Anonymous
7/9/2025, 9:21:10 AM No.40687443
Does anyone else remember in elementary school when a kid would randomly start acting really weird and different one day and then the school would hold a super grim assembly to tell everyone that they “had to lobotomize” them?
There were always a bunch of parents there watching and crying, and not just crying, but absolutely fucking melting down and screaming and sobbing with grief while the principal delivered this somber word salad about the necessity of lobotomizing the kid. I only remember the main detail how the lobotomy “had” to be done, but I don’t remember the rest of it and I’m not sure I understood any of it as a kid.
It was always only one kid at once who would start acting different, though, so I don’t know who all the parents were who showed up every single time. And you KNEW for a fact that an assembly was coming within the week when a kid started acting weird, because them acting weird meant the “lobotomy” had been done and it would have to be announced to us soon. I don’t think the advent of someone acting weird in that particular “stupefied” sort of way was ever *not* followed by an assembly. So we could tell it was coming.
I think some of my classmates always got excited about them because it meant we got to miss class, but I ended up dreading them so much because it was such a fucking ordeal sitting (or standing, I don’t remember) in the chapel watching the principal speak with a super grave face about lobotomizing some kid while like a dozen people were off on the sidelines just fucking wailing their lungs out with grief. It was so stressful.
I think it happened less than ten times per school year at my school, but I’m not totally sure about the frequency. Was this like… a somewhat widespread thing, or was it just my school? Also, what the hell was going on?
There were always a bunch of parents there watching and crying, and not just crying, but absolutely fucking melting down and screaming and sobbing with grief while the principal delivered this somber word salad about the necessity of lobotomizing the kid. I only remember the main detail how the lobotomy “had” to be done, but I don’t remember the rest of it and I’m not sure I understood any of it as a kid.
It was always only one kid at once who would start acting different, though, so I don’t know who all the parents were who showed up every single time. And you KNEW for a fact that an assembly was coming within the week when a kid started acting weird, because them acting weird meant the “lobotomy” had been done and it would have to be announced to us soon. I don’t think the advent of someone acting weird in that particular “stupefied” sort of way was ever *not* followed by an assembly. So we could tell it was coming.
I think some of my classmates always got excited about them because it meant we got to miss class, but I ended up dreading them so much because it was such a fucking ordeal sitting (or standing, I don’t remember) in the chapel watching the principal speak with a super grave face about lobotomizing some kid while like a dozen people were off on the sidelines just fucking wailing their lungs out with grief. It was so stressful.
I think it happened less than ten times per school year at my school, but I’m not totally sure about the frequency. Was this like… a somewhat widespread thing, or was it just my school? Also, what the hell was going on?
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