May have to change my username

[nomelon]

Yesterday I was looking through an old shoebox full of pictures from when we were kids and I saw a bunch of photos I'm pretty sure I'd never seen before. I was flicking through, when I came across one of me at maybe seven years old, munching on a giant slice of melon.

I... don't understand. I hate melon. I've always hated melon. How is this possible? Has my whole life been a lie???

Honestly traumatised. Call me usedtomelon. changedmymindsomewherealongthelinemelon. questioningmylifemelon.

Comments

[mific]

Maybe after that you had a traumatic experience with melon that caused you to blank out having ever meloned?

[nomelon]

What did the melon do to me??? AUGH.

[dine]

that is really odd. you wouldn't think that melon-related trauma would be common, but I cannot think of another explanation for apparently blocking out your liking them when a child

[nomelon]

Perhaps I was just so constantly hungry as a child I was powering through, eating what was on hand? (Not like I was deprived. I was just a bottomless pit.) Perhaps I hadn't figured out that I could say no to food?? I DON'T KNOW.

[out_there]

Maybe you didn't like it after you ate it? Maybe that memory stayed with you?

As a child, I hated the smell of peanut butter. I'm not allergic but I had a deep-seated certainty that if I ate peanut butter, my jaw would stick together and I'd never be able to open it again. (I remember confidently telling other kids at school this too.) I was in my twenties when I mentioned that weird little childhood misinformation campaign to mum, and she mentioned that I'd tried peanut butter at about 18 months old, and apparently stopped chewing or breathing until she fished it back out of my mouth. So even though I don't have that specific memory, some of that must have been retained.

[nomelon]

omg peanut butter is the only other thing I truly hate. I like peanuts, I like satay, but even if i chew a peanut for too long and it starts to turn to peanut butter in my mouth -- gag.

[lokifan]

I... didn't actually realise that was what your username meant! It looked like some kind of Greek name or something to me.

[nomelon]

Heee I've got that before. Sadly it's less cultured, more dumb.