Memories of a Child Weirdo

Memories of a Child Weirdo 

By Claudia MacLeod

Buster Keaton was my hero as a kid and he still is! I was made fun of something terribly at some of the schools I went to because I chose to dress like a silent movie comic/weirdo goofball that I was. I wanted to be just like Buster. I even did a little silent movies, clowning, weird Stunts, acrobats and trapeze and all that stuff- Not to mention throwing tarps onto trees and making obstacle courses and crazy things to do in my yard like jump off the roof into the pool or onto all kinds of padded things. I even tried being a stunt person for a while, and would do things in little independent movies like jumping from car to car and shit like that. Mainly because I was pretty much fearless punkass and small enough to just go in there and climb the shit out of stuff.

I was beating up a lot of kid and ran away from home a great deal. I threw myself into my art to deal with it. I studied and learned with a couple of people. Well, a stupid car accident is what really threw me off from certain things, now that I have neurological damage, but I’m NOT GIVING UP! I STILL try dumb things to this day😆! Hell sometimes I even just clown around on the streets! Although now I can’t pop wheelies on my bike, but that's mainly because it's a fold up bike and it can collapse the whole thing. I thought about how redonk that was the, like my main complaint about this bike is that I can't pop wheelies on it?!? What am I a 14-year-old boy? The answer to that is yes pretty much YES! ...OK maybe 15.

Yet the point is, I’m not gonna stop living this existence in my own way! Some days you feel like giving up but we are here to live this life, and to bask in it. As a run away I met some people who did some things they really shouldn’t do with kids. The PTSD is here still. Yet I’m proud of where I am! Be a helping Rebel. When you feel like giving up KNOW that we are here to live and help others get through it all. Hey if I could re-learn to speak after that car accident and get through tons of blackouts and all kinds of dark shit perhaps I'm here to help others see that they CAN get through stuff too!

were you were rebellious kid, or someone who went through the mill in any kind of way in life? I want you to know that I’m here to listen to your story. I’m here to help you get through it through expression and to find and art in at all. The arts are here for us! But most of all we are here for each other!

Enail me at PookaMagick@Gmail.com Using the HEADLINE: I'm here for the WEIRDO

In the meantime I'll be posting all sorts of things here through my journey and how I am working through life, the ups and downs of depression, and this pandemic in the most creative ways I can. i'd also love to host interviews on here. Post your stories ideas and art. Let's talk. Let's inspire each other through life.

Love,

~Cloudy