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Anyone thought of handing him a pen and paper?
According to his brother he is perfectly capable of speaking, but chooses not to when he does this
Had a kid I went to school with like that. His whole family was kind of strange. He never spoke at school, even if called on. Instead, he would write stuff on paper, or gesticulate wildly to get his point across. Nobody ever heard him speak. The only time he spoke to me was when he agreed to tell me happy birthday a few months before my birthday. He put a notification on his watch, and sure enough, three months later he walks into the lunch room, tells me happy birthday, and walks away. Never heard him say another word.
i wonder if it could be selective mutism in your story.
Could be. We we’re pretty good friends despite his not speaking. Although being partnered with him in a two-person project was not easy…
Almost definitely. My childhood best mate didn't talk at all in kindy all the way to year 2, but was an absolute chatterbox outside of school.
I don't even remember what made him break the streak but once he did it was like it never happened. Turned out perfectly fine as an adult too.
Brains are something else.
i have a mild form of this. theres nothing ''selective'' about it. it happens in certain scenarios and it gets worse when people pressure me to talk i don't think i could write a sentence in that state, it's like i can't. i have basically no real relationships except for a handful of people because it keeps ruining everything. other times i'm really good at socialisizing and being funny at gatherings and then people think i don't like them when i'm like this in private, they think it's about them and they get angry. i'm really exhausted and depressed bc of it to be honest.
I had a really good friend who, when his mother died, stopped talking for around 2 years. He had to do therapy to start talking again. The way he explained to me, is after that point he just had nothing to say anymore. Everything lost meaning. His mom was his best friend. Real sad shit.
We had a kid who would intentionally speak in a really high pitch voice - but rarely, we guessed his voice got deeper long before most of his class mates, so maybe they bullied him for it so he faked his voice.
He would only respond in one or two word answers, but even after everyone else's voice had finally changed, he kept it up. I had heard his real voice, but thought that was fake too. Nobody ever knew anything about him because all you'd hear from him is your name, or yes/no.
A couple of years after we all left school, I saw him at a petrol station, the fake high pitch voice was finally gone. But I still wonder why he faked his voice for 5 years.
I know a kid like that too! I went to college with him. He was very smart, but always spoke in a very high pitched voice. Sometimes his voice would briefly sound normal, then it would shoot up. Idk what causes that, but he was funny. It was like every other sentence from him was a witty one liner.
I mean I have a somewhat deeper voice, but growing up had an extremely high pitched voice compared to my peers, and while I didn't ever not talk, I definitely talked a lot less due to comments I'd get. So I get it.
Grew up with a girl who whispered all the time at school. Didn't see her for a few years, encountered her again in high school. She still whispered all the time. We assumed she was traumatized or something.
Got reacquainted, got interested in her, dated her for a bit. Turns out the whispering thing was a choice. She just didn't like loud noises and when she whispered, everyone else was quiet. It became a habit. When it was just us she didn't whisper. I'm generally soft spoken and she didn't feel the need.
That actually sounds nice. Growing up I’ve always felt like people don’t actually listen to me so I always spoke louder than most people. Not great. Lol
I spent 8 months in Iraq with a guy who drove the 7ton truck i was assigned to. All he did besides drive was eat sunflower seeds and never talked the entire fucking time. Ever. Never said a damn word. We saw combat in Fallujah and dude was fucking silent.
He still scares the fuck out of me 20 years later.
Probably selective mutism or whatever, brains can be complex
The true sigma
I have no idea why but I had a similar issue in preschool and kindergarten but mostly went by first grade. I wouldn’t speak to the teachers. I’d speak to my classmates though, but if the teacher spoke to me and id have to respond, I’d just whisper to my classmates to pass it on or try to gesticulate something. I grew out of it. I’m not even sure why I did it. I guess it really stressed my teachers out lol
Dude lost a bet. Probably with his brother
The fact the guy is doing this shit, looking absolutely deranged, to this extent, makes it go from "this motherfucker is just wasting everyone's time" to "this motherfucker is just wasting everyone's time lmaooo, absolute chad"
if you are gonna do something, dont half ass it. people will respect the hustle
I was legitimately unaware that people were still using "chad" unironically. Alpha as fuck, right?
So he has family? Whats their explanation for this?
I actually know the guy. I asked him about it and he said, "..."
I didn't really speak at all until I was about 5 years old.
Perfectly capable, didn't gaf.
My twin sister handled all the admin, before that. Twins are special.
/true story
This guy selective mutisms.
Is he autistic?
This was what I was wondering - is he completely non-communicative or is he just not speaking, IE he nods, or writes but utters nothing.
He could gesture writing if he were mute.
He just sits and stares sounds like. He could have written a letter to the police station in that roads district at some point between all the arrests.
He keeps getting arrested for standing in the road. Same thing in my town with two homeless people. I think they do it to feel seen. Cars honk at them, they control a bit of other people’s lives because they have no control over their own. It’s the only attention in society they get.
Anyway, that’s my guess.
I live in Japan and sometimes elderly people living alone steal things from the convenient store just so the police come so that they can have some human interaction and conversation.
Some others call an ambulance with a fake symptom just to feel human touch.
Believe it or not, being shunned by society and rotting in the street while people either ignore or pity you will eventually lead you to either develop a severe mental illness or act in ways that make others lives harder.
not sure if you can tell but im a pretty heavy believer in the "no such thing as a bad boy" mindset.
They did, and he writes in invisible ink. The plot thickens.
We tried. He ate them
Have we tried feeding him something else?
That’s how we lost Bill Stickers.
Everyone needs a hobby.
Some men just want to watch the traffic stall
Like it's the only way he can get off now due to some strange circumstance.
“due to a strange circumcision.”
"due to a strange circumference"
So how did you stop him?
We tore the road up
Great opening words to a film.
I‘m a dog blocking cars
Therapist here.
Not a diagnosis, but sometimes sociopathic folk pick weird power games to center their life around like robbing the post office, blocking traffic, or running an HOA…
Blocking traffic seems benign, but holy shit those other two.
Especially the HOA. Holy crap!
I went to go buy a house a few years ago, and the first thing I said when I sat down with the realtor was "No HOA's".
They only had two properties. I didn't want either.
Opening with that is a huge time saver.
The BTK serial killer stopped killing people when he became the enforcement guy for an HOA. True story.
Alright think about it like this, it’s about power.
Power to make people late to events so they have bad seats.
Power to make them late to a date so they make a bad first impression.
Power to make people urinate or dedicate in their car or at least experience the pain of having a full bladder or bowel. Maybe your a kid on a bus and it happens in front of classmates.
Power to make someone late to work and get that last point on their record so they get fired.
Power to make people miss appointments they spent weeks and weeks waiting on to figure out if that cyst is benign.
Imagine the glee they get when they block a fire engine or ambulance. People die. They have power over life…
They don’t live life like we do. The game they are playing isn’t the same because they don’t have empathy. I promise you they thought this kinda shit out. Don’t fuck with sociopaths you have no idea what their angle is and you will loose the game because they make the rules and they are designed for for you to loose.
Ok you've convinced me I'm gonna go block traffic now.
this feels personal lmao
I figured his was time travel and he's preventing something.
There's plenty of spice to mine.
Plenty of spice statues standing around in the UK
"sometimes, it's bad to have a hobby"
The Dollop
AKA - Pylon
I will give you the ability to foresee those who will die in car accidents, and you can prevent it, but you will never be able to explain why to anyone. Do you accept?
Wow... that's some true mythological level stuff right there! Brilliant!!
The Myth of Carssandra
We were foretold but I didn't belive it
It is real.
I will give you the ability to foresee those who will die in car accidents, and you can prevent it, but every time you speak you shit yourself. Do you accept this challenge, BollardMan?
Unbearably wholesome
"I, the great shaman, curse you to a long life in this world, as a passive observer. No force on Earth will be able to take you down, not even age or the great plague itself. You will watch everything around you die and wither and you will not be able to do anything about it.
That's it, until one brave warrior in a shining carriage decides to relief your pain, the berserker with a sheer intent to kill. You will know him by his steed's name - Honda Civic"
"oh, and you will be bald"
"NOOOOO! NOT BALD!!"
"And your pubes grow like, extra fast."
❤️
Rapunzel rapunzel, let down your muff!
NGL thought it was gonna be the Cybertruck
It was raining
Best possible comment.
Alright, write it up, I’ll see you over on r/nosleep
That's just a nicer curse casandra.
Casandra could tell people but they wouldn’t listen and it would happen as she foresaw. This would be the opposite: can’t tell anyone but able to change it.
That's why it's nice, you can at least do something and not being able to tell probably beats no one taking you serious/not believing you.
And your name shall be Hodor...No wait...Hostreet.
The Watcher