Children are often described as little bundles of innocence, curiosity, and endless energy. But every now and then, a kid does something so unexpectedly cold, calculated, or downright unsettling that it leaves the adults around them questioning reality for a moment.
After all, when someone who still needs help tying their shoes starts displaying the strategic thinking of a movie villain, it's hard not to be a little concerned. When someone asked primary school teachers to share the most shocking displays of psychopath-like behavior they had ever witnessed, the stories that followed prove that sometimes the most unsettling people in the room aren't the adults.
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#41
ITT: A lot of people thinking no one else knows that children being cruel to animals often grow up to be psychopaths.
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#42
My mum teaches 6-7 year olds and tells me all kinds of funny/weird things the kids say to one another. The one that sticks in my head though was one boy saying to another that if he didn't shut up, he was going to s*x his mum.
It was incredibly hard not to laugh at his choice of language of what was essentially an early 'yo mamma' insult, but nevertheless, his parents had to be brought in. For a 6 year old, that's a pretty intense thing to be talking about.
It was incredibly hard not to laugh at his choice of language of what was essentially an early 'yo mamma' insult, but nevertheless, his parents had to be brought in. For a 6 year old, that's a pretty intense thing to be talking about.
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#43
When I was a kid I did a lot of odd stuff like this. I got sent to the counselor for drawing people being k****d. I set things on fire and oddly enough, a wet the bed until I was around 11 years old.
I can actually remember the first time I wanted to hurt someone. I saw a girl fall off a slide and cry in pain. I felt the sudden urge to attack her. I didn't do it of course but, it's a very strong memory. It kind of felt the same as my first time noticing the opposite s*x.
I once dismembered my Stretch Armstrong doll and hid it. I would periodically visit the limbs, head, and torso which I had neatly arranged in a box.
I told a friend this story when I was 20 and hearing his reaction made me realize this stuff wasn't normal.
As an adult I was able to get into competitive fighting to channel my urges and form constructive relationships with violence.
Growing up, my dad was a severe alcoholic but my mom was a saint. I can only think what happens to people who are like me who had two s****y parents.
I can actually remember the first time I wanted to hurt someone. I saw a girl fall off a slide and cry in pain. I felt the sudden urge to attack her. I didn't do it of course but, it's a very strong memory. It kind of felt the same as my first time noticing the opposite s*x.
I once dismembered my Stretch Armstrong doll and hid it. I would periodically visit the limbs, head, and torso which I had neatly arranged in a box.
I told a friend this story when I was 20 and hearing his reaction made me realize this stuff wasn't normal.
As an adult I was able to get into competitive fighting to channel my urges and form constructive relationships with violence.
Growing up, my dad was a severe alcoholic but my mom was a saint. I can only think what happens to people who are like me who had two s****y parents.
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#44
Not a teacher, but in seventh grade the school bully was in the office for something and asked if he could sit down, some teacher responded "sure, knock yourself out" so the kid just started banging his head into the wall, lots of blood everywhere before he was stopped. Thanks to him we had to be reminded on a weekly basis not to hurt ourselves.
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#45
The "thing" when I was in about third grade was catching spiders in a pencil sharpener (one of the clear ones) and making them fight to the d***h.
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