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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think kids trying to navigate social situations in these years is so hard. Kids are so self -focused that I wonder if other people are really "real" to them in some ways. This things they did probably started as a way for the other two to bond. There may have been some aggression or weirdness, or whatever, but they probably were so wrapped up in their own feelings and insecurities that they were not thinking of how hurtful this would be or what the targeted kid was experiencing. I doubt they went into this thinking, "let's cause this other person an enormous amount of pain." I think as adults we interpret this kind of thing as a real betrayal (she was sleeping! in her own house! how could they!) when in fact it is just being young and stupid.[/quote]

You are right.  These type of innocent pranks in middle school are apparently commonplace.   Here's a discussion from another forum of what young, stupid hijinks go on...harmless fun amongst friends...

[quote]When my friends and I were in middle school, we would all stay the night at a friends house whose parents would let 5-6 of us stay over every weekend. The kid who lived there would always be on the receiving end of our immature middle school pranks. We'd do anything that popped into our young little minds. One night we put some extremely spicy ghost pepper hot sauce on his lips as he was asleep. About 15 seconds later he woke up screaming as if he had been set on fire. Another night we turned out all of the lights and got all of our sleeping areas ready and layed down throughout his big room. Once everyone was set, one of us would hit him in the nuts and then as quickly and quietly as we could, we'd lay down and chuckle under our voices trying not to give ourselves away. And one night it was about 3am and it was just myself and another friend of mine staying over but his parents didn't know we were there. Some of our female friends (we are both males) invited us over to her house to hang out with her and a friend of hers. So as we were preparing to leave, my friend pulled out a bottle of KY jelly and sat it next to a rather large cucumber on our friends night stand and then tuned into some gay porn and blasted it as loud as it would go and then we got the fuck outta there laughing our asses off the whole walk over to our destination.[/quote]

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/156ixn/during_sleepovers_what_were_some_pranks_you_would/[/quote]

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