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11:56pm April 11, 2013

➸ my two cents (or more): one of the questions was...

feliscorvus:

josiahd:

“As a child, I enjoyed taking worms apart to see what would happen. strongly agree/slightly agree/slightly disagree/strongly disagree”

WTF?

I confess to having done this. :( Because I’d heard a bunch of people say “if you cut a worm in half, both parts live!”…

I feel horrible about things I was made to do to butterflies as a child. My mom wanted me to mount them and kill them. I did so. But I did so knowing the whole while I was doing something horribly wrong that these beautiful little creatures didn’t want. I think to her it seemed an innocent childhood thing everything does. But I felt the same way I felt about that poor plant we left in a dark closet for an experiment for school. Terrible. Guilty. Knowing deep down that I was hurting them. I know I wasn’t responsible because I was a child obeying the apparently superior wisdom of a grown up who had herself likely learned it the same way. But I can’t get that horrible feeling out of my head.

Notes:
  1. clatterbane reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    And I can’t help but think of one interesting observation (by Robert K. Thomas, I believe, who in spite of his name...
  2. feliscorvus reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yeah. With the worms, too…once I realized they weren’t in fact going to live, I was horrified. Which I guess means I...
  3. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from twocentsormore and added:
    I feel horrible about things I was made to do to butterflies as a child. My mom wanted me to mount them and kill them. I...
  4. twocentsormore reblogged this from feliscorvus and added:
    Yeah, I did the same thing once, for the same reason. I thought it was still alive because both parts were still moving...
  5. audicias reblogged this from acting-captain-irrayditation
  6. acting-captain-irrayditation reblogged this from madeofpatterns and added:
    I think it’s a stereotype about people who “lack empathy.”
  7. karalianne said: Worms don’t die if you pull them in half, so you end up with two worms. I think I was interested in that for all of 30 mins one day in the playground with a friend in elementary school. I do like earthworms still, just not to pull to pieces.
  8. alliecat-person said: Sounds like a Simon Baron-Cohen question. Blech.
  9. chavisory said: Oh lord. No, I didn’t. I enjoyed taking THINGS apart to see how they worked, but not living things. My brother was the kid who pulled the legs off bugs, and I found it sadistic.
  10. madeofpatterns posted this