Who was the weird kid in your school and what did they do that made them so?

treefrail · 16-03-2016 11:54AM #1

Weird

MadDog76 · 16-03-2016 12:05PM

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AnonoBoy · 16-03-2016 12:08PM

treefrail wrote: »

This biracial guy came to our school at the start of 2nd year. He seemed normal. Two week later there was a rumor that he was a satanist. Apparently he told someone that he should ask the devil for help in his exam. I was stunned but still wanted to befriend the lad.

Then another rumor came that he had attempted to change his sex as he was unhappy being a man. This now made me wary of him. I didn't know whether to think that it was just boys making BS stories or him being very weird.

I talked to him and he seemed nice and polite.......Then he asked me in German for a blowjob. I decided tell him to come to the bathroom to see if he was really joking or not. Not to make fun of him (I never spread rumors about him, but to see if he was just an attention seeker or really just weird). I then started pretending to unzip my pants. I was waiting for a "stop dude......I'm joking" but he had a smile on his face. So I immediately said " You didn't think I was serious did you?" and he proceeded "Well".....

We're still good friends and he stopped being weird at around 5th year. And he's currently working for Google.

Need to work on the ends of your anecdotes dude.

Just like that young lad's day, your story was a bit anti-climactic.

Boom_Bap · 16-03-2016 12:08PM

So he asked you for a blowie and you unzipped.
That's just rude.

MilesMorales1 · 16-03-2016 12:08PM

I was the weird kid everyone made fun of and got made to do stupid ****.

intheclouds · 16-03-2016 12:10PM

The weird one in our school turned out to be a rapist who is just out after a long stretch behind bars.

ifritzero · 16-03-2016 12:14PM

hmm , I came into this thread expecting to hear stories of kids maybe eating leaves or bugs but all I read was blow jobs and rapists :'(

16-03-2016 12:16PM

So he asks for a blowjob and you think he wants to blow you? Some one is weird, might not be him.............

Nekarsulm · 16-03-2016 12:18PM

Not weird per say, but back in the mid 70's a German family bought a farm locally and their son came to our national school. He had no English and needless to say, no-one had any German. He was the best climber I ever saw. If the teacher displeased him (common enough occurance) he would bolt from the classroom and outside. In a flash he would shin up the gutter downpipe to the roof, run up the roof and sit on the ridge, refusing to come down untill 3pm.
We thought he was brilliant, the sight of our battle-axe of a teacher outside begging and pleading with him to come down was priceless.
Urus Angermann, where are you now?

Alf Stewart. · 16-03-2016 12:21PM

I'm gonna put on me serious hat for this one mate.

Two or three kids that stood out as being "weird" back in my day, were prob misdiagnosed back then.

Two guys in particular spring to mind, one in me class, very quiet an socially awkward, but super intelligent, and another used to be be uber obsessive about particular shít.

Roll on twenty/thirty years now, and I've kids of me own, and am increasingly seeing kids in their classes, one relative, and one close neighbour that have been diagnosed with aspergers, or being autistic.

Looking back now, I'm almost bloody sure that, that's what those kids had back then also, but back then we as kids hasn't been made aware of any such conditions. (Lack of education and awareness)

Kinda feel like a bit of a dick now looking back for making them kids the butt of so many jokes, and generally rippin the piss out of them.

But hey, in hindsight we were only kids back then ourselves, and there's no denying the fact, kids can be cruel little sadistic bastards.

I often wonder how them guys faired out in life. I hope as time went by they got the help they obviously needed back then.

kjl · 16-03-2016 12:23PM

treefrail wrote: »

So I immediately said " You didn't think I was serious did you?" and he proceeded "Well"......

So he gave you one?

yourdeadwright · 16-03-2016 12:30PM

Well one who was socially arkward but seemed harmlessly odd, Was in the Sunday World on Sunday gone and will be spending the next 5 years(which aint enough) in Portlaoise

Wibbs · 16-03-2016 12:36PM

Don't recall too many TBH. I recall one lad in the year below me who was later diagnosed as schizophrenic, but outside of a couple of one off episodes he wasn't that weird really. He seemed to "grow out of it" too as I bumped into him years later and he appeared fine. Looking back I only knew one guy who was probably autistic spectrum/aspergers, but he was largely left alone as he was very quiet. Painfully shy if you did put the talk on him, but nice type of a chap. One guy was weird alright. Probably some condition or other. Ended up being a priest I believe.

That was an all boys school. When I repeated the leaving cert in a mixed environment with a larger catchment area there were a couple more who were odd. But one thing that really stood out for me(and peers who'd gone to all boys schools) was a larger percentage of young women with emotional/mental problems. Obviously a minority, but it was more prevalent, or at least obvious(suicide attempts, anxiety, depression, ED's and the like). This was back in the 80's, so mental illness/conditions were lot less obvious than it appears to be today, but then maybe we were all nuts and hadn't been told yet.

Samaris · 16-03-2016 12:50PM

*cough* Well, honestly, I was the weird one! I was painfully shy and a bit of a dreamer, so I'd be off in my own little world half the time. Loved reading, disliked sports, especially team sports. Slow to mature as a young teenager, and I was at the younger end of the class anyway. In some ways I was probably two-three years ahead of most of the rest and in other ways, I was a good three years behind. Bad experience with a gang of young fellas that decided to have a go at a lone kid which made me very wary of males in general which probably kept me a bit apart from the rest when they were talking about going out and shifting some young fella and all the rest. I had a little group of misfits, including one girl who was put in with us without any explanation of her learning difficulties or why she spoke and moved like she did (I still don't know what was wrong with her.) And just on occasion if I got really pent up (and I was socially anxious and very self-conscious), I'd blow up and yell at someone, including a teacher once or twice, so that likely didn't help.

I was also inclined to take the back of any even weirder ones that were being picked on and defend them. But most of them left over time and so I ended up on my own with a few people in every year that would have a go at me. No-one was particularly inclined to defend a weirdo so overall my school years weren't the happiest of my life.

Still, once I went to college I came out of my shell and had a blast. But even now when I visit home the old habits start to creep over me (bar the explosions)!

SEPT 23 1989 · 16-03-2016 12:52PM

somefeen · 16-03-2016 01:55PM

I was the weird one and I was damn proud of it.

Bit like the above I'd be really quite and shy and then out of nowhere go ape **** at a teacher.
I loved being weird though and did lots of other weird ****. I had terrible hygiene as well which added to it

Most of the other kids were cool with me though. They seemed to enjoy my antics and were even a bit protective if someone was being an asshole.

I did have a few mental health issues that I'm only understanding and sorting out now, which would explain the negative aspects of my weirdness. The positive aspects just make me interesting

maudgonner · 16-03-2016 02:23PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Not weird per say, but back in the mid 70's a German family bought a farm locally and their son came to our national school. He had no English and needless to say, no-one had any German. He was the best climber I ever saw. If the teacher displeased him (common enough occurance) he would bolt from the classroom and outside. In a flash he would shin up the gutter downpipe to the roof, run up the roof and sit on the ridge, refusing to come down untill 3pm.
We thought he was brilliant, the sight of our battle-axe of a teacher outside begging and pleading with him to come down was priceless.
Urus Angermann, where are you now?

Have you looked on the roof?

Easca Peasca · 16-03-2016 02:25PM

The guy who was in to cos-playing and dressing up as cats. In an all-boys school it was pretty far-out.

Robsweezie · 16-03-2016 02:35PM

He pulled down his pants frequently and shat down a wall.

libelula · 16-03-2016 02:48PM

There was a kid in my school that brought hummus and crackers and weird-ass vegetables for his lunch.
Nobody knew what to make of him, with our sangwiches of corned beef on pat the bakers bread with way too much butter.
His mammy was waaayyyy ahead of her time

16-03-2016 03:01PM

Yep, one of the more grotesque ones.

The weird kid in our school did 6 years for some pretty depraved attacks on young boys during his late teens.

He was 4 or 5 years older than me. When I was about 10 I was in his house one night with another friend and he wanted us to come with him to his swimming pool. My friend's father insisted on accompanying us, saying it was dangerous. I wonder, looking back, if he sensed something. Anyway, may well have spared us from some very dark episodes and memories.

Nodin · 16-03-2016 03:06PM

ifritzero wrote: »

hmm , I came into this thread expecting to hear stories of kids maybe eating leaves or bugs but all I read was blow jobs and rapists :'(

This would be in the early 80's - believe or not as suits.

Came round the corner towards the area where the lads in the year above used to have a smoke, to be nearly trampled to death by a mass scatter. Apparently they'd all been standing there when one of their crowd - a known mad bastard - came walking along, later than the rest. A smart remark was passed - yer man laughs, sez something to the effect of "yez are some shower" (jokingly) while making an odd face. He then reaches back , pulls down his strides and - more or less- shits into his hand and throws it at them.

16-03-2016 03:08PM

Yes, there was poor girl who wouldn't talk to anyone, no matter how friendly, and would sit alone rocking slightly and sometimes mumbling to herself. I remember several teachers being particularly attentive to her, so I guess they were privy to more of her life than her classmates were. A couple of times the Mean Girls would have at her, but she was so universally recognised as being fragile that they were herded off her by the rest of us. I never saw her parents, in all the time we were in secondary school together. It was like she was all but abandoned.

I really hope things turned out okay for her.

Boom_Bap · 16-03-2016 03:26PM

We had what could be described as an ensemble cast of weirdo's and oddballs in my school.
There was the guy who looked really sick that didn't have a school bag that locked himself in the toilets during breaks and for about 15 minutes straight after school until the crowds cleared. He used to get abuse shouted at him regularly.
Looking back now, I realise that he wasn't a weirdo and just had his own sh*t to deal with.
We also had the guy that used to walk around singing and dancing and talking and talking about how he was going to be famous. He actually went on to be a famous singer.
There were the few goths that crowded in a corner and chanted to each other, on the outside that would seem weird, but really they were all sound lads.
There was also someone that took a sh*t in one of the sinks in the bathroom.
There was the guy that only accepted that he would work for Nasa and paraded around in the nip in the chenging rooms before and after PE.

But at the end of the day, we are all weird and unique in our own ways.

inforfun · 16-03-2016 03:41PM

Some weirdo who one day decided he would only wear tutu's to school.
Which even in The Netherlands was kind of eccentric as i wasnt in a ballet school.

But to be fair, that entire class was rather weird. Failing the year was done en masse as was the exam year.
Still friends with a couple of them.

No idea whatever has become of tutu guy

DanielODonnell · 16-03-2016 04:09PM

I was one of them, I don't buy into this idea that everyone who acts differently has some sort of syndrome, quiet and unsociable people like myself are viewed as mentally ill yet all the loud people who never shut their mouths are viewed as perfectly normal, people who spend their weekends in bars and weekend drug users are viewed as normal in modern society too.

16-03-2016 04:13PM

I was one of the "weird" ones in my school. Like most in Ireland it was a CBS secondary and was all about hurling. I was the guy wearing black clothes with chains and New Rocks. I was the guy who often sat alone, smoking a cigarette and writing songs or poems. I was the guy everyone called a freak, a goth, Marilyn Manson. I loved it. I loved being the outsider, the one people didn't understand so they feared and abused.

I am now the one who can say fvck you all you shower of ignorant pr!cks. For those who took the time to befriend me and know me I was and still am quite a sound guy!

DanielODonnell · 16-03-2016 04:20PM

Alf Stewart. wrote: »

Two guys in particular spring to mind, one in me class, very quiet an socially awkward, but super intelligent, and another used to be be uber obsessive about particular shít.

Roll on twenty/thirty years now, and I've kids of me own, and am increasingly seeing kids in their classes, one relative, and one close neighbour that have been diagnosed with aspergers, or being autistic.

You shouldn't assume that people who have a different personality have a mental illness, that is ignorant in my opinion. Not everyone can be the same. It is always the socially awkward people who get stigmatised with this unlike the overly social people who talked all though class.

mud · 16-03-2016 04:26PM

A class-mate of mine used to masturbate with a Bic biro during lessons. We could see what she was doing under the desk. It was bad enough that she was **** herself in public but what was even worse was the glazed look on her face as she went on. Not pleasure or pain but a weird detached expression on her face. Very disturbing.

DrumSteve · 16-03-2016 04:31PM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

I was one of the "weird" ones in my school. Like most in Ireland it was a CBS secondary and was all about hurling. I was the guy wearing black clothes with chains and New Rocks. I was the guy who often sat alone, smoking a cigarette and writing songs or poems. I was the guy everyone called a freak, a goth, Marilyn Manson. I loved it. I loved being the outsider, the one people didn't understand so they feared and abused.

I am now the one who can say fvck you all you shower of ignorant pr!cks. For those who took the time to befriend me and know me I was and still am quite a sound guy!

And a rammstein fan?

I was obsessed with Star Trek when I was in school.

Then I became a metal head who didn't dress like a metal head.

Wasn't all that bad.

16-03-2016 04:35PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

And a rammstein fan?

I was obsessed with Star Trek when I was in school.

Then I became a metal head who didn't dress like a metal head.

Wasn't all that bad.

Rammstein maniac more like

Who was the weird kid in your school and what did they do that made them so?

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