What is something about your childhood that you DON'T miss?

[Symberzite]

Honestly, purchasing stuff. If you didn't live in a major city you just couldn't get certain things. Buying stuff online was hard and often expensive. I've been tinkering with old/cheap tech lately and a lot of problems can be fixed if you just buy the correct cable or go to the library to 3D print a stand or case for a few bucks. Back then if you got a new game for your birthday and it came with "X99923 Videocard Encoding Error" you were out of luck.

[NoxidKin]

I hated alot of things about growing up.  But if I had to pick one, it's definitely school.  Since I left, I've never thought for one moment "those were the days".  I was miserable almost every second.  It's 20 years later and even now, thinking back to it, I get a sense of relief knowing that I'll never have to do that again.

[Gizmo]

I don't miss being bound to my parents' schedule. They were almost like the post office in that it took 5-7 business days between me asking them to buy something / go somewhere and them actually doing it (if they said yes), and if I complained about it or tried to speed them up, there was a good chance I wouldn't be doing that activity at all.

[HABITRABBITS]

book reports. hands down. 

shoutout to anyone who started to hate reading because of book reports specifically.

[MallRat]

Having to go with somebody else's schedule. Some people might miss having people plan things out for them, but I always found it to be extremely annoying (specifically as a little kid) to need to stop what I'm doing and leave the house because of a bunch of impromptu errands. It's nice to do everything at my own pace and have a known schedule for when I'm doing them.

Also, the ability to pick my own outfits and hairstyles! My parents weren't hardcore, but my mom was very much not a fan of alternative clothes. I now suffer the adult problem for not having the money for cool clothes, but hey, I have the freedom to get them when I do have money??

[SadOldMan]

Being helpless against abusive authority figures. Sadly enough,this is still my life at 45.

[Grimmgall]

I'd personally say that I do not miss the Bad Art/Bad Character/Mary-Sue Tumblr blogs of the 2010s and how they impacted the way people wrote their characters, especially their female characters--and that's neglecting to even mention the many young children who were bullied for not having the most advanced art in the world (of course many 11-14-year-olds were not going to be the best; those are typical beginner art ages).

I also dislike the fact that people weren't allowed to be genuine about their emotions in the mid-to-late 2010s because then they were described as cringeworthy and unable to be taken seriously. Ironically, they only took people seriously if they were creating joke vent art, were humorous in general, mentioned their issues extremely vaguely, or were otherwise very popular.

I'll add more when I can think of them.

[Myrmeform]

Not having any agency or control over my life. I love my parents but they live their lives in a way that made me extremely stressed out and sad as a child, I felt so much better once I moved out!

I love paying bills BEFORE they become emergencies, I love not having random people in my (already small) living space randomly all the time for no reason, I love not having to listen to constant bickering every single day. Living alone gets undue derision because actually it is awesome and amazing and relaxing and calming and comfortable and perfect.

[starbreaker]

book reports. hands down.

shoutout to anyone who started to hate reading because of book reports specifically.

I flatly refused to do them, let alone read what I was told to read. I took the 0 instead, until I finally figured out that I could just get the Cliffs Notes, skim the text, and bullshit my way through the assignment. It's not like the teachers had time to carefully read every report, or got paid enough to try.

Finally getting my own electric typewriter in high school (1993) helped considerably, too. Nobody knew how to teach a left-handed kid decent, comfortable penmanship.

[haunted-cherries]

A few folks in this thread have said it already but I don't miss school in the SLIGHTEST. xD My schooling experience was terrible and borderline traumatizing (and that's outside of having to do mountains of homework b/c of all the gifted kid programs my mom shoved me in), so being away from it is a BLESSING

[WhimsicalCookie5]

-Being forced to eat something because my parents made it for my even though I already told them I don't like it.
And then gagging, vomiting or taking too long to eat because of the texture and/or taste. Then being told that I was ungrateful and misbehaving because children in the streets are starving and I shouldn't let food waste even though they already knew I didn't like it but whenever I reminded them, one of them would hit me on my head, but it wasn't serious, my parents are better now! 

-Having to copy cartoon characters from TV to get friends with a success rate of 50% (I saw "having friends" as a currency or cool points rather than a necessity for me but I didn't dehumanize them I just had friends to look normal but I didn't know how to maintain friendships)

-Mental Health care and stuff like that wasn't that good and I was scared to talk about feelings because I thought people would think I was lying or faking and since I was dumb I also thought that I would be injected or locked up in an ayslum (I probably got this idea from TV) 

And more things but I don't wan to make this post long, I feel like my childhood was wasted and I don't want to remember it and I would never wish to go back to it. Nothing serious happened but I didn't feel fully human in a bad way ( not in a `cool I'm not human` way sadly) ｀、ヽ｀ヽ｀、ヽ(ノ＞＜)ノ ｀、ヽ｀☂ヽ｀、ヽ

[HisVirusness]

Childhood in general.