The Twins
In high school, a girl spread a story that her boyfriend got her pregnant with twins, but her parents forced her to have an abortion. During breaks, she showed everyone ultrasound pictures of the twins. A few months later, she came in with balloons to "celebrate the birthday of her unborn children."
She was eventually caught faking it when someone noticed the URL wasn’t cropped from the ultrasound photos, revealing they were printed from the internet.
The Fox
My ten-year-old niece couldn’t stand not being the center of attention on her little brother’s birthday, so she punched herself in the stomach three times—right in front of me—then went to vomit, making everyone focus on her.
The Girlfriend
My 12-year-old son Peti complained a few times about a girl in his class who wouldn’t leave him alone. She wanted him to notice her so badly that one day she stole his coat from the rack and said she wouldn’t give it back until Peti "asked her out."
Peti came home without a coat in the cold, and that’s when I had to call the girl’s parents. When we got the coat back, she wrote Peti a long letter saying, "He’d have to work hard to earn back her trust." Peti simply replied, "Leave me alone."
The Dog
My friend’s little girl stepped on my dog’s head, and when the dog growled at her, she ran screaming to her mom, claiming the dog tried to bite her. I told her I saw everything and she was never allowed in my apartment again.
Proving a Point
There was a boy in my class who would do anything to get attention, and others egged him on to do all sorts of nonsense. He cut his hair during math class, triggered the fire alarm, and finally, during one bold stunt, slapped the 65-year-old principal on the butt. That was the moment the school had enough and expelled him.
The Drink
The drama queen had been talking for days before an exam about having "anxiety panic attacks," so she brought vodka in a half-liter water bottle to school. She drank it before the exam, got caught, and as a result, water bottles were banned from school for two years.
The Notorious One
That guy didn’t care how, as long as he got attention. One day in the locker room, he bragged about a wild threesome with his girlfriend and her friend. The next day, I heard him telling another group in the yard that he was still a virgin.
The Scratches
I asked my high school classmate about the scratches on her leg. She put on a show begging me not to tell anyone, but she was cutting herself, and it was so obvious since she didn’t want to share it with anyone. (It was cold autumn weather, and she deliberately wore a miniskirt to school.)
The cuts were mostly small surface scratches, nothing serious. The next day, she sent photos of them to the whole class on Facebook, then apologized saying it was an accident. Her parents took her to a psychologist who confirmed she had no suicidal tendencies, she just wanted to get attention, and that was the end of the story.
The Fake
The neighbor’s little boy couldn’t stand that other kids played without him and his parents talked to others, so he ran inside screaming that he fell, hit his head, and no one helped him. His mom comforted him and gave him a cookie. Only I saw that he hadn’t fallen but was sitting in the yard thinking about how to get attention.
Sympathy
One girl in elementary school told everyone how poor her family was. She said they had nothing to eat and no washing machine, which is why she always came to school dirty. Then I caught her rubbing dirt on her clothes before school one morning, and it turned out they lived in a huge house and were very wealthy. I never understood why she chose fake poverty to stand out.
