Childhood This Memory

[Stills]

Hey guys. Bear with me please, I have to share this memory. I can't say this out loud because I'm embarrassed. I've probably shared it with friends nonchalantly. I remember when I was little, perhaps in pre school. My mommy would wake me up in the mornings and carry me downstairs and I'd watch tv until I get ready for school. My mom had woken me up and I was embarrassed because my hand was in my pants. My mom was smiling and asked why my hand was in my pants. I just said I had an itch and forgot to put it back ...hahaha. But I felt shame. And odd because my mom always found it funny, healthy, normal. It's hard to look back at know that my mom just found it funny and not taking it serious that a young child is masturbating? But I hear that's normal. Ugh. I only did that really young. What's weird is that I didn't start masturbating again until I was 18.

 

[Suzetig]

It's not at all uncommon for quite little children to touch themselves - not necessarily masturbation in the adult sense of the word. I'm wondering whether you actually felt shame at the time or whether you remember it now with shame?

 

[James McGregor]

Hey guys. Bear with me please, I have to share this memory. I can't say this out loud because I'm embarr...

i think thats a fairly normal thing for a child to do, and probably quite normal for a parent to react like that to not make a big deal of it - which it shouldnt be