[In high school currently]. When I lived in California, I was the funny, and somewhat slow kid. (And the black kid). Enjoyed making jokes and laughing at them. I was I bit crazy. Hung out with the anime kids, but after witnessing the insanity that is a true anime-phile(I would've gone with Japanophile, but we all know that they're only interested in Japan for its anime by now), I dreaded resembling anything like that which caused me to make anime into more of a closet hobby rather than something I would actively claim to like. Also tried to get along with everyone.
Of course, that all changed when I moved to Detroit. I go to a school in Ferndale, but pretty much all of the student body consists of kids from Detroit. I don't mean to sound racist, but nearly all of the students are the stereo-typical negatively portrayed African American Detriotians as presented to us in the media (i.e., they have [for the most part] a poor grasp on proper speech and use primarily slang, they are very disrespectful to the teachers (minus the African american teachers), and they seem to have trouble with the correct usage of words in their proper tenses. i.e., instead of saying "I didn't get a paper", they would say "I ain't got no paper" Although the seniors aren't nearly as bad with this. It just gets worse every grade level downwards though...) Complaints aside, Since I hated pretty much everyone at the school and they were all extremely nosy, I had developed a habit of blatantly ignoring people and speaking only when necessary. Since I generally did fairly well in class, I became the quiet smart kid (Much to my disdain, seeing as it was almost the opposite at my previous high school)
Thankfully, as a senior, tomorrow is my last day of school, then I have every day off until graduation on the 31st of May excluding senior check-in on the 21st.
