Today, I was told that when I was in middle school and thought I was considered class clown for either making jokes or acting stupid, people thought I actually was stupid and/or mentally challenged. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I found out that our neighbors told almost everyone on our street that I was mentally handicapped. All this time I wasn't sure why they would speak slowly and loudly at me. Now they won't believe me when I tell them I'm a 4.0 GPA student. FML
Today, in calculus, our substitute teacher told me I was smart. Everybody in the class, including my friends, burst out laughing. FML
Today, I realized that the reason why my classmates from second grade may have thought of me so poorly was that I stupidly told all of them that I was a bedwetter and needed to wear pull-ups during the night. I feel like a fool now. FML
Today, I realized that a kid in my class is actually autistic and didn't have ADHD. The teachers went out of their way to lie that he has ADHD and not autism. No wonder people thought I was a "retard" (their words, not mine) when it came out that I had ADHD and started using classroom accommodations. FML
Today, I finally realized how stupid I am, when I answered a question correctly in class and my teacher started clapping and cheering. FML
Today, out of my whole class, I received no awards. All my teachers thought that I would get plenty from the others. Now people think I'm stupid. I have a 3.66 GPA and they won't believe me. FML
Today, I was sitting in class when I overheard a group talking about how much they don't like me. When they saw me there, they burst out laughing. FML
Today, I found out why I'm always let off easy when I do something wrong at work. They think I have a mental handicap. I don't. I'm just clumsy and forgetful. FML
Today, I found out that my classmates affectionately refer to me as "the kid whose eyes are really far apart." FML
Today, I was told by my teacher that she had 'given up' teaching me because someone had told her I have a mental illness, and that I don't understand what she says. FML
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Justy101 23
Some people just aren't funny no matter how much they want to be
Soninuva 41
Either you're an extremely gifted actor, or they may have assumed right. YDI. Seriously, there's no humor in acting like an idiot. People that think otherwise are why we have kids thinking it's "cool" to be/act stupid, and doing so rather than trying to better themselves intellectually.
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Comments (15)
ZenTHC 0
at the end of the year? so you mean in middle school
Justy101 23
Some people just aren't funny no matter how much they want to be
Soninuva 41
Either you're an extremely gifted actor, or they may have assumed right. YDI. Seriously, there's no humor in acting like an idiot. People that think otherwise are why we have kids thinking it's "cool" to be/act stupid, and doing so rather than trying to better themselves intellectually.
Cynical_1 26
Are you sure you aren't mentally challenged? I mean there must have been some sign that you weren't as funny as you thought you were. I suppose it can be difficult though to tell the difference between being laughed at and laughed with.
Cynical_1 26
Are you sure you aren't mentally challenged? I mean there must have been some sign that you weren't as funny as you thought you were. I suppose it can be difficult though to tell the difference between being laughed at and laughed with.
pjsr 33
Stupid is as stupid does
maritime1992 5
I mean, when you think it's an achievement to be the class clown in middle school...
Lady_Spaghetti 36
Sorry OP. Seems humor isn't your thing...
Talis99 26
YDI. People who are the class clown types are jackasses. Be "funny" on your own time. Especially if you were so bad at it that people thought you were mentally-challenged.
Vanderdale 14
YDI. More often than not the designated "class clown" is obnoxious and disruptive, and rarely actually funny.