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doubleshuffle · 02-20-2020, 04:32 AM

Over on Twitter, I saw people discussing what movie traumatized them as kids. Thought it might be interesting to run an adapted version here.

I'll start, with the caveat that "traumatized" would be putting it a bit strongly. Disturbed might be a better description.

1) The beginning of Winnie-the-Pooh. I had leafed through the book and enjoyed the illustrations before I could read, (and I think my parents may have read one episode or the other to me), so when I finally could read myself I started at the beginning. But I didn't get far, for the idea of Christopher Robin dragging Pooh behind him down the stairs, "bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head" shocked me and put me off the book for years.

2) A book I was given by someone when I was 14, a young adult novel about a teenager who dies in a bike accident, but his best friend, the main character and narrator, believes it may have been a suicide. He recalls in great detail how disgusted with the world his friend had been; and the notions resonated dangerously well with my own. Well, sometimes you get the wrong book at the wrong time...

02-20-2020, 04:32 AM	#1
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	What book traumatized you as a kid? Over on Twitter, I saw people discussing what movie traumatized them as kids. Thought it might be interesting to run an adapted version here. I'll start, with the caveat that "traumatized" would be putting it a bit strongly. Disturbed might be a better description. 1) The beginning of Winnie-the-Pooh. I had leafed through the book and enjoyed the illustrations before I could read, (and I think my parents may have read one episode or the other to me), so when I finally could read myself I started at the beginning. But I didn't get far, for the idea of Christopher Robin dragging Pooh behind him down the stairs, "bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head" shocked me and put me off the book for years. 2) A book I was given by someone when I was 14, a young adult novel about a teenager who dies in a bike accident, but his best friend, the main character and narrator, believes it may have been a suicide. He recalls in great detail how disgusted with the world his friend had been; and the notions resonated dangerously well with my own. Well, sometimes you get the wrong book at the wrong time...