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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1025356" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>Exactly, my brother an I went to school as normal school kids - and coming from England we were both about a year ahead of our peers there, so flourished; dad worked and had a normal enough life.</p><p>Mum was a bored housewife in a strange country with nothing to do and not knowing anyone; and couldn't get used to the fact that everything closed at 5; nothing was open at the weekend, and once the last shipment of food (or anything else imported) had run out, there was no more until Monday. I don't blame her at all for being miserable (though I feel I can blame both my parents for not thinking about that sort of thing as grown-arse adults at the time).</p><p>We came back to the UK after 9 months.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Same on that bit.</p><p>I was the small, unpopular kid who wasn't good enough at anything to overcome being small (and classically, devloped humour as a self-protection mechanism).</p><p>I played flanker as a kid because my brother had been a flankers (and a good one) - so where else would I play.</p><p>I enjoyed haring all over the place, and I enjoyed tackling; but would typically get steamrollered due to being small, and rucked to smitherines due to being unpopular. I also quit the game aged 15, and found a sport I was genuinely good at in squash - which had no cache at school.</p><p>Tried rugby again at Uni, and found that I was a natural at 9 - or at least, as natural as I was going to be at any position - I actually had a good pass, a decent snipe, and punched above my weight in the tackle - for a 9; and I got to hare around all over the place and annoy people.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1025356, member: 73592"] Exactly, my brother an I went to school as normal school kids - and coming from England we were both about a year ahead of our peers there, so flourished; dad worked and had a normal enough life. Mum was a bored housewife in a strange country with nothing to do and not knowing anyone; and couldn't get used to the fact that everything closed at 5; nothing was open at the weekend, and once the last shipment of food (or anything else imported) had run out, there was no more until Monday. I don't blame her at all for being miserable (though I feel I can blame both my parents for not thinking about that sort of thing as grown-arse adults at the time). We came back to the UK after 9 months. Same on that bit. I was the small, unpopular kid who wasn't good enough at anything to overcome being small (and classically, devloped humour as a self-protection mechanism). I played flanker as a kid because my brother had been a flankers (and a good one) - so where else would I play. I enjoyed haring all over the place, and I enjoyed tackling; but would typically get steamrollered due to being small, and rucked to smitherines due to being unpopular. I also quit the game aged 15, and found a sport I was genuinely good at in squash - which had no cache at school. Tried rugby again at Uni, and found that I was a natural at 9 - or at least, as natural as I was going to be at any position - I actually had a good pass, a decent snipe, and punched above my weight in the tackle - for a 9; and I got to hare around all over the place and annoy people. [/QUOTE]
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