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In reply to the discussion: What did you worry about as a kid? [View all]ultralite001
(892 posts)52. Polio... The family doctor had an iron lung in a back room at his office...
If you've never seen one, here's a story:
[link:https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/texas-man-lives-70-years-in-an-iron-lung-i-never-gave-up-180979008/|]
Cranberries and cancer...
[link:https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-great-cranberry-scare-of-1959-wreaks-havoc-at-thanksgiving/|]
Nuclear war... I build a "bomb shelter" underneath my bed... Packed a suitcase with flashlight, peanut butter, crackers and military K-rations my dad had brought home after deployments... Couldn't sleep on my back because I didn't want to see the flash...
Alien invasion... "Invaders from Mars" was a torment...
[link:https://bit.ly/3akGfBr|]
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The only nightmare I remember was about sirens going off and then the bright light and I woke up .
Srkdqltr
Jul 2022
#17
All I can think of was a piece of art my parents had in the den. It was a musician playing a guitar
applegrove
Jul 2022
#43
Polio... The family doctor had an iron lung in a back room at his office...
ultralite001
Jul 2022
#52
Nuclear war. Looking back, we were so very close in time to WW II that it colored everything...
Hekate
Jul 2022
#66
It was Melania caught complaining about her Christmas decorating duties.
Gidney N Cloyd
Jul 2022
#93
I am not given to nightmares. For me, they're rare. Playhouse 90's Alas Babylon gave them to me . .
Stinky The Clown
Jul 2022
#94