Post trauma inducing childhood experiences

I'm sure everyone here as at least one horrible childhood experience to talk about that more than likely scarred you for life, let's hear about them.


When I was little, maybe in kindergarten, I was in the living room eating breakfast and my mom was trying to light the furnace, which was in the kitchen. The way our house was set up the living room pretty much led directly into the kitchen, so I could look from where I was sitting and see her.

This was an old furnace and you had to light it yourself, with a match. My mom had turned the gas on and was having some trouble getting it to light. Apparently there was too much gas by the time she finally got it lit, because the furnace proceeded to belch out a blast of fire that engulfed her.

Picture yourself as a small child, looking up from your cereal bowl to see your mom walking towards you covered with fire. It was pretty terrifying at the time and I still get nervous about furnaces and things like that because of it. She finally managed to put out the flames somehow, I'm not sure how she even did it exactly. I remember calling my dad to ask for help and he couldn't really understand me since I was babbling incoherently the way small children do, but he understood enough to get help.

What's even more amazing about this is that instead of calling an ambulance, my mom actually drove herself to the hospital even though she had some pretty serious burns all over her body. I dunno how she managed it.

In case anyone wondered, my mom's not disfigured in any way because of this. She has trouble feeling things with a few of the smaller fingers on her hands because of how deeply they were burned, but otherwise there aren't any signs at all that something like this ever happened. The carpet in the living room of our old house (which we no longer live in) carried deep scorched areas in the shape of her feet for years afterward. Pretty scary, and proof that she really was completely on fire from head to foot. As scary as it was for me, it must have been even moreso for her.


Anyone else have any terrifying childhood experiences?

I haven't really gone through one actually. I've taken quite some damage, falling down stairs, getting a hook in my thumb, falling into a river. But I was never really scared, for whatever odd reason.

Almost got lost when I was like 8 or something but that's it.

i got bit by a venomous spider when i was little, since then ive had the ability to climb up walls, sling webs a fear of spiders.

Nothing o:

Nothing too big. I got lost in Wal-Mart once and lost my s***. Plus a couple times I almost drowned.

well no wonder I'm so ****ed up

i also forgot to add that i almost drowned, too.

Almost drowned, Almost set on fire, almost hit by a car, flesh ripped apart by a dog, hand chizled through, fallen in river, bitten by python, crushed by igloo, incredible appendix pains, Almost hit by another car, nearly hit by a firework x2 kthx, Head + tree = bad, attacked by several dogs, fallen near a waterfall, Beaten by brothers on many ocasions, lost so many times in supermarkets and woods,, Fallen down stairs twice, Almost crushed by many things, Beaten in school, fallen out of tree, attacked by freak lawnmower, almost choked on sweets(multiple occasions), incident with a motorbike, watching so many people being hit by cars, Car accident (I was a passenger :P), multiple threats and what not, other stuff, etc. etc.

Most of these aren't trauma to the extent, but meh.

This post has been edited by Rep-Koopa on Aug 3 2006, 09:38 AM

Like nothing
Or it is buried so deep in my mind that I dont even remember

When I was little, I got attacked by my grandparent's dog. Had to get my lips stiched up ;_;

wow thats a scary story klobber.
i't sure must have been one of the worst trauma inducing experiences here on MFGG.

i myself have never realy been in one, lucky me

though i don't know if it counts but i had a realy bad dream ones,
sounds stopid i know, but it WAS trauma inducing for me.....seriosly i'm a bit scared of it today even.

-Almost drowned
-Fell down the stairs twice
-Bitten by a dog three times
-A million splinters on my hand

Oh, and i have 3 dogs, one of them attacked me when i patted him on the head (no stictches, because it wasnt a deep wound)
Almost hit by a Bus... yeah... these were burried Soverydeep in my head...

I got shot in the face with a machine gun several times.

nvm, look at my first post

This post has been edited by Rep-Koopa on Aug 3 2006, 09:37 AM

Fell over, rolled down a hill and into a lake. I don't remember that though.

Got lost in a shop in the middle of Germany. We were on a vacation there with the whole family. I lost every single one of them. This was a shop wasn't only in a foreign country, it was 30 car drivin' minutes away from our appartment. x_X

I was like 8 or so. I only lost them for a minute, but I was quite frightened.

I got stung by a bee at a theme park.

Yeah, it's no big deal, but ever since then I've been deathly afraid of bees.

I was at my grandma's house, watching religious television (the only channel she hasn't blocked, aside from the news >_>). My mom walked onto the newly waxed kitchen floor. My grandma and I heard really loud shrieks coming from the kitchen, so we rushed to the kitchen. My mom had slipped and her knee was 100% out of it's socket. Nothing was broken. My grandma went up and just jammed it back into place with her hands. It make a really sick slurpping sound.