1) I don't miss the taunting the I got in elementary school.
2) I don't miss authoritarian teachers and principles that went after me for the fights that resulted from the taunting.
3) I don't miss the online high school. ever.
4) I don't miss my old view of God or religion.
5) I don't miss my OCD that I had (turning light switches on and off multiple times, grabbing at multiple glasses), nor my OCD obsession with numbers (I was hyper-superstitious of the number 666, I wouldn't write three sixes in a row, even for a math test, I would avoid the number 6 itself, and found 3 and 2 to be evil as they multiplied to create the number 6. I determined that zero was the holiest number because there did not exist any other number that could be multiplied by it to produce the number of the beast... this was followed by the number 7 as it was the number of days in which God created the universe. For that matter I also slept with my head facing Isreal because I felt that it was the holiest place on the planet, but I was unsure whether to face east or west because I couldn't tell which direction would be the shortest route around the globe to get Isreal - all of which is odd given that my parents weren't all that religious or superstitious).
6) I don't miss Mrs. Mussler, from first grade, who slammed my head against a wall and crushed my face like a vice. She was also unhappy that she couldn't make me cry.
7) I don't miss my nightmares, particularly those about the end of the world.
8) And I don't miss losing my emotions in my mid-teens from a numbing form of depression.
To all of these things I say, good bye and good riddance!(Come on. We're just listing things we don't miss from our childhood, it's not like mine was really all that bad, I'm just listing the bad things I don't miss
. Looking back, I'm actually surprised that I eventually outgrew the OCD, and going to a more open minded church helped me accept and eventually embrace a different view of God that I eventually flipped 180 from my original stance (even more extreme then their viewpoint).)