Green Coat story
So this story is more simple or at least I think it's a simple story. At the time I was in Gr. 8 and I was being bullied in school-sometimes badly- see the Doorknob Bullying story if you haven't already. Also at the time I had a green coat. It was between 2 seasons, the only thing I knew it wasn't winter at the time because I had shoes on. Don't worry it has a good ending.
Story
So my split Gr.7/Gr. 8 class and the other teacher's Gr. 8 class had a field trip to what I guess was a Outdoor Education centre. Then we had what I can only call a "game" organized by the adults a big chunk of the classes were "werewolves" included some of the bullies. Everyone else who wasn't a wolve including myself, were "deer". And the deer at least had what I can call "Booklets" we're suppose to stamp at what I'm going to call "Watering Holes" along the trail. I started off like normally like on the trail. But I somehow had this 3rd sense, to get off the trail and I spend the rest of the game along the trees- with some stops to check the trail to find out if I was heading in the right direction.
When I got back to the Building, at the entrance, I was the last person to return from the forest and I "won" the game by "surviving" as an animal.
Thoughts:
So I highly believe now, that the reason I might have did the "going through trees" at the time of the story, is because I was worried about combination of no teachers or adults in the forest (or as far as I know, there weren't), and what the bullies might have done to me in the forest.
@Disneywoman
I am glad you won and stayed safe 🥰

@Amanda84 I have another story from a several years back. It's talking about why I believe I didn't go trick or Treating on Halloween after I was 11 years old. Since Mom wanted me to go solo, and I was like in this one, afraid of like bullies, either running into bullies, or something.
All three of these stories I been thinking of recently, because in a weird way, Molly Burke has been helping me to process my own trauma, or my own responses to school-related trauma. Like an unofficial therapist.
@Disneywoman
Thank you for sharing this. It's crazy how moments like these can really stick with you for years. I find it cool how trusting your instincts guided you through this journey and I'm happy that it ended on a positive note with you winning the game. :)
@CherryBerry53 I joke now that I must have been The Prince of a forest, or something in a previous life if I went through trees. Because in the original story where the 1942 Disney Movie Bambi was based off of- The Great Prince of the Forest showed Bambi to "stay off the trails" this is something I only discovered more recently after digging into original stories of Disney movies
@Disneywoman
Thank you for sharing this. It's crazy how moments like these can really stick with you for years. I find it cool how trusting your instincts guided you through this journey and I'm happy that it ended on a positive note with you winning the game. :)