> This is my entry to [@marblely](https://steemit.com/@marblely)'s My Thursday Favourites #ccc 2.23 Contest!.

## I noticed the contest earlier but did not know what to write.

I doubt I had a favorite game. My parents never played games with us.
This weeks' theme is "My Favourite Childhood Game/s.
_...what game/s did you like to play as kids?_
_...or game/s you have not stopped playing until today?_
_...or you did not play any game as a kid?_"
I guess [@marblely](https://steemit.com/@marblely) knew I did not play as a kid?

**Children like me don't play.**
As a toddler, I learned to sit still, be invisible. Perhaps I played later in kindergarten? I am not sure about it. In kindergarten I was ill and so were two other children. The teacher took care of us. She gave us our medication and took care of our skin diseases. I can remember in the afternoon we laid on pillows on the floor, the teacher told us a story. Some of us slept.

At home, we were not allowed to play.
We had to be quiet, sit still, we're not allowed to talk during the meals (the table was set for each meal) and we needed to clean up. It was bedtime early. Between 5 - 6 pm. My parents did not like to be confronted with us. My mother provided us, worked day and night 24/24 and my father studied and left once finished his study.

As a three year old I had a doll. I cut its hair and my mother was furious. I can not remember who gave it to me only that I disliked it.
I never played with barbie dolls, I had a huge lack of fantasy if it came to these dolls.

On Thursday's we were sent to the Los after school. I think it was over after my younger sister fell on a bicycle stand (she walked over it and had a hole between eye and nose).
On Saturday's we joined a walking club. It was no fun and I can still hardly walk.

**I was seldom allowed to play with other children after school,**
at their home and they rarely came over to us. I can remember once a girl did. We both sat on the sofa and waited till the t.v. the broadcast would start. It was Wednesday afternoon, the only afternoon we had no school. Like a madwoman, my mother pulled the curtains down, kept pulling them downwards repeating the same sentence over and over again...
The girl observed my mother for a long time next asked me, "What is your mother doing".

**What did the crazy woman do except for driving me nuts with her ridiculous behavior and embarrassing me?**
I told my schoolmate exactly what she did, explained it to her and I noticed she did not understand one single word of it. I guess next we watched t.v. and the curtains finally hung in the way my mother wanted them.

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**What do kids like me do?**
They do not make friends. It is better for me and my friend's safety.
You enjoy the few moments of freedom you have and... you read. You read and escape into a different world as long as possible. Never for 100% because with a mother like mine it is wiser, for your own safety, always to stay alert, day and night.

In those days we had hardly t.v. broadcasting, no computer, game console,  video recorder, DVD player, Netflix, mobile phone, digital camera, etc. You played outside, climbed into a tree and watched other children play.

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