Like I’ve never been in my life, but it keeps showing up as a theme in movies and video games. What the fuck?

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Yes. 4H camp. It was awful for someone introverted. They make you do stuff you don't want to do, everyday. Constant weird social interactions.

    • Staring at the floor in showers because it was group showers and I didn't want to stare at naked people of the same sex. Still got yelled at because I was accidentally staring into a puddle, I didn't even realize it, and it was reflecting someone who noticed way before I did.

    • Someone almost smacked me across the face with a fishing weight on a line. He was in the bathroom and someone threw it over the stall. They wanted to beat up the person who did it and since I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, they thought it was me. Their friends talked them out of it.

    • Weird dance/social at the end that was super awkward.

    • Forcing someone who never swam before out on a canoe in the middle of a deep lake

    • Talent show that forced people with stage fright onto stage to do humiliating stuff because nobody in my cabin had a talent

    • Everything done as a cabin/group. Sleeping, bathing, eating. It's like being in prison or the army.

    I'd like to say it made me stronger but it didn't really. If anything it set back my development a little bit.

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      2 years ago

      lmao I also went to a 4H camp- I'd think it could even be the same one except that our showers weren't communal.

      I actually really liked it though, except the talent show and dance, those were the fucking worst

    • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I have an intense dislike of communal sleeping. I'm a restless sleeper, I constantly toss and turn and maybe even hum a tune, but being in a place where I'm expected not to be a noisy piece of shit makes it hard for me to sleep.