I also had a rock collection except my dad fully supported this. He'd bring me rocks from work. I even had rocks from different places I had been and kept them in a special box in my room 😂
I didn't have a rock collection, but my brother did and my mom totally supported it! only thing she didn't like about it was how territorial he was about it
So did I! I used to collect them every time I went on holiday but then when we moved house when I was 11 my dad threw them all away and I was very upset
When I was younger I had an imaginary friend, but I was so vague in describing it I scared the heck out of my parents, who thought I was seeing something real. the weird part about my vague description was like I described it as “a man who came in the night, and was tall, dark hair..etc.” My mom ended up asking me a BUNCH of questions until I further explained that he was a spaceman, and not some random guy who was like visiting me in the night, I can’t imagine how much I scared my parents.
I was a weird kid because I used to tell everyone that my house was an actual zoo and that my cats were a lion, tiger, and a cheetah, my dog was a deer, and my horses were a moose and a giraffe. Every time someone rung our landline, I would answer with “Hello, you have reached the Glenmoore Zoo, how can I help you?” I confused the crap out of my grandma and plenty of telemarketers
Reason why I was a weird kid: When I was six or seven, I climbed a small tree in my backyard and began to eat the leaves to see what it would be like to be a caterpillar. The leaves were very bitter but that didn’t stop me, and I now realize that I had climbed an oleander - which are pretty poisonous. Still alive though.
I also ate leaves at some point in my childhood, but that was because some kid told me that lettuce was a leaf, so I ate one thinking it would taste the same.
You’re not alone on the rocks, Phil. I once found a great rock on the playground and wanted to keep it, but I was worried the school would consider it stealing, so I hid this huge rock in my sock, which a teacher obviously noticed and told me to remove. Shame beyond shame.
When my best friend was little she went around with scissors attempting to "cut" gravity (as though gravity is physical strings tying you to the ground) because she thought it would make her fly
I definitely did the salt thing too. One of my slightly less embarrassing stories.. In an effort to get me to eat vegetables, my parents introduced me to vinegar, saying things would taste better if I put vinegar on them. This worked, but also began a childhood-long obsession with vinegar. It got to the point where I would pour it into a spoon, salt it (because vinegar is too sweet obviously), and just drink it from the spoon before returning for more. I even brought it to school with me to have at lunch.
My mom had the exact same obsession when she was a kid. She didn't salt her vinegar, but she said she basically started eating salads as an excuse to consume ungodly amounts of vinegar, especially what was left at the bottom of the bowl after the salad. I was a much simpler child - I just hunted down bouillion cubes ('cause fancy salt) and stashed them in sock drawers and pencil cases. I would nibble on each once, then hide them and never touch them again. Thanks for listening to this TED talk about my family's childhood food obsessions. Did you get over your vinegar obsession btw?
I also had a salt issue when I was younger. The phrase "enough salt to kill a horse" was something my family said to me the most(well, that and "It will get better before you're married). I had to smell any salt that I hadn't tried before. We were on vacation in Wisconsin Dells at a restaurant and I needed to smell the salt before I could eat it to make sure it "was the right kind" and ended up getting it all up my nose and my nose burned for the rest of the week-long vacation. And that was the end of my salt reign.
Reason why I was a weird kid: when I was a nine I - for god knows what strange reason - thought that the idea of greasy things was really appealing (I think it was because I was told that oil is good for your skin and the idea got weirdly warped in my head or something? who knows) and one day my dad asked me where I'd like to go for our family holiday and I suggested Greece... because it sounds the same as grease... I knew barely anything about the country Greece. funny thing is, we actually went. We went on holiday in Greece because I suggested it due to my weird idea of greasy things being appealing. (also I tried to befriend a Greek kid in a playground there but couldn't speak the language so I just made animal noises at them. they responded well and made animal noises back though, so I guess we were both the weird kid there!)
@@humanbean4037 cat noises, dog noises, the usual! I tried to make the sounds “realistic” rather than just saying “meow” or “woof” etc, and the other kid responded by nodding and mirroring the noises back to me. I remember I also tried to do an impression of a guinea pig, which they did not recognise at all haha (that was a favourite impression of mine back then, I actually don’t think it was a bad attempt lol)
I’m not sure if this is me being a weird kid or just me being really stupid, but when I was in primary school (Reception/Year One) it took me two years to realise there was a set of twins in the year above me and not one person who could move really fast. It probably would be taken even longer if one of them hadn’t broken his arm. Thanks for the vid it made me laugh very hard
Dude I did this but with two people who weren't even related. They had the same first name and I didn't actually know either of them very well so I thought they were the same person for a while until I learned their last names and realized one of them was in the same grade as me and not 2 years older 😭
When I was in elementary school I went around the entire art class telling the other kids about my obscure kidney surgery when I was like two and loudly proclaimed that I could "die at any second." They had to call my parents for that one. To this day I have ZERO idea how that came up in conversation.
As a child (around 6 or so) i had decided there was a cup of milk I HAD to keep hidden from the rest of my family. It went past the off stage, and I ended up with a fully solid cup of milk by the end of the 2 or so months. Nobody ever noticed a smell and I got to see what happened so I suppose i can call it a successful science experiment!
I used to think that all of my stuffed animals could talk, they just had to keep it a secret (thanks toy story) and I used to try and set traps for them to try and catch them talking...I would pretend to walk out of the room and say like "man, I could use a juice box, guess I'll go _downstairs_ and get one!" And I'd go stomp on the stairs so they'd think I went down and then I'd sneak back to my room door and try to hear if the were talking 💀
I used to think my pets and stuffed animals were actually humans, sort of like reincarnation. So I always turned them away from me and tried not to act like I knew. Which resulted in some weird situations that would’ve looked hilarious from the outside 😂
my little brother was also a salt obsessed child. once we apparently left him alone when we shouldn’t have, and we found an empty box of salt, and a little mountain of salt on the floor (like it was probably ankle height), and at the tip of the mountain, there was a little lick mark.
I was *really* obsessed with dragons as a kid, and actually fully believed they were real because of the dragonology books and the dragon mockumentary on Animal Planet. It got so intense that I wanted a baby dragon of my own, and I tried to "summon" one. Basically, having seen a bunch of cartoons where something would be summoned with a pentagram and some candles, I drew a pentagram on printer paper, stole some candles from the house, and put them around one of my dragon toys, trying to bring it to life. I didn't really do anything other than wish really really hard that it would come to life. Then my parents walked in to see what I was doing (and probably smelled the candles), only to see their young daughter in her dark room around a makeshift demon circle... Yeah, they were really unimpressed by my explanation being I wanted to bring a toy to life...
The same thing happened! but instead i wanted to summon a fairy so the demonic pentagram was covered in glitter and i used electronic candles since i didnt know how to light real ones. My brother walking in and since he was just a little bit older he only knew it was evil. So i was obviously summoning evil elfs. To cure ourselves, we both ate apples. Lol. Kids are dumb.
Why was this literally me😭😭😭 I still sometimes think I actually have the invisible dragon follow me around as a pet, like I believed when I was a kid. I also leard "dragonese" as a child.
I remember bemoaning not having a dog that could eat my homework when I was a kid. One of my friends at the time told me to "eat it yourself coward", and I, not being the type of person to back down, tore my homework into strips and ate at least half of the paper right then and there. It wasn't great, but I *did* get a bit of that "weird kid respect" for a good few months.
When I was child, one of my friends convinced me that I was a werewolf for over a YEAR. I genuinely believed she had turned me and that I had super senses, and that once I hit puberty I’d be able to transform. I found out I wasn’t actually a werewolf when we were colouring together and I realized I could see the colours of the crayons (I thought wolves were colourblind). I cried lol
My friend convinced me we were mermaids because she had watched H2O. I have vivid memories of us trying to change the temperature of water and waiting for our tails every time we touched water hahaha
For sure my weirdest moment as a kid was when I was 10 and for some reason convinced aliens were gonna abduct me in my sleep. In my mind I rationalized that a tractor beam would also lift my bed into the spaceship, so I started shoving cans of nonperishable food, water bottles, and pen&journal (for scientific findings) underneath my mattress in order to be prepared.
Apparently, I was a very quiet child, and could often sit in silence staring melancholically into the air, to the point where my mum used to wonder where she went wrong. As far as I myself can remember, I had a very happy childhood:')
That was me when I was a kid. To be fair I had parents that lived 2 hours apart so I would look put the window and daydream tjrough the drive. I apparently looked sad/down.....GUESS WHAT I GOT WHEN I HIT MIDDLESCHOOL AND ONWARD? Bouts of Depression and anxiety
My sister recently reminded me of this one: When we were very young we had bunk beds. She was on the bottom bunk one night when a teddy hit the wall will full force across from her, and she heard me ask in terror, "Did you see that???" She became completely convinced that the house was haunted and couldn't sleep that night. It was only when she brought this story up to me the other day that I remembered launching the teddy against the wall and pretending to be terrified just to scare my sister. I really loved making things up as a kid and honestly I still think that was pretty hilarious of me.
I got you beat on the twin one. In elementary (2nd grade) I convinced all my friends that I was a vampire (my aunt introduced me to Twilight) I also told them that my "Twin sister" was the leader of the vampires. They believed me and until middle school I had them complete "tasks" that they had to do for my sister to turn them into vampires as well..... So for 4 years I had a group of 7 tiny children doing random things and running around thinking they were gonna be vampires.
Also, Phil, I used to collect rocks too 😭 Specifically, the super round ones or the crystal-ey white ones. Surprisingly, my dad thought nothing of it. I remember going to his house for the weekend after being at my moms and I’d told him I brought him a rock. It was one of those super round, shiny ones. He just took it and put it in his bedside drawer. He still has it today!!😭 I love that man
When I was in primary school I had a dream of becoming a fairy, so I asked my mom what fairies usually do, and she told me they live in the wild and play magical music. So a few days later I snuck out of the house, flashlight in one hand and my little violin in the other, planning to go to the nearest park to play violin near the trees. I was confident people would believe I was an actual fairy lol. Unfortunately my grandma stopped me before I even left the street so I never found out if I was a convincing magical fairy.
When I lived on Guam I decided to “adopt” a wild praying mantis that lived on a plant in our yard. I named it pincher and would take banana spiders off our house with sticks (they are massive spiders!) and put them on the plant and watch the two little guys duel it out until inevitably the mantis ate the spider. It was really neat but gross to watch
I used to do this with these giant wolf spiders at my grandparents property! Find different bugs around and chuck them into the nest and watch the chaos ensue. Now I'm so unbelievably scared of bugs and I have a hunch that might be connected.
When I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8, I didn't really have friends so I "befriended" the wind. I used to talk to it and thought that when it was mad, it blew stronger. Also, for some reason, the wind was scared of the word pumpkin
When I was a kid I thought everyone deserved hugs (they do) so I used to just walk up to random people on the street and hug them. Needless to say my parents were more than a bit concerned 😂
That's adorable! I have some pretty weird experiences of getting hugs from strangers when I had a rough time at uni and I would love to get unexpected hugs from a random kid in the street
I used to walk over to other families at the beach, sit down and act like they were my family. In hindsight, probably a bit dangerous, but the most active my social life has ever been 🤭
When I was around 4 I kept taking normal rocks from outside my preschool, until one day the teacher asked everyone if anyone had been taking the stones. We all said no and I want home and locked them in a diary box for eight years 😂 I would check on them a lot and genuinely thought I’d be arrested
What a hero. Everybody in our generation wanted to live the Parent Trap twins at camp dream but you Grabbed life by the Beaver and fricken were your own Lindsay Lohan twin. Just like she was. I salute you, Phil. You are cooler than Leon could ever be.
...were you okay if you weren't "weird"? I believe the more normal you are, the more there must be something deeply wrong with you below the surface :p
@@imwastingmytimeonthis677 clearly I was the weird kid :p But seriously, I’ve found people growing up with this expectation of normalcy are at least prone to ending up with all sorts of issues because they’re overly concerned with what others will think of them and how to change themselves to fit in, while the “weird ones“ are a lot happier just being themselves in many regards.
I, too, had a collection of rather innocuous looking rocks. But I took it a step further and brought them to school with me and tried to harness their power to open a portal in the girl’s bathroom. I was 9.
Me and my best friend (of 16 years), as kids, used to steal the shampoo and soap from their parents bathroom and crawl under their house as kids, the house was raised off the ground by like only half a meter so we commando crawled through dirt and spiders and stuff, and made potions out of dirt and soap thinking we were so magical but really we were just getting eaten alive by mosquitos and spiders. The same friend and I used to convince people that we were twins and people believed us! Even though the only similarity was that we both have red hair. We've been watching your videos since we were 11 and have remained really good weirdo friends.
Glad I wasn't the only kid to do the salt thing lol & I also collected just regular rocks! I was such a magpie as a kid, my mum would constantly find random bits of metal or twig or random rocks I liked in my pockets... Also something I remembered the other day (and is more revealing that I was just a very dumb kid rather than a weird one pfft) was I heard from somewhere (or I may have just completely made it up myself lol) that there was a bee that lived under stinging nettles which is why they stung you so me, being a complete numpty, lifted up a stinging nettle one day to try and find this bee and got stung by the leaf in the process lol... Moral of the story is that if something has 'stinging' in it's name, probably don't touch it kids lol
After I learned about the water cycle in like 1st grade, I dug a bunch of massive holes in my backyard and filled them with water from the garden hose because I wanted it to rain, my parents were like WHY DID YOU ALMOST BUST THE WATER PIPES YOU DUG SO DEEP but later they told me they also lowkey thought it was adorable lmao
Phil evolving from a weird kid that collected rocks to a (wonderfully) weird adult with a golden pig obsession is great character development!! (I’m only a few minutes into the video so far and I did the first two things too :D)
i was a weird kid because around 2nd grade, i told everyone that i was a fortune teller and could see peoples futures. they all believed me and wanted me to do it for them, so i told them that if they gave me 10 cents under the tree at recess, i would read their future. word spread and eventually there were lines of kids waiting for me to read their fortunes. i realized after the 3rd day that i was in a little over my head.
I think the salt thing is something most kids do bc I did it and so does my son lol. Weird/creepy story about my son, one day he looks at us and says he has an imaginary friend that he met at the park named Mr.Nobody (keep in mind he was 2 so it's not like he was going to the park by himself). The thing that makes it weird is that his father also had an imaginary friend as a kid named Mr.Nobody. He had never told our son before this o.O
I can relate to being a weird kid. I had a thing for a few years where I insisted on sleeping under our dining room table- no idea why, either 😂 I think my parents just didn't question it.
In preschool I had a personal bodyguard. It was one of the boys who was bit of an outcast and because I was the only one who was kind to him he invited me under the play structure. When I met up with him he told me he was a vampire (why he wears a black hoodie all the time in the sun) and that he'd use his vampire powers to protect me. And I say 'ok' nonchalantly and while I played house or built fairy houses he'd stand above me ontop the play house and watch over me.
When my sister and I were kids we used to treat our bikes like horses, like we would full on take skipping ropes and tie them to the handles and lead our bikes around and hold onto the ropes when riding the bikes. I got a really good balance now but we probably gave a couple grandmas a heart attack when we were riding through the village lmao
As a kid I used to be obsessed with running like a horse, I think more so recreating the galloping sound. I remember a time when my parents took me to the stations of the cross (which is like this religious celebration). It was held outdoors and the ground was in perfect galloping condition: tough, dry dirt. With my best galloping shoes on I simply couldn’t resist this opportunity. So as we moved from each station, in my Sunday best you bet I galloped in front of an entire church. I feel sorry for my parents looking back on it, but I’m sorry for nothing else. Later on in life in year 12 I told my drama class that story and they asked to see my gallop, so for a lesson I was able to to do what I loved as a child and surprisingly I still loved it. Maybe I should give it a try soon.
Question - did you gallop on two legs or four? I always did two legs until I figured out how to do it on four (technically it was more of a cantering motion and I apparently just looked like a deranged monkey but whatever)
When I was like 6 or 7 I fell in love with the leader goose “Akka” in Nils Holgersson LMAO. I literally got butterflies in my stomach every time the goose showed up. I don’t know why, but it somehow just happened. So yeah, my first love may or may not have been an animated goose 🤣
My brother told everyone at his school that we had a pet wolf that we kept tied up in the garden. He told all the kids in his year and the teachers. He was so insistent of this, and mentioned it so often that eventually one of his teachers called my parents to ask if we had a big dog or something. We didn't. He then started telling kids that we live in a castle. This was when he was 12, haha.
I pretended to be a twin too 😭 my "twins" name was Stephanie and for ages I'd tell people at my school that she went to the school in the next town over. They always said they wanted to meet her so I said we would try swap places so I would go to her school and she would come to mine. a few days later I went to school as Stephanie and everyone believed me until someone told the teacher and she blew my cover. I cried infront of everyone and didn't go to school the next day because I was "ill"
when i was a kid i used to eat rocks, because i’d heard that some birds ate rocks to help them break down food and i was convinced it would help my digestion. it probably didn’t.
When I was younger me and my three sisters used to go and sleep in the bushes too, you're not alone! We used to be desperate to last the whole night but, like you, would get scared and go inside, once was in Autumn and, as we live in Scotland, it was not the best plan. It started raining around 3am but we were determined to stay so we did until about 5am when our parents convinced us that we had to come in again. I'm 17 now, there's still time to succeed!!
i also collected rocks, and pencil lead, but i think the weirdest story is when my parents bought me a decorative gourd bc i wanted one and when it rotted i was so worked up that we had to have a "gourd funeral." i had named it gourdy
yo that just reminded me of this time in like grade 2 or 3 when my friend and i were walking in the hall at school and saw some sign-up sheet (don't remember what for) and i said i wanted to sign up--"i wish i had a pencil, or even a tiny piece of .5 lead". my friend then produced from her pocket...a tiny piece of .5 lead. i was so shook and still am.
You've reawakened a weird kid gourd story of my own! I completely forgot about this but in middle school I somehow acquired a hollowed out, dried gourd at an outdoors summer camp and I drew eyes on it and named it "Baby G," I believe, and me and my friends carried it around for at least a day, but possibly more. I think I took it home afterwards and had it in my room for ages.
THE SALT ONE. I FELT IT IN MY SOUL also yes the silly lying was basically my entire childhood. One time I lied to my classmates about being able to run 24 times around my elementary school. I was genuinely convinced they believed me but now, looking back at it, I remember that they used to baby me a lot and treat me as their precious boy so probably they didn’t want to make me sad and acted like they believed me 💀
When I was about 9 I had a very strong obsession with collecting rainwater. I lived in a pretty arid climate at the time so it was thrilling to put buckets around the house and wait for them to fill up. For my birthday that year, I asked for a security camera to watch my buckets fill when I wasn't home. I also asked for a juicer that year. I got the juicer
I collected keys I just found around the house and town. I can't imagine how much business our local key cutter got from young me because of all the missing keys. I still have some that my nan kept for memories.
As a child, I would get scared of very random things. One time I was so scared of a big plant that my parents returned it to the shop because my older brothers kept teasing me about it. Another time, my brother convinced me there were werewolves living in the woods near our camping place. Even though I loved stories about friendly werewolves and vampires as a child, I was too scared to look at windows at night for a week in case a wolf would show up
When I was little, I had a weird habit of picking off and eating a piece of parsley in the produce section whenever my mom would take me shopping. I hated the parsley, but I’d still eat it because it was officially a tradition 😂😂
i had a rock collection, and would periodically line them up in a special order around my room (which i memorised even though there were over forty of them), and named them. the only ones i have left are sam, indiana and corc.
I used to eat under the tables at restaurants because I was so scared of the waiters and other people. Looking back now that was really gross but it must’ve been hilarious for people to see my little hand taking a grilled cheese off a plate on the bench-
Me and two of my friends would pretend to be dogs when we were younger. We would run around on all fours ( and I don’t mean hands and knees, I’m talking hands and feet) barking at each other and pretend our coco puffs was dog food 😵 I was very proud to tell this story at one of their weddings!
When I was a kid I had a weird thing about finding "fun" spots to sleep. I really don't understand why I did this but I would set up beds for myself in the most unusual places which includes but not limited to a coffee table, a bookshelf, a bathtub, and an air conditioner vent that was taken out of the wall. Literally why child me????
Me and my sisters used to have a brick that we called the very original name "Mr Stone" we used to believe that he was magic and that the standard letters and numbers on most bricks were actually a secret code that he was giving us, we would solve 'mysteries' with him I'm pretty sure that he's still in our garden somewhere!!
When I was a child I told my classmates I had a sister (I actually didn't), and when they came over and asked if they could see my sister I panicked and dressed my largest doll into my clothes, and just hoped that it was realistic enough to convince them that it was a real child....... yeah
The story about the twin made me laugh so much and I can totally relate. As a child until I was like 11, I was obsessed with having a twin. It all started because of the Parent Trap movie with Lindsay Lohan and also because my little sister was really mean lol. Never pretended to have a twin tho 🤣 What I did do, was "change" my name because I didn't like my name (Grecia or Greece in Spanish). I choose the name of a Power Ranger (either Cassie or Ashley from Power Rangers in Space). It didn't last long because I got tired of trying to make others call me like that lol.
Most kids have an imaginary friend, but I had an imaginary army called the Gumpsies. We’re talking hundreds of imaginary friends. If I went anywhere, I’d plan how they’d all come with me (airplane, train, boat), and I would work out a full travel plan. My parents tell me I used to ‘fire’ the ones that annoyed me. This was roughly 20 years ago, and my parents still ask how the Gumpsies are doing 😂
When I was in primary school me and my friend personified a pagoda (small wooden hut thing with benches) and we named it Bailey. One day someone told us they were getting rid of "Bailey" so we freaked out and started a protest to protect this hut we thought was sentient and had feelings
Here's one of the reasons why I was a weird kid: When I was younger, I made up this whole fantasy world up in my head. I think it was named Barnaia? But I use to day dream a lot about that world, made tons of characters for that said world. I even imagine some teachers and class mates as fantasy creatures as well as characters in my world. Even got to the point where I imagine the characters I made up, being with me in real life. And it got to a point where I would tell some kids about it, and told one of the teaching assistants about this magical world too. Which then lead to later on I got diagnosed with having aspergers syndrome or now know as just autism and it wasn't just me being a certified weird kid it was the autism as well. But hey its thanks to that imagination of mines is one the reason why I'm am who I am today.
I was a MENACE as a little kid. I liked this boy back in primary school and he loved birds so I LIED about having a bird (a rainbow lorikeet, if you’re curious) and would spend lunchtimes talking to him about our birds. Eventually he told his mum that I was his bird buddy, who than told MY mum one morning while we were waiting outside of our classrooms. My mum told me to tell the truth (keep in mind I’d been keeping up this bird charade for months now) and so I casually strolled up to my classmate and told him I didn’t have a bird. He just kinda stared at me and then walked off and I never spoke to him again. Kai if you’re reading this I’m sorry 😭😭
When I was a kid me and my friend would pretend to be snake hunters at recess. We’d take whatever food we didn’t eat and throw it into a plastic pipe determined a snake lived there. Looking back it definitely was just to drain out water when it rained
I also had a brief but intense rock phase. Minor issue, I found the rocks I liked the most while trekking up mountains, so I filled up my backpack (and on occasion, my parents') with rocks, and then we had to carry them around the whole day. You can see why my parents stopped me.
The story of the garden reminded me of when I was staying with my uncle in Montreal not long ago. He had put me up in a back room with a very hard base mattress on bedsprings, had difficulty getting sleep, not to mention there was this creepy closet next to me and the window wouldn't close properly so it was half open - and I'm listening to something rustling in the bushes and moaning outside in the inky darkness, I just at the time prayed it was a weird raccoon or something - suffice to say I got no sleep.
i don't think i was a weird child, but i was just kinda creepy. From a very young age (4 or 5) i consantly drew a "ghost" or at least that's what i was saying to my mum, when she asked what the heck i was creating. and one time i drew my ghost on the wall, because apparently i said "he wanted me to do that". So you can imagine i had a hard time to find a friends in elementary school. my mum worried that i'm would be alone, so one day i said to her that if i ever feel alone in school i would chopped her head off and i will carried it in my backpack. i swear to god if my child said anything like this i would karate chop them out of existance
I also did the salt thing! It turns out I have sensory issues and sometimes get really understimulated and that was my way of regulating myself so I didn't become an anxious ball of stress. I also desperately wanted to sleep outside so I got a tent and just laid in it in my front yard but I was terrified of the dark so I did it during the day. I also insisted on bringing a sandwich out there with me so I could roleplay like I was actually camping and needed to bring food to survive. My mom was not happy about the prospect of the tent being full of ants.
Omg I used to collect rocks and eat salt too so we’re either both equally weird or we’re not as weird as we think 😂😂 thank you for the laughs today, I needed them :) hope you’re doing well Phil!!!
I used to be so obsessed with wanting to fly as a kid that I'd always flap my arms up and down like wings everywhere I went hoping one day I'd just take off. It never worked :(
I did this too! In kindergarden I jumped from the little chairs flapping my arms. For a while I was convinced I just needed to practice and then someday it would work. I made my friend do it, too.
Same! My favourite book as a child was about a girl who had bird wings instead of arms and even today I still flap my arms like wings whenever I get very excited because the girl did that and I wanted to be like her so badly. I also read a story about how you could unlock your wings if you could kiss your elbow and I was so disappointed that I couldn't kiss my elbows because I wanted the story to be real so badly
I have a bunch of stories of me being a wierd kid but I'll share three I also played with rocks but I'd do things like Rock Hunger Games or Rock Naruto Chunin exams. I did this with pencils or other random small objects too Another thing I did was look up my classmates last names in the phone book and call all the numbers until I found them. I didn't understand why they were creeped out but now that I'm an adult and more mature, I definitely do And the last story I'm gonna share is that any time I had a crush on a girl, I'd loudly announce it to everyone . I remember one girl ended up bursting into tears...I felt super bad and left her alone after that. Another girl i had had crush on just would pull me aside to remind me not to announce it because she was super embarrassed by it. I remember telling her brother that we'd be brothers in the future once i married her. I can still remember his creepedout face...I look back on these moments and cringe super intensely nowadays I was probably one of if not the weirdest kid at my school It's really nice to hear your wierd kid stories as well. I really enjoyed the video and hope you have a great day
I’ve been feeling really down, insecure and low self esteemed atm. Feels like most people would hear this and judge me for being a loser and not putting in effort to fight against these depressing feelings. But in this time wen it’s hard for me to do it by myself, I’m really thankful that I found ur video and u gave me some wholesome entertainment and showed me it’s ok that I’m not ‘as cool as everyone else’. Anybody else feel like it’s hard to b accepted and feel like ur never a part of things?
That feeling is familiar; like you're being excluded and even when you go places, still feeling like you don't belong. I've learned that feelings are just trying to tell us something so that we can address it; nothing to fight nor feel guilty or ashamed of. If everyone else was cool (in the same way) it would mean 'everyone is the same'. You'll be cool to people that share similar values as you. You'll never have to be someone you're not because they already 'know' you and like you. But if you subconsciously think you aren't deserving of that, then you will seek unavailable/incompatible people who can't give you what you need. Look up Thais Gibson: Core wounds/Attatchment Styles If you were a friend of mine, I'd want to understand you, not judge you. Give yourself the same treatment you would a good friend 💞
@@Haley_Halo yeah it’s tough being a good friend to urself sometimes and having ur own back in times like this. And it’s also really tough to find the kinds of people that u r compatible with and r willing to support u in tough times. But I’m hoping to find my way to both of those.
In almost every home video of me and my friends as kids doing some kind of unknown performance (like wrapping blankets around our legs and pretending to be mermaids, putting random liquids in a bowl and creating magic potions or leaving mini cheddars by the tree outside my house for the fairies that definitely lived there) we always do American accents. I live in North West England.
I also had a rock collection except my dad fully supported this. He'd bring me rocks from work. I even had rocks from different places I had been and kept them in a special box in my room 😂
That sounds awesome
That's so wholesome! :-)
I didn't have a rock collection, but my brother did and my mom totally supported it! only thing she didn't like about it was how territorial he was about it
So did I! I used to collect them every time I went on holiday but then when we moved house when I was 11 my dad threw them all away and I was very upset
I also had rock collection. I still has one if I'm honest
i’m so glad this series is back after 8 years and i’m not suprised there’s still more reasons why phil was a weird kid
8 years?! That hurt more than Phil's friends saying they preferred Leon
The 2014 didn’t catch me off guard but this comment of 8 years fully punched me in the face with realisation
@@user-fd8ct8uq3b LITERALLY
2014 was EIGHT YEARS AGO???
oh my god we're all dying
I love how most parents are begging their kids to have a pet rock instead of a real pet like a hamster but for Phil it was the other way round
When I was younger I had an imaginary friend, but I was so vague in describing it I scared the heck out of my parents, who thought I was seeing something real. the weird part about my vague description was like I described it as “a man who came in the night, and was tall, dark hair..etc.” My mom ended up asking me a BUNCH of questions until I further explained that he was a spaceman, and not some random guy who was like visiting me in the night, I can’t imagine how much I scared my parents.
ur mom has PASSED the horror movie mom test lol, good on her for actually talking to u about it and not just shrugging it off haha
The Leon story... That hurt me straight in the heart, how do you even recover from that
Maybe the kid knew it was really Phil and he was just playing along
@@prayingmantis8148 which is still very embarrassing 😂
@@prayingmantis8148 omg that would be so savage - what if the kid was testing Phil to see if he'd react
How many times does Phil have to convince us he was a rather strange child.
I think we'd know that even without these videos just looking at Phil now
GAGAGAGAGAGA!!! I want to cut my toenails... NEVER! I am the feet UA-camr. Thanks for being a fan, dear bla
@@AxxLAfriku I am not a fan. Never will be. Leave me alone.
He's not convincing us, he's just giving us the full details. Are you saying you haven't been waiting your whole life to hear the story of Leon?
Sweet strange Gay Emo Weirdo Kiddo💜
Phil's parents realized he needed a connection with something alive. Also the twin story is relatable, kids really do just be lying
Same vibes as when a kid at a camp pretended she was British for literally no reason, and actually tricked a lot of people.
I remember once I came up with this whole fairy society that I tried to convince my mom was living in the bushes in our front garden.
@@dasha_ucko I literally told everyone I was actually from Ireland when I was younger
@@brett8259 When I was like 5 I tried to convince my teacher I was Theodore Roosevelt, and I really thought I was...
@Taplo Ghost why him tho?
i feel like phil would be that slightly too quirky kid your parents were never quite okay with you being friends with
phil was the quirked up white boy who busted it down sexual style. dunno if he was goated with the sauce though😔
I was a weird kid because I used to tell everyone that my house was an actual zoo and that my cats were a lion, tiger, and a cheetah, my dog was a deer, and my horses were a moose and a giraffe. Every time someone rung our landline, I would answer with “Hello, you have reached the Glenmoore Zoo, how can I help you?” I confused the crap out of my grandma and plenty of telemarketers
That’s honestly hilarious
Reason why I was a weird kid: When I was six or seven, I climbed a small tree in my backyard and began to eat the leaves to see what it would be like to be a caterpillar. The leaves were very bitter but that didn’t stop me, and I now realize that I had climbed an oleander - which are pretty poisonous. Still alive though.
Caterpillars can probably stomach a little bit of poison.. :)
:O your dreams are true my frend X3
I was two and I found a snail in the yard and my parents tried to rescue it when they heard crunching. I tried to eat it.
I also ate leaves at some point in my childhood, but that was because some kid told me that lettuce was a leaf, so I ate one thinking it would taste the same.
I went around with my friend eating random plants and we'd look at each other say "well if we die, at least we die together"
You’re not alone on the rocks, Phil. I once found a great rock on the playground and wanted to keep it, but I was worried the school would consider it stealing, so I hid this huge rock in my sock, which a teacher obviously noticed and told me to remove. Shame beyond shame.
omg speaking of socks my school uniform would never have pockets for some reason so i used to just store stuff in my socks lmao
I would collect a bunch and set up a "rock store" on the playground! It was a very illicit operation!
My school had a policy of not picking up rocks and stick cause idk we might throw them at each other? Anyway I became an expert smuggler
HOW did you think that would work hahahaha
When my best friend was little she went around with scissors attempting to "cut" gravity (as though gravity is physical strings tying you to the ground) because she thought it would make her fly
Omg this is so sweet!😍
I love that
That's amazing
Even when the world is falling apart, we can count on Phil Lester to be a constant, reassuring ray of sunshine
Got me through some tough times in my 27 years on earth
I definitely did the salt thing too.
One of my slightly less embarrassing stories.. In an effort to get me to eat vegetables, my parents introduced me to vinegar, saying things would taste better if I put vinegar on them. This worked, but also began a childhood-long obsession with vinegar. It got to the point where I would pour it into a spoon, salt it (because vinegar is too sweet obviously), and just drink it from the spoon before returning for more. I even brought it to school with me to have at lunch.
My mom had the exact same obsession when she was a kid. She didn't salt her vinegar, but she said she basically started eating salads as an excuse to consume ungodly amounts of vinegar, especially what was left at the bottom of the bowl after the salad.
I was a much simpler child - I just hunted down bouillion cubes ('cause fancy salt) and stashed them in sock drawers and pencil cases. I would nibble on each once, then hide them and never touch them again.
Thanks for listening to this TED talk about my family's childhood food obsessions. Did you get over your vinegar obsession btw?
I also had a salt issue when I was younger. The phrase "enough salt to kill a horse" was something my family said to me the most(well, that and "It will get better before you're married).
I had to smell any salt that I hadn't tried before. We were on vacation in Wisconsin Dells at a restaurant and I needed to smell the salt before I could eat it to make sure it "was the right kind" and ended up getting it all up my nose and my nose burned for the rest of the week-long vacation.
And that was the end of my salt reign.
The incredible drive of this man to just go and do whatever crossed his mind, I was a weird kid too, but too shy to do anything at all 😂
Reason why I was a weird kid: when I was a nine I - for god knows what strange reason - thought that the idea of greasy things was really appealing (I think it was because I was told that oil is good for your skin and the idea got weirdly warped in my head or something? who knows) and one day my dad asked me where I'd like to go for our family holiday and I suggested Greece... because it sounds the same as grease... I knew barely anything about the country Greece. funny thing is, we actually went. We went on holiday in Greece because I suggested it due to my weird idea of greasy things being appealing.
(also I tried to befriend a Greek kid in a playground there but couldn't speak the language so I just made animal noises at them. they responded well and made animal noises back though, so I guess we were both the weird kid there!)
That's oddly specific and something Phil-like I love this community 😅
HAHAHAHAHAHA OMG I CAN'T, GREECE
What animals? Were the noises similar to the ones you’d say in Greece then? This is fascinating
@@humanbean4037 cat noises, dog noises, the usual! I tried to make the sounds “realistic” rather than just saying “meow” or “woof” etc, and the other kid responded by nodding and mirroring the noises back to me. I remember I also tried to do an impression of a guinea pig, which they did not recognise at all haha (that was a favourite impression of mine back then, I actually don’t think it was a bad attempt lol)
@@marshmallowkitty946 ah smart! Honestly I don’t know what a guinea pig sounds like either haha
Maybe they didn’t have one
I’m not sure if this is me being a weird kid or just me being really stupid, but when I was in primary school (Reception/Year One) it took me two years to realise there was a set of twins in the year above me and not one person who could move really fast. It probably would be taken even longer if one of them hadn’t broken his arm. Thanks for the vid it made me laugh very hard
Dude I did this but with two people who weren't even related. They had the same first name and I didn't actually know either of them very well so I thought they were the same person for a while until I learned their last names and realized one of them was in the same grade as me and not 2 years older 😭
Banana Cat pfffft
When I was in elementary school I went around the entire art class telling the other kids about my obscure kidney surgery when I was like two and loudly proclaimed that I could "die at any second." They had to call my parents for that one. To this day I have ZERO idea how that came up in conversation.
As a child (around 6 or so) i had decided there was a cup of milk I HAD to keep hidden from the rest of my family. It went past the off stage, and I ended up with a fully solid cup of milk by the end of the 2 or so months. Nobody ever noticed a smell and I got to see what happened so I suppose i can call it a successful science experiment!
I used to think that all of my stuffed animals could talk, they just had to keep it a secret (thanks toy story) and I used to try and set traps for them to try and catch them talking...I would pretend to walk out of the room and say like "man, I could use a juice box, guess I'll go _downstairs_ and get one!" And I'd go stomp on the stairs so they'd think I went down and then I'd sneak back to my room door and try to hear if the were talking 💀
I used to think my pets and stuffed animals were actually humans, sort of like reincarnation. So I always turned them away from me and tried not to act like I knew. Which resulted in some weird situations that would’ve looked hilarious from the outside 😂
LMFAO THIS IS SO FUNNY
Oh my god, I used to do the exact same thing and totally forgot about it until i read this comment 😂
Hahaha I did this same exact thing as a kid!!
my little brother was also a salt obsessed child. once we apparently left him alone when we shouldn’t have, and we found an empty box of salt, and a little mountain of salt on the floor (like it was probably ankle height), and at the tip of the mountain, there was a little lick mark.
At least there was a mountain I was so concerned the kid just ate all the salt and it was gonna just end with empty box of salt.
@@SamDeFalcon oh god he would’ve shrivelled up from the salt like an oversized slug
I was *really* obsessed with dragons as a kid, and actually fully believed they were real because of the dragonology books and the dragon mockumentary on Animal Planet. It got so intense that I wanted a baby dragon of my own, and I tried to "summon" one. Basically, having seen a bunch of cartoons where something would be summoned with a pentagram and some candles, I drew a pentagram on printer paper, stole some candles from the house, and put them around one of my dragon toys, trying to bring it to life. I didn't really do anything other than wish really really hard that it would come to life. Then my parents walked in to see what I was doing (and probably smelled the candles), only to see their young daughter in her dark room around a makeshift demon circle...
Yeah, they were really unimpressed by my explanation being I wanted to bring a toy to life...
The same thing happened! but instead i wanted to summon a fairy so the demonic pentagram was covered in glitter and i used electronic candles since i didnt know how to light real ones. My brother walking in and since he was just a little bit older he only knew it was evil. So i was obviously summoning evil elfs. To cure ourselves, we both ate apples. Lol. Kids are dumb.
Why was this literally me😭😭😭 I still sometimes think I actually have the invisible dragon follow me around as a pet, like I believed when I was a kid. I also leard "dragonese" as a child.
I did that too but with a mermaid doll after watching Life-Size
the dragonology books OWNED me for YEARS i was so obsessed! i feel u
OH SAME! Dragonology books, that documentary, and a somewhat unknown dragonbook caused me to actually ask my mom if we could get a dragon
I remember bemoaning not having a dog that could eat my homework when I was a kid. One of my friends at the time told me to "eat it yourself coward", and I, not being the type of person to back down, tore my homework into strips and ate at least half of the paper right then and there. It wasn't great, but I *did* get a bit of that "weird kid respect" for a good few months.
😂😂😂
When I was child, one of my friends convinced me that I was a werewolf for over a YEAR. I genuinely believed she had turned me and that I had super senses, and that once I hit puberty I’d be able to transform.
I found out I wasn’t actually a werewolf when we were colouring together and I realized I could see the colours of the crayons (I thought wolves were colourblind). I cried lol
My friend convinced me we were mermaids because she had watched H2O. I have vivid memories of us trying to change the temperature of water and waiting for our tails every time we touched water hahaha
For sure my weirdest moment as a kid was when I was 10 and for some reason convinced aliens were gonna abduct me in my sleep. In my mind I rationalized that a tractor beam would also lift my bed into the spaceship, so I started shoving cans of nonperishable food, water bottles, and pen&journal (for scientific findings) underneath my mattress in order to be prepared.
hahaha it must have been so weird when your parents found them
Aha I had a similar thinng and it lasted for almost a year where I was terrified
All after watching Mars Attacks....
Apparently, I was a very quiet child, and could often sit in silence staring melancholically into the air, to the point where my mum used to wonder where she went wrong. As far as I myself can remember, I had a very happy childhood:')
That was me when I was a kid. To be fair I had parents that lived 2 hours apart so I would look put the window and daydream tjrough the drive. I apparently looked sad/down.....GUESS WHAT I GOT WHEN I HIT MIDDLESCHOOL AND ONWARD?
Bouts of Depression and anxiety
Oh man, that me still to this day. People often wonder what's wrong with me.
My sister recently reminded me of this one: When we were very young we had bunk beds. She was on the bottom bunk one night when a teddy hit the wall will full force across from her, and she heard me ask in terror, "Did you see that???" She became completely convinced that the house was haunted and couldn't sleep that night. It was only when she brought this story up to me the other day that I remembered launching the teddy against the wall and pretending to be terrified just to scare my sister. I really loved making things up as a kid and honestly I still think that was pretty hilarious of me.
I got you beat on the twin one. In elementary (2nd grade) I convinced all my friends that I was a vampire (my aunt introduced me to Twilight) I also told them that my "Twin sister" was the leader of the vampires. They believed me and until middle school I had them complete "tasks" that they had to do for my sister to turn them into vampires as well..... So for 4 years I had a group of 7 tiny children doing random things and running around thinking they were gonna be vampires.
Also, Phil, I used to collect rocks too 😭 Specifically, the super round ones or the crystal-ey white ones. Surprisingly, my dad thought nothing of it. I remember going to his house for the weekend after being at my moms and I’d told him I brought him a rock. It was one of those super round, shiny ones. He just took it and put it in his bedside drawer. He still has it today!!😭 I love that man
The return of the best series on UA-cam... There is still hope in the world
Second best... I'm still waiting for dab and Evans wedding 🤧
@@Sophs06 well it's 2022... If there was ever a time to do it
When I was in primary school I had a dream of becoming a fairy, so I asked my mom what fairies usually do, and she told me they live in the wild and play magical music. So a few days later I snuck out of the house, flashlight in one hand and my little violin in the other, planning to go to the nearest park to play violin near the trees. I was confident people would believe I was an actual fairy lol. Unfortunately my grandma stopped me before I even left the street so I never found out if I was a convincing magical fairy.
When I lived on Guam I decided to “adopt” a wild praying mantis that lived on a plant in our yard. I named it pincher and would take banana spiders off our house with sticks (they are massive spiders!) and put them on the plant and watch the two little guys duel it out until inevitably the mantis ate the spider. It was really neat but gross to watch
I love praying mantises
I used to do this with these giant wolf spiders at my grandparents property! Find different bugs around and chuck them into the nest and watch the chaos ensue. Now I'm so unbelievably scared of bugs and I have a hunch that might be connected.
I also "adopted" a praying mantis as a kid! I named her Elsa lol she was a great little pet
Banana spiders are terrifying omg
@@sachab6098 I love spiders :’(
Love this coming back! I would love to see another “things I thought were true but are actually not true” 🤣♥️
When I was a kid, maybe 7 or 8, I didn't really have friends so I "befriended" the wind. I used to talk to it and thought that when it was mad, it blew stronger. Also, for some reason, the wind was scared of the word pumpkin
When I was a kid I thought everyone deserved hugs (they do) so I used to just walk up to random people on the street and hug them. Needless to say my parents were more than a bit concerned 😂
That's adorable! I have some pretty weird experiences of getting hugs from strangers when I had a rough time at uni and I would love to get unexpected hugs from a random kid in the street
I would talk to anyone and anything that would listen to me. Id rather have been the kid who hugs everyone tho
I used to walk over to other families at the beach, sit down and act like they were my family. In hindsight, probably a bit dangerous, but the most active my social life has ever been 🤭
that is so cute omg 😭😭
"I never had more than one lick a week" 😂😂😂 I'm glad I wasn't the only salt-licker out there.
only one a week tho?? i would have several each day
Fellow salt-lickers unite!! We all secretly shared the same affinity for salt as deer 🦌
i actually just ate some salt before watching this video
It’s just so tempting
TBH I still do this with cinnamon sugar or vanilla sugar when I bake :D
When I was around 4 I kept taking normal rocks from outside my preschool, until one day the teacher asked everyone if anyone had been taking the stones. We all said no and I want home and locked them in a diary box for eight years 😂 I would check on them a lot and genuinely thought I’d be arrested
this is so fucking funny lmao
Please tell me you didn't live with the shame of being a child criminal for 8 years 😂
ARRESTED! 😭😂 In the juvie for rock theft 👮
@@xaigoart omg I lived in shame for years bc I stole gem stones from a museum gift shop
I can’t believe you brought this series back and I didn’t know how much I missed it 😊
What a hero. Everybody in our generation wanted to live the Parent Trap twins at camp dream but you Grabbed life by the Beaver and fricken were your own Lindsay Lohan twin. Just like she was. I salute you, Phil. You are cooler than Leon could ever be.
the fact that there is 4 installments of this series...were you okay Phil? 😂💜
...were you okay if you weren't "weird"? I believe the more normal you are, the more there must be something deeply wrong with you below the surface :p
@@jdatlas4668 why do you think so? [I’m just curious]
@@imwastingmytimeonthis677 clearly I was the weird kid :p
But seriously, I’ve found people growing up with this expectation of normalcy are at least prone to ending up with all sorts of issues because they’re overly concerned with what others will think of them and how to change themselves to fit in, while the “weird ones“ are a lot happier just being themselves in many regards.
I, too, had a collection of rather innocuous looking rocks. But I took it a step further and brought them to school with me and tried to harness their power to open a portal in the girl’s bathroom. I was 9.
How many UA-camrs can say their childhood has provided content for almost 15 years :') the gift that keeps on giving
Me and my best friend (of 16 years), as kids, used to steal the shampoo and soap from their parents bathroom and crawl under their house as kids, the house was raised off the ground by like only half a meter so we commando crawled through dirt and spiders and stuff, and made potions out of dirt and soap thinking we were so magical but really we were just getting eaten alive by mosquitos and spiders. The same friend and I used to convince people that we were twins and people believed us! Even though the only similarity was that we both have red hair. We've been watching your videos since we were 11 and have remained really good weirdo friends.
Glad I wasn't the only kid to do the salt thing lol & I also collected just regular rocks! I was such a magpie as a kid, my mum would constantly find random bits of metal or twig or random rocks I liked in my pockets...
Also something I remembered the other day (and is more revealing that I was just a very dumb kid rather than a weird one pfft) was I heard from somewhere (or I may have just completely made it up myself lol) that there was a bee that lived under stinging nettles which is why they stung you so me, being a complete numpty, lifted up a stinging nettle one day to try and find this bee and got stung by the leaf in the process lol... Moral of the story is that if something has 'stinging' in it's name, probably don't touch it kids lol
When I was little I was convinced that pins and needles was caused by drinking too many fizzy drinks, I used to call it fizzy blood 😂
I've never associated those Two things with eachother but they feel exactly the same!
@@prayingmantis8148 they really do! 😂
After I learned about the water cycle in like 1st grade, I dug a bunch of massive holes in my backyard and filled them with water from the garden hose because I wanted it to rain, my parents were like WHY DID YOU ALMOST BUST THE WATER PIPES YOU DUG SO DEEP but later they told me they also lowkey thought it was adorable lmao
Phil evolving from a weird kid that collected rocks to a (wonderfully) weird adult with a golden pig obsession is great character development!!
(I’m only a few minutes into the video so far and I did the first two things too :D)
i was a weird kid because around 2nd grade, i told everyone that i was a fortune teller and could see peoples futures. they all believed me and wanted me to do it for them, so i told them that if they gave me 10 cents under the tree at recess, i would read their future. word spread and eventually there were lines of kids waiting for me to read their fortunes. i realized after the 3rd day that i was in a little over my head.
I think the salt thing is something most kids do bc I did it and so does my son lol. Weird/creepy story about my son, one day he looks at us and says he has an imaginary friend that he met at the park named Mr.Nobody (keep in mind he was 2 so it's not like he was going to the park by himself). The thing that makes it weird is that his father also had an imaginary friend as a kid named Mr.Nobody. He had never told our son before this o.O
I had an imaginary friend called Felily 😅
I can relate to being a weird kid. I had a thing for a few years where I insisted on sleeping under our dining room table- no idea why, either 😂 I think my parents just didn't question it.
A perfect shelter
In preschool I had a personal bodyguard. It was one of the boys who was bit of an outcast and because I was the only one who was kind to him he invited me under the play structure. When I met up with him he told me he was a vampire (why he wears a black hoodie all the time in the sun) and that he'd use his vampire powers to protect me. And I say 'ok' nonchalantly and while I played house or built fairy houses he'd stand above me ontop the play house and watch over me.
When my sister and I were kids we used to treat our bikes like horses, like we would full on take skipping ropes and tie them to the handles and lead our bikes around and hold onto the ropes when riding the bikes. I got a really good balance now but we probably gave a couple grandmas a heart attack when we were riding through the village lmao
Oh my gosh I thought I was the only one who did that!!! It was so fun but defiantly dangerous looking back on it!
@@HilaryLudkin-Finnie oh my god I cant believe we weren’t the only ones thank god
Lol I did this too though it was bare back so no harness
Wow it's nice to hear there are others who have done that too, I used to do that with my friend!
As a kid I used to be obsessed with running like a horse, I think more so recreating the galloping sound. I remember a time when my parents took me to the stations of the cross (which is like this religious celebration). It was held outdoors and the ground was in perfect galloping condition: tough, dry dirt. With my best galloping shoes on I simply couldn’t resist this opportunity. So as we moved from each station, in my Sunday best you bet I galloped in front of an entire church. I feel sorry for my parents looking back on it, but I’m sorry for nothing else.
Later on in life in year 12 I told my drama class that story and they asked to see my gallop, so for a lesson I was able to to do what I loved as a child and surprisingly I still loved it. Maybe I should give it a try soon.
Question - did you gallop on two legs or four? I always did two legs until I figured out how to do it on four (technically it was more of a cantering motion and I apparently just looked like a deranged monkey but whatever)
My favorite Phil series is back?! now I just have to wait here for "Things I thought were true that are not true" and "Sleepless Night with Phil"
When I was like 6 or 7 I fell in love with the leader goose “Akka” in Nils Holgersson LMAO. I literally got butterflies in my stomach every time the goose showed up. I don’t know why, but it somehow just happened. So yeah, my first love may or may not have been an animated goose 🤣
My brother told everyone at his school that we had a pet wolf that we kept tied up in the garden. He told all the kids in his year and the teachers. He was so insistent of this, and mentioned it so often that eventually one of his teachers called my parents to ask if we had a big dog or something.
We didn't.
He then started telling kids that we live in a castle. This was when he was 12, haha.
I pretended to be a twin too 😭 my "twins" name was Stephanie and for ages I'd tell people at my school that she went to the school in the next town over. They always said they wanted to meet her so I said we would try swap places so I would go to her school and she would come to mine. a few days later I went to school as Stephanie and everyone believed me until someone told the teacher and she blew my cover. I cried infront of everyone and didn't go to school the next day because I was "ill"
when i was a kid i used to eat rocks, because i’d heard that some birds ate rocks to help them break down food and i was convinced it would help my digestion. it probably didn’t.
When I was younger me and my three sisters used to go and sleep in the bushes too, you're not alone! We used to be desperate to last the whole night but, like you, would get scared and go inside, once was in Autumn and, as we live in Scotland, it was not the best plan. It started raining around 3am but we were determined to stay so we did until about 5am when our parents convinced us that we had to come in again. I'm 17 now, there's still time to succeed!!
i also collected rocks, and pencil lead, but i think the weirdest story is when my parents bought me a decorative gourd bc i wanted one and when it rotted i was so worked up that we had to have a "gourd funeral." i had named it gourdy
yo that just reminded me of this time in like grade 2 or 3 when my friend and i were walking in the hall at school and saw some sign-up sheet (don't remember what for) and i said i wanted to sign up--"i wish i had a pencil, or even a tiny piece of .5 lead". my friend then produced from her pocket...a tiny piece of .5 lead. i was so shook and still am.
They’re just little guys
A GOURD FUNERAL
You've reawakened a weird kid gourd story of my own! I completely forgot about this but in middle school I somehow acquired a hollowed out, dried gourd at an outdoors summer camp and I drew eyes on it and named it "Baby G," I believe, and me and my friends carried it around for at least a day, but possibly more. I think I took it home afterwards and had it in my room for ages.
THE SALT ONE. I FELT IT IN MY SOUL
also yes the silly lying was basically my entire childhood. One time I lied to my classmates about being able to run 24 times around my elementary school. I was genuinely convinced they believed me but now, looking back at it, I remember that they used to baby me a lot and treat me as their precious boy so probably they didn’t want to make me sad and acted like they believed me 💀
When I was about 9 I had a very strong obsession with collecting rainwater. I lived in a pretty arid climate at the time so it was thrilling to put buckets around the house and wait for them to fill up. For my birthday that year, I asked for a security camera to watch my buckets fill when I wasn't home. I also asked for a juicer that year. I got the juicer
I collected keys I just found around the house and town. I can't imagine how much business our local key cutter got from young me because of all the missing keys. I still have some that my nan kept for memories.
This videos always help me feel less weird, its very soothing! Thanks for always being a safe space 🖤
I never thought I would see this series again! I love Phil’s strange brain
As a child, I would get scared of very random things. One time I was so scared of a big plant that my parents returned it to the shop because my older brothers kept teasing me about it. Another time, my brother convinced me there were werewolves living in the woods near our camping place. Even though I loved stories about friendly werewolves and vampires as a child, I was too scared to look at windows at night for a week in case a wolf would show up
When I was little, I had a weird habit of picking off and eating a piece of parsley in the produce section whenever my mom would take me shopping. I hated the parsley, but I’d still eat it because it was officially a tradition 😂😂
It's comforting to know someone was weirder than me as a child 😌 Thank you for your service Philly
i missed this series so much. i feel like a parent seeing their long lost child🥲
i had a rock collection, and would periodically line them up in a special order around my room (which i memorised even though there were over forty of them), and named them. the only ones i have left are sam, indiana and corc.
I used to eat under the tables at restaurants because I was so scared of the waiters and other people. Looking back now that was really gross but it must’ve been hilarious for people to see my little hand taking a grilled cheese off a plate on the bench-
Me and two of my friends would pretend to be dogs when we were younger. We would run around on all fours ( and I don’t mean hands and knees, I’m talking hands and feet) barking at each other and pretend our coco puffs was dog food 😵 I was very proud to tell this story at one of their weddings!
When I was a kid I had a weird thing about finding "fun" spots to sleep. I really don't understand why I did this but I would set up beds for myself in the most unusual places which includes but not limited to a coffee table, a bookshelf, a bathtub, and an air conditioner vent that was taken out of the wall. Literally why child me????
Me and my sisters used to have a brick that we called the very original name "Mr Stone" we used to believe that he was magic and that the standard letters and numbers on most bricks were actually a secret code that he was giving us, we would solve 'mysteries' with him
I'm pretty sure that he's still in our garden somewhere!!
Knowing Phil's first draw was Snorunt makes me happy as I love the little guy a lot.
When I was a child I told my classmates I had a sister (I actually didn't), and when they came over and asked if they could see my sister I panicked and dressed my largest doll into my clothes, and just hoped that it was realistic enough to convince them that it was a real child....... yeah
The story about the twin made me laugh so much and I can totally relate. As a child until I was like 11, I was obsessed with having a twin. It all started because of the Parent Trap movie with Lindsay Lohan and also because my little sister was really mean lol. Never pretended to have a twin tho 🤣
What I did do, was "change" my name because I didn't like my name (Grecia or Greece in Spanish). I choose the name of a Power Ranger (either Cassie or Ashley from Power Rangers in Space). It didn't last long because I got tired of trying to make others call me like that lol.
The twin story was hilarious. I also wished I were a twin at some point, but I never did anything like that because I was not that weird.
Most kids have an imaginary friend, but I had an imaginary army called the Gumpsies. We’re talking hundreds of imaginary friends. If I went anywhere, I’d plan how they’d all come with me (airplane, train, boat), and I would work out a full travel plan. My parents tell me I used to ‘fire’ the ones that annoyed me. This was roughly 20 years ago, and my parents still ask how the Gumpsies are doing 😂
I love this so much! 😂
When I was in primary school me and my friend personified a pagoda (small wooden hut thing with benches) and we named it Bailey. One day someone told us they were getting rid of "Bailey" so we freaked out and started a protest to protect this hut we thought was sentient and had feelings
i'm glad to see a return of this series!! i loved it as a kid
Something about that emoji fascinates me.
Here's one of the reasons why I was a weird kid:
When I was younger, I made up this whole fantasy world up in my head. I think it was named Barnaia?
But I use to day dream a lot about that world, made tons of characters for that said world. I even imagine some teachers and class mates as fantasy creatures as well as characters in my world.
Even got to the point where I imagine the characters I made up, being with me in real life. And it got to a point where I would tell some kids about it, and told one of the teaching assistants about this magical world too.
Which then lead to later on I got diagnosed with having aspergers syndrome or now know as just autism and it wasn't just me being a certified weird kid it was the autism as well.
But hey its thanks to that imagination of mines is one the reason why I'm am who I am today.
Phil will never lose the ability to make me laugh out loud
I was a MENACE as a little kid. I liked this boy back in primary school and he loved birds so I LIED about having a bird (a rainbow lorikeet, if you’re curious) and would spend lunchtimes talking to him about our birds. Eventually he told his mum that I was his bird buddy, who than told MY mum one morning while we were waiting outside of our classrooms. My mum told me to tell the truth (keep in mind I’d been keeping up this bird charade for months now) and so I casually strolled up to my classmate and told him I didn’t have a bird. He just kinda stared at me and then walked off and I never spoke to him again. Kai if you’re reading this I’m sorry 😭😭
So let me get this straight- you went from having a bunch of pet rocks to breeding hamsters…
When I was a kid me and my friend would pretend to be snake hunters at recess. We’d take whatever food we didn’t eat and throw it into a plastic pipe determined a snake lived there. Looking back it definitely was just to drain out water when it rained
I also had a brief but intense rock phase. Minor issue, I found the rocks I liked the most while trekking up mountains, so I filled up my backpack (and on occasion, my parents') with rocks, and then we had to carry them around the whole day. You can see why my parents stopped me.
The story of the garden reminded me of when I was staying with my uncle in Montreal not long ago. He had put me up in a back room with a very hard base mattress on bedsprings, had difficulty getting sleep, not to mention there was this creepy closet next to me and the window wouldn't close properly so it was half open - and I'm listening to something rustling in the bushes and moaning outside in the inky darkness, I just at the time prayed it was a weird raccoon or something - suffice to say I got no sleep.
i don't think i was a weird child, but i was just kinda creepy. From a very young age (4 or 5) i consantly drew a "ghost" or at least that's what i was saying to my mum, when she asked what the heck i was creating. and one time i drew my ghost on the wall, because apparently i said "he wanted me to do that". So you can imagine i had a hard time to find a friends in elementary school. my mum worried that i'm would be alone, so one day i said to her that if i ever feel alone in school i would chopped her head off and i will carried it in my backpack. i swear to god if my child said anything like this i would karate chop them out of existance
Finally! I love your fun story time themed videos like this!
I had a pinecone collection. Idk why, they were all pretty much the same.
I also did the salt thing! It turns out I have sensory issues and sometimes get really understimulated and that was my way of regulating myself so I didn't become an anxious ball of stress. I also desperately wanted to sleep outside so I got a tent and just laid in it in my front yard but I was terrified of the dark so I did it during the day. I also insisted on bringing a sandwich out there with me so I could roleplay like I was actually camping and needed to bring food to survive. My mom was not happy about the prospect of the tent being full of ants.
Omg I used to collect rocks and eat salt too so we’re either both equally weird or we’re not as weird as we think 😂😂 thank you for the laughs today, I needed them :) hope you’re doing well Phil!!!
these videos were CLASSIC i’m so happy it’s back
I used to be so obsessed with wanting to fly as a kid that I'd always flap my arms up and down like wings everywhere I went hoping one day I'd just take off. It never worked :(
I did this too! In kindergarden I jumped from the little chairs flapping my arms. For a while I was convinced I just needed to practice and then someday it would work. I made my friend do it, too.
Same! My favourite book as a child was about a girl who had bird wings instead of arms and even today I still flap my arms like wings whenever I get very excited because the girl did that and I wanted to be like her so badly. I also read a story about how you could unlock your wings if you could kiss your elbow and I was so disappointed that I couldn't kiss my elbows because I wanted the story to be real so badly
Dear God, the editing in this video is so frickin hilarious! I'm in tears. Well done Phil and Leon!
I have a bunch of stories of me being a wierd kid but I'll share three
I also played with rocks but I'd do things like Rock Hunger Games or Rock Naruto Chunin exams. I did this with pencils or other random small objects too
Another thing I did was look up my classmates last names in the phone book and call all the numbers until I found them. I didn't understand why they were creeped out but now that I'm an adult and more mature, I definitely do
And the last story I'm gonna share is that any time I had a crush on a girl, I'd loudly announce it to everyone . I remember one girl ended up bursting into tears...I felt super bad and left her alone after that. Another girl i had had crush on just would pull me aside to remind me not to announce it because she was super embarrassed by it. I remember telling her brother that we'd be brothers in the future once i married her. I can still remember his creepedout face...I look back on these moments and cringe super intensely nowadays
I was probably one of if not the weirdest kid at my school
It's really nice to hear your wierd kid stories as well. I really enjoyed the video and hope you have a great day
I’ve been feeling really down, insecure and low self esteemed atm. Feels like most people would hear this and judge me for being a loser and not putting in effort to fight against these depressing feelings.
But in this time wen it’s hard for me to do it by myself, I’m really thankful that I found ur video and u gave me some wholesome entertainment and showed me it’s ok that I’m not ‘as cool as everyone else’.
Anybody else feel like it’s hard to b accepted and feel like ur never a part of things?
Bro I’m feeling similar at the moment. I’m cheering you on, get better soon!
Also thanks Phil for lifting our spirits!
That feeling is familiar; like you're being excluded and even when you go places, still feeling like you don't belong. I've learned that feelings are just trying to tell us something so that we can address it; nothing to fight nor feel guilty or ashamed of.
If everyone else was cool (in the same way) it would mean 'everyone is the same'. You'll be cool to people that share similar values as you. You'll never have to be someone you're not because they already 'know' you and like you. But if you subconsciously think you aren't deserving of that, then you will seek unavailable/incompatible people who can't give you what you need.
Look up Thais Gibson: Core wounds/Attatchment Styles
If you were a friend of mine, I'd want to understand you, not judge you. Give yourself the same treatment you would a good friend 💞
@@tomcorbett215 thanks bro, I hope u do too
@@Haley_Halo yeah it’s tough being a good friend to urself sometimes and having ur own back in times like this. And it’s also really tough to find the kinds of people that u r compatible with and r willing to support u in tough times.
But I’m hoping to find my way to both of those.
In almost every home video of me and my friends as kids doing some kind of unknown performance (like wrapping blankets around our legs and pretending to be mermaids, putting random liquids in a bowl and creating magic potions or leaving mini cheddars by the tree outside my house for the fairies that definitely lived there) we always do American accents. I live in North West England.
I had an obsession with "primordial ooze" and I would make my plastic dinosaurs wear Polly Pocket handbags and feed them Smarties