Is it normal that this past situation still bothers me?
Back when I was in grade school and we were learning about positive and negative numbers, our teacher asked us to think of instances where we would gain $100. I was a good kid, but painfully shy at the time. All of the good answers had been said so I wanted to seem cool for once in my naive preteen life. I raised my hand and after being called I jokingly said this: "I stole $100." My sarcasm was immediately met with dissapointed looks from my teacher (who said something along the lines of my answer being horrible since she must have believed I'd done it) and a few classmates. At this point my smile had crumbled and I was too mortified to reveal that it was a joke and the day went on. I do get that since I was known to be quiet back then, it would be less likely taken as a light joke since I'd barely even talked. I'd have to say that the lessons I learned from that are think before you speak, and don't say dumb shit unless you're on bad reality tv. I'd also like to add that I did end up making friends eventually, and at the end of the year I bought that teacher a bouquet of flowers that she loved and a thank you card for being awesome throughout the year. It's just the deep fear I felt while in that situation that I keep remembering.