Asklemmy

While I was never 'normal' myself, I've often thought of one kid in particular. He wore very old fashioned and formal clothes. He also spoke in a very precise and formal way and just felt off. Occasionally he would make odd and racist comments.

As an adult, I think his story is quite sad actually. Today I think he may have been somewhat autistic, and I think I heard he was raised by his grandmother. He didn't pick his own clothes, his old granny just dressed him how she thought was proper. I don't know what happened to his parents, but I doubt it's a happy story.

I hope he is doing okay. He was never going to fit in back then, and it was not his fault.

I was this kid. Our household was a little free range (lots of booze and rolled up dollar bills, not a lot of food and often no electricity). I had lice a few times, and we also had some food insecurity, but I honestly have almost no memory of it. So I stole food and I was stinky. Being ostracized, I made up friends to talk to as a coping mechanism. I guess those were my crimes.

Made up their own language and mumbled "curses" at people in it.

The weird couple made their own cat language and sat under the tree in front of school meowing at each other. Probably the source of all the furries-in-schools conspiracies.

Mine got kicked out of anime club because he kept looking up hentai

His name was Jeff, but everyone called him stiffy because he masturbated in class all the time.

I bought a house across town when I got married and found his name on the Megan's Law list 1 mile away.

I still see him with his elderly father occasionally at the grocery store. He doesn't drive.

4chan-esque edgelord before that existed. Almost exclusively wore a faded Rush t-shirt and black sweatpants and generic white sneakers, He had no tribe- in band but this was when American Pie was a new release and he constantly talked about “one time at band camp”, chess club but not skilled and a sore loser, kinda in to punk/metal/goth but he was the kind of guy that would call the cops if he showed up to party and there was weed/booze. And he wasn’t even some moral Xtian kid, just kind of a douche. I don’t remember what sparked the situation, but I remember him leaping onto a table during lunch and yelling at someone “I will destroy you” then laughing like Emperor Palpatine.

Second hand tale from a buddy who played D&D- he showed up wanting to roleplay as some 1000 year old elf girl whose brother had usurped her kingdom and had written a backstory that included him starting level 1 with some godtier magic katana, that looked like the katana he showed up strapped to his back with irl, and of course the character sketch looked like she was 13. I have no reason to doubt the validity of that.

Called in several bomb threats during our final week of senior year.

Pants at the ankles at the urinal.

Shit, I think I was the weird kid

No one was weird enough to be ostracized at my school tbh, but I went to small middle and high schools

Talked in the third person.

Tried to kame hame ha the lunch line because it was too long and he didn’t want to miss the last of the pizza. To his surprise - and literally no one else’s - it did not work.

I dunno, they just didn't like me.

You see I was lucky enough when I got to the 8th grade to realize that the weird kids were the ones I wanted to hang around with. They did all the fun stuff like D&D, played music and just had a good time,.

When I stopped giving a fuck about what the popular kids did and wanted is when I discovered a great group of friends that carried me through high school.

Not my story but from a guy I met playing a mmo.

He told me he was in community college and there was some kid who always brought a fly swatter to a class they both had. The cheap ones with a colorful plastic end.

Like every single class. He took it out of his backpack and hold it in one of his hands. The whole class period.

There was some other part to the story but Ive forgotten it.

But twas community college. Guy wasn't some young kid but a boy on the cusp of manhood.

I do believe the course was on criminal forensics. Or something related to that topic.

Which kinda made it more bizarre.

He was autistic (like level 2 autism, not high functioning) and really loved movies, especially actions movies. Transformers was so big to him when it started. I think people grew more tolerant and kind in high school from what I remember, but I'm sure he was still picked on.

One wore a bra and panties under her swimming costume. Another had very poor personal hygiene and got ringworm.

I felt sorry for both of them, it was clearly problems from their home lives that separated them, but neither of them said anything to help their case.

For some people, I was the weird one.

Got married and had kids earlier than everyone else in the friend group.

I was autistic a "women" but an egg. Didn't know I was a lesbian. I grew up in rural with a graduating class of 34.