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I gotta say, I never had any of these problems in college. And I won't even pretend I had great hygiene or particularly good social skills. The trick with college is that 19 year old girls also didn't have great hygiene or well-developed social skills. We were all a bunch of clueless, fumbling, young adults trying to figure each other out.
Let's set aside the fact that OP is probably lying. When one guy gets ostracized by an entire classroom of other students, it's safe to assume one of two things:
The classroom is full of bigots who hate This One Guy for a very particular cultural reason (maybe you made a mistake going to South Confederacy Technical College as a black guy looking to meet white chicks)
The guy is so universally obnoxious that he can't get the time of day from the second biggest loser in the room
If it was posted on anything but 4chan, maybe. But anyone who knows the reputation of the average 4chan user can come up with a host of reasons why people are avoiding him like the plague.
Honestly, I have seen many classrooms in which no one was talking to anyone. There would be a break in the lecture, and the lecture hall would be absolutely silent for 10-15 minutes until the lecture resumed. Other classes were a bit more chattery, or even way more. As a teacher now, it seems anecdotally that the problem is getting worse, but that’s what every teacher always said (“these younger generations!! Mumble mumble”)
Brother, ain't this the truth.
I didn't make any friends with my same-age classmates just by casually talking.
Then I went to night classes with full grown adults and i was invited to dinners and birthday parties immediately.
The post says that people weren't avoiding him specifically, but no one was talking to one another at all.
The post implies the 30% of men in the class weren't giving him the time of day, either.
So, maybe it was an entire room full of NPCs. Maybe they were all psychic and he was just the odd guy out. Maybe it's a Greentext and you shouldn't take it at face value. Who can say? But as anecdotes go, the "everyone acted like an emotionally sterile zombie hobbling from class to class in a daze" sounds... out of line with my experience in virtually any social setting. Nevermind one with dozens of teenagers all packed in together.
Like, I've got a few friends who teach high school. And the "I've got these kids who won't stfu during class" stories are a regular part of the "how was your day?" conversation. What magic is happening between Senior HS and Freshman College that turns everyone's most pernicious socializing instincts off in this one guy's classroom?
Now, if I'm someone's parent and I'm talking to my kid after school... and I ask how their day was? Did you make any new friends? What's your homework? Can you name any of your teachers? Do you remember what grade you're in? And they just give me nothing because they're burned out? That's extremely normal.
I agree. If this were a screenshot from pretty much any other app/site that isn't 4chan, the response would be different.
Seriously, if someone were to create an account and tell this exact story on Tumblr or something, and screenshot it here on Lemmy, they'd get completely different responses.
Thank you for a civil and thoughtful response :)