Is it normal that my friend is acting this way?

So just this year I've noticed my friend has started acting differently. She has started to get strangely obsessed with all of our teachers. For example, when a teacher got pregnant, she knew(the teacher didn't tell her) when the teacher had a miscarriage, my friend found out what hospital my teacher was in and started sending her gifts, she even made me buy the teacher a gift. Then, when the teacher got back, she wanted to fill the teacher's room with balloons and buy food and stuff. And she calls all the teachers by their first and last names, or nicknames, and she even knows the teachers birthdays, where they live, their anniversaries, who their spouces are. She even wanted to buy one of our teachers a 1,500 plane ticket to Europe. Because the teacher said something about Europe. The teacher said that she could not accept it, so my friend bought the teacher shoes instead. She even skips class to go to this teachers room for 4/7 periods of the day. One day, the same teacher she wanted to buy the ticket for acted funny. Thus my friend went around asking every person she saw(even some people she barely knew) "Do you think **** is mad at me?" And people kept giving my friend looks like "is this girl okay in the head?" Then my friend found out that the teacher was getting a divorce (the teacher didn't tell her). And right after, the teacher said that my friend should stop coming into her room, but my friend kept going anyway.

And lately she doesn't know how to act socially. She will interrupt people while they talk, and her voice will always be very loud. She will find it funny to throw things at people to get their attention. Even if she isn't very close friends with those people (like if she just has a couple classes with them and doesn't talk outside of class.) And she always bumms stuff, even off of people she doesn't know. She always asks for money from people. If someone has something like a toy, or clay, she will do everything to be able to play with it (like yell across the room HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY) until they give it to her. Then if people have food, even if she doesn't know the person, she will walk up really close to them and point at it and be like "can I have some" I brought a full pack of 5 gum to school and I had 1 piece, then she ate the rest of it by the end of the day (she would spit one out then beg for another) then she felt bad and brought gum to school, and kept trying to make everyone take her gum, once again even people she barely knew, sometimes she would cut people off mid sentence saying "want some gum" really loudly and thrusting it at them. Then once I bought a new thing of gum, she ate that whole pack too, even though she had her own gum. And for the past couple weeks her breath has smelled really bad, and I'm scared to tell her because I'm afraid she will freak out.

She wasn't this bad last year, she has always been a "teachers pet" and not very popular. But I'm worried something has snapped. I don't know how to help her or if I'm overreacting.

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  • Smokey1D

    she sounds like a LOL a minute to me. Go on, dress up with her and have a bit of fun. Laugh at yourself. It's funny

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  • bootyman

    Now she wants me to come to school dressed as a golden girl. On Halloween, teachers will wear matching costumes for each building on campus, and she wants me and a couple others to come to school the same day dressed up, but no other students will be dressed up. It is really odd, and people will probably think Im crazy! She wants to buy me the costume even. Im not sure what to say.

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  • bucho's_butt

    She sounds like an asshole. A mentally ill asshole. It's possible she could be being abused by her parents and that is what is causing the problems. It sounds like you guys are in high school or even middle school. If the teachers are allowing this type of behavior from her it's possible they are aware of what a terrible home life she has and feel sorry for her.

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    • bootyman

      She actually has a pretty okay homelife. Ive known her for about 5 years now. Her parents were divorced pretty early on, but her dad bought her a car right when she turned 16 and she's always been allowed to drive between them as she pleases. Anytime I stay with her, her parents are actually pretty nice, and she has a habit of getting annoyed with them. (Like if her mom asks if we want something to drink, she will be like "No! Not right now!" She gets annoyed when they talk, which usually happens when kids are treated too nicely by the parents. But maybe the teachers don't know this and assume she has a bad home life. I know she likes to make people feel sorry for her. She is extremely smart, and she posted a poem online about people saying she'd never amount to anything, etc. And I was like "Well, who even says that to you" because everyone that knows her has high hopes for her. And she was like "Oh I don't know... I just wanted to post that."

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      • bucho's_butt

        It could be just a simple case of her being incredibly immature and socially retarded. She might grow out of it, she might not. Best to just gradually distance yourself from her if you can.

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  • Darkoil

    Well she sounds mental but in a sort of funny way.

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