I met this guy about 8 or 9 years ago in a programming chatroom. I’ve actually met him several times in real life (though I haven’t seen him in 4 years or so) and even though he’s very strange, I consider him a friend.
I always knew that he got picked on a lot when he was younger but I just took it as a given; we never really talked about it. Tonight we got on the subject somehow and it was pretty damn upsetting.
Let’s listen in:
me: did you ever have a good/happy relationship with your parents?
him: uh sometimes
me: sometimes still
me: or only when you were younger?
him: yea… school beat it out of me
him: for the most part
him: until i just dropped out and said enough is enough
me: dropped out of high school you mean?
him: yes
me: that sucks man
me: you dropped out because people were mean to you?
him: yea man
him: i couldnt stand it
him: these kids hit my truck
me: that is really shitty
him: broke the front windsheild once
him: and then did it again and broke the passenger side window
me: [that’s] fucked up man
him: i know
him: kids are mean
me: kids are RUTHLESS
him: some were okay
him: i just hung out with the wrong kids
him: well, the good kids were segregated
him: they didnt want to touch me probably out of fear they would be picked on
me: why do you think they chose you to pick on?
him: so i was stuck being “freinds” with the ones who caused all the toruble
him: probably because i was happy as is and they weren’t
him: or i didn’t talk to them because they were ganging up on me
him: in high school i was always so pissed they said i looked like a serial killer
him: and it was a comment i got ALOT
him: and i would walk around during lunch time cause i didnt have somewhere to be
him: noone to hang around with cause josh and them had a different lunch hour
him: so eventually i begged my parents into letting me drive to school
him: then the rats came in
him: the ones who were suddenly my freind all of a sudden
him: oh god it was too much
The conversation wasn’t as one-sided as it looks. I took out most of what I said unless it was a question and a few little back-and-forths between us but this is the gist of it.
Like I said, I always kind of “knew” this, but it’s pretty upsetting nonetheless to have it confirmed.