7 to 11 year olds, by the way). Of course, emotional and social age isn't the same as academic ability. So a lot of Autistic adults go to college. My mom is also strange because she has conflicting feelings about me being like a child. I'm not even technically an adult baby as I don't wear diapers (and probably don't qualify). On one hand, she seems to like this perpetual childhood in one way. On the other hand, she thinks it would be embarassing to be seen with me if I wear longalls (a outfit I absolutely adore that are like dressy overalls that little boys wear in the Deep South like Alabama and Georgia and South Carolina) with T strap shoes. I also now have a bowl haircut. I originally did that for Halloween in 2019 via a children's hairdresser. But because of COVID, now my mom cuts my hair. And all she knows how to cut is ...a bowl haircut. I have read bowl haircuts are coming back into fashion with a vengeance. Maybe because of COVID and people have to get their haircuts at home now? LOL.
I absolutely love long-alls, jon jons, and love T strap shoes.
Not easy to find t strap shoes made by a children's shoe company in my size though (I wear a size 9 men's / 42 European). There are some companies that make T strap shoes for children, in Spain, and Start Rite of England used to make T strap shoes for older boys up to my shoe size back in the 1980s and 1990s. Not anymore though, sadly.
Have a good day.
- longallsboy
