What was the creepy kid like in your high-school?

[Saltyk]

Four years after I graduated, I watched my high school - Columbine - get shot up on national television. As one of the "outcast" kids during my time there, it was (and always has been) strange to look back on what in-group fear-mongering resulted in just a few years down the road.

Might I ask what you mean about fear mongering? By all accounts, the killers (I refuse to learn their names) were popular in school. At the minimum, they weren't outcasts that only had each other as friends.

Are you saying that fear mongering resulted in the tragedy, or that fear mongering has largely hidden the reality and cast doubt on a group of people that did nothing wrong?

The one person who MIGHT have held the "creepy" title in my graduating class dropped out after 9th grade. I sat across from him in 8th grade science and he used to crush Tylenol and snort it while the teacher was talking. That guy, Mark Manes, wound up being one of the only two people to serve jail time for the Columbine shootings because he was the adult who bought the guns for the killers.

Sounds like he was a real stand up guy.

 

[default]

One of them was part of a friend group and still is. Classic creepy guy. Long hair, trenchcoat, into death metal. Mucked around with homemade projectile weapons, axes and machetes in his backyard. Really nice guy though.


I was probably one of the creepy guys too, but I didn't really care or notice to be honest. Quiet, a little awkward, always alone, used to just walk out of class while the teacher was talking if I didn't want to be there, wore an old brown jacket over my uniform, sat alone and drew in the gardens at lunchtime or spent time in the computer lab designing little video games. I was friends with a lot of girls though. Never really got bullied. Got shoved around and maybe called a ****** a couple of times, but it was a rough country school and that happened to everyone. I was told I had a bit of a wierd look in my eye so maybe that's why I was left alone for the most part. Afraid if I was pushed I would pull out a knife one day and put someone in the hospital and myself in jail (which I possibly would have done). Teachers liked me though because I was relatively intelligent and engaged (or at least I tried hard), and I liked chatting to them after class. This was Australian high school, so I was 16-17 when I left.

 

[DeliveryGodNoah_v1legacy]

I mean, there was once this one kid that everyone in my school district knew as more "weird" rather than "creepy".
He was a rather large kid at first, glasses, kind of a shorter bowl cut thing going on, but he was relatively harmless. People made fun of him because he had a habit of charging through the hallways in this mix between sped up walking and a jog in an attempt to get where he was going. Kind of respected him for it in a way, did not give a fuck about who was in his way.

Later on he had a few other kids following him around, specifically after school was over, they would all run in the slightly slanted "Naruto" kind of running. Of course most people picked on him for it. However, he actually lost a LOT of weight. By the end of my last school year he was very slim. Showed those other kids I guess. He was actually rather handsome afterward.

Oddly enough, despite me never talking to him before, he used to always say "Hello Damien" in the hallway. He seemed nice, so I never bothered him.

In late high school, we actually sort of became friends. He was a bit too eccentric for my tastes, but we got along. Not that it matters, but he also talked and moved in this very flamboyant way. I'm not 100% sure if he was gay, never asked. He was REALLY into Sonic the Hedgehog though. I mean REEEEAAALLLLYYYY into it. Furries as well.

Anyway, he actually insulted me and stopped all contact with me after my opinion on a topic differed from his. I can't for the life of me remember what it was, something I posted on Facebook? Obviously it wasn't a big deal to me, but I guess to him it was everything and way enough to sever a friendship.

 

[Zen Bard]

She was very much like Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club (ask your parents, young 'uns!).

She was kind of pale and pudgy with shaggy black hair and very strange tastes (vampires, witchcraft, video games and nerdy stuff before they were cool...this WAS the 80's after all).

But I got along with her because we both had a weird sense of humor and made each other laugh. My friends teased me for hanging out with her, but I really didn't care. I thought she was fun.

Then, she came back from Sophomore summer break completely made over. She had lost weight, got a modern haircut and started wearing colors besides black. And, in cliche Hollywood style, it turned out she was actually really pretty.

We dated a few times (but there was nothing there beyond a friendship, really). Then one time we went back to her place and I saw her room. It was all dark and covered with Goth band posters and pentagrams and stuff. So I was kind of relieved she hadn't gone completely Stepford.

She explained "I got tired of people thinking she was a weirdo, but not tired of being one." Never forgot that.

 

[Gennadios]

We had this one kid, straight up Norman Bates/Ed Gein upbringing. Mom was nuts and dad ran away. He was just kind of half vacant most of the time but occasionally would have an outburst in class. Two memorable ones were "It's all about Jesus!" and "The air is alive! Can you feel it?"

Last ran across him in Uni. I guess he became a Jehovah's Witness, he seemed further gone but had two handlers with him at all times from that point.

That was 12 year ago, I'm pretty sure he's got more than a few prostitutes in his crawlspace by now.

 

[sanquin]

Not really any creepy kids in my school days. Though I was definitely always the weird one. I was even the only weird one in my class all the way up until our equivalent of College. I always liked other things, wasn't much of a talker, dressed differently (and weirdly every now and then, now that I look back to it), and all that stuff. Luckily, there were some other weird kids from other classes I could hang out with during high school. Basically the stereotypical nerd group whom would play magic the gathering during breaks or stay at school for an hour or two longer to play games on the computers. (I didn't have my own pc or internet yet back then.)

 

[WindKnight]

There were the two semi bullies who would come out with weird creepy sexual stuff randomly. Also, they were big WWF fans, who bought into it wholesale, thinking it was real and liking to randomly uses moves on other students in class without pulling their strength. I was quiet and big framed, so I got enough 'DDT's' and 'Double Axe Handles' to give me a thorough loathing of the whole thing for years.

We had one who had real anger issues, went around like a coiled spring, just boiling all the time. I heard later that he'd calmed down after school after finding a girlfriend

 

[Fox12]

Well, judging from the comment section, all the creeps, freaks, and geeks came here.

I was probably one of them. I went through a phase where I wore a lot of black shirts with skulls on them, and listened to music where people yelled a lot. I grew out of it, though.

I had a friend with schizophrenia. He took medication, but it sort of numbed him, so he talked in a very robotic voice. Supposedly he shot a neighbors cat and skinned it. Eventually he got expelled for threatening to burn a teachers house down. He never would have done it, of course, but I was always a little bitter that he got the boot while another student, an athlete, got to run wild.

There was another guy I was good friends with. He was a nice dude, but all the teachers were scared of him because he wore a lot of black. He joined the military after graduation and did quite well for himself.

 

[sanquin]

She was very much like Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club (ask your parents, young 'uns!).

She was kind of pale and pudgy with shaggy black hair and very strange tastes (vampires, witchcraft, video games and nerdy stuff before they were cool...this WAS the 80's after all).

But I got along with her because we both had a weird sense of humor and made each other laugh. My friends teased me for hanging out with her, but I really didn't care. I thought she was fun.

Then, she came back from Sophomore summer break completely made over. She had lost weight, got a modern haircut and started wearing colors besides black. And, in cliche Hollywood style, it turned out she was actually really pretty.

We dated a few times (but there was nothing there beyond a friendship, really). Then one time we went back to her place and I saw her room. It was all dark and covered with Goth band posters and pentagrams and stuff. So I was kind of relieved she hadn't gone completely Stepford.

She explained "I got tired of people thinking she was a weirdo, but not tired of being one." Never forgot that.

Sounds like my kind of girl. Vampires, witchcraft, games and nerdy stuff? Sounds just like me. Though instead of getting tired of people finding me weird and changing my appearance, I went from 'out of the ordinary' appearance to metalhead.

 

[Evil Moo]

I can't really think of any individuals that stand out as the creepy one. Some of the more rebellious stoner people (the sort that would play with lighters and set paper on fire in empty corridors) would probably have fit that role if there weren't enough of them that they came across as relatively popular.

As it stood, it was probably me, being the quiet intelligent guy with few friends. People see a quiet loner and just assume he's plotting mass destruction. This kind of amused me so I went along with the evil genius persona for a while. That was until someone took it too seriously and I ended up having to explain to the police that I didn't intend to shoot up my school and then kill my parents. Apparently they didn't believe me the first time I told them (I was later told by one of the officers that I came across as 'cold', though I don't know what else they would expect from a teenager being confronted by the police unexpectedly with such serious allegations), so I had to spend the next month or so continuing to convince them otherwise (the thing that finally worked was writing a formal letter explaining that what I'd actually said had involved nuclear weapons and other such fantastical ideas and anything more specific and realistic was me flippantly agreeing with other people's dumb questioning).

I don't compare to a lot of genuinely creepy kids out there. I think I was just filling the role for lack of a better person for people to single out.

 

[Parasondox]

He wanked off a cat... Not sure what more to say really.

Well that's enough internet for me today. Happy Valentine's Day, all. Don't get pregnant in the morning.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I kinda moved around too much as a kid to gain any memory of who were the creepy ones. Each place had various social setups that made me more a passing observer than an actual established member. Sort of makes it difficult to form emotional relationships in the friend area now. The differences are astounding when compared to an anchored upbringing. Not sure if it is a blessing or a curse yet. There was one boy i had the misfortune of befriending once, certainly was a one of the quiet ones, that never bothered me before or ever really. But after him showing me some questionable material on his computer, i never spoke to him again and anyone that knew him did bring up other personality quirks that added to the "less quirky, more stalkery" character. I have probably been on the fringe of social interaction, so maybe i could have been the creepy one if i hung around longer.

It is interesting to note the difference in how American high school kids see goth etc as the creepy ones, it has never really been like that in any school i attended. It was more how you acted, not what you wore or listened to. Is this to do with the prevailance of creationism in US schools by any chance?

 

[Something Amyss]

Me...

Beat me to it.

And while I didn't go to Columbine, everyone thought I was going to be the one to go all Columbine on my school. Of course, that would be interesting, as I don't own any firearms. Oh, and I'm a pacifist. In fact, one of the big problems I had is that I refuwsed to fight back up to mid high school.

There were the two semi bullies who would come out with weird creepy sexual stuff randomly. Also, they were big WWF fans, who bought into it wholesale, thinking it was real and liking to randomly uses moves on other students in class without pulling their strength. I was quiet and big framed, so I got enough 'DDT's' and 'Double Axe Handles' to give me a thorough loathing of the whole thing for years.

And this is why I always carry a ring bell and a steel chair with me.

If wrestling is real, they MUST obey these talismans.

 

[Chaos Isaac]

I was the creepy guy.
...I found it funny at the time. A bit embarrassing looking back on it, but whatever.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I might have been one of them.

Though, not until I almost broke one of the bullies' nose.
It did stop the bullying atleast.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

Honestly it's been so long since I've been in high school that I don't even really remember them.

However, I did take a Chemistry class in Community College, and there was one kid who was definitely off. He had a 'beard' that looked more like he glued pubes to his face (I'd like to think anyone with some common sense would have realized quickly that the beard look wasn't working), and I don't think I ever saw him speak to anyone. We were supposed to work with small groups for the lab portions, and he would just immediately go off in a corner and do the lab without even attempting to join anyone else (which is crazy, because the labs took a LONG time if you tried to do them solo). When we would take breaks, he would leave the room quickly, disappear, and then come back at the end of break, and I had no idea where the hell he went (and I don't think he was a smoker). As much as I hate to 'profile' anyone, he did seem like the kind of guy who everyone would describe as "quiet" and "kept to himself mostly" after he goes on a shooting rampage.

Of course he never ended up doing anything, but yeah, I definitely concealed carried in that class.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I'm ashamed and a hypocrite to say that one or two of the "special" kids were the creepy type in my High School. Just to be clear, I was put under special due to my struggle to learning English properly (ethnic background here) while the other speical kids I'm mentioning were there for other reasons. They had an odd "tastes" to things.

Oh god, I just vaguely remember how the ugly and naughty girl from the special class admit into having a huge crush on me. I said "uh huh" as in not caring but in my head I was screaming and also imagine that train going into a tunnel but reversing backward at full steam!