Hello six readers! I saw this a couple of days ago, it’s about a design student reworking Disney Princesses to look more “real” and it got me thinking about my Disney childhood. It really was a great experience growing up with Disney characters, feeling their pain, seeing their triumphs, and wishing for their hair.

So here are a few random facts about my childhood with Disney:

• Growing up, I was told I looked like Jasmine from Aladdin and Pocahontas from the movie of the same title. No, it was not lost on me that these were the princesses that were colored. I was darker, umkay?
• I memorized the whole Pocahontas soundtrack when it came out, our mom bought us tapes and the sing along lyrics to the whole thing. To this day I still remember snippets of random songs.
• I really loved Ariel’s red hair from the Little Mermaid, and have a soft spot for redheads up to the present coz of it.
• I dressed up in a genie like costume (that I picked up from Supersale Club with my own money) for my seventh birthday. I liked the blues, greens and purples of the thing.
• I remember one friend for his Lion King lunchbox. I wanted it so much coz it changed colors in the heat.
• I went to the preschool section of our elementary school library to read Minnie Mouse’s adventures.
• My favorite character to color in coloring books is Minnie Mouse, her outfits were always color coordinated for me.
• For so long I wanted a pet tiger like Princess Jasmine’s.
• Snow White is my least favorite princess, her voice was too high, she was too sickly sweet for my taste.

When I do get my own kids in the future, they will find Disney a part of their childhood as I did mine, I hope they love it as much as I do.