Warm hugs all around.

“Being told no to everything, like going over to a friend’s house.

It got to the point I didn’t bother asking anymore.”

Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet from Modern Family sit in an office. Jesse is in a suit, Eric in a pink striped shirt. Text reads: "Is this kindergarten or The Hunger Games?"

“In kindergarten I would use Swedish words that I picked up from my grandparents.

I couldnt grasp why the other kids didnt understand when I would use these words.

I had no idea it was another language.”

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I’d only ever heard the Arabic word for it up until that point.

[I had] no clue I wasn’t saying the English name."

Or like your own culture/ food at home.

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No one’s just Australian, right?"

u/not_the_chosen_onee

3.

“Moving houses almost every year, trying to find the cheapest place to live.”

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I remember going home thinking their dinner was weird."

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5.

“We regularly ate ‘egg bread’”

6.

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I only realised when my mother left him…"

7.

“Farting out loud and everyone finding it funny”

“I fart a lot.

When I was young Id just rip my farts out loud and no one said anything.

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Then I did it at other peoples and they called me out on it.”

u/BRKenn77

8.

We would find somewhere to curl up and sleep once it hit about 9pm.

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Usually under a table, or in some padded chairs.

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9.

“My family was the only family I knew that regularly hit us as kids”

10.

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“BBQs never involved salad”

11.

“How controlled our food was”

12.

I thought it was NUTS and that their parents must be really rich to afford the power bill."

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u/bl00ph00h00

13.

“My first jobs involved giving all but bus money to help with family.

“When I was young eight and under my house always had a particular smell.

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My house always smelled like weed when my father was around.”

u/Roma_lolly

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18.

“My parents used to make me sleep outside as a punishment…”

19.

A woman with long hair and glasses is speaking, saying: "I mean, once you start overachieving, people expect things from you."

What are some moments from your childhood that you thought were normal but actually weren’t?

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A man in a red bandana and a graphic t-shirt points to a plate of cookies on a table, saying, "Look, it's chocolate chip cookies."

Two people are having a conversation at a restaurant. The text overlay reads, "I'm ready for this now."

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