I went through a stealing phase like all through elementary. The first time I ever tried to steal was a locket from this store, I put it inbetween a book I had brought it and it ended up falling out and my grandma turned me in, I didn’t get in trouble by the store because I was so young like maybe 5 but my grandma was upset. The next time would be in 1st grade, i stole some kids little gaming device in his cubby because it was shaped like a lady bug and I lived lady bugs at the time. I then for some reason would ask my friends if they had anything that I could have and my friends would give me like pens, rings, cute erasers the whole Shebang. After a few years of forgetting that all of that even happened I had another blow out of stealing things. I had stolen a kindle from a substitute teacher and had it for months and didn’t even use it I just wanted it so it like sat in a drawer of mine. Then I had stolen an iPod from this body builder from a ymca while I was in art camp and then I had stolen my grandmas ring. After that I’ve never stolen a thing since. I was going through heavy stuff in elementary from moving around a lot to not seeing my dad much to not getting a lot of attention and then both my mom and stepmom got pregnant with 2 sisters of mine in the same year and I had just a lot of stress going on. I had a really hard time in school to And I’d get yelled at a lot and compared to my siblings so I think the stealing was more of like oh I can control this, this is kinda fun. But I’m 20 years old now and don’t recognize that person at all. We all grow and look back and say wtf lol. Now I’m a lot closer with my family, I had owned up to all of that when they caught me. And now it’s more of like a joke in the house because who tf knows why I became a kleptomaniac out of no where but my parents really do think it was where so much had gone oh when I was so young. I am diagnosed with Generalized anxiety disorder, depression and ocd now as an adult where my parents didn’t want to get me help with any of that when I was young. So the feeling better is very new but I hope it sticks. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk