What was wrong with me?

when I was a kid I was a kid I stole stuff. This si how it began: When I was 7 I dropped my pen and when I bent underneath the table I found that the boy sitting next to me had dropped some cool pens so I waited till no one was looking then I took them. When I was eight TY beanie babies were all the rage and this girl I knew had quite a few but it was a magazine brochure of them that she brought to school. Cant remember how but I took it. Pretended it was mine and told the teacher on me. Same year, whenever the school would give me dinner money change I'd take it and buy stuff with it instead of giving it to my dad. He never confronted me though. One day I couldn't go home on my own so I asked the school to call my mum. Bad idea. When she arrived the headmaster spoke with her about the whole book stealing thing and I was called in and confronted. I never did it again cause I was so ashamed but what I want to know is why I did all those things? Another thing I did was I would write my name on a piece of paper and slip it into a box our teacher had made. She would put in the name of the students who did good things or made good effort...something like that, then she'd give whoever had their name the most times a gift. I remember feeling like I wasn't being acknowldeged and so I would place my name in. Too many times. She never said anything, nor did she give me a gift. I hated her. Now someone tell me what the f**k was wrong with me.

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  • scratch_card

    You feel bad because you did bad things. Do some good things and you will feel better. Maybe volunteering at the local homeless shelter or just plain forgiving yourself will help.

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  • Treez

    You were a kid

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  • eelamme123

    Normal. You were young and probably didn't know any better. I probably did stuff like that as a kid too but I just can't remember right now.

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  • You were young.

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  • Madturbatergirl

    Me and my sis used to steal packs of gum from the store
    and we never got caught... I still feel bad. We didnt know any better
    cuz we wer inly six

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  • stone_love

    It's pretty normal to steal stuff as a kid. It's like testing the waters. Seeing what you can get away with, at the same time as figuring out what guilt feels like, and what consequences mean. Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with you.

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  • WayOutThere

    There wasn't anything wrong with you.

    No one is born with a knowledge of ethical values; you have to LEARN right from wrong. And, merely being told not to do something, e.g., "thou shalt not steal," isn't good enough. You need to learn WHY you shouldn't take other people's property or commit fraud (which is what you tried to do with the teacher by slipping the counterfeit notes into the box).

    Adults rarely explain the "why" behind things. That's because they usually don't know, themselves; or they can't explain it in sufficient depth. I would presume the teacher never tried to explain to you why those things were wrong. So, it's quite understandable that you committed such "mistakes."

    One of the best ways to learn things is to always ask "why" (which is what you are doing right now). Never accept anything on "faith" or on "authority" or simply because that's what everyone else doing.

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  • its normal dude i mean wen i was about that age i was stealing outa tesco woolworths and this lil corner shop abd stealin things out of ppls bags and im sure there are people who ws tht age that have done way worse than me its normal kids at tht age dno the difrence between rite and wrong alot so yaknow it natura :D

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