There was this girl in my middle school - let’s call her Bird Girl - who lived in her own world.
Every break, every lunch, every stolen moment between classes, she’d be glued to the window or draped halfway over the balcony railing, binoculars pressed to her face, making eerie, flawless bird calls toward the trees.
Mynahs answered her. Crows cawed back. One afternoon a hawk actually circled low over the basketball court while she let out this low, throaty whistle. The whole class went dead silent for a beat… then erupted in laughter.
We were brutal.
Kids shouted “Tweety!” down the hallway loud enough for everyone to hear. Teachers rolled their eyes and snapped at her to stop staring out the window and “focus.” She wasn’t into boys, lip gloss, or whatever trends we were all chasing. She was deep into ornithological facts. She was so weird.
In eighth grade, that was social suicide.
Looking back, it makes me cringe. Because I'm old enough now to recognize that how a society treats kids with weird interests and obsessions reveals a lot.
Would we shame the obsession out of her? Force her to shrink until she fit the mold? Or would we let her stay strange?
America, at its best, has usually chosen the third option. Not perfectly, not always. But enough for the weird ones to survive and eventually thrive.
The kid coding games instead of chasing parties. The teenager out in the garage building drones on weekends. The quiet girl collecting worms and soil samples outside.
Conformist cultures crush that spark early. They treat outliers like defects, but what they really are is the next breakthrough. Or perhaps the next startup. Maybe the next big star. The next moonshot that started with some kid getting roasted for talking to pigeons.
Weird is an asset.
It's great for Samuel that his classmates and now the internet are celebrating him.
I have the worst news...
A North Carolina father, Lester Jones, has been k*lled after he heard his 16-year-old daughter being beaten by her boyfriend with a pistol.
The father stepped between her and the gun, shielding his daughter from the bullets, ultimately giving his life to save her as the boyfriend opened fire, k*lling him.
His daughter survived due to her father's intervention, but is in the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
Police say Lester's daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend punched her in the face and pistol-whipped her with a 9mm handgun in Concord, NC.
The father stepped in between them to protect her, taking multiple rounds himself, ultimately giving his life to save her.
The 17 year old, Keshaun Tirrell Degraffenreid, ran from police, but was eventually caught and has been charged with m*rder.
Due to Iryna's Law, he is being held in prison and will not get out. Please pray for the family and for the recovery of Lester's daughter who is in the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!
🚨 JUST IN: CNN was just FORCED to air this absolutely based Los Angeles voter ahead of Spencer Pratt's big election night
"He LIVES here, he knows what goes on!"
Q: What do you think about Pratt's unconventional approach?
VOTER: "I LOVE IT! He's another Trump!" 🤣🔥
@TRHLofficial Yes but I need to get my dumb tattoos removed.
Leftist culture ruined my late teens and early 20s.
Luckily I can still get away with most of these without looking bad but the open back ones are probably a no from me for that reason.
Looks amazing on everyone else !!
@Strangeland_Elf I agree.
It’s pretty easy to figure out what you feel like reading but if you’re not sure, spending time in the book store and actually looking at the pages might help. 🙄
🚨 JUST NOW: The judge has RULED AGAINST Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson's legal efforts to seal off parts of the case to the public
GOOD, KEEP IT ALL PUBLIC
They took Charlie from us publicly. Release it all.
@ehnonamoose@Strangeland_Elf I don’t think that. I just think it’s cringe.
I don’t know if it helps my case, but I’m a woman too and I have nothing against them for being cheery and jolly in the workplace. Just cringe, imo.