In which I am 12

[elionwyr]

G: Don't let me forget my Spanx are in the trunk.
L: Ok.
Me: *snicker*
G: Oh, shut up!

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[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Age 12. A useful age.

Though come to think of it, I wasn't a very funny kid. I was fairly serious and fairly intense. I'm definitely funnier now (I'd better be, I've worked at it), but I wonder if I was 12 when I was 12, if that makes any sense.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

It makes sense to me, but I was probably also way to serious when I was 12 and beyond.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

How well did you get over that? P.S. You may appreciate what I said in response to elionwyr.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

Get over it? I'm not sure I'm completely over it --more like on constant guard against it.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I was much too serious at 12, myself...

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Glad we both got over that! Example from earlier: around age 7 or 8 I got defensive about my name, so one time within earshot of my brother T.J., I introduced myself to someone as "Christopher M. Walsh, and don't make fun of it." T.J. teased me by imitating that for years.

Thank everything I developed more of a sense of humor come junior high, or otherwise that might have gone even worse. Or at least even more obnoxiously. I'm so glad I really got into Monty Python then (though I'd seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail earlier, around 1985 when I was 11 or 12).

Here's one of several reasons I responded very well to The Sixth Sense: I so rarely see any portrayal, let alone an understanding one, of a serious kid. Shyamalan is good at that. I'm betting he was a serious kid, too.