School's hard and not everybody fits in.
According to one study, around 35% of students may have experienced social rejection. Those who suffered from it were more likely to have symptoms of depression and PTSD. Other research showed that among adolescent girls, this exclusion is also linked to physical health problems.
So to get a better understanding of these dynamics, Reddit user NoMarket2312 asked people online to share what "the weird kid" did at their school that they simply cannot forget.
From bizarre interactions with their own bodies to inexplicable outbursts in the middle of class, here are some of the four thousand replies.
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Uhh I'm late and this story isn't funny at all but here it goes
She never spoke and was hard to communicate but a sweet girl. Didn't understand most things, got overwhelmed and overstimulated quickly. Our teacher assigned another student to take care of her at all times, this student was also a little child so had no idea how to manage her friend. We would often hear her scream from (now I understand) overstimulation.
I transferred to that school at 5th grade, and on my first, very nervous day, she came to me, held my hand, kissed it and put it on her forehead. It's a sign of respect to elders in my country to kiss a hand like this. I was very confused as I wasn't her senior. After getting to know her a bit more I realized she was trying to comfort me in her own way. I had more sympathy and more importantly more respect for her after that, something I felt she severely needed.
Looking back, I knew even then her situation was sad and she needed better care for sure. But kids around her never taunted or bullied her, not even the worst kid in class. When we went to day trips as a class we always raised money for her to attend as it was known her family was poor. Parents & teachers raised money for her clothing, basic needs etc. When she cried out of frustration, anyone would console her, not just a teacher. She was like a little sister to all of us. I had to be transferred again because my family moved again, but I'll never forget her or the people around her. They were all just little kids, but showed more compassion and empathy than most adults I see now. She changed the way I perceive people with mental disability at a very early age.
Aww, this is so sweet and I love hearing stories like it. 🥰
as a teacher, I've learned that having students like that in the school makes the other students just a little bit more compassionate. We have applied skills classrooms, and the other students are always willing to help them whenever needed. They never make fun of them or belittle.
I have 2 autistic sons in the same class and they get bullied by the older kids in the school not the kids in their class one is non verbal and a flitter will not concentrate on one thing will spend about 5 mins top at 1 thing then move to another my other son says few words but mostly echolalia but he will tolerate kids near him I like how this little girl was treated in this story but some kids with learning difficulties arnt always treat the same or easy to tolerate
Load More Replies...Nonverbal autistic by the sounds of it. Being unable to speak doesn't mean you don't have a soul. This story was so sweet.
Going through these stories one can't help but remember how difficult school can be, so while we discuss kids and labels, we also have to talk about individuality and empathy. To dive into these topics, we reached out to our parenting expert Vicki Broadbent, an award-winning TV broadcaster and the creator of the family lifestyle blog Honest Mum, as well as a mother of three.
"Compassion is a skill to be cultivated and the best way is by modeling it as a parent, and also acknowledging and praising your child when they demonstrate it," Broadbent told Bored Panda.
"My most important goal as a parent is to raise kind and caring kids who believe in equality and practice it. They are taught in daily actions and in my own views and actions to others that differences are what make us beautifully unique. Seeking out books and TV programs that promote inclusivity from a young age are important tools for communication."
He would howl like a dog. He’d get in trouble daily and get under the table panting and bark and growl. One day was an extra bad episode and we all thought it was funny being 5 years old at the time, and after that day we didn’t see him anymore. The state took him.
Turns out he was kept in cages with the dogs at his house and learned dog behavior. Wonder whatever happened to him. Hope he got help.
I heard about a case like this: a very young child was put in his grandfather's custody but pretty soon after, the grandfather's mental state deteriorated rapidly. There was no malice in it, but the boy was treated like a dog until well into his teens, and they lived far enough out in the country that nobody noticed. It was terrible
I'm getting the feeling that as I read further? I'm going to want to... Already do... Take names and possibly "rip heads off" to defend some of these kids. Btw not actually literally rip heads off... It's a saying.
How horrible. I saw a woman with a small child - four or five years old - and a small dog. The woman was hugging and kissing the dog, petting it and giving it a lot of attention. The little girl was also trying to be noticed. The woman actually slapped the little girl and yelled at her to shut TF up, and went back to the dog. The little girl then, rather than crying, started to mimic the dog. She sat up and mad sad doggy sounds. It broke my heart. That poor child. Mimicking a dog.
I've posted this before in an older thread...
This was primary school, we would have been around 10 years old. There was an attempt to bring special need kids in and intergrate them into our classes. One guy was just so odd, it wasn't going well. One morning recess we're out playing on the swings and monkey bars and a girl screams, we run over and the special needs guy has blood running down from where his ear used to be. He's also dragging an open cardboard egg container (the ones we used to cut up for crafts) behind him tied to a piece of string. In that container is the missing piece of his ear. He'd cut it off with scissors.
That's how the special needs integration programme ended.
That's really sad. Integration programs are very beneficial...with the right kids
More to do with the teachers/support staff usually
Load More Replies...Kids with Individual Education Plans (IEP) have a requirement to be taught in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE). Basically where they will have the most opportunity to attend school with their non-disabled peers. if this was the case for the student, it seems that this was not his LRE. However, that does not mean it wasn't for the other students.
Vicki is not alone. The Pew Research Center found that 94% of parents say it's extremely (66%) or very (28%) important to them that their children grow up to be honest and ethical adults.
At the same time, eight-in-ten say that it's extremely or very important to them that their children become someone who helps those in need and accepting of others who are different from them.
Last day of school. All the lockers in the hallway had been cleaned out and the doors left open. Weird kid put on a football helmet, put his head down, and ran down the line head first into the doors slamming them all shut in succession.
We saw him standing outside of the classroom door, put on a helmet, and all wondered what the hell he was doing. Then "bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang.".
The first time I visited the Guggenheim museum in NYC was shortly after it opened. (For those who don't know, from the outside the building looks like an inverted flower pot; inside, there's a six-story helical ramp that extends from the top to the ground floor.) I was overcome by this vision of returning the next day with a satchel full of marbles, tennis balls, and other round rolly things, taking it to the top floor, and releasing the contents. Sadly I never had the nerve to act on this. I was 15 or so at the time.
That sounds like SO MUCH FUN! When you get caught, just tell them it's a performative art piece interrogating the way the modern public defends historical thinkers like Galileo, when they themselves would be just as annoyed if Galileo performed his antics in THEIR art gallery. Then remind them of the people who got in trouble for throwing out an art installation because they thought it was garbage, because it was made of literal garbage. Put on your best hipster look and scoff, "It's AVANT-GARDE." Extra points if you make your pronunciation SUPER French.
Load More Replies...I feel like this should be included on that Totally Bonkers Guinness World Record show 🙌
Kid licked my foot on the bus once in elementary school.
Was on the bus as a 3th grader, 1st grader randomly turned to me and said "I'll lick your feet." Me as a totally sane 8 year old was like "No way weirdo, you won't do that." And apparently I was wrong, as he grabbed my foot, slipped my sandal off and licked my foot and smiled at me while he did it. I was stunned and couldn't do anything but recoil my foot as soon as I could.
Went out of my way to avoid him the rest of my time at school until it came to graduation week in 4th grade, when they made the 4th graders, read stories to a small group of 2nd graders outside as kind of a relaxing day.
Guess who I got in my group? The kid immediately came up to me awkwardly and was just like "hey I'm sorry, I was really weird last year, I'm normal now don't worry."
Wherever he is, I hope he's doing well lmao.
We all make mistakes and do weird things, in varying degrees, at times when growing up. Let's just hope he continues to learn and grow.
I came here to say we had one kid who would eat all his fruit. I mean all of it, bananas/oranges/mandarins/etc with the skin still on, apples including the core. Whatever fruit people had, he ate the whole thing.
But after reading the other replies here, this kid's looking pretty normal all of a sudden. Y'all went to school with some nut jobs!
There was a child in my class at work who would eat oranges with the peel, totally unfazed, like orange peel isn't the most bitter substance on Earth
I like orange/grapefruit pith a great deal, actually, and can eat some peel as well (before it gets too bitter, lol.) I also eat the pith of watermelon (the whitish part under the pink part) - I actually like it better than the pink flesh XD I also really like cucumber skins, and whenever my ex used to peel cucumbers for cucumber-pork soup, I'd grab the skin peels with both hands and run away with them cackling as he tried to get them back from me and throw them away XD Then again, I WAS the "weird kid" at all of my schools, so I guess it's no surprise that I am a weird adult XD
Load More Replies..."Nut jobs" is not ok when describing children, especially those with sensory, emotional, and/or other disorders.
I grew up with children my age who had nothing. My mother would make them sandwiches for me to take to school and I'd always share my lunch. No child going hungry is a "nut job". They are hungry. They will eat whatever they need to.
Huh. Maybe something to do with food waste at home or not having enough to eat? Or it could be a personal preference; I’ve started eating the apple core as well and the skins of kiwis, though those are much more tame than banana peels.
my sister used to get bullied by kids for adding milk to her pudding... that was made with milk.....they thought it was gross she wanted milk in it.... despite them making the pudding in front of the same kids with milk and powder.... {my sister likes it less think is alll}
I used to nab something to eat in bed on the way up, as a kid, but I wasn't supposed to be eating in bed and I didn't want to get in trouble. So if I took an apple up with me I used to eat the core instead of leaving it in my bin. I've maintained this habit out of laziness, I don't have to get up and throw the core away.
Raising thoughtful kids who can step into another person's shoes includes interfering when they're ostracizing a peer who's deemed "weird."
"Teaching empathy is key," Broadbent, the author of books Mumboss (UK) and The Working Mom (US and Canada), said. "Having a candid and open conversation with your child where they feel emotionally safe so they are able to open up to you, without harsh judgment from you, is the most important first step in communication. Removing judgment means you accept mistakes are made but they can be rectified and that we all keep learning and growing from mistakes."
Building rapport with your children will incredibly benefit your bond, as one survey revealed that 55% of 8-16 year olds believe that something would stop them from asking others for help if they were struggling with their feelings.
Wrote and recorded a rap about what teachers he wanted to [unalive]. He claimed it was “art” then he claimed it was a joke. Neither the school nor the police saw the funny side of it.
Censorship, bah. Might upset my mental sensibilities to read words like kill, murder, suicide. Oh great! Now I'm thinking about doing something. I must stop these invading thoughts😠
Oh come off it we all know it's not for you. It's for their ad revenue.
Load More Replies...There was a kid at my school who would exclusively pacman walk. he would NEVER cut corners and always go to the end of a sidewalk, stop, turn at a right angle and continue.
Awesome, I do this for funsies, pivoting just on my feet while keeping the rest of my body straight with it 😅 I get weird looks and one time someone asked if I'm in the military (I guess because of the pivoting, idk)
But make sure you also go “wacka wacka wacka” while you do it for the full PacMan effect.
Load More Replies...What about getting everywhere by turning either only left or right, just need to do a 270 left if you want to go right on a left day and vise versa.
Called a quadriplegic substitute teacher "man on wheels," stormed out of the classroom and disappeared. The school thought he tried to walk home so they start searching everywhere only to have him pop out of his own locker at the end of the day.
Wtf? Wonder how long he was hiding in his own locker and also how small he must be to even fit into one?
I’ve got a friend who takes pride in being able to fit inside a locker not much bigger than a school bag. He’s short, but not that short. It’s all about flexibility
Load More Replies...Wait. How would he have walked home? Where did he hide his wheels when he was in the locker? How would a quadriplegic even get himself into a locker, unless it is ADA wheelchair sized? So many questions.
The teacher was quadriplegic. The student was the one in the locker
Load More Replies...Focus on emotions. "Helping your child understand how it feels to be ostracised, to put their shoes in the excluded child's shoes, will help them build greater understanding and empathy," Broadbent continued.
"You can ask them how they would feel if others left them out or made them feel they didn't belong? Or if others focused on their differences (as we all have them) in a discriminatory, hurtful way?"
We had a kid that would skip down the hall and simultaneously yell, MEATS! CHEESES! SAUSAGES! That same kid is now a televangelist pastor in Florida.
Like a mondegreen? Considering that he's now a televangelist, that's a distinct possibility.
Load More Replies...Dunno why you're getting downvotes. The kid WAS just receiving the lord, speaking in tongues...normal, not weird as shìt at all. 🤣
Load More Replies...For some reason, the fact that he's now a televangelist makes this so much funnier 😂
Told everyone the first day at freshman year he was going to shoot everyone up. Suspended for a week. Turned out to be the Valedictorian. Who knew?
Suspended for only 1 week? Not long enough, that is NOT a joke and not long enough!
The unibomber was incredibly smart and hardworking and we all know how that went....
I had to google Valedictorian and I still don't get it. They give a speech at the end and yet are picked on the first day, or what? Either - that is not a thing in Germany - or - something like this only exists in higher schools, that I didn't attend. Thank you very much.
At the end of schooling, it was computed that weird boy had the highest grade point average of all the kids in his class. It's not predictive. Why is this hard to understand?
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Wore the same black long-sleeved shirt and green sweats *every* *single* *day*. Except for picture day, when he showed up in a full three piece suit, perfectly polished dress shoes and a tie.
They may have only had that for clothing that fit properly? Possibly had 2 pairs of the same green sweatpants and 2 of the black shirts, plus the suit for everything else or occasions that the former isn't 'acceptable.' I hope there are other things that make this kid "weird" especially depending on how old they were.
I have like 30 black Gildan T-Shirts and 8 pair of Wranglers. I worked in music. They called it the "Soundman's Uniform!" I changed the pants daily and the shirts daily as well but sometimes 2 or 3 times. If you look at pictures of me back then (and some now) I always look like I'm wearing the same damned thing. When I'm out and about, I dress totally different.
Load More Replies...That person way well have been a genius. Einstein had variations of the same suit so that he didn't have to be bothered with choosing what to wear each day. https://medium.com/publishous/einstein-rarely-changed-his-clothes-82611052c41c
It could also be sensory some kids don't like the texture of some clothes they do make special clothes for sensory needs we looked into for my youngest son with ASD as he used to remove all his clothes and just run around starkers but he has gotten used to normal clothes now and will keep them on majority of the time
I have a friend who wears the same clothes every time I see him. At least he keeps them clean.
We had a teacher who always wore the same blue corded trousers and green t-shirt (and wore a watch up by his elbow for some reason.)They always looked clean, so we assumed he had several of each. He taught English Literature, and we had several theatre trips with him, some on evenings and weekends, and he wore the exact same outfit then as well. Odd. But a good teacher.
Oh for gosh sake!!! I have all the same black coloured clothes, socks, underwear etc! You know why? Because it's easier for doing my laundry. I also don't have to worry about - "Omg! Are my clothes going to, like, match???" I've been like that since I was a child though. It's not that weird.... So long as his shirts etc were washed, clean? Who gives a proverbial?
It's fairly well documented that a lot of high achieving folks (Steve Jobs, black turtleneck, Mark Zuckerberg, white t-shirt) have multiples of items so that they can wear the same outfit every day. It could have been a comfort thing, it could have been prioritising other things over picking out an outfit
We had a kid who refused to write with a pencil or pen. He was able to, he just refused.
He had a portable electronic typewriter that he would carry between classes all day, every day.
He had some mental issues obviously but nobody really knew what his deal was. He got transferred to a special school after 9th grade.
I tutored him for science once. He seemed fine. He understood the material.
My son has ASD; he's considered very "high functioning" (I loathe that term) and has no academic impairments, is always near the top of his class in language. However, he has huge sensory issues with paper, with the texture of it when he has to handle it, and with the sounds it makes when being written on, folded, torn, etc. When he's feeling especially sensitive I sometimes have to read in a different room, because he can't stand hearing me turn the pages. Being able to work on a laptop or tablet allows him to communicate his grasp of the material and insight, and for the teachers to realistically evaluate his abilities, rather than the minimal responses he can force himself to put down on paper.
I'm on the spectrum, and I've found low support and high support to be better fits (aka less ableist). Your son has low support needs, so he would fall into that category
Load More Replies...This falls under the umbrella of 'reasonable accommodation'. He understood the material, he carried the typewriter, so he wasn't inconveniencing anyone else, and he was simply doing what worked best for him. That's not weird. It's smart.
Just because someone knows how to use a pen, doesn't mean it is the best way to write. Many kids with ADHD, Dyslexia and other things rely on typing to be able actually demonstrate what they do know/are learning, writing long hand just pulls them down. Rather than just labelling the kid as weird, maybe someone should have actually gotten to know them, they could have made a good friend.
I knew a kid who had dysgraphia: he could read just fine, but when he wrote things, they made absolutely no sense. Just a jumble of letters. He would write something and think that it was fine, and then go back to read it, and couldn't. However, they discovered that he could type just fine! So after that he just did all his schoolwork on a computer. Very bright kid, clearly gifted.
I can empathize. I used to carry around my laptop instead of paper/pen (still widely used in HS in the early 00s) because of sensory challenges. Writing utensil feel & ink smells was such an ordeal, that I insisted on not using them. I'm glad that the kids in my school were very understanding & helpful with the challenges that I faced having ASD & didn't just write me off as "weird"
I was so much happier in grad school when I got a laptop and was finally able to type my notes instead of writing them. I just type so much faster than I write (and SO much more legibly) that even though I don't have any particular challenge or disability with writing, the typing is way better for me! Making accommodations available for people who are disabled helps people who aren't, too!! <3
Load More Replies...These conversations also allow you to expand on overarching emotions. "You can discuss the feelings of loneliness, embarrassment, and shame and then together brainstorm ways to ensure your child can be active in supporting and befriending someone so they don't feel that way," Broadbent said.
"I discuss ways my children can advocate for others too, in standing up to those being hurtful, seeking support from teachers and parents where appropriate but also understanding the term that 'hurt people hurt people' and that often those being hurtful need help themselves so they have a deeper understanding on behavior. The approach will vary depending on the age and maturity of the child but either way, it is your duty and job as a parent to teach empathy and compassion, and that also means a responsibility to yourself to keep learning and evolving as a person and parent."
Fostering empathy in our children not only helps them embrace each other's differences but also shapes a kinder world for us all.
Kid was angry at a teacher so he stood on the teachers desk and took the biggest diarrhea spill ever all over the desk.
edit: whole story of what happened was it was a day the school had a different set of tests for students to take to test our knowledge in each class and no bathroom breaks were allowed. after lunch the weird kid started feeling bit queasy from lunch and when he tried asking to leave to quickly use the bathroom the teacher denied him the bathroom since the teachers didn't want anyone causing any disruptions during the testing. weird kid got mad and when the teacher turned their back for a minute the kid went onto the teachers desk and suddenly everyone hears the biggest fart and the kid just goes full blown diarrhea all over the desk not caring if it got on his shoes as it oozed out of him. the teacher turned around the second they heard the fart and the teacher looked like a deer caught in headlights frozen in fear that the kid was doing what they were doing and by time the kid finished he jumped down and then tinkled on top of his mess further spreading it all over the desk and laughed.
Eh, no. Could have just left to go to the bathroom and consequences be damned
Load More Replies...Yeah, "no bathroom breaks" is a stupidass rule. Kid just dealt out the consequences.
It's downright abuse to deny bathroom breaks to people who need them
Load More Replies...Good. Then you won't be denying children bathroom breaks.
Load More Replies...He got lead around on a leash by a girl and would meow and hiss. Dude had the nerve to get pissed at us when we bought him some good canned cat food😂.
That's typical cat behavior, though. They never want the flavor/brand of canned food that you bought for them ;)
I don't relate to this alleged cat behavior. My cats eat wet paper towels, used Q-tips, meat diapers, or the tissue paper that comes in shoe boxes. One of them stole a 4-pound pork roast off the dining room table. Yes, these cats are felis catus, not puma concolor. Although I suspect some procyon lotor (raccoon, to those who aren't fans of MCU), given their ability to break into wastebaskets.
Load More Replies...Plot twist: They're both married to each other, and have a very rewarding sex life.
He would jump out from inside trash cans, yell, “They’re all gonna laugh at you!!”, then run off…weird, not dangerous or evil, but 25 years later I still remember him.
With that line, sounds like he watched Carrie too many times lol
Had two weird kids in my class, one had a breakdown (he was autistic) and threw a chair which almost hit the other weird kid. Queue a chair throwing match that resulted in the classroom being evacuated until they got bored of throwing chairs at each other. Both are actually nice guys nowadays lmao.
The kid in the pik looks similar to my youngest autistic kid he constantly pulls this face whilst clicking his fingers and jumping
I went to a public school on the Gulf Coast of Texas from kindergarten through grade 12 with a total of about 250 kids in each grade from 1968-80. In all that time nothing like this ever happened. How is this statistically possible? Is Autism and all it's associated conditions new? It can't be. Every mental health diagnosis I'm aware of has been present throughout history: depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, etc. Can someone help me out? In the meantime, I'll take my own advice and Google it.
No it's not, a person can be weird AND have autism. It is rude if you call him weird because he has autism
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Would choose a pimple on his face, name it and feed it dirty and whatever else to make it "grow". basically made them super infected and even grosser than normal acne.
Sounds like that episode of Family Guy where Chris had one that he named Doug
I once read a comic about a kid who did this to his pimples. It was really weird.
My current favourite is called Peter pimple, might need to evict him today.
I saw a guy on the subway once, digging out earwax and rubbing it on his very acned cheeks. It was sickening.
He might simply be gross. I've also heard accounts of children with very offputting behaviour where it later made sense when it turned out that they were SA victims, and the apparent grossness was a desperate child's attempt to create a literal protective armour of slime to present as a less delectable victim.
Load More Replies... There was the one weird kid in elementary school who would climb up on his desk and pull down the sticky fly trap. He would then sit at his desk, pull a fly off one at a time, cover it in white Elmer's glue and then pop it in his mouth and eat it like some kind of gooey popcorn.
After that year I never saw him again.
I went to school with the kid who said, "On every level but physical i am a wolf" yes he did act like a wolf at school and run around with a tail on
Edit: adding the video.
I'd argue that you clearly aren't a wolf because wolves can't type, but you managed to get the yellow t-shirt on, so now I'm not sure...
Load More Replies...I think they are talking about the viral video from a vine days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtH7l-dhHZQ
Load More Replies...I'm apparently part wolf! I have Lupus. I don't go running around with a wolf tail on though!!! 😄 Even though I was named by the Tribal Elders - "Mahikan" 💜
Oh my God I wish I didn't miss this to add my story But this one with the tail I have to tell mine We have the weird kid Which was my friend because He was a foster child and had issues anyway but he would walk around with a raccoon tail on from 9th grade even to graduation lol. He was a good guy though and he didn't Try to be a raccoon Just wore the tail I wish I knew what happened to him
There was a kid at school that had a habit of picking up worms from the sidewalk after a rain and he would walk up to random girls and snort a worm up his nose and swallow it just to gross out whoever saw him do it. Every time it rained he was out there snorting worms.
Would of like to have seen that as a kid I liked watching gruesome stuff lol
Pooped in the water fountain, what's more is the water fountain was recessed into the wall (it was in the gym). It was just big enough to fit your head into. So the only way he could've managed it was to s**t in his hand and toss it in there. I'm the one that found it, I'm still afraid of water fountains 20 years later.
Ages ago some high school kids did a comparison between water fountains and toilets in their school of a science fair and the results were rather horrific in terms of the types of germs they found: Screen-Sho...01-png.jpg
We had some kid s**t in a urinal twice within a month at my high school. We also had one guy fake it as a prank a few years earlier by crushing up and molding a chocolate buisciut and dropping it in the sink
Stapled his homework to his knees and then acted surprised when that meant blood got on it. Same kid also ate pencil lead and once tried to sharpen his pinky in the pencil sharpener.
I think all of us jammed a finger into those little handheld pencil sharpeners at least once XD
Load More Replies...A few of us in primary school used to try sharpen our fingers we also did smileys with disposable lighters of our arms that was in high school that tho
Is he still alive Did he stay that dumb or did he grow up No offense to him but damn And the lead would have affected him maybe
I knew this girl since pre-k. In kindergarten, she peed in a mug and tried to give it to our teacher saying it was tea. In 5th grade, she put itching powder in a bottle of lotion and gave it to girls she hated. She dropped out of high school to run away and become a stripper. She actually seemed to be successful cuz then she opened up a weed shop right after it got legalized in the state we're from. The last ones aren't all that weird, I'm just reflecting on this woman's life lmao.
Not with the p**s in the coffee mug, but absolutely with the itching powder
Load More Replies..."she put itching powder in a bottle of lotion and gave it to girls she hated" Damn... sounds like something i would have done!
Not weird etc, it sounds like she took a bad thing and made it successful! So Punk Rock!!! 👍👍👍
The "special needs" kid in my 7th grade class leaned into me and told me that if the teacher gave him a bad grade on the test that he would [unalive] her baby. The teacher was pregnant. The kid was regarded as special needs, but he was just a f*****g psychopath. Every student knew he wasn't special needs, but he was treated that way by the adults. It shocked me hard. Never treated that dude as a peer again.
Psychopathy is most definitely a special need. I hope he got the help he needed and that he never hurt anyone.
That kid probably shouldn't be in a regular school. He could be a danger to everyone else.
Schools get 3x the funding for a kid with special needs. I worked for an RTC with its own school. We paid a "consultant" to come in and declare every kid "special needs." Even one of my clients with a 160 IQ who was normal except for the specific thing that got him sent to treatment which was a voluntary behavior.
There was a kid who brought a jar of mayo to school, sat in the corner of the cafeteria, and ate it with a spoon like it was yogurt. Respect the dedication, though.
There's also a somewhat common prank that you wash out the mayonnaise jar when it's empty and then refill the jar with a vanilla pudding or other similar looking foods to mayonnaise. Just to gross people out.
There was a guy who pranked one of his friends that he knew was totally grossed out by baby diapers. He took one of those disposables and smeared it with chocolate pudding and licked it off in front of his now puking friend! It's on YouTube along with one of a guy pranking his wife who hated mayo so he did the thing with replacing the mayo with vanilla pudding.
Load More Replies...Yeah, that was definitely a prank 😆 I've heard of that one. I'm sure he enjoyed that pudding, along with the weird looks he got.
I'm sure there are substitutions made just to gross people out but I verified one of these legit gross chugging dares at a party in my 20's. It was a nearly 2 liter bottle of ranch dressing. He belched quite intensely afterwards and the room smelled so bad I nearly had to go get sick outside🤣 I still have the 200x300 pixel dumb-phone camera video file somewhere too. "I am all that is man!!" Clint said.
The Australian comedian, Barry Humphreys (Dame Edna, possums) used to take a polythene bag of vegetable soup with him on flights. He'd start making wretching sounds, grab the sick bag, bend forward and pretend to vomit. While he was hidden from view he'd pour the soup into the sick bag, then sit back up, apologise to everybody then pick up a spoon and eat the soup.
Came to photo day with a full medieval coat including a black cape and a farming tool for hitting grain.
After so many of the other stories here, this one seems normal
Remind me of two of my best friends in our last week of school. We had dress up days with theme in that week and one of the days the theme was '80s'. My friends hired costumes so they were dressed like the 1880s!
Makes me think of this one kid in first grade whose picture day portrait looked like: 😧
She dug up a recently buried baby, like right out of the cemetery. Went to jail or that.
Then, after the jail / prison time, she and her boyfriend stabbed the hell out of a guy we all went to high school with on some dirt road. The dude survived. As far as I know, they’re both in prison today… 15-ish (or more) years later. .
That is disturbing af. Sounds like one of those couples with the "Joker and Harley Quinn relationship goals" taking it like 10 levels further.
Joker was abusive which is why Harley Quinn got to the point of where she was. Not a fair analogy....
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He crawled into a storm drain to avoid taking an exam.
Does anyone else think that storm drain looks like a music record by someone like Pink Floyd? It could simultaneously reference their circle-of-media concert imagery, and the content of Echoes or the album cover art of Momentary Lapse of Reason. It just needs a hole in the middle.
I had a classmate who broke her arm to avoid an exam. Swung in into the corner of a brick building. Her dad was a psychiatrist or psychologist, I forget which. Dealing with her must have been really frustrating for him.
Mmm. There was this girl that would cry and pretty much have a breakdown anytime she was asked to read something, or when she was asked anything in general.
Like, "hey girl, whats the chapter about?"- *INSTANT TEARS*, *question is asked again*, *starts sobbing loudly*. She was about 12 years old.
It was weird at the time but i now realize she mightve had some serious s**t going on.
In spanish class specifically, the extra quiet kid was asked to read from the textbook. Obviously this was an all spanish textbook but he was not learning any spanish. He sat there in complete silence, after being asked to read rhe book out loud, as more and more of the students asked him why he wasnt reading, why he wouldnt even speak, why he couldn't look up from the book, why he wouldnt acknowledge our presence.. turns out the poor kid has dyslexia and literally could not read it. He also had crippling anxiety that obviously only worsened when teased.
That was me too! I was neglected and purposely not taught to read by my parents. This helped to bolster my anxiety, of course, and made even attempting to read a complete nightmare. And it wasn't until my 20's that I learned I'm dyslexic too.
Load More Replies...One of my close friends can’t do presentations, I don’t mean just anxiety, she will start sobbing in terror. I’m really proud of her bc she had to read *something* to get points and she read the whole title slide.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if ive done tgis before. Anxiety is fun.
Oh, gods that poor girl. I sympathize I have a stutter that comes out when I'm anxious and sometimes reading in class can be a nightmare.
Why didn't the teacher notice? Maybe they did? That poor child was going through something very serious. I hope that she's okay now, safe
During study hall he'd soak tissues in his own spit and or mucus then drape said tissue over his face with his head tilted back. The third time I witnessed it I loudly called him out on it. He claimed it wasn't gross, it's just how he was cooling himself off.
He's not wrong. This is the same way those cooling towels work. OP just took umbrage with the fluid the kid was using... XD (as anyone should, spit and mucus are unhygienic)
Ah looks like the downvote trolls are all over this article tonight.
Load More Replies...Turned around and stabbed me with a pencil about 5 times. I think he got committed after that.
A kid I went to junior high with graduated to the local high school. Apparently he was bullied bad enough he snapped and almost kil led another kid. This was way back in the late 80s. This link is to the 1989 story https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/05/05/youth-who-stabbed-3-gets-probation/
A group of girls in highschool went through this wierd phase where they would lick eachothers eyeballs. I don't know if it was for shock value or what but one would open their eyes wide and another would press their tongue against her eyeball. Was this a thing anywhere else?
This briefly went around the middle school I went to sometime in the 90's. I thought it sounded gross then and somehow I ended up experiencing it done to me and I vividly remember it was one of the grossest feelings that's now burned into my memory. It's probably a good way to spread infections too.
Not at any school I went to, fortunately, ew! OP's school sounded like a pink eye factory 🤢
I do remember this. We never actually did it but it was a sign of affection via text etc. "Licks your eyeball!!!"
Went to a boarding school with a farm. A goat was harvested for educational value and food.
He painted himself in the blood and spent the night in the field in protest.
I didn't eat meat as kid, so I respected his dedication, but it was weird and he was otherwise weird as well. .
I'm guessing "harvested for educational value" is a euphemism for "slaughtered in front of all the kids".
He painted himself with the goats blood, are you sure he wasn't into devil worship? That's just weird and creepy as hell!
Thought he meant the goat painted itself in blood and ect.......
When I was in primary school we used to have sheep/rams just casually wonder around the premises from time to time, all us kids loved it, most of the time we'd just watch in awe from a distance. One time, one of the sheep/rams had shat in the playground, big round ball of s**t. This kid, for whatever reason thought this was his time to shine, picked up the s**t, bare handed and just took a big ol' bite out of it.
What were the sheep casually wondering about as they wandered around?
Why Jesus the Savior did come for to die? https://www.religioninamerica.org/rahp_objects/i-wonder-as-i-wander-by-john-jacob-niles/
Load More Replies...Gross but the feces of herbivores is much less toxic than that of omni- or carnivores.
I was in a Star Wars RPG club where we spent lunch geeking out. There was one kid who played a few times, but he spent most of the time wondering from table to table. He would ask “How are your parents?” And “What are you doing when you’re done with school?”. He was clearly special needs and we cut him some slack as he looked like he needed a friend.
But, he tried something when the teacher left for a moment. He went over to our teachers aquarium (which had a lot of tropical fish and were fun to look at) and took out a smaller fish with his fingers. He brought it over to us and said “Look at this!”
He proceeded to swallow the fish and then he left with a smile.
He was not allowed back into the club and had later left school into a behavioral program.
From the post alone, there's nothing to say there was a behavior issue.
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Eat all the bones of chicken wings.
Umm pretty sure that is extremely dangerous, if not fatal. The sharp edges and rips from biting and chewing the bone can perforate the bowel, as well as probably everything else from mouth to bum hole(only bc I can't say rec tum?), if it makes it that far.
It can be dangerous or even fatal, yes. This is why we are told to never feed cooked bones to our cats or dogs. They can splinter and are very brittle. They hold the same dangers to humans. If you ate one piece of chicken bone by accident, it's unlikely to hurt you, but repeatedly eating chicken bones (other than the delicious cartilage caps at the ends) is a bad idea.
Load More Replies...I can do this, but I have dub set of teeth, and due to a genetic quirk I have sharp teeth, so I'm able to "mash" the bones to well mush{ not like hard ones but like chicken and weaker animals bone} I dont do it as much now but I used to do it a lot for people, now I watch when i eat chicken or I get nuggets!}
Incredibly stupid and dangerous. All of those sharp edges could do some serious damage to any part of the GI Tract.
Sit cross legged on his desk and start meditating during class because he was mad about something.
Instead, say something like "good for this kid for finding a healthy meditation alternative".
Load More Replies...Not weird at all. If more people developed ways to self-soothe the world would be a better place.
Was it boy george he was like that in im a celebrity get me out of here and was annoying to watch
He used to seek attention by eating coins, drinking the ink out of pens, and ingesting various other nonfood items in class.
PICA isn't usually attention seeking behaviour. This sounds more like an abused child or mental illness, or both.
Load More Replies...Wonder if that kid had PICA. Definitely cost the parents a lot in medical bills with eating and drinking all of that c**p.
Iv found alsorts in my sons nappy he is 6yr old ASD and having trouble potty training as he can't communicate yet. We have found plastic nappy bottles, crystals from a nappy he removed and ate plaster from eating a chunk out of the wall, glitter, crayons balloons just to mention a few he also chewed the windowsill we learnt he has PICA
Ate canned cat food in exchange for cigarettes.
Have you seen/smelled some of these modern, expensive cat food brands like Fussie Cat or Weruva? They look and smell better than human food. I would like to clarify that I haven't *eaten* any of my cats' canned food, but when I pop open a new can of Weruva brand Grandma's Chicken Soup or Paw Lickin' Chicken, they smell and look pretty darn good XD
Load More Replies...Total genius! They got a snack and free smokes. Cigarettes are expensive!
I had a friend that would eat Frolic or those dog sausage in single packaging
A few months ago, I got some neighbors cats under my house. I tried to enticecthem out with cat food. Had some left over. Curious what cat food taste like. Took like a pinch of cat food and put it in mouth, didn't taste very good. End up spitting it out.
Kinda weird but saw a kid in my class pull a banana out of his sock and eat it.
You think it's normal to keep a banana in your sock as long it's not peeled?
Load More Replies...Not my story, but my dad’s. The valedictorian, who was on a fast track to be a doctor, took the arm off of a cadaver after an anatomy class and left it in the coin slot on a toll bridge.
Sounds like a typical medical school student prank. I've heard of much worse ones.
Really? One of my grandfathers was a cadaver. If some little s**t med student used his remains for a stupid prank, I'd be mad about it.
Load More Replies...Umm, I have so many questions.. I guess I'll start with why??
How do you fit an entire arm into a coin slot? How big are the damn coins where you live?
A lot of toll booths used to have a large funnel that you threw the coins at and it channeled them down to the actual slot. Made it so you barely had to slow down to get through the toll booth.
Load More Replies...Wt actual f? And they knew that was a living human being once, right?
Have fun, play pranks on each other but don't involve people who could be traumatised by your "joke". An arm in coin slot on a bridge also means that the police are called, there's an investigation and you've wasted gosh knows how many hours of police time for your "chuckles".
I went to a small high school in a very rural town in the Deep South, so we had quite a few “weird kids”. The one that comes to mind the most was this really skinny, pimply, greasy-looking redheaded boy who would bring a Bible to school every Wednesday. He would use the Bible to “cast out the demons” of the goth-punk (basically anyone who dressed in all black) clique by hitting us over the head with it. He got his a*s kicked once a week, but he kept doing it every Wednesday for the three years we were in school together.
I remember having a ganglion in my wrist... I think I was 5yrs old... A boy in my class hit it full on with a bible... So I punched him straight back in his face! Oh gosh, he said - it was because "I had demons"!!!
Sounds like a typical follower of the bible: try to cram "faith" (delusion) down everyone's throat, even if it means being violent about it.
Not too sure about that assss kicking you were supposedly doing to the same kid each week??
He was in my 7th grade science class. Our teacher was a young woman, 27 years old at the time and hot. During the sex ed portion of the year, in Life Science, he asked if she'd take her shirt and bra off to show us how to breast feed. That was an instant trip to In School Suspension. However, it did not end there. Somehow, and I don't know how, he ended up f*****g up In School Suspension and ended up having to hang around the school vice principal all day. He was the only one we ever saw manage to score the level lower than In School Suspension.
I was sexually harassed by one of my students, he was in 5th grade. It was SOOOO much more uncomfortable and disturbing being harassed like that by a child than by an adult. And when reported cuz he wouldn't stop, his parents insisted I was lying. 😮💨
I would demand the kid be removed from my class if he didn't stop. When he gets older hopefully some lady will slap the hell out of him for it and he will learn a lesson.
Load More Replies...On their own these two individuals weren’t that “weird” or “strange” but when they were dating, they slit their palms, joined hands, mixed their blood and then they licked their palms in class. I think they went out of their way to be the “weird” couple in middle school.
Early 70s this was a thing where I grew up. Nothing as dramatic as this, we'd nick a finger with a pin, make it bleed a little, and press fingers together.
Blood brothers like in Karl May's "Winnetou". In the 70s the films with Pierre Brice were out in Germany.
Load More Replies...Becoming "blood brothers"/"bonding" in this manner used to be a sort of semi-mythological thing - I read about it enough times in old books set in the 50s/60s and the like. It's obviously not hygienic, but there you go XD
Yeah ISTR it was associated with Indians, as in Cowboys and, in old western movies.
Load More Replies...In 8th grade a boy sat in back of my class, slicing his knuckles and punching the wall. Needless to say, everyone was frightened of him.
Ew 😖 I've heard of the whole blood bond thing, but licking it?
At school they started jumping in big puddles (we had heavy rain for a couple of days), proceeded to scream at the teachers, followed by his best attempts at front flips in the puddles.
It wasn't funny, the guy was clearly having a breakdown. He always had weird behaviour, but this was a clear meltdown.
She said she has a boyfriend that put cameras all over her body to check what she was doing.
That not a boyfriend, that a pervert! Call the POLICE IMMEDIATELY!!!
That sounds more like a mental illness, unless I misunderstood. How would he put cameras "all over her body"?
Load More Replies... He took off his shirt and threw it in the trashcan because it was "too smelly". The teacher was speechless.
Edit: Sorry, English is not my first language, and I am a bit rusty.
When I was in first grade, there was this awkward girl I sat near in the classroom. She's so shy that even when she needs to pee so bad, she can't speak up. I was her only friend and a few months passed, she started bringing a potato with her daily at school. It's just a raw potato and she talked to it. I never really mind since I thought she's just playing. Later before that school year ends, she brought a potato peeler to school and started peeling the potato and poked it with her pencil. It was so sudden that I felt a bit shock but didn't really mind it later on. She ended up transferring and never saw her again.
Now that I think about it, it could have been something dangerous. It was definitely a weird experience.
We all need an emotional support potato, didn't you know? 🥔
Something was happening to her at home, family or something else to cause her to do that. She was taking out her frustrations on the potato... As a child I would walk around using the meter ruler that my adoptive mother beat me with, I'd put my much loved clown doll on the end walking around saying what she would say to me.i was only 3-4yrs old. I didn't have a voice to be able to tell other people nor the vocabulary..... Some of these really are indicative of some sort of parental abuse going on.
A group of students who are extraordinarily smart all got detention because they hacked the school’s security cameras. They found the manual for the school’s security cameras and in the first page was a statement saying the default password and CHANGE IT IMMEDIATELY. So they logged into the security cameras using the default password that was never changed. Later when I halfway joined this group, we protested the sanitary conditions of the engineering wing(we’re all engineering students) by having a jar of cockroaches we’d find in the hallway. We had Tom, Tommy, Tim, Timmy, John, Johnny, Jim and Jimmy. Tommy was a 5 legged fat bastard of a cockroach before the senior engineers had the cockroaches fight the red ant infestation in the same wing.
Things Alumni of my school had done are take a cardboard cut out of Dani Devito to Prom and a famous yearbook quote of “thank you for teaching my [insert sentences whose acronym is “F**K YOU”]”.
Serious question: wtf is with dudes playing with their poop?! My 18yo nephew just graduated from a military boarding school and it was mostly guys...the number of poop related stories I've heard from this kid are disturbing. I asked him, being a guy, wtf and he couldn't explain the male obsession of playing with poo. He couldn't offer any reasoning.
It's called coprophilia. It's a sexual disorder (or f****h). There are a lot of sexual behaviors that are pretty weird. Think of the first two guys that agreed one would insert his fist in the other's *ss.
Load More Replies...Art teacher used to ask each week for a creation that communicated a given emotion. On "anxiety," the best artist in the school created a sculpture of a time bomb, with three seconds left. That gave us about an hour or so of standing on the lawn of the school. It was well done, but largely made out of clay, so given an ounce of sanity, no-one could mistake it for an actual device. A*****e art teacher still have him a f*****g "B."
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists features a doomsday clock. This kid is brilliant and the officials of his school are morons.
Load More Replies...I was the introverted, therefore weird kid, at school. I didn't care much. I only cared about surviving living at home. My friends though knew how much physical, emotional and mental abuse I was going through... I started legal proceedings for Emancipation when I 15/16. Get declared as a legal adult so I could get the bloody hell out of there. It's why... I've read all the posts but some are? I think a few of them really are the fact that these kids, children have been pushed too far via abuse. But then? Some are displaying true psychopathic behaviour... And they need help. All need help...
There is A LOT of predicate sexual abuse behind this behavior, especially among the younger kids.
Load More Replies...Me and my friends are the weird kids. I could say “I boil babies in a cauldron “ and they would add onto it until it is far more cursed then necessary- three of them basically spend recesses with me LARPing and the other two have very cursed conversations and throw random children’s missing sweaters into trees
I got a story: Someone I know worked at a gas station when they were young and had to stay there extra long, til midnight. Then a bunch of customers came up to him and were saying stuff like: Dude.. you gotta check the bathroom. He did, and there was a TRAIL OF POOP leading to the last stall.. In the stall was a WAIST-HIGH POOP CIRCLE. Dude.
Again, coprophilia. When I was in 3rd grade someone would write profane graffiti in the boy's bathroom with their own feces. We shared the bathroom with similarly-aged Special Ed kids. Admin thought one of us did it. They were not up on whatever DSM was being used in 1970-71.
Load More Replies...In 4th grade the teacher sent me out of the room to ask the whole class why I didn't have any friends. I appreciate her intent but it definitely DID NOT help.
What a moron. I hope that she is no longer teaching
Load More Replies...Like Stannous' teacher? Yeah, people (not just children) are gross.
Load More Replies...Serious question: wtf is with dudes playing with their poop?! My 18yo nephew just graduated from a military boarding school and it was mostly guys...the number of poop related stories I've heard from this kid are disturbing. I asked him, being a guy, wtf and he couldn't explain the male obsession of playing with poo. He couldn't offer any reasoning.
It's called coprophilia. It's a sexual disorder (or f****h). There are a lot of sexual behaviors that are pretty weird. Think of the first two guys that agreed one would insert his fist in the other's *ss.
Load More Replies...Art teacher used to ask each week for a creation that communicated a given emotion. On "anxiety," the best artist in the school created a sculpture of a time bomb, with three seconds left. That gave us about an hour or so of standing on the lawn of the school. It was well done, but largely made out of clay, so given an ounce of sanity, no-one could mistake it for an actual device. A*****e art teacher still have him a f*****g "B."
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists features a doomsday clock. This kid is brilliant and the officials of his school are morons.
Load More Replies...I was the introverted, therefore weird kid, at school. I didn't care much. I only cared about surviving living at home. My friends though knew how much physical, emotional and mental abuse I was going through... I started legal proceedings for Emancipation when I 15/16. Get declared as a legal adult so I could get the bloody hell out of there. It's why... I've read all the posts but some are? I think a few of them really are the fact that these kids, children have been pushed too far via abuse. But then? Some are displaying true psychopathic behaviour... And they need help. All need help...
There is A LOT of predicate sexual abuse behind this behavior, especially among the younger kids.
Load More Replies...Me and my friends are the weird kids. I could say “I boil babies in a cauldron “ and they would add onto it until it is far more cursed then necessary- three of them basically spend recesses with me LARPing and the other two have very cursed conversations and throw random children’s missing sweaters into trees
I got a story: Someone I know worked at a gas station when they were young and had to stay there extra long, til midnight. Then a bunch of customers came up to him and were saying stuff like: Dude.. you gotta check the bathroom. He did, and there was a TRAIL OF POOP leading to the last stall.. In the stall was a WAIST-HIGH POOP CIRCLE. Dude.
Again, coprophilia. When I was in 3rd grade someone would write profane graffiti in the boy's bathroom with their own feces. We shared the bathroom with similarly-aged Special Ed kids. Admin thought one of us did it. They were not up on whatever DSM was being used in 1970-71.
Load More Replies...In 4th grade the teacher sent me out of the room to ask the whole class why I didn't have any friends. I appreciate her intent but it definitely DID NOT help.
What a moron. I hope that she is no longer teaching
Load More Replies...Like Stannous' teacher? Yeah, people (not just children) are gross.
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