Looking back, there was a lot of strange stuff going on in school that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense now.

As a recent discussion on Twitter has proved, being stabbed with pencils happened with a lot more regularity than we assumed – and there are people who still have the marks to prove it.

It was a surprisingly loaded question from @Los_Writer on Monday got people talking about the time they were stabbed in school and left marked for life.

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@Los_Writer wrote: “Hello I’m looking for people who have led [sic] from their pencil stuck inside their bodies”. He was subsequently met with hundreds of replies.

Some of the stories were unbelievable. @noampao wrote: “I had a pencil stabbed in my scalp in fourth grade and five years later I was scratching my head and a piece of led [sic] fell out.”

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@pastahellraiser meanwhile argued for the legitimacy of his mark: “its in my right knee. my dad also has pencil lead in his right knee it is not genetic.”

https://twitter.com/toaste_oven/status/1082526110695473152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1082526110695473152&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eightieskids.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php

It seems people being attacked by crushes was a startlingly common occurrence. @elhokage wrote that she was “stabbed in the hand by a boy I liked in the third grade”.

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Video game-related stabbings also happened, according to @_realkolworld: “Brother stabbed me smh cuz I cooked him in Yu-Gi-Oh”.

https://twitter.com/tuna_helicopter/status/1082758234384097282

Dozens of Twitter users were eager to share photos of their marks. Some were happy just to know they weren’t alone.

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@nanatat07 wrote, “Omg my right thumb, I didn’t know this was a common thing”, while revealing her own dark ‘freckle’.

https://twitter.com/madison_limpus/status/1082686038173208577

Also shockingly common are accounts of self-leading. @thatxgirlxcass’ story is harrowing: “had a pencil on the floor that got stuck in the carpet at a weird angle and stabbed my toe!! i always figured it would go away by now but no”.

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@pebbleys had a similar story: “middle school, stabbed myself w a sharpened pencil by moving my leg too close to my backpack on the floor”.

https://twitter.com/HepolaSamuel/status/1082712886429040645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fdaves4%2Fstabbed-by-a-pencil

Lead survivors might be comforted to know that the struggle of self-stabbing continues even for adults.

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@Los_Writer head numerous tales of victims accidentally tattooing themselves with pencils as grown-ups.

https://twitter.com/cash_clavelle/status/524398354780811265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fdaves4%2Fstabbed-by-a-pencil

Stay strong, marked ones – you are not alone.