Something wild about me from when I was a child bc I’m in a mood: ok so when I was younger (like 2nd grade) I had very early on accepted the “I’m not like other girls” attitude. I had went to a Jewish day school and though the girls and boys were in the same building, (pretty scandalous, I know) we didn’t have boys in our class. This caused the boy obsession that seeds in “popular girls” to have a very early onset. Because I didn’t feel the same way about boys and had no interest staring out of the second floor window while they had lunch break, it was proof to me that I wasn’t like other girl’s and it wasn’t something I was just imagining. (Oh past me, you are ace and a dumbass)
Anyways enough background. So one day during recess, some of the girls were freaking the fuck out. Even though I wasn’t like other girls, I was still curious so I went over to them to see what was up. Turns out they found a huge ass praying mantis on a leaf and were shrieking their asses off. I was kinda scared of bugs at that age for some reason. I just thought that they were pretty creepy and I didn’t really want anything to do with them. When I saw how lame the other girls looked while freaking out over a bug no bigger than a thumb, I had an epiphany. At that moment in time, I decided I wouldn’t be afraid of bugs anymore.
I stepped into the middle of the shrieking girls and picked up the praying mantis and carried it over to the side where it would be safe. The girls shrieked some more and it was super annoying. Later that day, I went to the school library and checked out a book about bugs. After the first bug incident, I was now the official consultant on bugs. Girls in my class would call me over and ask me what kind of bug they were terrified of at the moment. By the end of the year I had picked up several praying mantises, pincer bugs, grasshoppers, and even two bees.
tl;dr I forced myself to not be afraid of bugs and became the bug girl in second grade and it was solely because I hated the girls in my class.
