Mild or Wild?

[dybmh]

In your youth, were you mild or wild? Did you need encouragement to try new things? Or were you the first person diving down the big slide? Were you obedient or rebelious? Did you do your homework right away, leave it to the last minue, or skip it altogether? Are you still wild? Are you still mild?

Thank you,

 

[dybmh]

I'll start. I was a wild one. Very affectionate and passionate, but also quick to hostility and negativity. I was always pushing boundries, testing, and getting punished. I was definitely not obedient. I was very rebelious and still am. In school, if I liked the teacher I was usually committed to homework for a short time, but that would quickly diminsh. Most classes I left everything to the last minute.

Now as an adult, I'm pretty mild. I have wild ideas, but I'm smart enough to keep those under wraps.

 

[JustGeorge]

In youth, I had blue hair and goth clothes, and crazy make up. I looked wild. But I was very mild.

I got very good grades, and was quite well behaved. I didn't get along with Dad, but no one did(he had some problems with emotional abuse that he didn't address for about another decade). I didn't smoke or drink(though many of my friends did). I was the sober person at the party. I wasn't a flirt, and spent most of my out of school time riding bikes and playing checkers in the park with my friends. I wasn't real obedient, but I had no desire to do anything crazy, so it wasn't a huge issue. My disobedience was often to refuse to clean my room, or something of the like.

I was somewhat rebellious with my goody-two-shoes-ness, when it looked like I should have been a lot of fun.

I don't know what I am now. I'm still not particularly edgy, but I'm eccentric, even among eccentric folks. I still have blue hair. I still wear goth clothes, though I mix it in with a lot of other stuff; collecting interesting clothing is somewhat of a hobby.

My house is somewhat of a testament of what I am... its unusual, out of place, and is set up to fit our needs, which tend to be different. It looks more like an under construction museum than a house.

But still, I don't party, I don't go out. Sometimes I'll have a glass of wine, but that's not a terribly edgy thing from me. I'm guess I'm still rebellious in my goody-two-shoes-ness, preferring to be in and pondering the wonders of Gods/the world/nature than watching movies or bar hopping.

 

[icehorse]

I was all over the wild to mild spectrum.

 

[PureX]

I was defiant. Telling me to do or not do this or that meant nothing. I was going to decide for myself. I wasn't a bad or wild kid, just a very willful and defiant one.

 

[Mock Turtle]

More bitter than mild - beer that is.

I was probably seen as being reserved for much of my youth even though I didn't hesitate to take on anything offered by the Scouts - and as to which I did follow up on so many - like rock-climbing, caving, and sailing, apart from the usual hiking and camping. I also did a lot of fairly long-distance cycling on my own, so I suppose I was adventurous in that sense. Rarely got into any mischief though.

As I recall, I probably just did enough as to schoolwork, given that I could and should have done better so as to get a better education, and as to which this came later.

But overall, I wouldn't class myself in any wild category, given that I usually was well prepared and organised rather than doing things on the spur of the moment. And much the same still applies. But one has to be so if doing rather dangerous things like mountaineering, caving, or even sailing - given it is often not only one's own life at risk.

Armchair risk-taker only now.

 

[Viker]

Before adolescence I was a shy anxious whiny little doormat, very too mild. Somewhere starting around adolescence I was the Molotov cocktail wielding anarchist/nihilist in the room. I got good grades in the curriculum but often had "conduct" concerns, that one teacher didn't care much for my Suicidal Tendencies "Institutionalized" t-shirt.

I never got in any major trouble. No juvenile delinquency, or let's say I never got busted. But definitely not mild in my teens

 

[LuisDantas]

Mild all the way. I was virtually property of my raisers, as a matter of fact.

 

[Left Coast]

In your youth, were you mild or wild? Did you need encouragement to try new things? Or were you the first person diving down the big slide? Were you obedient or rebelious? Did you do your homework right away, leave it to the last minue, or skip it altogether? Are you still wild? Are you still mild?

Thank you,

Mild. I was always a "good kid." Rarely got in trouble. I'm still pretty mild but have tried to loosen up in my adulthood.

 

[RestlessSoul]

When I was 16, one of my favourite albums was Ian Dury's 'New Boots and Panties'. On that album was the song 'Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll'. I took that as my manifesto. I found out the hardest possible way that actions have consequences, but I'm still alive and I still love rock and roll. Though the car radio is tuned to Classic FM now.

 

[ChristineM]

As a youth (pre 14) i was "mild" is one way of putting it. Another way is sulky and sullen. After age 14 i began to come out of my shell but was still a quite, good girl. Even at uni i was not extrovert. Not until age 35 did i let everything go and had a truly wild period.

 

[Revoltingest]

Always mild.

 

[ChristineM]

Always mild.

What happened?

 

[Revoltingest]

What happened?

Not much.
That's how it goes with mild.
Always been that way.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

A mix. I did a lot of unusual things for a girl in the 80s and 90s including taking up hobbies then considered the domain of boys, video games, dungeons and dragons and even working with reptiles.
I was a stout, strong farm girl who looked like I could defend myself. I couldn't say if that's why I didn't need to get into fights, or because our area was fairly anti-bully in general.
I didn't care about feminine dress, I read or watched whatever despite ratings. I exited the religious scene of my childhood to much consternation.

But I was also a good communicator with my parents and was genuinely interested in school (albeit with some ADHD difficultes.) I wasn't interested in drinking or drugs. And I've been with the same man since I was 17.

 

[John53]

Mild mostly but I had my moments. I refused to do homework and was prepared to suffer any punishment for not doing it. I still don't see the point of homework.

 

[MikeF]

Mild. No drugs, no skipping school. Got good grades. Some alcohol in college but dramatically less than my peers.

 

[Revoltingest]

Mild mostly but I had my moments. I refused to do homework and was prepared to suffer any punishment for not doing it. I still don't see the point of homework.

Lernding.

 

[Revoltingest]

Mild. No drugs, no skipping school. Got good grades. Some alcohol in college but dramatically less than my peers.

Copycat!

 

[Orbit]

Mild, but it's mostly because my wildness never got caught.