I'm coming into this late, but our Kevin was a real trip. Late in our senior year we realized that he was probably on the autism spectrum, but we never knew anything about this in school, so we just made fun of him constantly. The thing was, he loved it. He laughed as much about us making fun of him as we did. It was crazy. I'm a teacher now and I have never seen anything like this kid.
*Freshman year he comes into school one day with an awful mohawk. Haha Kevin, you're weird. The next day he comes in and he's shaved half of his head bald. He told us his clippers died right in the middle of shaving. The class presidents made him stand in front of the class and show everyone at morning assembly. He laughed and smiled the whole time. Turns out he made his mohawk with Elmer's glue and the clippers weren't strong enough to cut though it. His parents had to take him somewhere special to get it out.
*He loved Faygo and once got into a fist fight over it. Who the hell likes Faygo?
*Kevin would do anything to be involved in a group. We used to play a game where we'd say something random then all laugh together to get him to laugh at whatever we'd said. He always did. The example that sticks out in my mind is, "Purple Peanut on the floor!" You would shout that and laugh and he always would join you.
*We had a live Christmas tree in our senior lounge. Eventually the lounge started to reak until we got rid of the tree. Kevin admitted that he had been pouring milk into the tree's base to water it.
*Kevin was obsessed with cartoons like Family Guy and the Simpsons. Everything was related to those two things. He would always say, "This one time on Family Guy" or "That's like this one time on the Simpsons." When we started to think in our teenage minds that he was on the spectrum, we thought cartoons were his obsession.
*The worst thing I've ever done in my life and why I still feel I have bad karma to this day was the time we got him to snort the dust in the bottom of a bag of sour patch kids. He was laughing the whole time then all of a sudden said, "Oh shit!" and ran out of the room laughing. No one thought anything of it until someone told us to go into the nearest bathroom to see it COVERED in blood.
Man, I was a huge asshole in high school.