I was homeschooled previously with a small group of other children and we fart in class all the time.

Now I’m in public school for high school and no one is farting. I was very sheltered and public school is like a whole new world for me, so I don’t know what the norms are. I’ve been holding it in but my stomach hurts and it leaks out anyway.

I don’t understand how there are so many more people in high school and yet zero farts…

  • Punkie
    43•1 year ago

    It’s a myriad of issues.

    1. Farts are not considered to be socially acceptable, and thus one loses “social status” if one farts. So at an early age, you learn to hold it in. This has been going on since antiquity, as it is the source of the oldest humor seen via graffiti.
    2. You can get in trouble if you fart (I guess because of #1). I knew of a few times someone farted, and the teacher sent them out for punishment for “disrupting class.”
    3. People learn to fart silently, usually through experimentation and training to avoid item #1.
    • m-p{3}
      25•1 year ago
      1. People learn to fart silently, usually through experimentation and training to avoid item #1.

      And then the blame game starts, like a game of hot potato of social standing.

      • @cmbabul@lemmy.world
        5•1 year ago

        Yes but it’s much more difficult to determine the source of said fart so unless someone figures out who done it the social statuses remain unaffected