When we look back at our middle school and high school years, we can all remember that one weird kid or group of weird kids.
But while some kids just seemed "weird" on the outside, there were some who really earned their reputation.
Already cringing in anticipation, Redditor Big_Boy_Bill06 asked:
"What did the weird kid at your school do to earn that reputation?"
The Broken "Weird Kid" Alliance
"He made plastic weapons with various school supplies so he could shoot stuff at people."
"The weird part is that he shot them at the other outcast kids."
"While he’s probably a successful engineer at this point, I did get the pleasure to see one of the math 'nerds' slap the s**t out of him in retaliation once."
- djhin2
Kung Shoe!
"He kicked his wooden clogs at kids who bullied him for wearing clogs."
"He had pretty good aim."
"P.S. When we graduated, when he signed people's yearbooks, he'd draw a little misshapen shoe, and under the shoe, he wrote, 'KUNG SHOE.'"
- wakeupwill
But... Do You Like Pie?
"There was a German foreign exchange student at my school who dressed like Willy Wonka and carried around pies. For a while, I thought the only English he knew was, 'Do you like pie?'"
"He was weird as s**t but always smiling and the pies were good."
- Mdanor789
"To me, that sounds like the most normal German I know, including me."
- ShinxAndMoon
Uhh...
"He would unwrap condoms, FILL them with yogurt, and leave them around the school."
- flyingcircusdog
"God forbid a guy have hobbies!"
- sendduckpics
Not The Pants!
"He used to sit in puddles to get sent home. Then the school realised and stopped sending him home. He carried on regardless."
- Fun-Explanation-8278
"I knew a kid who did something similar in second grade. He peed his pants one day and was sent home. Like a week later, I was in the bathroom, and he was splashing and rubbing water onto his crotch with this huge grin on his face, and then he ran out crying that he peed his pants again. He was once again sent home..."
"Well, like a week or so later, he tried to do it again, and the teacher caught on, and so did the nurse and kids parents; when he went to the nurses office to call home, there was already a fresh pair of pants and underwear waiting in a bag from his parents just so that he could stay in school. He got called Pee Pants for years after!"
- itsfish20
...Just In Case.
"The weird kid at my high school got into an argument with a pretty popular kid. The popular guy wanted to fight."
"The weird kid told him that if he wins, then he gets to keep the popular guy's thumbs."
"...They didn't fight."
- amature_lover
Who Shall Ever Pull The Sword From The Stone...
"He had a walking stick that he didn't need and claimed it had a sword in it. We all believed him for about a week until he started claiming only the worthy could pull it after we tried to get him to show us."
- National_Moose2283
"As the resident weird kid in my own school, I totally get this. You make a joke, but it's dry humor, and you never specify that you're joking. It just goes over everyone's head, and wouldn't be made any better if you then tried to explain yourself."
- AnotherStupidHipster
The Pepsi Party Animal
"Ours was a kid who liked to take his shirt off and shotgun (punching a hole in the can and chugging it) sodas on our school bus like he was at a frat party."
"Years later, I took a job as a cook in a cafeteria. My manager said he hoped I stayed longer than the last guy who liked celebrating the weekend by slamming back sodas after poking a hole in them with a kitchen knife."
"Incredulously, I asked the guy's name. Yep, it was the Pepsi Party Animal himself. Some people never change."
- PunkRockHero
An "Artiste" In The Making!
"It was high school. He was a nerd but not a fun one."
"He wrote a movie and was carrying the script around the school to show to teachers. He also wrote his own autobiography where he wrote in third person and called himself 'an artist.'"
"His mother was choosing who could come to his birthday. And it was high school, so parties meant beer, booze, and second base. Nobody came to his birthday."
"He is now a successful, awarded, historical book writer."
- grafknives
Unexplainable Behavior
"We had a kid who would march up and down the halls, yelling military marching cadences. He would have his iPod in, and apparently, all that was on there were marching cadences. He also never talked to anyone."
"Every day, all day, before class... marching. Going from class to class... marching. After school,l to the bus... marching."
"All while yelling those cadences. Not saying/singing them. Yelling."
"We were all convinced he was going to shoot up the school."
"I've looked him up a few times since then. He seems like the kind, quiet type and does a lot of volunteer work."
- Gbrusse
Quite The Romantic
"He was into anime when that was very much seen as for losers. He always wore a 'Sailor Moon' shirt."
"During a middle school dance, the last song of the night was 'My Heart Will Go On,' which I guess was his favorite song, and he started slow dancing with his arms around an imaginary partner."
"I hope he's had a good life."
- Livid_Parsnip6190
The Chain Mail Kid
"He made his own chain mail and wore it to school often."
"He wore it once, and anyone who was even remotely artistic or crafty or interested in fantasy/gaming gave him attention that he normally never got."
"And so he just wore it all the time... but the positive attention stopped on, like, day three."
- mellcrisp
"Okay, but MAKING YOUR OWN CHAIN MAIL?! That's h**la impressive. That s**t is HARD."
"I get the other kids missing the appeal, but man, props to that guy."
- TheDyingMeme6
A Doctor In The Making!
"I was friends with the kid in grade school, Joe. Joe was losing his baby teeth. He had a crush on this one girl, Karla."
"He ran up to her in the playground to show her how loose his front teeth were. She called him gross, so he punched himself in the mouth and knocked out two of his baby teeth."
"He then chased Karla with his teeth clamped in his tiny, bloody fist, screaming, 'How do you like me now?!' He was my hero. He was sent home."
"The next day, he came back to school with the two teeth in a tiny box. He was later sent home for shooting the teeth through a straw at things during class. He would retrieve the teeth, rinse, repeat. What a menace!"
"He is now an MD and happily married, but not to Karla."
- CenturianSasquatch
Keep Your "Enemies" Close
"I had a kid at my high school who came to school every single day dressed as Link from 'The Legend of Zelda,' sword and everything. Everyone knew him."
"However, for some reason, he got along great with everyone. In the hallways, I always saw people giving him high-fives, saying hello, all sorts of stuff. Against all odds, he seemed insanely popular with every person in the school."
- probablyalreadyhave
"Dude, it's probably because he had a sword."
- eeviltwinn
It Takes A Village.
"He always wore a different shoe on each foot, smelled terrible, and never brought a lunch. This was a Catholic school that cost a decent amount of money. Turns out he was just really, really poor. Everybody looked out for him afterward."
- Ambitious-Compote473
"That's actually encouraging. Hope it helped the kid out emotionally/mentally. Kind of an odd situation, though. Was he there on some sort of scholarship? Or did his parents think the only education worth getting was a religious one?"
- gangreen424
While some might call these experiences weird, we can all agree that they were memorable, and in some cases, really enjoyable
. It's a joy to look back on our school years and reflect on the moments that stood out. If there were people who stood out, it was often the "weird" kids.
