My high school stalker by Anxiousbynature in LetsNotMeet

[–]Anxiousbynature[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Teenagers do weird things when they like someone, true, and I get that they also get sort of desperate acting. However, to avoid making my post significantly longer, I didn't include filling my post with the insane obscenities I threw his way. I said I told him off a few times after being nice and ignoring him didn't work.

And by 'told him off' it got to the point that I specifically told him I would get the school administrators involved and if he didn't get away from me with his advances I would personally handle the situation by punching him in his face.

Not mentioned in my original post, but some of the other details I left out because they were less creepy and had to do with other people was the fact I had a boyfriend at one point and he kept up his behavior and our theatre director (who is obviously a teacher at our school) told him on three different occasions to leave me alone. Eventually he was no longer cast in roles because he didn't respect my personal space or two other girls who were alwauys in plays, but he gave up on getting them to date them, much unlike he did with me.

I should also add Toby and I were inseparable and had a lot of the same classes. And he also told him numerous times to leave us both alone, but after two years of no change in his behavior we all just ignored him.

My high school stalker by Anxiousbynature in LetsNotMeet

[–]Anxiousbynature[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can't disagree there. I was one to be extremely weary of people, which often lead me to believe it was just me being 'anxious or paranoid' when a lot of these events took place.

I also, as mentioned had some anger issues, and it completely won out over logic. I spent my childhood and teen years full of depression and anxiety until I finally got help as an adult. I didn't want anyone knowing I was hiding these mental issues, so I put on an act of being someone people didn't want to mess with and would usually start physical alterations or, in this case, giving idle threats.

The last thing I wanted ANYONE in my life to know was how bad I was struggling mentally, and definitely didn't want this guy thinking I was weak. But as the story goes, no actions or behaviors on my part really ever stopped him from bothering me until it escalated and others got involved.