So I started doodling again after seeing some Vi Hart's doodling videos and thinking "Hey I used to do stuff like that."
Doodling has long been something that has made me apprehensive, I'm very self conscious about my artistic ability and there's just something about drawing that made me feel very scared.
I did a bunch of stuff and found myself wondering, "Why did I ever stop doing this stuff?" Then I remembered a series of incidents in which my mother became angry at me for doodling on the back of worksheets and such and started forbidding me from doodling during school. There was a thing where for a while she'd search through my papers and worksheets looking for doodles to make sure I hadn't gone against her wishes.
I remember at one point I did some doodling in a bit of notebook paper, then tore out the page and threw it away during a study hall session where I had nothing to do. The teacher saw me throwing the page away and asked me what it was about, I tried to dodge out of it but she seemed pretty persistent in getting answers so I just told her that it was just some drawings but I didn't want my mother finding them because she didn't want me drawing during school. She told me that she thought that was a little harsh, but that if my mother felt I shouldn't be drawing during school then I probably shouldn't draw during school.
I think it was around this time I tried my hand at poetry instead.