Cursed childhood memories

Are you KIDDING ME WITH THAT LAST MINUTE AMONG US INSERT! I'm big mad! But also great video! You're wonderful!

In pre-school, I was making fun of one of the college teacher's army boyfriend. A helicopter flew overhead and she told me that was her boyfriend getting the military assembled so they could drop into the playground and beat me up.

When they said “you can’t get married because you’re girls” I thought they meant girls can’t marry in general and only men can marry each other.

Editor: "How much cartoon references do you want?"
Illy: *YES*

My mum was a labor and delivery nurse too and she just signed me out of every birds and bees talk until I was in like 8th grade because I grew up my whole life knowing exactly where babies came from. I used to ask others to tell me the birds and the bees because I thought it was like a script or something that I never got to hear, and they were always soooo secretive. Nobody would tell me!! Eventually I found out that it wasn't so literal and there was no universal script lol

the fact ive never had the talk officially with my parents is cursed because i had to pick up on it on my own, like from dumb inappropriate 12 year old boys, but also blessed because i never had that awkwardness

ILLY THE QUALITY IS TOP TIER!!!!

After reading through some of these "Birds and the Bees" comments, I think I know why they tend to separate us. Little boys just can't take anything seriously and the teachers actually want to get things done.
I remember that in 5th grade they separated us to talk about it, and while I don't remember about 6th grade, in 7th we stayed together in our science class and learned through packets. The only cursed thing I can remember from this talk is that in 7th grade I was the only girl at my table and I felt very awkward and embarrassed when the girl part came up. And it was all boys I wasn't very fond of, too, so I hated it.

I’m rewatching this video and now I can relate to so much💀. I remember when I was in the birds and bees program it was a tragic program. We had to highlight parts of the men’s body. We left the classroom tearing
Up while the boys watched Garfield . What an amazing time for 5th grade me

“teacher?......”
“Yes, Illy?”
“she ate your christmas giftttttt-“

i was homeschooled, had no irl friends, and very sheltered. so i didnt learn how all that worked until i was 13 or 14.
i mean i had a vague idea of it but i didnt know like... how it happened.
i learned when i was playing a game with a group of online friends and one of them made a joke. everyone laughed, so i laughed with them but i didnt understand what the joke meant. so later on when me and the friend i was closest to were playing alone, i asked her about the joke and this poor girl who was only a year older than me had to explain the birds and the bees to me in a skype call.

My school’s “birds and the bees” talk actually went pretty well, but I have a different cursed story from health class. We were watching something on weight gain/loss and I got so grossed out by it I almost puked. The teachers just made me sit outside the classroom and draw while the rest of the kids watched that, I was just satisfied I got to spend majority of a class drawing.

I literally seen in the background so many anime characters in so many anime Memes I found another type of mine I’m so happy

You should have seen my kindergarten class, everyone was “married”, boys would put spiders on their hands to be “Spider-man”, girls would pretend to be singers, and it was just *weird*
Oh, and did I mention that people were selling “yummy” glues for 5 bucks-

I remember bringing that permission slip home from school too (I also grew up in the deep south) and my mom showing it to my grandmother, and god bless that woman she looked my mom dead in the face and just says "Honey you know they ain't gon tell those kids nothin" and then without missing a beat just turned at looked at little 8 year old me and said "Boys got a paynus and girls got a vaginer, and if you put the paynus in the vaginer it can make babies so wear a rubber" didn't help that gran was probably on to her fourth or fifth highball by the time I got home from school. I then had to have a very awkward conversation with my mother, who was an emergency care nurse, about how it actually works. Mom actually just pulled out her biology textbook and went over it with me.

Back when I was like 7, my parents told me that babies were surgically put in. Which I believed up until I was 8 or 9, when I realized it wouldn't have been possible before the advent of surgery. I finally connected 1+1 completely when I was studying animal reproduction when I was around 10.

Nobody-
Absolutely nobody-
The cookies having to listen to the mom giving the “birds and bees” talk - 👁💧👄💧👁

“I’m gonna point it at the ground cus that’s where the devil lives aNd i hAtE tHe dEvIl”

"ur cookies don't taste good :0"
"THEY HAVE GLUE IN THEM >:)"

Fun fact: In elementary school, I was told that we were allowed to swear in 4th grade. (By other kids, of course) By the time we got there, nobody cursed, and I definitely forgot. Also, I had my “Birds And The Bees” talk in 6th grade health class, where after we learned about our body systems, we learned about the male and female reproductive systems. It was treated like a normal class and we weren’t separated by gender. (Of course my experience was quite different than most people’s opinions since I’m quite a bit younger than most people sharing their experiences here).

I love how in every scene where she’s in the bus there’s somebody new sitting near her

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE ANIME REFERENCES. I FREAKING LOVE THEM

Considering all the awesome cartoons I remember growing up with in the late '90s/early '00s (and the early Internet things that were around at the time), I think that time period definitely had it's blessed/cursed moments due to there being so many things that people could get away with for kids.
Not as much of as say, the '60s or '70s or something (especially since Stranger Danger and Drug PSAs were still everywhere in the '90s), but still...
Considering that I've heard of some older Gen Z's that have been exposed to a lot of Internet stuff since they were kids, I wonder what things Gen Alpha and generations after will look back on and think, "I'm surprised people were chill about that," lol. ^^

AUUGH I love all the cartoon references you put in your videos!!!
The
the 'Math! It exists.' poster with Finn had me cackling

Is everyone just gonna act like corpse isn't there

fun fact: In like 2nd grade my teacher brought in her veteran brother and he had gotten his leg cut off so 6 year old me walked up to him and said "Who ate your leg?" My sister keeps reminding me of that horrible day 😭

During my birds and the bees talk in 5th grade, I think they actually did cover periods and stuff
But I was in the very back row because I walk slow and made it to the library last. And I'm nearsighted so I couldn't see or hear any of the presentation. Based on the other kids reactions though I think they did actually teach us stuff so good for that presentation, I just didn't absorb any of it. The most I got out of it was cookies at the end
I definitely could've used the heads up though

I almost acciedentally deleted myself in art class. I didn't know my asthma could be triggered by smells until we were working with this really strong smelling paint. Next minute I was on the floor gasping for air trying to reach for my inhaler that was still on the table AND NO ONE GAVE IT TO ME UNTIL THE NURSE SHOWED UP. My art teacher was freaking out and once I was stable again, I got scolded by the nurse for not using the inhaler that I COULDNT FING REACH
That was years ago and now im an adult with slightly less severe asthma, I think.

she is the only person who looks exactly the same way as their drawings.

One day at recess, two kids got "married" and the entire grade gathered to watch them kiss. The next day they got divorced.
*This was sixth grade.*

In Australia we learn about the "bird and the bees" in grade 5 as well

When I was 3/ 2 my mom’s friend was babysitting. So she took me to the park ( I think) and watched me play. I randomly found a unalived bee and proceeded to pick it up and try and eat it . Luckily she stopped me from doing that but now I’m just imagining what type of illness I could have caught. I even may have started Covid early

In second grade I got married to my best friend Alice. We had a wedding and we got divorced a few months later 😂

*munch*
“Your glue doesn’t taste good”
“THERE WERE COOKIES IN THERE”
“Oh thats why the glue tasted off”

I love the references in the backgrounds of your videos like the Moriah Elizabeth plush and anime merch the beginning

oh my god you hadt a protected childhood, i hope you really know how blessed you are, i would even be able to talk about how i learned about the birds and bees in any family freindly manner

i went to school in the south and WE DIDNT GET A BIRDS AND BEES TALK THEY LITERALLY JUST TOLD US ABOUT PERIODS AND HOW PADS WORKED AND THEN TOLD US TO KEEP OUR LEGS CROSSED

As someone who lives and spent their entire life in the south, I can concur that the lack of talk in the "birds and the bees talk" is real. It started for me in 5th grade (this was 2012) and they didn't tell us much. 5th grade wasn't supposed to be a sex talk or anything, but they brought in a tri-fold and went over the information of what your body goes through on your period. There was really a lack of talk in middle school. They had a curriculum ever year, but they never went over it. They just showed the same movies every year that went over the same thing we learned in 5th grade. I didn't actually know about the birds and the bees until high school because my 9th grade gym teacher was REALLY blunt.

My birds and bees talk wasn’t really a talk. My mom was also a parent that was kind of uncomfortable talking about the birds and the bees. She kinda like brushed the topic but never really like fully got into it and the knowledge I have was either from friends or just gossip around school I knew more later on whenever I turned 21 and that and that was fascinating. That’s my story.

I love how she's laughing through the whole thing
Btw loved ur video :)

Illy, don't worry. That "getting married" fiasco isn't as weird when I remember my classmates and I had a polyamorous gay wedding in kindergarten.

“I didn’t have a crush on my friend but gay rights”
still one of my favorite illy quotes

First time seeing this video but my birds and bees convo with my mom happened in the kitchen too… she explained how men’s parts worked with whipped cream, a rubber and a banana… never looked at any of those the same ever again.

yes it is different now and what they do now is they have one class or two classes sit in a empty room like the library or gymnasium and every one sits on the floor or benches and the person explaining it explains it to everyone

In kindergarten there was this girl, we’ll call her El, and a boy we’ll call Jack. They were the closest thing we had to “popular kids” in the kindergarten class because they both wore cool clothes and every liked them. Anyways, we all joked that they were in love and dating, and one day during recess, me, my best friend, El and Jack were all sitting under the slide and we keep telling them to kiss and so El kissed him on the forehead and we all squealed and ran away. The next day we had a wedding for them but Jack chickened and left her at the alter, she wore her favorite dress and everything.

One time in second grade, we found out that these two kids liked eachother, so that recess, we decided to make a wedding for them. I dressed the girl in a “toilet paper gown” and we tried to make them kiss. They spat on eachother. I still bring it up to my friend to this day.

That sharpening machine is so cool 😂and I love the little details like the glue on the table ❤

I love all the little references she puts in her videos❤❤❤❤❤❤

One time, in 6th grade, my teacher had just said “the *f* word* on accident in front of the class. And the kid in my class who had special needs would sometimes repeat what people were saying (I think to help learn the words but idk). So, as you may have guessed, the next 4 minutes was just faintly hearing “f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k f**k “ the class was dying laughing.

Fun Fact About Me: My Parents told me the "birds and the bees" twice because they forgot that they already told me once and so I was sitting there not consuming info that I already knew and wish I didn't know... 10/10 on the cursed scale.

I used to be a ring bearer for elementary school weddings I would make rings out of flowers.

in 4th grade we were separated by gender for a talk. it wasn't really about "the birds and the bees," just mostly about puberty and pregnancy. the school nurse taught us girls and the principal taught the boys. at one point, the nurse talked about how your stomach gets a lot bigger when you're pregnant (for context, I was/am overweight). Right at that moment, one of the popular girls turned her head to look at me, the one girl with the bigger stomach. i was mortified

Yeah... some kids in my 1st year were talking about “bad words” and I was _determined_ to prove that they weren’t bad words-so you can guess I was just screaming F**K at the top of my lungs for the rest of the day.

*_”But my best friend is Robin, does that mean we have to get married?”_*
*_”Now just hold on just one Kentucky-Fried minute there, missy”_*

The birds and he bees talk is even worse when you’re home schooled

I just love that when KRplusrs have notes they have it like "heyyyy" and then what they're going to say

Come on that "getting married" conversation was just wholesome

I remember in elementary school I took the “gifted” class every Wednesday, so I would leave my normal classroom and go do a puzzle or something. Just so happens that one Wednesday was the birds and the bees talk, so while I was building some tape bridge or something my classmates were being sufficiently traumatized a couple rooms over. I remember meeting up with them at recess and them telling me what happened. Yeah. That’s one way to get educated.

I honestly can't remember a lot of what happened in my childhood. Blessing and a curse in some respects. I don't have to deal with as many cursed memories, but I also kind of just have to take peoples word when they talk about me as a kid.

I never even had birds and bees class because 5th grade was the year covid happened. We were switching to virtual learning then. I just a bunch of books about it instead.

one time when i was like, 5, i had a rhino plush that i named "horn-y" .... because he had horns and i was bad with names.. i didnt get how weird that was until i was 12

A kid in my class ate a styrofoam packing peanut. That literally everyone in the grade had touched because it was for a science experiment. We were in 6th grade. He didn’t come to school the next day...

When you were talking about the bee thing but you think that we couldn’t see fin saying math it exits love your vids btw

I never had the "birds and the bees talk" i just had the straight up answer

One of my cursed memories was accidentally walking into my parents room when they were, “wrestling”. Oh boy was that cursed.

In elementary I went to this little private Catholic school and when it was time for *the talk* they had us all sit down on the classroom floor and a very old deacon came in and stood at the front of the class looking down at all these 5th graders he clears his throat and says “GOD LOOOOVES SEX” and as 5th graders we didn’t know what that was and it’s not like he did an awesome job of explaining it so we just went around for the rest of the day telling everyone god loves sex

I never have birds and bees, they just sat us all down (even the boys) and told us every.single.detail. :')

At my school we never called it “the birds and the bees” but we still had that talk in fifth grade. I had already leaned about periods and puberty tho. I started puberty really young. I’m a swimmer so when I was in elementary I would change in the bathrooms at the place where I swam. I would see the tampon and pads boxes and always ask my dad abt them (he took me to swim). But he always told me to ask mom. I always forgot. Eventually I remembered and she told me about periods- I think I was in 3 or 4 grade. It was never awkward for me, and I wasn’t even surprised when I got it in seventh grade bc of how educated I was from friends since I got it kinda late.

Cursed childhood moment: mom decided to give my sister and I a cat edition of "The Talk", which confused us so much because we knew how it worked with humans, but didn't know why we needed to know about cats as well. It was my mom's way of telling us our cat got knocked up and was gonna have kittens. She had a litter of 5 with none of the cats looking alike. We asked why all the kittens looked different from each other and THEN learned a queen can get knocked up by multiple tom cats. A 20/10 cursed moment, I didn't need to know my cat was the village bicycle for all the other neighborhood cats.

It's funny because I never had "the talk" officially with my mother, I didn't have the curiosity to ask "where do babies come from?" Nor even the school teachers taught us that.
And because of it, I went to middle school still believing that if a woman wants to get pregnant a baby would magically appears inside her belly even if she's not marriage

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My cursed moment would probably be in grade 8 when the boys were talking about the "birds and bees" talk and since I was absent that day in grade 5 I was clueless. I asked them what is it and they gave me an explanation that was terrifying. I regretted my life right there,

Your first friend actually deserved that, because she should have just minded her business and left the cookies alone

All the little kids that were at my elementary school were like “we can’t wait to be cool 5th and 6th graders like you.” and all the older kids wanted to say to them “when you’re in fifth and sixth grade you’re not cool, you’re very awkward and sweaty all the time.”

I can kinda relate to the feelings you had during the birds and bees talk, my mom had it to where we watched look who's talking the night before the school had the birds and bees talk, I still think she Plan it out and i'm so upset about it

luigi meowing in the back is so cuteee

to many anime references in such a short amount of time cant handle

I don't get why American schools even separate boys and girls for that class.. The knowledge should be the same, and if there is something they don't tell all the students, that's kind of sus

Legend says illy has not stopped Luigi, eating the Glue cookie ornaments.yet.

“Your cookie’s don’t taste good” 😂😂😂😂😂

Hey guys look wat my dad taught me *puts up the middle finger*
8 year old me: what horrible parenting

This happened in high school, but I think it still counts. (Edit: This is a bit long)
My parents are either helicopter parents or don't really care about your opinion/feelings. Only if you were obeying their commands, and pretending to be happy.
So one morning I woke up with the feeling of my ears a little clogged. So I snuck into my parent's bathroom and tried to clean it (since they were the only ones with q-tips). I somehow made it a bit worse.
I went to a charter school (that wasn't a good one), so we didn't have a bus, my mom had to drive me. On the way there, I told her that my ears felt clogged. Her response was, "Oh you're fine. You're just faking to be sick again." Admittedly, I did do that a lot in an attempt to not go to school and be with my toxic ex. But this time it was real.
I kept telling her for a whole year, while my ears were getting more clogged and it was getting harder and harder to hear. I was saying, "What did you say?" "Huh?" and just not responding to people trying to get my attention because I could not hear almost at all. It got to the point some teachers were getting mad at me, thinking I was doing it on purpose so I just kept it to myself, not saying anything. My grades went down because of it.
It was only when my school decided to do a hearing test on the special ed kids. (I was one of them because of my Auditory Processing Disorder and shyness from being taught to not speak up for myself) When it came to me, they put the headphones on, told me that when I hear beeps to raise my hand and waited....and waited. I heard nothing. No beeps. Test finished and my teachers looked at each other, then at me. Puzzled, they asked if I was hearing anything and I told them no. They took off my headset, checked to see if it was broken, then checked the machine to see if it was on. Everything was fine. They then took me to the principal's office where they called my mom and told her what had happened, saying that she needed to take me to the doctor.
Two weeks after being told I needed to go, my mom finally took me and my doctor only took one quick look (without any tools) and said, "Wow! That is the worst clogging I've ever seen." He cleaned out my ears. and it felt like a wet, foam earplug came out with instant relief of freedom. Everything was so loud and everything echoed as my doctor explained to my mom what to use to clean out ears next time.
My mom left with me in a huff, both my parents never liked being told that they were wrong, and I whispered to her (because everything was loud now) "Told you my ears felt clogged."

We had to start in 4th grade for the birds and the bees, you’re lucky! In 6th grade we also have to see EACH OTHERS video! So I’m gonna have to see the boys 😢😩

0:00 plot twist: this is an alternate universe and they can actually make the unavailable video sign with their hands

When I was 11 I met a suicidal 18year old girl in the hospital, and I felt like I had to befriend her, but being around her made me horribly depressed so I lied about having a new phone number and that somebody else had my old number. I still feel bad, but then again she told me that she fell in love with me?? 20 out of 10 on the cursed scale

In fifth grade this one guy had a sweater that said “変態” on it and he said that it meant roses or something like that when really it meant pervert so he was walking around with a sweater that said pervert on it in Japanese and all the Japanese people there were just staring at his sweater in shock

THE CAT AT THE END AWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

HA! A few years back, me and my grandmother made gingerbread ornaments. And on Christmas my dad accidentally ate one. Ahhhh. Memories. 😂

“I didn’t have a crush on my friend but... GAY RIGHTS”
SIS GO OFF

That part about the girls learning abstinence and the boys watching a movie is ridiculous.

I remember in 5th grade I was given a form about the birds and bees talk and my mom didn't sign it, probably bc I already knew the stuff (I was given the "It's Not The Stork" series as child.) And ig the middle school talk was involuntary bc I had to join that group in 6th grade. I remember there was this video that looked like it was in the '90s that contained stuff that I still already knew and at the end we were all made to pretend-sign abstinence certificates.
I was weird as hell, but hey at least I didn't have to do PE for a couple days.

on the amogus scene i saw ur lil name tag thingy it said she/they under illy. Idk if that was u but i support! Love ur vids

When I first started my ✨lady time✨ I wanted to use “cotton torpedoes” but I didn’t know how so I asked my mom for help. I put my leg up on the toilet like the diagram in the box and apparently expected her to do it for me. She obviously did not. And now, every month, I die a little from embarrassment as that memory returns to haunt me.

Cursed story from middle school:
One time at camp, I saw one of the special Ed kids crying alone, so I went over to comfort her.
She was crying because she missed her mom, and I felt really bad because she was homesick.
Camp ended at the end of the week, and I told her not to worry, because she can see her soon.
But then her personal counselor over heard this and sent me to lunch early, really aggressively.
I was SUPER confused..... but then I found out her mom died 3 months ago.....
And I told her... she’d see her dead mom....
Soon.....
A special Ed child..... I told her that she will die soon.....

Nope we still get that joy of THE birds and bees talk😂😂😂

''We're getting married and there's nothing you can do about it'' that is really funny!

The north: so the Male sticks the twinkies in the donut and when the Male is done the twinkie shoots the frosting
The south: be prepared innocent children for your sacred innocence to be ripped from you shallow husk shells

My dad was a camp counselor, and he would tell the boys and his cabin about how birds make nests and how bees make hives. then he would tell the boys to tell their parents he gave them the birds and bees talk. it was pretty funny

The M.E. Plush in the lockers is so cute.

This one of your best videos grate idea btw