Your first crush...

[buffettbride]

Who was your first crush? I was a totally boy crazy kind of girl, so the whole first crush think kind of escaped me. Probably the closest is a boy named Mark who I went to elementary and jr. hi with. We went to different high schools, but we'd still 'connect' from time to time over the years. He was a good kid and prolly turned out okay.

I'm mostly interested, though, because my 11 year old has HER first crush and it is quite sweet. The boy she thinks is so groovy is named Nathan and he seems to dig her, too. "He's smart enough to have opinions," is what she says about him and she gets that giddy-girl-giggle whenever she talks about him. Evidently he has an identical twin, but Nathan is MUCH cuter than his brother she insists.

*sigh*

Oh the days of being completely smitten.

[ph4ever]

I'm assuming you're talking about the first crush where the guy actually liked you back. That would be Scotty Abalos. My best friend - she liked his brother and we'd go on double dates. My father hated him - he had long hair and Mexican American. Consequently we'd have to meet at football games, pizza parlors, movies - you name it. When my best friend and I were able to drive we'd go pick them up as they didn't have a car and their parents wouldn't let them drive theirs. We "dated" for about 2 school years until his family moved to west Texas. I don't know what ever happened to them but my best friend and I did marry, and divorce brothers later in life.

[buffettbride]

Yes, this boy most definitely likes her back.

[East Texas Parrothead]

Troy Donahue. *sigh* I believe the word for me was smitten.

[ph4ever]

Yes, this boy most definitely likes her back.

I could have gone back to first grade; Ricky Mitchell - we were going to grow up and get married but I moved away. It was just a schoolyard thing

[PHAW Webmistress]

"Turtle" met him at a PWP camping trips (Parents Without Partners) - we played spin the bottle and he gave me Mono

[ScarletB]

In "real" life? Michael Gill - in 8th grade he sat behind me in math class, I turned around to ask him something and it was just like the movies - I heard bells, saw stars, whatever. He looked a little like Michael J Fox. He DID like me back but just as friends - we did go on one real date when we got to college but by that time we'd been friends for so long the "magic" was kind of gone for me.

As far as my fantasy life - Paul McCartney - first man I ever loved!

[ejr]

When I was a little kid, my parents took me to the 4th of July show that was held at Northwestern University's football stadium. The show featured the Mouseketeers (the original one, cuz I am that old!).

I wore my Mickey Mouse ears and when we were walking in, we saw a family with a little boy my age who also was wearing his Mickey Mouse ears. It was love at first sight!

[buffettbride]

Troy Donahue. *sigh* I believe the word for me was smitten.

*singing* "...as for you Troy Donahue, I know what you wanna do..."

[buffettbride]

Victoria is most definitely smitten. It's so odd seeing her go from little girl to young lady right before my eyes. Last year it was all about Joe Jonas (of the Jonas Brothers). She seems to have realized an unattainable idol is no match for a real boy, in the flesh.

Evidently yesterday after school they were gathering up their things from the last class of the day and he made a special effort to walk over and wish her Merry Christmas and ask her if she had any plans over Xmas vacation.

[pbans]

It's sweet, isn't it.......

Of course, once they actually start leaving the house with said boy, in a vehicle.....it becomes a whole 'nuther can of worms!

Caitlin has a nice boyfriend right now....but bottom line, he's a 17 year old boy and she has boobs......UGH......

[LIPH]

What's this "crush" of which you speak? I just sit back and collect them 'cause the wimmins be luvin' the HOG. I wonder if anyon'e buying that?

[Conolulu]

Tony Kelley...

Cute blonde surfer boy in the neighborhood...The Summer between 8th and 9th grade..

He went to Public School and I went to a very strict Parochial School....Boys and Girls couldn't sit on the same side of the classroom...AND we had to wear shorts under our uniforms so the little boys couldn't look up our skirts...God forbid!

The nuns were straight from Ireland and had never been to visit the United States before the school and church were built!

We hung out all Summer and he finally got the courage to give me my first, very chaste, kiss, by mid August...

[buffettbride]

It's sweet, isn't it.......

Of course, once they actually start leaving the house with said boy, in a vehicle.....it becomes a whole 'nuther can of worms!

Caitlin has a nice boyfriend right now....but bottom line, he's a 17 year old boy and she has boobs......UGH......

Victoria is actually starting to need the bras she's been wearing for the last 2 years. I'm not sure how I feel about that.

[Snowparrot]

I don't think it counts as a crush if he feels the same way!

I think I had various slight attachments to classmates, who mostly didn't know I existed, but the first major crush was in Grade 10, when I was about 13-14, and it continued through high school.

Joe was cute, witty, a musician and school-show actor. He did know I existed; we were friends, and talked and teased in a juvenile way. I stalked him a little; his house was near my granny's where I spent a lot of weekend time. We hung out with the same crowd, theatre geeks, s-f readers, oddballs. Nothing ever happened between us, although I do believe there was a quick peck on the cheek after we'd been to the Fair together.

Years later, I discovered a novel (s-f, of course) by a new author, with his name, and a bio that seemed to fit him, so I wrote to the author through the publisher. It was really him, and he wrote me a many-page letter back. In it, he reminisced about the bad old days of high school, some flattering and personal memories he had of me (he remembered my "porcelain skin", which my mother always just called "pale"), and informed me that he was, and always had been, gay. The pieces all fit together then, and I could see with hindsight the clues that I had been so clueless about, back in the early 1960s.

That was my first significant crush, but not my last!

[Lightning Bolt]

I thought it was a CRUSH because you felt so strongly for the girl... and she didn't even know you were alive.

Trish Clayton... broke my 6th grade heart

[Lightning Bolt]

Joe was cute, witty, a musician and school-show actor. .... he was, and always had been, gay.

sorry, but when I saw the first part, I thought to myself, as I kept reading.... "sounds like this guy is...ohhhhh"

[luvinlife]

Sheri Lynn Newton....but she broke my "School boy Heart."

[SchoolGirlHeart]

Second grade... Tommy... He knew I was alive... He gave me a black eye...

[Snowparrot]

Second grade... Tommy... He knew I was alive... He gave me a black eye...

Joe stabbed me in the hand with a pencil