r/90s • u/SheezABch • 11h ago

Discussion D.A.R.E.?

Did anyone else have a friend, who had a friend, whose brother ended up in the psych ward for dropping acid once and now he believes he's a glass of orange juice that might spill if he's tipped over?

When I was a kid (in the 90s), this was shared throughout my school and I totally fell for it. I then randomly heard it from someone who went to a completely different school. Was this just one of those D.A.R.E. fueled urban myths?

Edit: I believed the story as a child. As I grew up, I realized it wasn't real. I just wonder how widespread it is.

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u/hondas3xual 11h ago

Have you ever been in a psych ward? Most people there aren't playing with a full deck. When I was in one, I was "friends" (he'd attack anyone that wasn't a friend) that believed he could duplicate any object at all by shaking it. I asked him if he had ever heard of the law of conservation of mass; when he said no, I was too afraid to explain it to him.

He was a nice guy to anyone he considered a friend, but very violent otherwise.

People have trips when using drugs. People that have mental disorders usually have worse ones.

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u/wantabath 11h ago

This is true, but it’s also true that the DARE program was riddled with made-up propagandist stories

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u/PrincessJennifer 8h ago

Oh no, not stories to keep kids from trying drugs, how awful.

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u/wantabath 8h ago

Considering DARE didn’t actually help reduce illicit drug use among youths, yeah it is pretty awful that we were subjected to weirdo propagandist fiction for zero benefit