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⌈ Secret Post #5202 ⌋

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Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[(Anonymous)]

Probably. I mean, not even in retrospect, I was aware that during lunch I sat at the table of outcasts. Didn't care. The outcasts were lots of fun and a lot nicer than the "popular" kids.

And I mean, I have known that I was ugly since I was very young, and also didn't care because I had brains, and that mattered a lot more to anything I was interested in doing. So in hindsight possibly the fact I didn't care what I looked like probably didn't help, I'd leave the house looking like total trash and not think about it. I wasn't overtly bullied very often, just kind of ignored until it was time to pick teams for a spelling or geography bee, then everyone wanted to be my friend. XD Later I was told that I was "intimidating"... which is weird since I'm tiny and frail physically, but that might have played into it.

Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[tabaqui]

HA, i got told that, too: 'you were scary'. Like...really? Book nerd, sci-fi nerd, theater geek, was *scary*? Okay.

Funny how you see yourself, and then suddenly find out how (some) other people see you, and it's so strange and different and frankly baffling.

Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[(Anonymous)]

I mean I kind of get it. I think. Two possible things in play in my case, some variation may or may not apply to you or anyone else:

1: Found out later in life that apparently self-confidence is intimidating. And even if everyone else thought I was an oddball, I didn't care what they thought. (As someone else mentioned in this thread, undiagnosed Asperger's probably played a role in that.) I guess it's hard to enjoy bullying someone who doesn't really react to it. "You look like a bug!" "*shrug* Okay." Where can you go from there? ;)

2: I can't think of a way to say it that doesn't sound arrogant, but... there were "the smart kids", and then I had teachers going "........" at me pretty regularly when I bothered to speak up in class. Probably the other kids also were a little freaked out, or maybe just worried because the teachers tended to like me an awful lot.

So there are possible explanations, I suppose, but I still find it kind of bizarre that I wasn't actively bullied more than I was, seeing as I was so frail I had to quit school in 9th grade because I couldn't make it through a full day. :P

Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[tabaqui]

Yeah, that probably had a lot to do with it. I remember me and my bff back when went around for a full year talking in (bad) fake English accents, because it was *fun* and we enjoyed it, and when a couple more 'popular' people tried to come at us, we were like....'huh? whatever'.

People who don't react like you want them to react can be real downers, for bullies, heh.

Plus, i read a lot, and do remember people in about every class (not math, omg, not math) saying 'as her, she knows everything'. But i would just get so bored, and read ahead in the textbooks....

Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[(Anonymous)]

Hah, same. I used to be able to speed-read so it was either read ahead or draw in the margins.

Oddly enough it seems my frailty and weirdness should by all rights have gotten me physically bullied, but that really never happened either - except one time there was a kid that punched me in the head in middle school, on the bus. I was sitting there going "........." because I could not believe that just happened, staring after him, and as he walked back to the back of the bus, like ten other kids punched HIM, and then beat him up when we got off the bus. o_o

So I guess I was the weird kid, but sort of the token weirdo. No one actually wanted to hang with me or even talk to me, but everyone knew me, and hey - I was their weirdo.

Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[tabaqui]

That's something, I guess......
:D

Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[(Anonymous)]

I was definitely told multiple times that some people were scared of me. It was solely because I would argue and push back when other people were wrong. It was pretty much exclusively fairly popular boys so I think they were so used to other students (especially girls) just going along with what they said that to have someone push back was very shocking to them.

Re: Were you the weird kid, in retrospect?

[(Anonymous)]

Hah, I bet. Good on you for that - I mostly just kept my head down and tried not to draw attention to myself. (Which is not to be confused with being "shy". I was definitely not that. XD)