What kind of kid were you?

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I was the epitome of a teacher's pet; library nerd, and goody-goody. Very quiet, and didn't want anyone to know I existed. I was hated by the other kids, since I projected an adult-like maturity and didn't understand the concept of playing or interacting with others my age.

Charles

I obeyed the rules, did my homework, got straight A's, and was popular with adults as I was "never any trouble." But I was terrified of the other kids and only found "friends" among the other social discards. If anyone noticed, they took the easy out of labeling it a "phase." The only difference between then and now is that it's more difficult to prove yourself in life than it is in school, and I'm no longer such a goody-goody when it comes to rules. Still afraid of the other "kids," though.

Last edited by the_curmudge on 16 Feb 2011, 3:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.

As a young child I could actually be really badly behaved! I find this quite funny because I'm so overly polite and submissive now. I was sent for swimming lessons but just used to drift off across the pool and completely ignore what I was told to do. In the playground I just used to make things out of twigs and pieces of grit, which I thought were gem stones. Until we moved when I was eight, I remember all the other kids being very accepting of my weirdness.

I was way too smart for my age. I had the brain of a 30 year old at age 5. Always had a very sophisticated vocabulary and mature interests. Didn't get along with other people very well.

This was me too. Exactly like me.

In the younger grades, I was smart, but very unfocused. I spent most of my time in my own world. I got decent grades, because I did really well when I did put the effort into it. I generally had one or two friends. We wouldn't interact with anybody else.

At about 6th grade, that all changed. All of the other students developed an extreme dislike for me. I got picked on a lot and had no friends. At the same time, my grades went up and I became an excellent student.

As I got older, I started to fit in better. I was never really good at socializing, but I did show improvement. I continued to be a top student. Just when high school was starting to make sense, I graduated.

I was pretty rowdy as a little kid, but calmed down a bit as I got older. Somehow, I managed to be a teacher's pet, but I was either invisible or despised by other kids in my grade.

By the time I hit HS & college, I was quiet & withdrawn. I generally spent most of my time by myself and didn't know about parties or gatherings other people were having.

I was the quiet kid in one of the back corner desks who got all of her school work and homework done during class.

I was the wierd outcast chick that everyone either picked on or ignored....I read a lot as kind of an escape because when I was involved in the plot of a novel I did not have to think about how much everyone disliked me.

I was really shy, I never liked being huged. But every adult loved me. I was so quiet and did everything I was told, which stoped when I began asking question about why I'm doing this or this. I was a "little professor", still am

I did a lot of sport, but I think it's because I always wanted to work on my weaknesses. I mean, every problem I ever had I always wanted to resolve it by myself. So when I saw I was having trouble in one sport, or anything, I would work has hard as possible to be at least as good as the other, or better.

I always did good in school, but never studied. I always do my exams based on my memory or brute intelligence. I often do math problem different than the normal procedure or just recall an exercise previously done. Also always had trouble getting things done in time, I have a hard time with time perception.

I was good in poetry/art and math, so I always had difficulty to find what to do in life. Finally I opted for electronics to work on nanotechnology which always fascinated me from high school.

I was the same kind of kid as the OP

I once made a cannon out of copper tubing that fired a BB by a firecracker. It actually worked and it ended up shooting out a window.

I figured a way to water proof firecrackers by wrapping them in aluminum foil with a rubber band around it, as by fastening it to a small stone, to sink it.

It worked great; it'd blow up underwater, but I threw it in our birdbath, and boom--- a collapsed birdbath; it looked as if someone was holding out their arms horizontally, and then suddenly dropping them at your side.

This is what kind of kid I was.

I knew I existed in school and the other kids made damn sure they let me know I was there.

I was extremely hyperactive (I had ADHD) and rather violent too. I got kicked out of nursery for attacking the teacher with a chair. But I didn't know how to socialise. All the other kids were scared of me and sometimes I would just sit in the corner of the playroom and chuck toys/paint pots/random objects at the walls all day or run around screaming my head off. Once I got into the primary school for gifted children (after my IQ test came out at 160), I calmed down and developed an adoration for mathematics and computer programming. By the time I was nine, I would sit at my desk at home or the computer and do maths and program my computer all day.

Yeah, basically this was me. Very shy, quiet, always obeyed the rules, got straight A's.

I wasn't really bullied until middle school, but on the other hand, I only made friends with nerds and geeks. I loved the library.

Also, I had to go to speech therapy in the 5th grade. I didn't know why, so I looked up "stutter" and "lisp" in the encyclopedia and decided I must have one of them. As an adult, I really hate how nobody ever explains the truthful reasons why kids have to do certain things. I would've done them more readily if somebody had told me, calmly and logically, without any threats. Like "You do physical education because exercise makes you healthy." I honestly thought I had a stutter for years, until I figured out that it was just hesitation and long pauses in speech, probably due to Asperger's.

Teacher: Here are some textbooks from the junior high. Sit here. Study them. Stay away from the rest of us, especially me.

Me: Yay!

Other Children: Gobbledegook.

Me: Blank stare. Falls over.

It is indeed a struggle to make such decisions. Have cake and eat too.