Was there ever a time you got into mischief or trouble as a child? Edited to add, what did you do? Me I had a 5 year

[hunter]

65. I was a similar sort. Fortunately I generally liked school until the seventh grade.

What kind of "punishments" did you get? I rarely faced any consequences at home. My siblings and I were largely feral children. At school they'd put me in detention or make me pick up litter during the lunch break, which were not worse than anything else at school.

In seventh grade I had a teacher who was very traditional. He was going to teach the boys to be men and the girls to be ladies.

I was screwing around in his class one day, doing something silly I'm sure, and he halted his classroom lecture and took me outside to lecture me.

So he was going on about his classroom standards and then he switched gears asking me what kind of man did I want to be, and telling me to look him in the eye, which is something I still have trouble doing.

I'd had enough so I simply ran away, jumped the fence, and spent the rest of the day poking around in the creek to see what kind of wildlife I could discover. I wasn't worried about repercussions at all.

Later I heard the school had frantically called my mom telling her that I'd run off. She told them not to worry, she expected I'd be home for dinner, and I was.

The school counselor knew I was a weird kid -- nobody talked about Asperger's or Autistic Spectrum then -- and gave my teacher some advice on how to handle me. This usually involved putting me in the back of the class for "independent study." I was quite content quietly reading, drawing spaceships, or diagramming radio and computer circuits.