Remember 2006?

[Pennycan1800]

What do you remember about 2006 and how important of a year was it in your life?

For me it was a major transition year. My social anxiety started to fully develop from February to June of that year. I didn't really know what it was or how to handle it. I was pretty lost on how to understand it. Luckily I had some people around who have dealt with it in the past and really helped me understand it more. I graduated from middle school in May of that year and started high school in August. The transition from middle school to high school was a pretty tough one. The still new social anxiety did not help any. The whole year of 2006 was hard to deal with. The start of 2006 didn't start off that great either. January 3rd 2006 was a day that stands out. I never really think about it anymore, though.

There were some other things about that year that stick out to me too like in March of 2006 I was introduced to YouTube and Myspace. It was the year I started to go on the internet on a regular basis. I started to become way more self aware and I started to pay more attention to the world around me. I turned 15 that year. From what I remember the year ended off pretty good. I spent New Years with my friend and his family and we started 2007 together. 2007 was a much better year than 2006.

Overall 2006 is the year that sticks out to me the most so far in my life and I looked back at it a lot over the past 10 years. This year especially as it is the 10 year anniversary of all that stuff I just mentioned.

I am very interested in your thoughts about 2006 and what it was like for you all.

 

[Woyogoyo]

I remember nothing of 2006. I was in elementary school back then, and from what I've heard, I was insane. I have repressed those memories quite well.

 

[Nicolai]

We would have been about the same age, Pennycan1800, yet I don't think I can remember nearly as many things. I didn't get intensely into the gaming scene until about 2009 with my DSi, so at that point, I was just an awkward freshman who did whatever my friends or siblings did, always close to the threshold with social anxiety. If I had a major transition period, it was in 2008-9, when I started hanging out with other dorks like me, and got more into gaming, classical music, and generally being myself. It felt like going outside after a really really long time. Plus, I met my first (and current) girlfriend in 2009, so my junior year was pretty memorable.

 

[A Link In Time]

2006 was a major transition year for me. I don't remember much from that year because I was still very young, but two things that I remember clearly was graduating from elementary school and starting middle school and starting puberty.

I remember rehearsing some song for our graduation about touting books in middle school and needing to make it from class to class in three minutes. When I walked out of my elementary school after the last day of classes, I heard my fifth grade teacher saying she would leave after that year. That was her first and only year working there. I was always a pretty well behaved boy in school, but my fifth grade teacher really had it out for me. She tried to give me a detention almost every week, but I somehow managed to talk my way out of it.

After I went to my new middle school to pick up my supplies, I remember spending a good 15 or 20 minutes trying to open my lock. Our elementary school lockers didn't have locks. It seems silly looking back, but I was really scared about going to middle school. It was going from a school of 300 students to 850.

December 2006 was the first time I noticed physical changes indicating the start of puberty. I was taking a shower over Christmas break, and I noticed hair growing above my penis. I freaked out, to say the least, and tried to pull my pubes out. But then I asked my grandma about it and found out it was normal. I had read about these changes during health class in fifth grade but it still surprised me when puberty finally started for me.

 

[Spirit]

I remember Twilight Princess. Thats about it.

 

[Dio]

2006 was the year I decided to give up gaming. For the first time I had overcome my addiction and was ready to live a more productive game free life. I then sold my GC. A couple of weeks later I saw TP advertised on the TV and decided I would get a Wii.

 

[Misty]

Let's see, 2006...I would have been 13. Crap. It might have been an important year, but I cannot say it was a particularly good year.

I would have just finished up my spinal fusion operation recovery in the summer of the year previous and then in December of 2005, I'm pretty sure is when they did that god awful operation where they broke and reset both of my legs. Which means they would have told me that I'd be all healed and up and walking by February of 2006.

So starting with January of 2006, I would have been laid up on a couch for almost a month by that point. My older brother and father were still carrying me up and down the stairs of our house because I was too weak yet to pull myself up. I would have been in a wheelchair around then too. Both parents were working all the time, and my little brother would have been two and being given most of his care by myself and my older brother. I mostly remember doing a lot of media and gaming with my older brother while we cared for the little brother.

Fast forward to February, and I still hadn't healed. The doctors told me that it'd be two more months because of slow healing. At least I was finally feeling good enough to regularly hang around my father's store again. Mostly remember roleplaying a lot and getting carried places my chair couldn't take me there. Pretty much a wash rinse repeat with the spicy addition of more in store gaming. I think I picked up heroclix that year because of being there more.

March was more of the same.

April, went back to docs, still not healed, but at least now I can put on walking casts and restart process of learning to walk. Hooray. Lots of doing that and very shakily. It's nearly impossible to walk around gracefully in walking casts up to your thigh. Didn't feel great about that especially because had become much more self-aware. They tell me in two months the stuff will come off.

May more of the same with the addition of more grand mother around because I got ill and then had an infection. She was a busy body.

June, Grandma still in the picture because actually I don't know why still. Doctors tell me two more months that healing still isn't done. For those interested, this was the point at which I thought it might be prudent to wash my walking casts because they might be with me forever. Grandma finally opens her big stupid mouth and makes some very unwelcome comments about my father and his character, love for his children, and care for them. I tell father and mum because I'm pretty pissed by what she said and it wasn't the first time. Father tells mum that grandma is no longer welcome in his house or with his grandchildren that if mum wants to see her, she can go see her but not to take us.

July, walking better. Took to running my own roleplaying campaign. Was told I'd be starting cyber school soon.

August: Still not healed. Doctors say two more months. Walking casts are starting to really smell, but mum and i agree to let it go because they should be disappearing soon. More of the same. Still having trouble walking long distances in walking casts.

September. Steve Irwin dies. This is a smaller tragedy than the fact that my 23rd level druid also died. I feel your pain, Bindi.

October. Legs still not healed. Decide to stay home for halloween. Won first magic tournament.

November. Casts are strangely beginning to smell both awful and like a sidewalk. Still have not washed them. Grandma is beginning to ask if we'll come over for Christmas. Father is on the fence.

December: Got DDR for Christmas, father had ordered back when I was supposed to be healed. Went to Grandmother's. Legs still not healed. Decide to play DDR in walking casts because **** the doctors is why.

For those curious, the casts finally came off in January of the following year. We never washed them and when we threw them away, they smelled like an alleyway after st. patrick's day. I got significantly better at DDR without those bulky things on. In my family, this year is nicknamed "The Year of Hell" after the Star Trek: Voyager episodes. It is the only year to receive a nickname in my family.

 

[Bas]

I was in high school, about to go to boarding School and I was hyped about the Wii and Twilight Princess. Otherwise not much, lots of masturbation and internet porn I'm sure

 

[karu]

I started going to game club, met some awesome dudes that I now call my senpais. Started Mandarin, Chinese classes, 可是我的中文不好. And the most important thing of them all *drum roll* I became a member in the ZD-I forums, met lots of wonderful people, and got a Toon Link plushie

 

[Beauts]

In 2006 I turned 12. I was in year 8 at school and I remember a lot of internet and MSN messenger. It wasn't a particularly significant year, though it was a good one lots of fun memories with friends etc.

 

[Tibari]

I just remember when me and my brother got Twilight Princess for christmas, discovering it was the Wii version and that we also got the Wii. I was happy this day. But it's the only thing I remember, except maybe it was around this year that I began to use a PC

 

[Salem]

It was the year I picked a college.

 

[Jamie]

I just turned 11. If I remember correctly that year was pretty awful.

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

4th grade and early 5th grade
in 4th grade,I sat next to this a-hole guy named andy, being the sensitive and insecure kid I was [still kinda am ;-;] I'd always be bothered by the things he'd do to me
man,why can't certain jerk off kids leave the shyer ones the hell alone

 

[Feverish]

In 2006 I was 6 and after my mom dated a few dudes she met a guy named Jeff, who is now my stepdad. Also in 2006 I got a gameboy advance for my birthday which started my love for games