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I mean as opposed to adults: some adults who don't know me take a look in my eyes and take another step backwards - people have told me that I have a madness in my eyes and that I am, to all intents and purposes anyway, a scary and intense person. Yeah, right, OK. :tongueout:

If all the above is true, then why is it that kids seem to like me and are not frightened by me? A case in point: yesterday, i was waiting for the bus and I smiled at a child who was walking by me. I always have a smile for a child, any child, no matter how bad I may feel. He stopped, smiled, put his hand on my knee - maybe he thought I was a statue  :teddyr: and I looked at him and smiled again. He smiled and walked away.

Result: I think children (the most perceptive of all humans) see the gentle soul beneath the supposedly scary exterior: therefore they are more adult than the adults.  :smile:

I think  has to do with your honesty and trueness. For reason I do not understand, that scares adults. Not children, though.

Adults in general are terrible people, I think it happens around puberty.  That's when we start to grow up, become more mature realize that we have to look good not for ourselves but for others because they will judge us and we in turn will judge them.  Everyone eventually becomes an a-hole wether they admit it or not. 

Given that this was still a child he saw you and thought "Oh Em Gee!  It's a super hero!"


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If a child asks me a question, I answer truthfully, no nonsense. My special niece (now five) asked me once if I have someone in my life and I told her that I didn't. She wished that I would find someone.  :smile:

Well, he was right.  :wink: :teddyr:

Good point Bushma.
We spend so much time worrying about how we look to others that we really don't realize that all the while we try to look good for others, we ourselves become critics of those around us who we perceive to not be as good looking by our standards.  And yes, we become idiots more than we know, speaking from experience and from the humility borne of that experience when it returns to me.

You're a very kind and decent person,my friend,and kids pick up on that. Adults,however,just seem to want to pidgeon-hole others into some mold they can live with. Plus I think trust is often a casualty of adulthood.

I agree with the rest of the folks here, and at the risk of coming across as a New Age freak, I'll offer an explanation, of sorts.

Kids don't have all the filters that we as adults have built up. They can sense auras. Doesn't mean they can see them, but I believe they can sense them. Most people have muddy auras; basically, they are like a cloud of static to kids. But when a person with a fairly clear aura gets near them, they can sense the calm, the lack of static. You have little to no static in your aura, good sir. To kids, you are like stepping out of a crowded street into a quiet meadow. You are an oasis for them in a world of static.

This is how kids look at me:

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At least the three we had.  I assume others are better though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLj-5Clvsuk

HA HA!!!!   :bouncegiggle:

Thanks, SisterT: I have always found it a bit odd that children like and trust me, so I take extreme care never to betray that liking and especially the trust. I also get angry when people abuse children with their reasons being "it was done to me". It was done to me too and I will never abuse a child, mentally, physically or verbally.

Mom told me that I undergo a visible change when I am around children: my eyes and facial expressions become warmer and I am able to relate to kids on a "I'm on your level" basis.*

*That and the fact that I have a rather large dinosaur occupying my coffee table.  :wink: :teddyr:

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LOL....that reminds me of this t-shirt I couldn't resist buying. It says "Kids,the gift that keeps on taking". My daughter hates it,for some reason. :teddyr:

Yeah, kids just love the dinosaur, and they figure "anyone who likes dinosaurs is OK with me".  But you'd be OK even if you didn't have the dinosaur, 'cause that's just the kind a' guy you are  :cheers:

Awww.... *HUG*.

When you walk through my flat's front door (or should that be my door's front flat?  :wink:) Mr G is sitting on my coffee table. I told my nephew to look out for the dinosaur as he went in, he said "Yeah, right!" and when he looked right, went WHOA!  :teddyr:

Godzilla?  Well hey man, how much cooler can it get that that?   
Which Godzilla is it, the one from the 50's or the newer one from the Millenium and after?
Either way it's still Godzilla and that's good enough.  :cheers:

Ermmm.... [prepares to duck a hail of shoes]  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

It's the Roland Emmerich Godzilla  :buggedout: :buggedout:

Sometimes it's just your face.

Now, I'm not handsome man like yourself, Trevor. I have a face that looks angry all the time. I've got those low eyebrows and a dark complexion. Unless I'm making a special effort to seem friendly, it seems to people that I hate their guts. I don't, I'm actually a big fan of people. But I've got a mean face and I speak in monotone. For people who don't know me, I come across as somewhat scary.

It's very tiresome to have people recoil to you. Sure you get to know them over time, and then they realize you're a good person. But it's annoying to have to win them over every time. And they do recoil. I win them over because I'm a nice person at heart, but before I get to that point I have to deal with the hesitance.

Trevor-and I say this with all my heart-I think kids like you because kids are innocent and not fouled by misconceptions of what or who we are supposed to act or look-kids love me too. And I think it;s because were young at heart and still find joy in kid stuff-cartoons,old GI joes,fishing-ya know. I feel joy just walking in the woods with Tina-looking at turtles and birds.It's nice.
Yer a good man,Trev. You got a young heart.  :smile:

Uh Ohhh.......   :buggedout:

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I have quite an acne scarred face - a teenage legacy - but people think it gives my face character.  :wink:

Awww...... I must admit I teared up a little reading that. *HUG* for you and a *HUG* for Tina.  :smile:

Yeah, really! Just add an eye patch and a tri-corner hat and a cutlass and you have Captain Trevor!   :bouncegiggle:

Arrrrrrrrr............  :wink:

My special sister invited me to tea with her parents in December and her kids were eagerly showing me the presents they had bought with the gift cards I gave them: my nephew had bought a humongous water cannon and he shot me in the back with it, cooling me down on a hot day.   :thumbup: The odd thing is my special sister's Mom went  :buggedout: :buggedout: and told her grandson "Uncle Trevor's going to be angry with you!"

Angry? Why? It was hot, I cooled down and no, I was most definitely not angry. Far from it.  :teddyr: