I am so afraid of balloons. I still am in school and when I see a
balloon I just freak out. I have been in a lot of situations where
every body else is having a blast at school and there is a balloon and
they just throw me in the detention room. Once I had to do a balloon
popping experiment and I couldn't do it and she just said "I'm sorry
but unless you want to get a zero on a 20 point assignment then you
have to do it' I paid a different student $5.00 to let me copy off
of assignment. And try to tell a kid that you're afraid of balloons
when other kids confront me with balloons and blow them up and pop them.
They just come up to me all the time and go POP!! POP!! And they get a
kick of them and I try not to go violent because that is totally not
me.
I have one friend that helped me get through camp when they had a balloon
Popping contest and I had to leave and go and find the teacher and all
he said are it's ok. And since he was the first kid to ever understand
and not make fun of me i stayed at camp I had to leave the event but I
stayed at camp thanks to one friend who said two words. He has no clue
how much that meant to me.