Today we have a story time of the Gen.
Z kid who fakes being disabled for attention and clout.
This kid literally pretends to be completely disabled from the
waist down, but he gets exposed in a really funny and just
awkward manner that I know you'll enjoy.
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into the story. So we're going to call the
subscriber who submitted today's story Gerald.
So anyways, Gerald was starting the 8th grade and every single
year in his school there were new kids that would come in and
you know you are we supposed to give special attention and make
sure that the new kids felt good at the new school?
As I'm sure a lot of you guys know, if you started a new
school, especially not with a bunch of other people, you're 1
the few new kids. It's very difficult as a lot of
kids have already kind of formed groups and cliques or whatever.
So it becomes difficult to get friends right.
So this new kid, right, who we're going to call the Gen.
Z kid, was not like most kids who showed up.
So this kid showed up in a wheelchair, right.
So the very first day, it was very apparent that there's a new
kid there because he didn't look like any of the other kids
there. And everyone was really good
about giving this guy extra special attention to make sure
that he was, you know, doing all right, extra special attention.
I don't mean, like staring and pointing attention.
I mean asking, you know, if he needed, you know, needed help,
bring stuff, you know, from a book bag, like his book bags
around, needed help, you know, guides to class, stuff like
that, right. And on the very first day, this
kid actually, you know, a lot of people were giving him a lot of
positive support, right? So Gerald was one of those kids.
No, no one at this moment, literally no one at this moment
believed for a second that this kid was faking, being in a
wheelchair for attention. Nobody.
Yet Gerald would be one of the first ones to, you know, find
some evidence that was suspicious.
And then Gerald would be, you know, basically lambasted and
made a pariah because everyone was thinking, wow, how could you
accuse, you know, this kid of something with such baseless
accusations? You're a heartless man, But
Gerald turns out to be correct. But anyways, right?
So a couple weeks in the school, what happens is the Gen.
Z kid, since he got so much attention off the bat, for one,
being a new kid but also being in a wheelchair, that it almost,
he almost like immediately climbed up the social ladder to
like the most popular guy. Because basically the Gen.
Z kid, you know, he got a lot of attention from being the
wheelchair and he definitely abused it.
And let me just say that a lot of times kids in school with
disabilities, you know, they get picked on a lot and it's really,
really unfortunate and you really do hate to see it.
But the Gen. Z kid was almost like a master
manipulator in a sense. And so he kind of used, first of
all, this is not a real, he's not actually in a wheelchair,
but he kind of used his, like, positioning of getting a lot of
tension in the very beginning and then used that to form,
like, you know, friendships and relationships with people that
were kind of already known as the top dog or whatever.
And then the wheel. And then the Gen.
Z kid almost immediately became like the number one alpha
whatever. And here's the thing.
The Gen. Z kid was one of the most
brutal, meanest people there. However, here's the thing,
right? He's already in.
Like he's friends with everyone at the top or the top of the
high school social ladder. Which I mean, high school social
ladder. It's kind of irrelevant or
whatever. But The thing is, he was already
friends with a lot of people. And the other thing is like, if
you were a mean back to them, you would just be immediately
accosted by everyone around you. Because bro, you're being mean
to the person who has to, like, you know, who's going around in
a wheelchair, Like you're actually an A hole, bro.
Like, that's how people would perceive it.
So the Gen. Z kid was like actually a secret
evil genius or whatever, or a super villain, basically.
And Gerald didn't really think about, like, didn't really think
that much. But one day, about a month into
school, he was having a sleepover with another friend.
We're going to call this friend Ben.
So Gerald and Ben went to the same school, and they both knew
about the Gen. Z kid.
And Gerald, you know, I don't know if you guys experienced
this, but when I have sleepovers with the boys at a certain time,
like, it's just like late enough at night.
Once you stop playing, I don't know, video games or going out
and doing something, you're just kind of chilling.
You guys have those deep talks, if you guys know what I mean.
So Gerald didn't want to be the guy who was like, I don't know,
Duncan on the on the on the kid in the wheelchair, bro.
He didn't want to be that guy, right.
So Gerald very sheepishly is like, oh, what do you think of
the Gen. Z kid?
Right. And I say Gen.
Z kid not because like literally in the Gen.
Z generation, I just mean Gen. Z in the fact that like wants
extreme amounts of attention and will basically use other
people's life situations to to try and get more attention and
for their own gain. That's what some people are
confused. They're like, Oh well, are you
all in Gen. Z's in a whole generation.
That's what I mean. It's colloquial, not actually
the the direct exact term. But yeah, so Gerald kind of like
turns his from Benny's like yay. So you know the Gen.
Z kid, he's he's pretty popular now.
I mean, it's been a while since like a new student kind of rose
the ranks that quickly. And Ben's like, yeah, he's cool.
And Gerald's like, yeah, they were both very obviously trying
to like skirt around the fact that they did not like this kid
at all, remember? Not because of his any of his
disabilities or anything or quote UN quote, huge quotations
disabilities. This kid was actually taken away
from people who really have those disabilities and have to
live their life with it without a choice, right.
But at this point, everyone believed it was real.
So let's speak as if it was real.
But then Gerald was like, you know, I thought for a kid who's
been through so much hardship that he would, that he would
maybe be a little nicer to other people.
And Ben's like, you know, I kind of agree, You know, when you
like you and your friend have this like slightly controversial
opinion, maybe it's not even that slightly controversial, but
you, you don't know if they share the same opinion.
And you know, if they, if they disagree with you, they're going
to be really mad. So you slightly slowly, kind of
like kind of like ease towards that opinion, right?
And then they slightly ease towards that opinion.
It's almost like you're going in for a kiss, bro.
Oh wait, Kiss the homies. Wait a minute.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Yeah. But anyways, eventually, Gerald
and Ben, they're talking and they just get straight to it.
And they're like, I can't believe this kid's such a jerk
to everyone. I mean, the Gen.
Z kid would literally start like, being like like, just
calling people out for no good reason.
He'd be like, you know, rolling with this, like, group of other
popular people. And it would be like, I don't
know, man. It would be like, he'd be
rolling by with, like, the other people.
And they'd pass by some kid who was like, I don't know, a little
scruffy looking the Gen. Z kids.
Like, when's the last time you took a shower and would, like,
point at some kid and all the kids rolling with him would be
like, laughing or whatever. And dude, if this kid was trying
to clap back, you know, they'd all be like, wait a minute, man,
this guy's in a wheelchair. You can't come for him.
And that's the most messed up thing.
The Gen. Z kid was literally using other
people's life struggles, other people's serious issues as a
kind of shield to defend against him being a bad person and him
being able to do what he wants. Which is, you know, absolutely
ridiculous, right? So at this point, Ben and Gerald
have been talking for like an hour about how, like, insane it
is that everyone just kind of let's this behavior go, that no
one has an issue with this on and on and on.
But other than that little conversation that Gerald and Ben
have, it's not as if they do that much.
It's also not as if they're going to share that opinion,
because The thing is, people will kind of look at them the
wrong way. Yeah, this kid was a jerk, but
he was also fairly popular. And also, you know, the very,
you know, the elephant in the room is people going to be like,
man, like relax, like he has a tough life.
Like, maybe he's just taking it out on people.
So Gerald and Ben, while they have this opinion, and they do
share it together and it was almost like it was almost like a
relief that he was able to share that opinion.
I don't know if you guys have ever, like, felt like I can't
say what I'm thinking. And then you're able to like
express that opinion with your best friend or with a friend.
It's just such a relief, right? But anyways, so they get back to
school and for the next like couple weeks it is just on and
on and on of just like the kids getting worse.
Like I like everyone's thinking like how could this kid possibly
get worse? The the Gen.
Z kid continues on his rampage. It's like he just refuses to
stop. He just continues to be a big
jerk and he just it's like he's refusing to stop being a massive
jerk to everyone and it's kind of ridiculous.
He's getting worse and worse and there's a little bit of growing
sentiment against the Gen. Z kid right?
But everyone is way too scared to like form any opinion.
Look this is only eighth grade. Or to share an opinion.
Look, this is only eighth grade, right?
This is only 8th graders. But this kid might actually be
like, AI don't know, a a a a Marvel super villain.
He's got that crazy planning bro.
Like, I I don't know, man. Like he's somehow been able to
orchestrate like a kind of a social defense system where he
can be the worst kid ever and actually be a massive jerk, but
no one can oppose him without being weird so any or being
ostracized by their community. Anyways, here's the thing.
So this the the downfall of the Gen.
Z kid all started one day. So Gerald was walking alone in
the hallways. It was kind of close to after
school. And he walks around and he turns
a corner and he sees the Gen. Z kid.
And for a split second he thinks to himself, wait a minute,
because he looks at the Gen. Z kid and it looks like he sat
down. It looks like the Gen.
Z kid just sat down into his wheelchair, which doesn't make
sense. The lower half of his body
doesn't move, but he was certain what he saw.
But he also, while he was certain what he saw, he was
thinking, well, maybe it was just some kind of an illusion.
Maybe I just wasn't seeing things right.
There was a lot of possibilities.
And eventually, you know, Gerald does turn the corner and he's in
the same hallway as the Gen. Z kid.
And Gerald is like, so distracted and thought that he
kind of like trips over his own feet a little bit.
He doesn't trip and fall on the ground.
But I don't know if you guys have ever experienced this.
I definitely have. Where you're walking, but you're
just not paying attention and you just kind of like trip over
your own feet but catch yourself pretty quickly.
And as he's walking by the Gen. Z kids like, oh oh man, watch
out, your feet are there kind of as like a joke of like, you just
tripped over nothing, bro. How do you trip over nothing?
Like, seriously, how do you trip over nothing?
Kind of like a joke like that. And you know, I don't know,
Gerald just kind of looking at him like, all right, man.
And Gerald just keeps walking and he just can't get over the
fact that he knew what he saw. He was like, no, this, this
can't be right, 'cause like, while he had said, while he was
thinking that the Gen. Z kid was a, you know, a pretty
big jerk, and there was no question about that.
At the same time, Gerald did not for a single second until this
or before this, ever thought that the Gen.
Z kid was faking, you know, being in a wheelchair.
He just thought that. Wow.
Like this kid is like a jerk and also happens to be in a
wheelchair. Like you can be both of those at
the same time, you know what I mean?
So a journalist can't get this out of his mind.
He just is like he he just keeps walking, keeps thinking about it
and for the rest of the like the day he can't focus in class.
Actually, no not focus in class because it was towards the end
of the day for the rest of the time at home, trying to do
homework, he was like struggling bro.
He was struggling to pay attention because he was like, I
know what I saw. I I know what I saw.
Yeah. So he gets back home and this is
where he does a little investigating.
So basically the Gen. Z kid told everyone a very
specific story about what happened in his life and how we
got there. Basically, the Gen.
Z kid said he got in a really bad car crash when he was four
years old. And that, you know, I, I don't
know, like after that point, he had to be in a wheelchair in the
bottom like his. His like, like his bottom half
didn't work right. Or it was like paralyzed or
whatever. So that was the story that he
told everybody. And Gerald was just like he's
like I I I'm just so like he goes on this kids Instagram and
sure enough this kid has like one post and it's him like
holding a fish or whatever and he's in the wheelchair.
And it was, it was very recent, right.
It was a post made like while this kid was at school and he
had no other posts. So what Gerald does is he goes
to this kids tagged post. So on Instagram by the way,
follow me on Instagram at Connor Pugs You can submit your stories
there and also you can watch my shorts on there or reels or
whatever it's called, right? I do a little short stories on
there anyways, right? So he goes in the kids tag
photos. He's looking through the tag
photos and he's just, you know, finding like, I don't know, he's
not finding that much and he's finding like a lot of like,
memes or whatever that his friends posted on their
Instagram and like tagged him in or whatever.
I don't know. But like back when I was in 8th
grade, I would just, like, screenshot funny memes and post
them on my main Instagram. Like now I just don't post
anything bro. I'm just like, Nah, I'm not
posting anything. But that's how I'd use it back
in the day. But he just kept scrolling and
he found the photo at the very bottom of the tag.
It was from five years ago, so quite a while ago, but the Gen.
Z kid was definitely older than four at this point, so it was a
photo of a bunch of kids all standing up together.
First of all, I think you guys caught it.
They're all standing up together, but it must have been
either a camp or at a school they used to go to or some kind
of after school program or something.
And since they were in 8th grade, it was like 4-5 years ago
or whatever. You know, the Gen.
Z kid was probably like 3rd or 4th grade.
When you're in 4th grade, you are significantly older than
four, unless you're Baby Einstein or whatever, but he was
obviously much older than four. And Gerald is staring at this
photo, and he can't stop staring at the photo because he's
looking at the photo and every kid is standing upright.
And there's a kid who looks like the Gen.
Z kid. When he was like 3 or 4 years
younger, probably this kid was standing up.
This kid was 100% standing up. No questions, no wheelchair
insight, no nothing. And Gerald is just like, Oh my
God, like this kid cleaned up his profile.
Like he must have like he probably had photos from back in
the day that he scrubbed and all this kind of stuff, right?
And maybe if any of his older friends who still follow him
commented on the post saying, wait, you're in a wheelchair
now, deleted those comments, right?
He did a good job scrubbing his profile, except for one photo.
Here's the thing though, Gerald made a bit of a mistake.
Instead of screenshotting the photo, he just assumed, Oh well,
you know, this isn't the tag, so I can just tell people to go
check out the Gen. Z Kids tag photos.
So anyways, the next day in school, Gerald immediately is
like, all right, well, I got to spread the truth.
Because, you know, even though I do have an agenda against this
kid, I don't really like him. I, I, I it's better that people
know the truth. And that's the most important
thing anyways though. So right, Gerald now has
information. Gerald now has proof that the
whole time the Gen. Z kid has been faking it.
Gerald doesn't totally understand why Gerald doesn't
understand how Gerald doesn't understand a lot of details.
However, what Gerald does know is that there is a photo on this
kids Instagram page that shows him very clearly standing up
when you know he can't stand up. This kid cannot stand up bro.
At least from what he's been told or what he's told everyone
else. So Gerald knows this and he
knows he's, you know this is what he's going to spread.
So there was a very strict no phones policy at school.
Everyone's phones had to be in their backpacks and like
teachers would legitimately like take someone's phone for an
entire week if they saw it. So the problem was, was that for
the longest time, not not, not the longest time, but for the
duration of the day, you couldn't be on your phone.
A few kids would occasionally like, sneak them around.
But just just the whole risk of having your phone taken away for
an entire week, you weren't even allowed to get it at the end of
the day, you had to wait till the end of the week to get it,
man. So a lot of kids were just like,
all right, fine, whatever, we just won't go on our phones.
So here's the problem, right? Gerald immediately starts
telling everyone in person about what's happened.
So instead of sending them the Instagram post over Instagram
DMS the night before, or waiting till he got back to send
Instagram like the Instagram post to people.
What Gerald does, and he admits this was a mistake in
retrospect, was he just simply tells people if you go on this
on the Gen. Z Kids Instagram tonight and you
go to his tag section, you scroll all the way down, you'll
find a photo from three to four years ago in which the Gen.
Z kid is very clearly standing up.
And if you remember his story well, he was like paralyzed in a
car crash at the age of three or four, not like 12 or 13.
Huge discrepancy right there. So word spread extremely
quickly. This is a relatively small
school, so word tends to spread kind of quickly, but especially
some allegation of this like magnitude.
The other thing that happened was that Gerald's name was
attached to this allegation. Basically he said this and
everyone went around saying Gerald is saying that the Gen.
Z kid is faking it and he is proof.
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So anyways, right? Word spread extremely quickly
that Gerald was claiming that the Gen.
Z kid faked everything. So pretty big.
Accusations, allegations, whatever, right?
And here's the thing. So Gerald was, you know, he told
everyone. People were talking about it and
no one really had access to their phones.
A lot of people wanted to, but we what ended up happening was
the school day eventually ended and like every this was like
everybody was talking about it. And what I mean, everybody.
I mean everybody was talking about this bro.
Like everyone was talking about it.
So yeah, Gerald, you know he got back home or he's getting in the
car with his mom and he goes into his backpack and he pulls
out his phone. After about like 5 minutes, he
receives a text notification from someone in his class.
Not that he's like super close friends with, but I think they
must have had like a either a grade large group chat or maybe
he needed to exchange numbers for a project they didn't class
but for some reason, right, he had Gerald's personal number.
And so Gerald receives a text from some guy he's kind of
friends with being like and it says something along the lines
of bro, why did you make up that stuff about the Gen.
Z kid? So Gerald is like super confused
at this point and he responds to the text what do you mean?
And the kid says, I went to the Gen.
Z kids page and I can't find the post.
Like, there's no post at all. And you know, Gerald's like,
what? So Gerald opens up his Instagram
and he goes to the post, or he goes to the Gen.
Z kids account and he goes to the tag section and he scrolls
all the way down. And he keeps looking.
He looks all for it like he's like, oh, maybe it's not the
very last one. And I remembered it wrong.
Maybe it's like a couple posts down, but not the very last.
Gerald looks through every single tag post and it's gone.
The basically the proof of the Gen.
Z Kid faking it is gone and that's when Gerald realizes that
what must have happened was it because word spread so quickly
and the Gerald didn't attach any actual proof with his with his
accusations. He told people to go look for
it. Word must have got back to the
Gen. Z kid.
The Gen. Z kid brushed it off like Oh no
no no. Then the Gen.
Z kid must have immediately taken the risk and gone on his
phone and removed himself from the tagged post, right?
'cause you can go to Instagram and you can remove yourself if
you're tagged in a post. And The thing is, Gerald, I said
this earlier, never got a screenshot, bro.
He never got a screenshot. He never.
He could not for the life of him remember the name of the account
that like tagged him, 'cause it was like, it was like, I don't
know, Megatron 48768 Pi Square. It's like some crazy username
that you just won't remember. So this point Gerald's like, Oh
no. So yeah, within the next 30
minutes, Gerald probably receives 25 different messages
either on Snapchat, Instagram, DMS, text message.
Probably got a few faxes coming in too.
Basically being like, dude, that's crazy for you to like.
It was either along the lines of that's messed up for you to make
that stuff up about the Gen. Z Kid or something like dude,
can you send me the post? I can't find it.
Or just like, wait, Are you sure that you saw what you saw, like
around? It was basically a bunch of
variations of those 3 messages. Yeah, so Gerald was like, oh
crap bro, there's no way. Yeah, Gerald got bamboozled the
Gen. Z kid.
He should have realized he got You got to get screenshots, You
got to get the receipts, man. Especially on something where
the guy can get rid of the receipts.
And The thing is, too, if the school didn't have such strict
rules about having no phones or whatever, kid probably would
have just pulled out his phone, checked and been like, Yep,
here's proof, right? But no, people just waited till
they got back. But I guess the Gen.
Z kid realized that he needed to take the risk and go on his
phone. And honestly, like Gerald didn't
even see this coming. I think he totally forgot about
the fact that you can remove yourself from an Instagram post.
So yeah, Gerald got completely freaking bamboozled here, bro.
He got absolutely owned. And let me just say that
socially he got really owned. So yeah, he received a ton of
text messages that night along, You know, I already told you the
three basically the either being like how dare you do this or the
I can't find the post or Are you sure you saw it correct bro.
And yeah. So Gerald, so like Gerald wasn't
like I don't know the popular kid that you know.
Oh no, his reputations ruined. The only thing he has going for
him is the fact that he's quote UN quote popular in high school
which Oh yeah, that means so much, bro.
Of course, yeah. But at the same time, like,
Gerald, like would have kind of like friends, people, I don't
know if you guys had this, but like more casual friends in
class people, he would be. There are some people Gerald was
really close with, but there's also a lot of people that he was
as kind of friends with and like, people he'd sit with,
people he'd get lunch with, people he'd walk with.
Like, you know, he was a, he wasn't necessarily a popular guy
in the sense he was like, I don't know, on the hockey team
or had some kind of, like social clout like that.
But he was a very kind of like because they're a talkative
person and he spoke to a lot of people and for that reason he
was always like he had a lot of people that he was kind of
casually friends with and not like 2 very close friends and
that's it. So yeah, for the next week,
Gerald has like one of the worst social experiences of his life.
He's completely ostracized as everyone thinks that he made
this up about the Gen. Z kid just to make him look bad,
which not only are you making some kid look bad based off, you
know, factless or just like not true accusations, you're also
trying to like tear down the kid that like already has a
difficult life because he's disabled and in a wheelchair.
It's a terrible, terrible, terrible look for Gerald.
Yeah. So this is probably one of the
hardest weeks because a lot, some people still hang out with
him. Some people don't really care.
Like obviously or not. I shouldn't say obviously, but
his closest friends are still friends with them.
That didn't change, which is pretty cool.
I shouldn't say obviously, because I don't know, sometimes
close friends aren't actually as close as you think.
And even some of his casual friends don't care.
And they're like, all right, bro, whatever.
But a lot of his kind of like casual friends, while they
weren't like, you can't sit with us, a lot of them would like, I
don't know, there's a lot of, like things people can do to
kind of, you know, imply that they don't want to hang out with
you. Such as you sit down somewhere
in your unassigned, assigned seats and then they decide to
sit somewhere different, even though they've sat in the exact
same spot for half a year. I don't know if you normally
walk with someone, they quickly walk to their next class instead
of waiting for you or they stay behind.
Just a lot of like things that Gerald was noticing that people
were definitely avoiding him, which partly he couldn't blame
because he's like, Dang, I don't know if I'd want to hang out
with me too if like I believe the rumor going or I believed
what people believed. And Gerald also didn't blame
people for believing what they believed.
I mean, people went to the Instagram page and nothing was
there. Why would they believe him?
Of course, all this did end up changing when the Gen.
Z kid exposes himself as a fraud in front of basically everyone
at the school and Gerald gets instant redemption when that
happens. So let me just kind of jump to
that situation. So it's about two weeks.
And after Jared, like 2 weeks of like turmoil for Gerald where no
one wants to hang out with them, people are always like, a lot of
people are talking about him, about he kind of he got exposed.
Oh my God. Gerald seems like such a nice
guy, but he's making fun of the Gen.
Z kid, making up rumors about him like, wow, Gerald's actually
a snake with all this kind of stuff, right?
And so it's a really tough week for Gerald, or two weeks or
whatever. And this school doesn't have any
fire drills. I think they have, like, the
most lame excuse for a fire drill you've ever seen.
Like, I think the school, what they'll do is they'll like, I
don't know, I think they'll put on like, they'll be like, all
right guys, if there's a fire, what do you do?
And they say, oh, walk out or like, I don't know, walk outside
and the teacher's like, good, OK, let's get back to class.
So they never, never really had an actual fire drill.
So when the fire alarm went off during the school meeting when
everyone was there, it was almost a bit of chaos that
ensued. Yeah, so they were in just a
meeting. And since they never had the
fire alarm ever go off, 'cause they never had a real fire
drill. As I was just explaining, when
the fire alarm goes off, everyone freaks out and panics.
This is why you have fire drills.
So when it actually goes off, and by the way, there was no
fire, it was like, I don't know, some kind of bug got into the
system, like an actual physical bug, climbed in there and set it
off or something. But yeah, when there's, that's
why you do drills. So when it actually happens, you
don't panic, freak out all this kind of stuff, right?
So anyways, right, everyone freaks out and everyone's
sitting in the auditorium so immediately the teacher runs up
to the speakers like everyone get up, file single file out of
here, go immediately to the front lawn and people were
cramming the door. It was an absolute disaster bro.
It was a blank show. It was not good right now.
And I think afterwards they started implementing actual fire
drill just because of how bad this was, even though it wasn't
an actual fire. But anyways, everyone
immediately gets them up and starts running towards the door.
Listen to my sentence, the words I just said very closely because
I did not misspeak. Everyone gets up and starts
running towards the door. Everyone you know who's in that
meeting? The Gen.
Z kid. So everyone at the moment no one
really notices. Maybe a few people are like wait
what? I'm hallucinating bro.
But no one really notices as everyone is running very quickly
to try and get out the door. And so they all get outside and
they all kind of like form a big clump or whatever.
And the grass, the fields outside and the teachers are
like, all right, let go by your everyone find your fifth period
class, like find your teacher for your fifth period class.
They're going to take your attendance, make sure you're all
here. Fifth period was going to be
right after school meeting anyways, So everyone gets in
those lines right? And Gerald is like kind of all
frazzled or whatever as the energy was insane.
And he's like Oh my God, like everyone's going crazy.
But he looks over, he's just kind of like casually looking
around and he looks at the Gen. Z kid who is standing in line
standing and the people in the Gen.
Z's like kids is like class or whatever.
The fifth period class are kind of looking at him, looking at
him with this weird look. And Gerald taps like the
shoulder of his friend Ben, who happens to be in the 5th grade
class, The one. Remember way back when he had a
like a sleepover and him and Ben were like, oh that kids the
worst taps his shoulder, points at the Gen.
Z kid and he's standing. He's standing there.
So slowly everyone starts staring at the Gen.
Z kid and the Gen. Z kid doesn't even realize what
just happened. And so, yeah, everyone starts to
realize that the Gen. Z kid is standing there, and
eventually the Gen. Z kid realizes what's up, and he
like, he just he freezes like he was kind of, like casually,
like, standing there. But you could just tell that,
Like, Gerald could tell the moment that the Gen.
Z kid realized that he messed up because the Gen.
Z kid was just standing there stiff as a freaking broomstick,
frozen with fear because he doesn't know how to get out of
this situation. He's probably going through like
a billion calculations in his head of oh, what's the most
optimal thing I can do to save myself?
But he went through all of them and none of them worked.
Zero. There's no way to explain this.
He starts, like, turning to his classmates and be like, Oh my
God, guys, I don't know how this happened, but I must.
I must have been cured. Like, I'm feeling so much better
and they're all just looking at them, cuz they knew the rumors
that he was faking it. And then they all were like,
wow, he got accused of faking it, and it's false.
So everyone in the back of their mind was now kind of, like, open
to the idea that he might be faking it because a rumor spread
about that, even though that rumor was proven to be false.
So now that there was proof that all of them could see the Gen.
Z kid was faking it, now there was nothing the Gen.
Z kid would do From that day on, the Gen.
Z kid did not come in with a wheelchair because he's not
actually disabled, right? He's in.
Even walks normally immediately to the very bottom of the social
structure. No one wanted to hang out with
them. Even the kids that nobody liked
didn't want to hang out with them.
No one wanted to hang out with them.
And Gerald immediately kind of got the whole, like, no one
apologized to Gerald, which is pretty funny.
But, like, you know how I was telling you earlier that some
people who, like, stopped, like, would like kind of, like walk
faster than him or wouldn't wait for him or would sit at
different tables. All those people just started
hanging out with Gerald again like nothing just happened.
One thing I will say is Gerald will always remember the people
that stuck with him through thick and thin.
The people that either believed him or not but knew his
character so decided to kind of like make a bet on him, make a
bet on him actually being a good person and not doing what people
said that he did. Gerald will never forget those
people and still to this day the Gen.
Z kid is super ostracized. And Gerald said that actually by
the end of that year the Gen. Z kid had moved schools and was
going to another school. So by the time 9th grade rolls
around, he will no longer be in the school with Jared if you
want.