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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2007 18:30:02 GMT -5
^ oh yeah, definitely fantasies of starting my own BSC! Definitely. Unfortunately I was about nine yrs old at the time and actually realistic enough to know it wasn't a possibility But I did attempt to start about a million clubs which never lasted much past one or two meetings. My friend and I talked about starting our own BSC in 6th grade. It didn't happen mainly because the 4 of us who would have started it didn't live in the same neighborhood, so the parents wouldn't have known the other sitters and so forth. It would be like strangers babysitting your kids. My mom also put a big, fat "NO" on the idea anyway--too much visiting with friends and not enough time on homework. Other things I did: --trying to copy Claud's outfits (then getting teased mercilessly for it); hoping I'd get asked out by a Trevor Sandbourne type because of the clothes, the way Claud did. --thinking I was weird in 8th grade for not having had a boyfriend or being asked out yet, because they all had --comparing myself to Claud because I spent as much time on flute as she did on art, and comparing myself to Stacey because I had to do exercises and have surgery for scoliosis, while she also had a health concern (diabetes). I was still most like Mary Anne or Mallory though (quiet, bespectacled, and bookish), so who was I fooling.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2007 18:29:10 GMT -5
Oh God, what didn't I do? Let's see: Tried to start a BSC Thought I had diabetes Tried to actually write a book because Mallory did Tried to draw candy like Claudia Dotted my i's with tiny stars, like Stacey w/the hearts I couldn't understand why people thought I was "too young" in eighth grade to babysit Everytime I heard the name "Kristy" or "Stacey" I would ask if it was short for Kristen or Anastasia I automatically assumed that if someone clicked on the tv while they were babysittng then they were a bad sitter
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 1, 2007 22:08:01 GMT -5
Let's see what did I do... -Thought I was diabetic every time I was hungry or thirsty. -Wanted a cat after reading Poor Mal and reading about Priscilla the overly expensive cat lol. -When I got into the Super Specials, every time I wrote a story I wrote it just like that, with people going on vacation and each one having their own POV (I still do that, thanks to the BSC this is my writing style for all of my stories -Started getting obsessed with I Love Lucy (I still love it). -Started numerous BSC Sim families. -Walked around with my hair in pigtails like Hannie in the LS books. -Thought NYC was the best place on Earth. -Wondered why I never had a BF in 8th grade. -Tried to start my own club, not a baby-sitting club, but just a club in general. -Wanted to go to boarding school after reading The All-New Mallory Pike (did the same thing after watching The Facts of Life). -Wanted a unicorn sweatshirt like Karen in the LS Books.
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Post by baseballchica03 on Oct 1, 2007 23:06:51 GMT -5
Did we all either think that we had diabetes or even hope that we had diabetes because of Stacey? It seems like it, based on friends I talked to and from various comments here and over in the LJ comm. Ha. Not quite what Ann M. Martin was hoping for, I think.
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 1, 2007 23:23:11 GMT -5
I actually never thought I had diabetes (at least not because of the book) and never wanted it because my aunt has it (type I and quite severe) so I knew more than I wanted about it from the time I was little. I always liked it, though, that Stacey had diabetes because this gave me a way to relate to my aunt, I think. The main thing the BSC books made me want to do was all of the community service projects and big events. I always get inspired (and more now than when I read the books as a kid ;D) to do charitable things, write plays, organize festivals, etc ;D I did try to start my own baseball team, though, but that didn't work well ;D
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Post by sotypical42483 on Oct 2, 2007 18:03:12 GMT -5
I never thought I had diabetes. It wasn't something I associated with young people. My grandma's was pretty severe, I associated it with old people and thought it was so strange Stacey had it. I did the same things with stories, sweetvalleygirl
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Oct 2, 2007 21:49:03 GMT -5
I also associated diabetes with old people because my grandma and grandpa both had it but when I started reading about Stacey, I began to realize that this could happen to younger people and then my worry began and lasted until I stopped reading BSC. I also thought I had appendicitis after reading Karen's Doll and reading about Nancy getting her appendix out.
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Post by macca on Oct 3, 2007 5:22:26 GMT -5
I never thought I had diabetes. It wasn't something I associated with young people. My grandma's was pretty severe, I associated it with old people and thought it was so strange Stacey had it. I was terrified of diabetes - used to stress like crazy if I felt remotely thirsty. But the book portrays this disease to be a lot more debilitating than it really is IMO. They act like Stacey will drop dead if she takes one bite of chocolate. That worried me!
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Post by aln1982 on Oct 3, 2007 7:52:26 GMT -5
^ Actually, I was going to say that I think the book really downplays diabetes. My aunt has almost gone into several diabetic comas for who knows what reason, has tons of trouble keeping her insulin regulated and has many complications as a result of the disease. She is only 52 and legally blind from side effects of the disease. This is really a big issue for me right now with thinking about Stacey's diabetes because my aunt's eyes are doing really bad and she's "bleeding" from them. And her diabetes has not been diagnosed as any rare type - just Type I childhood onset like Stacey has. Type II, the common kind for most adults to get, is much less severe, though. Sometimes the books make me feel bad because I don't do all the chartiable things that they do. I always get really inspired but can never seem to follow through ;D
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 3, 2007 14:06:39 GMT -5
Me too!
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Post by macca on Oct 3, 2007 17:49:21 GMT -5
^ Actually, I was going to say that I think the book really downplays diabetes. My aunt has almost gone into several diabetic comas for who knows what reason, has tons of trouble keeping her insulin regulated and has many complications as a result of the disease. She is only 52 and legally blind from side effects of the disease. This is really a big issue for me right now with thinking about Stacey's diabetes because my aunt's eyes are doing really bad and she's "bleeding" from them. And her diabetes has not been diagnosed as any rare type - just Type I childhood onset like Stacey has. Type II, the common kind for most adults to get, is much less severe, though. Wow, sorry to hear about your aunt. I guess it's not that the book "downplays" diabetes, but they make it seem as if all Stacey has to do is not go within 10 feet of a candy bar and give herself injections occasionally (OH EW EW EW ) she'll live in perfect health forever. I don't think you're alone there ;D
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Post by wanderingfrog on Oct 3, 2007 17:54:51 GMT -5
I never wanted to have diabetes, but when I was thirsty a lot I worried that I had it, because of the Stacey books and Don't Call Me Sugarbaby! by Dorothy Joan Harris.
When I was a kid, the only girl I knew with diabetes, who was two years younger than me, never ever ate anything with sugar unless her blood sugar was really low, so I never knew that there was misinformation about diabetes in the books.
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Post by sparklymouse on Oct 3, 2007 18:37:59 GMT -5
I know people with diabetes who don't have to do the insulin thing, just eat a bit carefully. My great-grandma had it and had to have some of her toes removed due to poor blood circulation. (That merits an "Ew" from me.) So I guess there are different side effects for everyone.
Lately every book I've read has Karen and her friends or some of the BSC charges in need of money. The first thing they always do is check the couch cushions in their homes and end up with a large percentage of what they need. So the other day I tried to nonchalantly check the cushions of the furniture in my work's lobby. Boo and Bullfrogs, someone must have gotten there before me. All I found was a quarter and a dirty piece of candy. ;D
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 3, 2007 18:41:32 GMT -5
I tried doing that too and never found much
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2007 11:25:50 GMT -5
i used to hang out with this girl, and we were being babysat by the same person so we sat in the corner with a plastic phone pretending we were the BSC, and I started out with asking the normal questions, "Does your kid have any allegies?" and it went along like that until my friend started making it more interesting by asking the "clients", "Do your kids have rabies? Do I need to lock them in the basement?"
Somehow all my BSC games ended up being "The BSC goes Crazy".
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