Who was the weirdest kid at your primary school?

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Mine was a guy called Thorin, he used to jump on the roof and make origame. He was my best friend and I was the only person allowed on the roof so I could get him down. It was cool.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

me.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Me, by a country mile. Huge vocabulary and reading skills to alienate class, as if chemo wig covering bald head would not differentiate me enough.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone else.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

me.

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:31 (twenty-two years ago)

so do we all just think we were the weirdest or does ilxor attract weirdos? :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yes.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

the second one

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Cindy OTM.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a kid called Bojmir. I totally ruined his life, and always felt bad about it. I was the first to point out that his name backwards was 'rimjob,' and while most of the 6th grade class didn't know what that was, they knew it was bad and worth making fun of. Poor Bojmir.

He was weird because he dipped hamburgers in milk

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe not me, but I was pretty close.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Dipping hamburgers in milk will get the "weird" pinned on a guy in a hurry.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Bojmir wasn't Jewish then.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

No clue in my case.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe he was from Sri Lanka

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I was eccentric but I don't think I was the weirdest. Or else my school was OK with freaks.

The one who came in for the most ridicule was a tallish, skinny kid with a higher than normal voice and a lisp. Everyone made fun of him for being 'gay.' (What does that even mean to fourth-graders?)

Fast-forward eight years and it turns out he is gay.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, being called gay since fourth grade might do that to some people.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

(which isn't to say I'm at all against the idea that people are born gay or not argh I was just kidding okay wtf)

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a boy at my school who got up and sang 'My Guy' due to the popularity of Sister Act.
Last year he was accepted into theatre school.
I don't know if he's gay but i was at my old primary school yesterday and there was a picture of Isaac with the caption 'Isaac is gay'.

― Nellie (nellskies), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

A girl named Tana that used to pee on the playground in front of everyone instead of going in to use the bathroom. She was held back after 2nd grade, no idea what happened to her.

― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i may have been the nerdiest but i wasn't the weirdest. there was a (possibly slightly retarded) girl who largely spoke gibberish and stared at you funny. and there was the guy who attempted to smoke cigarettes in class, had a haircut that looked like he just woke up, and was like a really fucked-up precursor to silent bob. i seem him wandering around melbourne sometimes, i assume he was fairly mentally ill..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

There was always some kid or other who smelled of wee at my primary school, but I cant think of any outstandingly strange kids. High school yes. I think in primary school I happily accepted most people no matter how odd they were.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The thing is, I think of most ilXors as nerds made good, self included. Is this wrong?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Define "made good".

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Having made it this far without opening fire on a Denny's?

― Prude (Prude), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Made good? To me that means that one becomes (more) secure in one's boffinage or enthusiasm or 'differentiating feature', whatever that may be.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

K, do you remeber what it was like to go to school in the UK? Were you more happily mixed with les autres than when you moved to US schools?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post...

Anyway, to answer the question...

Seeing as how I went to an "alternative" school, we had our pick of weirdoes. I looked positively normal by comparison. This is going to sound awfully racist, but the weirdest kids, by common agreement, were the Gypsies. The school's parents were awfully suspicious, I think in general, the kids were downright envious.

― Super-Kate (kate), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah - one of the things I get from talking to people from Roma background is how difficult it is for more domiciled people to understand their lives and choices.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The weirdest guy at my school was a true nerd who always wore his down jacket in class and smelled really bad and did end worse-smelling science experiments in the lunch break when he could get away with it (ie. setting stuff on fire, glueing things together etc).

The most popular guy in my school got HIV from a hooker in Thailand and hung himself in his parents' barn (this is not to display tasteless schadenfreude or anything, it's just a fucked up story from real life).

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Again, probably me. Does this mean we can only ever have one ILXor from every school in the world?

(The main weirdness about me was that my mum made me wear school uniform even though it wasn't compulsary. Grrrr.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Was she skint?

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Grraeme Webb. i can't remember why exactly but he sure looked the part. he also went to my secondary school where he would bemuse and enthrall the playground cattle with impromptu renditions of 'Diamonds Are Forever'. nose ran constantly. became a goth.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

surely if you think you're weird then you can't be.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess it was me. Back in the first or second grade I used to drink out of puddles. I thought it didn't taste any worse than tap water, and I tried to convince the other kids to do it as well. The funny thing was, even though I was kinda weird, back in the lower elementary school (1st to 6th grade in Finland) I was often the leader of the gang. For example, I had this jumping-down-roofs club, where me and my friends would climb on different roofs (not very high ones, obviously) and jump down. The club was my idea, and I was the legitimate leader, since I was always the first to jump. Also, I used to invent words and "movements". For example, I might jump up and down and repeat the same nonsense word over and over again. Sometimes I got the other kids to do those too. It was only during upper elementary school (7th to 9th grade) when people started to call me geek or freak and ignore me.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio by that logic NONE of us are funny

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, darn

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio, if enough people call you a weirdo, irrespective of truth, you tend to remember it.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It was a close call between me and Elizabeth, the girl who liked to eat black crayons. I had moved house and school in primary two and was so disdainful of my new classmates who were still struggling through the 'baby' alphabet - ah, bhi, chi, dhi, eh, fffff etc. I regaled them all with stories of my old school and how much better it was with descriptions pinched largely out of Enid Blyton books - pet corner, garden where we grew our own veg, the option of living in or out. In truth there was no difference between the two schools, though I maintain that I would have become a doctor if I hadn't moved primary schools.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

this kid named chris who was a jehovah's witness. he had to always go stand out in the hall during the pledge, sit out making holiday decorations, etc. He also always had fluorescent green snot running down his face. Me and my friend Judy were nice to him and let him sit with us at lunch because we felt sorry for him.

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

God I barely remember, it was all very normal and middle class I guess. I think things only got weird in secondary school where there were a bunch of psychos.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't remember the kids name, but he was a chronic glue-stick eater. And for some reason when he sneezed coloured Lite-Birite peg's would fly out of his nose.

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

me , after the one kid with the hockey helmet

― kephm, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a guy in my fourth grade class who used to pretend he could turn into Wonder Woman during recess. He would then try to kiss every boy around him. He also got into a screaming fight with his homeroom teacher at least once a week which would culminate in her dragging him out of the classroom and him shrieking with sadness and regret as he held onto the door frame.

Compared to that, the kid who shit his pants was the epitome of normality.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i cant remember who it was, but it definitely wasnt me, i was in with the popular kids *gasp*

there was the kid with the stutter and also this bad kid who smelled bad, listened to KISS and had ferrets

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

- The kid who would eat a booger if you paid him five cents. Once the novelty wore off (ie, no one would pay him), he did it for free.

- The kid who would scream and burst into tears if anyone got within about three feet of him, then complained that no one liked him. He got kicked out of class once a month or so for trying to show people his wang.

- The kid who set his sandbox on fire at home and burned off his eyebrows - always had a runny nose and a line of dried snot on his sleeve.

- The kid who had some elementary school version of Tourette's and used to charge around yelling what he thought were obscenities: PUSSYWILLOW! ASSUME! BITUMEN! ASPHALT! FORK!

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Was she skint?

No; she just thought that it looked better.

(at least, my parents never appeared to be skint when I was little)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey besides the snot part that was me and it FUCKING ROCKED! All the other cunts were having to do boring religious education class and i got to sit on the steps above the class and laugh at them during prayer time.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

question to those who nominated themselves: how do you know you were weird? isn't everyone's child-self pretty weird compared to their now-self?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I think i'm wired for weirdness, it'll never leave me.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought you was a girl, Ipsofacto.

In Finland, if you weren't a member of the state church, you could skip all the school activities that had anything to do with religion. Some of my friends took it a bit far: they refused to sing the Finnish national anthem, because "we're not with the church". (There's no mention of god or religion in the anthem.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i am, i mean i guess i assumed everyone knew i was :)

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, a stupid joke, I was pointing to what you said up there, that you were Sam's school mate Chris without the snot.

question to those who nominated themselves: how do you know you were weird? isn't everyone's child-self pretty weird compared to their now-self?

Well, I took it I was a weirdo because I was labeled as one by the other kids. Also, I wasn't interested in any of the things boys of my age were, like ice hockey, cars, etc.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

No don't apologise, it wasn't stupid at all!

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Some girl that was ridiculed by far too many people. I remember the whole (or half but does that matter?) school surrounding her and laughing at her. I stood there wondering "So adults say high school is the best thing evah?!? Yeah, riiight." I felt so sad for her but then what did I do? Nothing, just stood there.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Uh yeah primary school. Some kid who painted her boots with white paint to cover up the dirty patches. hahah

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:39 (twenty-two years ago)

But Chris could be a girl's name, too

(xpost)

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

No don't apologise, it wasn't stupid at all!

Well, it is now that I've explained it.

Jesus N., I remember a similar situation in my primary school. There was this nerdish boy who was bullied even more than I was, he was called "Cockroach". Nobody even knew his real name, he was just Cockroach. Can you imagine what it does to someone's self-esteem if that's the only name you have? Obviously, I wouldn't do anything to help him, because I didn't want to bullied more myself.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

A boy named Anthony. He was really smart, but he'd alway talk about science somehow. When he talked, he always sounded like he had a cold. He was nice, but one time he asked us what kind of undrewear he should wear on our field trip. I think we choose Siderman.

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

chose

― Aja (aja), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ciderman

― prince, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

This kid called Louis who would attract attention to himself by pretending to fall over and die. And lie there stiff for the whole of break time.

― CRW (CRW), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

The weird girl in my elementary school had snow-white hair and was the daughter of a minister. I went to her house one day after school, and we went for a long walk. We went to a magic shop and bought farting powder (which, later in the week, we would carefully pour into the turkey sandwich of a mean girl named Tammy). And we saw a man with a gun tucked into his coat (which weird girl found just hilarious). And we found a dead crow, and she wordlessly picked it up, tucked it under her arm like a football, and carried it around like that for about an hour, until we went into a gas station and she put the crow on the counter and said, "Look" to the cashier, who freaked out and made her throw it in the trash. Then we went back to her house, which had been a funeral parlor in the late 19th/early 20th century, and she showed me the red, circular windows near the ceiling ("to let out the spirits of the dead") and we sat in rocking chairs and ate pastries and read the smutty parts of the romance novels she had stashed under her bed.
The fact that this was one of the best days of my elementary school life could, perhaps, suggest that I was Weird Girl #2.

― kirsten (kirsten), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I'm not the first to say this, but it was me!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 14 April 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

spiderman

typo. Sorry. Didn't catch that one.

― Aja (aja), Thursday, 15 April 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

My friend Rick, in sixth grade, wore a raggedy shredded bathrobe and combat boots and heavy metal band t-shirts and occasionally carried a claymore (which is a 4+ foot long sword) on his back and claimed to be building a spaceship to take him "home" and was on like 2700 mg of lithium a day for a variety of psychological conditions. One time when he was suspended he called the school with a bomb threat. He was my mom's least favorite of my friends EVER.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 15 April 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

possiply me, but i was just really quiet so its more like im just the kid no one remembers rather than the wierdest.

there was a kid who i cant remember his real name but for some reason we nicknamed him prince, he was really hyperactive and he used to do things like shit in the sinks, sometimes he wore a large mexican hat to school.

― alu, Thursday, 15 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ten years pass...

I'm going to include highschool too.

- There was a girl whose parents were apparently so weird that some of my classmates immediately branded her a weirdo too. She was a bit weird, in a genuine way and in a slightly showoff way. Once a spider appeared and alarmed some students and she quickly grabbed it and ate it.
I don't think she was particularly bullied but some guys were assholish to her. She was very nice.

- I had a very owlish looking friend who lots of people bullied and I really regret not standing up for him. He wasn't properly weird, he just had an appearance, interests and mannerisms that attracted bullying unfortunately. I hope he's doing well.
Sometimes I think I'd like to meet him again but I'd be too worried he could have changed radically into someone I'd want to get rid of, maybe finding some horribly uncomfortable difference between us. Probably not a good idea for me.
Has anyone ever done this? Met up with a childhood friend you hadn't seen in 15 years or more?

Hope they never read this by some odd chance. I've got mixed feelings about posting this stuff.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 25 February 2015 23:54 (eleven years ago)

This kid called Louis who would attract attention to himself by pretending to fall over and die. And lie there stiff for the whole of break time.

CRW post and it can't be a coincidence, just sayin

― the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Thursday, 26 February 2015 00:53 (eleven years ago)

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