Michael Nesmith’s Life Before The Monkees
Michael Nesmith’s childhood was miserable. He was born in Houston, Texas on December 30, 1942. When Mike was 6-years-old him and his mother moved to a piece of land that she inherited in Dallas. They were very poor. They lacked food, and Mike remembers being hungry a lot. Mike couldn’t keep up with the other kids because he went to a pretty rich school because of zoning districts. He tried making friends up until the age 16 or 17. He says that he was "an ugly skinny kid with a horrible personality." He did not do well in school. He was always interested in things that nobody else was interested in; for example, he always asked himself where chalk came from. He used to cut classes and try to figure out these things. He didn’t start failing badly until high school. He remembers the other kids being mean to him. They used to laugh at him, and he really didn’t like it.