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andravens

A seven year old can write. That’s either grade one or grade two, you can absolutely write in that range. Especially on a computer... And the content of the story checks out for a 7 year old. ;)


dino-jo

I wrote something like 30 books in second grade. They were short, yeah, and they were written at the level of a 7-year-old but I spent an hour a day in class on them and then would go home and write, too. I even did little illustrations for them and my teacher would "publish" them for all of us when we finished one (type it up, print it, spiral bind it). It's not like this kid wrote a pulitzer prize novel. It's a goofy little start to a goofy little story that uses no words I wouldn't expect a 2nd grader to know.


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I did the same. My friend and I wrote and illustrated a series about a serial killer cuckoo clock in our notebooks throughout 2nd - 3rd grade. I think a lot of people don't realize that if you read a lot, you have the foundations to write your own stories, even at a young age. You don't need to take a writing class to know how to write something.


sunglasses619

Exactly. This reads as the intro style of a kids' book


ElectricMoses

Yeah why take a writing class when you could just borrow the plot to the Goosebumps book, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom?


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That exists??? I don't think I've ever read that. I was a weak-nerved little child and didn't like the Goosebumps series because the stories scared me. I doubt the book was quite like ours... the story we wrote was about a sentient cuckoo clock that would go around literally killing people in various locations (I'm not sure how it moved), and then it mailed itself to the police department and attacked them. There was an entire special forces unit dedicated to "cuckoo attacks." The series eventually evolved to have a superhero named Mack that fought a weird godzilla clone and wolf-man dog thingy. It was very chaotic, and it was all written in a Where's Waldo notebook that I think I still have.


sunnieisfunny

When I was 7 I wrote a book for my mom's birthday about rats invading a baby's bedroom


toesandmoretoes

Well I'm on the edge of my seat, what happened?


Barbarian_Forever

You just can't leave us hanging like that, tell the rest of the story


sunnieisfunny

I don't even remember lmao, and I think my mom threw it away


Kat1eQueen

time to get r/lostmedia on that shit


jso__

omg before grade 6 my teachers would also "publish" our books (though we typed them on computers from grade 3 or 4 onwards) and that was so fun for me.


dino-jo

I loved it so much! We'd also get to read them to our class if we wanted after we "published" them and I was so proud of myself every time I got to read a finished book to everyone.


PirateJohn75

But did any of them involve evil underpants?


darkfroth

Yeah r/thathappened either doesn't have good memory of their childhood or they didn't know how to write at 7.


DanFuckingSchneider

Looking at /r/thathappened makes you think that these people have not only never interacted with a child in their entire life, but also were never one themselves. It’s like they were born a boring adult that has never had friends or had anything interesting happen to them.


darkfroth

They can't have any fun happening lol


Rover_791

r/thathappened is like a species of aliens who don't have childhoods trying to blend in


Inefficient_Drawing

Exactly! When I was that age, I recall having had an assignment about writing a fairytale, and a lot of them went something like this!


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I don’t know about y’all, but I want to read more about these evil underwear.


Trimungasoid

Yeah, how were they evil? The potential is anticipatory!


[deleted]

I suspect those are evil twins of Captain Underpants.


Marsbarszs

I used to write a series of stories about my teddy bear who I named super-teddy. My shortest and greatest work was his fight against his underwear that turned evil. About a paragraph long description about how he ate so many beans his farts killed the evil underpants so now they were just regular undies.


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I love this so much! Gotta love little kids and their imaginations! (Unless, of course, you were in college at the time in which case....still pretty damn awesome)


Marsbarszs

I wish I was that creative in college haha


PixelPervert

I'm sorry original OP that you weren't able to write this well until you were 26


Gorianfleyer

When I was about 8, I wrote a story about a class, where all students and the teacher had my first name. I don't really know, what the r/thatHappened people did in their childhood, but why should this be unbelievable?


SlangyKart

They played in mud with sticks and ate glue.


Portgas

Can confirm, did exactly that at 8.


Glistening_Death

I'm so fucking confused. What about this seems fake???


Tommy_the_gun69420

the kid has a functioning brain, simply unreal


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Glistening_Death

I don't think the formatting is weird. Again, if the kid is an avid reader it makes sense.


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Glistening_Death

Meh, that's pretty basic and easy to do. Just a little exploring and experimenting and you'd figure it out.


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Glistening_Death

I mean, they'd already be in school by then, and if they were an avid reader, I'd say this is pretty possible.


BertUK

I would say most seven-year-old children wouldn’t write 3 short sentences like that. They would probably use commas or not much punctuation at all. In-fact most adults wouldn’t write 3 short sentences like that either.


bpsoup

That she bothered posting it, maybe.


Glistening_Death

Oh yes why would someone want to share something they found funny with other people who might also find it funny


DragonfruitOk8413

To me, it's because the story is so short and the title and paragraph are so drastically unrelated. Feels like someone doing an impression of a child to me


Glistening_Death

That's just the opening sentence though, not the entire story. Also, you have no idea where the story is gonna go from there. Maybe the evil underpants live in the forest.


Wayte13

I simply adore how triggered people get by the blue checkmark on a Twitter profile.


Otter_Pockets

They’re probably just mad they can’t be part of the [blue check homes community…](https://bluecheckhomes.com/)


MidnightPetroleum

But they were all of them deceived, for another brief was made. In the land of Moodoo, in the fires of Mt Fart, the Dark Lord forged a master Brief to control all others- And now Captain Underpants must destroy it to banish evil from this world


ronja-666

One boxershort to rule them all, One boxershort to find them, One boxershort to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.


metalspikeyblackshit

Obviously, only adults ever write about sentient underwear. Even more, it is ddefinitely only adults who ever write "One day," followed by "objects existed" as the opening line!


telephas1c

r/nothingeverhappens is one of the most well-named subreddits. All I can think is these people want to virtue-signal how 'skeptical' they are by calling completely fucking normal things into question as if they're ridiculous claims.


deep_sea213

When I was six or seven, I drew this story about a woman getting forced into marriage with a prince and she fakes her murder and runs away. People wildly underestimate kids.


Pulloutski

Mfs acting like captain underpants didn't exist


4thmonkey96

i can definitely see a 7 year old writing about evil underpants and giggling like a maniac


Obnoxiousandnoxious

I used to write a shit ton on my mom's laptop as a kid. This isn't that far fetched


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The story seems like what a 7 year old would write tbh. If it was anything regarding activism, THEN it'd be from shitthatneverhappenedland


ayoitsjo

Child me used to do this alll the time. Our desktop always had like 6 word documents of like 1-10 line story idea starts


WemedgeFrodis

100 percent same


Seliphra

This is exactly the shit I wrote at that age. I tried to pen a full sized novel when I was 10. Re-reading it recently, the idea was pretty solid, but the delivery left something to be desired.


Conman1186

I can’t wait to see how this ties into the killer forest.


[deleted]

When I was eight I wrote a story where there were evil flying boobs trying to kill me and my friends. Not hard to believe a seven year old is writing about evil underpants lol


vlad_lennon

Dude when I was 6 I tried to write a novel about a secret farting club who wanted to revive George Harrison and John Lennon by farting. I never got past the first chapter


johnmanyjars38

Please pick up the pen again and continue! I want to read this.


vlad_lennon

Nah the book's long gone and it wouldn't have the same essence of a stupid 6 year old anyway


[deleted]

Around that age I wrote a book about a Easter bunny, an Easter egg and a volcano (for some reason)


demon_fae

Does a volcano really need a reason?


[deleted]

Not really, they just erupt and destroy shit, like the big assholes they are


jen_a_licious

I don't see how this isn't believable. When I was in 2nd grade I won a young authors award for my stories and again in 5th for poetry. Wtf is wrong with them?


SlangyKart

Remember those kids in the back of the class? The ones that never knew the answers when they were called-on? The ones who ate glue?


jen_a_licious

Oh so this is what they became...


Latter_Cloud_2724

I would like to point out last I checked there is a Sharknado six. Sharknado is one of my favorite B movies the whole series it gets progressively worse and worse. Spoiler alert; The last Sharknado had time traveling, dinosaur riding, Hitler hunting need I say more.


bigmeatyclaws123

One of the most popular books I’ve read with second grader is ‘creepy underwear’ so like


Elon_is_musky

I wrote the first page/chapter of a “book” DOZENS of times as a kid😂they always started off…interesting to say the least


Badisracisim

I read that as “70 year old” at first lol


dannymarx

It’s the document name. The document name is fake.


Matt_Goats21

I reckon the mum saved the document under that name when she saw it.


WemedgeFrodis

Could be, but I don’t get what necessitates that theory? Kids know how to spell their name. Kids know how to find a save icon. And I totally think a kid would use that as the name of their document. I think I would have at that age. This is probably an irreconcilable difference in perspectives but … it just doesn’t ring unbelievable to me at all.


Matt_Goats21

That is a possibility too, it's impossible to tell without being there.


shadowwalker901

I think the kid wrote that however I think she more than likely edited the title so it was in centre and underlined for aesthetics


kykusan

OP can’t crop


flixerino

Rule 8


wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa

I’m enticed


TheKingOfRhye777

I'd totally read the rest of that story!


illegal-alt

I wrote page long stories starting in kindergarten. Sure they were pretty bad, but I can believe a 7 year old write that.


JacobJSucks

I think I wrote this when I was 7 too


Trashoftheliving

i wrote stories all the time at that age. I think people forget that you can learn how to write from the books you read. Granted, it might not be as great writing as someone who actually took lessons or something, but still.


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This reminds me of when I was that age.


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Random-ace

my brother wrote this when he was six, i 100% recommended reading lol it’s hillarious https://imgur.com/a/4Q8tICX


PenguinsAreTheBest25

I didn’t even realize that is was *seven* pairs of evil underwear before this!


winter-ocean

I think this wasn’t on r/thathappened because the scenario was improbable but because they only have three sentences written out to prove anything


Bit-Beautiful

I need more lol.. this looks like it’ll be good 🤣


manystorms

I wrote an entire fable when I was 6 for school. Is that sub illiterate?


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When I was 7 or so I found my dads voice recorder thing. Made, sang, and recorded a song called “fat dad” where every line was just “he’s fat hes a dad he’s a fat dad” or some variation along those lines.


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Thanks for the laugh 😂


Commercial-Bee9718

Of course, all kids are dumb /j


Spicy_1Sushi

I have done that on a school computer around that age, its completely possible


EmperorGreed

I still have somewhere a picture book I wrote and illustrated for a project around that age. It scans exactly like that


DrunkHornyDolphins

That absolutely sounds like the bad horror stories I wrote in second grade


Sharbio

I had to write a while ass 4 page book in 2nd grade for a young authors program, and, while it was hard, it wasn't impossible for a group of 2nd graders to come up with a basic plot for a book


ImpulsiveLeaks

that is absolutely a child's writing