How I Spent Time as a Child

~ Clarissa

I got the idea for this chart at this blog.

This is also the very first pie chart I made in Excel, so I’m proud of it.

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10 thoughts on “How I Spent Time as a Child”

  1. You should be proud. It’s very impressive 🙂

    Speaking of childhood, there’s a link on my latest post about one’s earliest memories of sexual harassment in the public sphere. I’d be very interested in hearing about yours. I remember you once posted a horrific tale about being dragged and hair-pulled by a middle-aged man for not responding to his advances, and you were still in school then.

    Also, there’s yet another meme here http://priyankanandy.com/2012/07/12/trinity-got-his-face-painted/ that I wish you would take up, especially since you’ve lived in such a wide variety of places/spaces.

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    1. “You should be proud. It’s very impressive”

      – Actually, it makes me feel very sad.

      I think it’s a brilliant meme you’ve started. I will definitely be contributing.

      Also, I think it’s a great idea to share stories of sexual harassment we have suffered in childhood. For me, it was a constant barrage of persecution since I was 10.

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      1. The pie-chat is impressive, I meant. Not your childhood 🙂

        But you know what, it was still better than mine. In mine, the bits about ‘playing outside’ would be zero, and ‘playing with other children’ a probable 0.3%. I had a hand-held video game with two games on for about a year, then it fell apart. I mostly just read, went to school, drawing school and dancing lessons, did my schoolwork, watched some television on Sunday mornings, and socialised with my extended family of cousins, great uncles and aunts, my mother’s siblings and cousins, and my grandparents.

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        1. “The pie-chat is impressive, I meant. Not your childhood”

          – Oh. 🙂 Thank you, I am very proud of the chart! My fears of Excel were not justified. 🙂

          ” In mine, the bits about ‘playing outside’ would be zero, and ‘playing with other children’ a probable 0.3%.”

          – I played outside with little friends a lot but that was all before my sister was born. Of course, I’m very happy that she was born but I never had any other little friends again.

          ” and socialised with my extended family of cousins, great uncles and aunts, my mother’s siblings and cousins, and my grandparents.”

          – Yes, me too! The only problem was that all my cousins were younger than I was, so I was mostly mothering them, not actually playing with them.

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  2. “The only problem was that all my cousins were younger than I was, so I was mostly mothering them, not actually playing with them.”

    Exactly how it was for me. Not so much mothering, but elder-sistering. Then again, in my culture, significantly older sisters are equated with motherly duties when actual mothers are absent, so I suppose that works out the same.

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    1. “Then again, in my culture, significantly older sisters are equated with motherly duties when actual mothers are absent”

      – Once again, I’m surprised at how similar our cultures are.

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  5. Impressive.. no sleep as a child? You should find a way to teach that skill! 🙂

    That is a very good excel chart btw! And, just to point out a topic we disagree on a little from time to time, my fluidity and strong analytical ability in excel can somewhat be traced to business school 🙂 I doubt you will ever need it… but if you need help with excel I’m your guy (the world of vlookups, pivot tables, and nested-if statements… ah… what a dork I am!)

    Have a fun vacation!

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