This is 4 things that confirm my theory that I was a messed up kid. Inspired by AmazingPhil's videos. Enjoy!
1) When I practiced violin, I used to empty out my toy box, arrange my toys in a circle around me, and turn them so that their backs were facing me as I practiced. To this day, I have no idea why.
2) I was in Hawaii one spring break when I was five, and I was swimming in the ocean. When I came back to the beach, my mom told me that I was like Ariel from The Little Mermaid. After that, I became obsessed with trying to become Ariel. Most of it was in my head, but my mom stepped in after I colored my (brown) hair with red Sharpie marker.
3) When I was little, I asked my brother what braces were. He said that they were wires with rubber bands on them that fixed your teeth. I wanted braces because I thought that I could fix my teeth so that they wouldn't get wiggly and fall out. I took tiny white hairbands and slipped them around my teeth, and used some tape from my mom's closet (which I later found out was bra tape) and taped little bits of wire to the bands. It lasted about three hours.
4) I used to cut my teddy bears open, hide stuff inside them, then sew them back up. When I was about 8, my family got a Christmas teddy that played Silent Night when you pressed its nose. My brother terrorized me with it, so I had a great fear of this teddy. One day, I was performing "surgery" and I cut open the Christmas teddy and held the little speaker in my hand and played it. As the music played, I took scissors and repeatedly stabbed it while singing along with the music.
