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…

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1454·
    9 months ago

    1. Go to the bathroom between passing periods and let one out.

    2. Improve your diet, don’t drink carbonated drinks.

    3. I can’t believe I’m having this interaction on Lemmy

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      18·
      9 months ago

      Figure out if you are lactose intolerant and don’t have any milk or dairy products before going to school or during the day … have the cheese at the end of the school day.

      Exercise and walk lots … not intensive just keep moving. The digestive system works better when the body is moving … the muscle movement especially your abdomen literally pumps and drives the digestive system.

      The longer and more often you sit still, the more likely all that content will just sit and take longer to pass. The longer it sits, the more likely you’ll build up gas, more gas, more farting.

      • Resistentialism@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Or, figure out if you are lactose intolerant. And if you are? Fill yourself up with dairy and be a true menace.

        Just don’t shit yourself. Otherwise, you’re just the weird guy who shits himself.

        • CulturedLout@lemmy.ca
          2·
          9 months ago

          I didn’t know I was lactose intolerant for a long time. I used to have a carton of milk at morning break every day and release absolutely rancid SBDs afterward. One day was particularly impressive - the guy I had a crush on proclaimed it was so bad that if it had been his he would have named it.

      • Zorg@lemmings.world
        17·
        9 months ago

        Depending on the chair and how you position your butt cheeks, you can sometimes sneak out a fart silently.

      • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
        9·
        9 months ago

        Between classes, masking it with other noises, lifting a leg to prevent any telltale sound.

        There’s lots of strategies. You delay as much as you can but when you got to vent you got a vent and take the humiliation

      • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        You let it out slowly and carefully. If you get found out, well…you’ll feel the shame. Also, you don’t want to let out so much that other people can pinpoint you as the culprit. “Whoever smelt it, delt it” as the saying goes…so be sure someone else says something about smelling it first before you react in kind…but not too eagerly.

      • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
        2·
        9 months ago

        Like other people said in this thread, check your diet. Make sure to eat plenty of fiber, and reduce gas-inducing food you eat. People who constipated usually fart a lot more. Also, if you have to fart, don’t do it in a room full of people. Do it outside or in the bathroom.

      • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
        1·
        9 months ago

        1. Learn to do it silently.

        2. Excuse yourself and go into a different room to let it out.

        3. Just wait until class is over and do it in the hallway, also silently.

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        9 months ago

        You pick up tricks. Mainly farting while walking. If you get your foot placement and pivot properly you can send it out without much “pushing”. I don’t tend to try and push my farts, as I am old and I don’t trust them all.

        You might be over thinking it. Everyone farts, but it’s seen as more acceptable to fart away from other people’s noses. You don’t really wanna smell someone else’s gas, do you?

        • wellDuuh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I don’t tend to try and push my farts, as I am old and I don’t trust them all.

          LMAO skid marks

      • S_204@lemm.ee
        11·
        9 months ago

        Normal people hold their farts, consolidating them as the day goes on so they can release a large one in front of their husband/wife at the dinner table and discuss the days eatings.

        Y’know, like normal people.

    • frickineh@lemmy.world
      17·
      9 months ago

      Having seen how some evangelical adults act (and eat) after being homeschooled, you could tell me this whole thread was 100% true and I’d believe it. I’m not saying it is, but combine social awkwardness with the hot garbage food fundie women post on Instagram, it’s feasible. Or, on the flipside, some of the more granola homeschool families I’ve seen would also be believable in this.

      • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
        361·
        9 months ago

        it’s a common argument against homeschooling that kids who have no exposure to peers in a school setting end up with poor social skills. unless this post is satire, which I am like 99% sure it must be, this seems to be a case of that

        edit: I’m in no way saying it’s the strongest or the most important argument against homeschooling

  • ryan@the.coolest.zone
    193·
    9 months ago

    Somewhat unrelated, but I do find it funny that farts aren’t considered acceptable, but sneezes and coughs are. Like, farts have an extra barrier in the form of your clothing (assuming you’re not at a nudist colony or bathhouse) and won’t make other people sick. I guess it’s just because they’re stinky.

    I vote to normalize farting with an “excuse me”, and saying “bless you” to people when they fart.

  • jacktherippah@lemmy.world
    10·
    9 months ago

    I think they are still farting. I occasionally fart at school. I don’t go around advertising it though. It’s completely possible to fart without anymore knowing it was you, if you use your body and especially your buttcheeks right. It’s a relatively easy skill to master.

    • wellDuuh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      if you use your body and especially your buttcheeks right.

      this caught me off guard LMAO

  • Dio9sys@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6·
    9 months ago

    I was homeschooled until highschool as well. The best I can tell you is to do bathroom runs occasionally and fart it up in the bathroom. If it becomes a serious social concern then I would look into taking a couple beano pills with your breakfast.

    Good luck, and godspeed 🫡 your first while in public school is gonna be hard and weird while you learn how to be normal, but all things (including gas) pass with time.

    Pro tip that I didn’t learn until uncomfortably late: if a dude has a cool haircut, even if you really wanna feel his hair, do NOT ask to touch his hair unless he does that freshly shaved head thing where he asks people to feel how fuzzy it is. Trust me. Comparing your hair textures and feels is fine among siblings but classmates consider it to be deeply weird.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
    5·
    9 months ago

    The key is to unevenly shift your weight (lift one side and slowly allow it out), if you are level with the seat it usually creates an airlock or whatever which will amplify the force and volume created the moment theres a pressure leak/change.

    Also, before you go, lie down on your stomach and try to get yourself so your lower half is elevated the highest and relax while the gas floats to the top 😁 Better out than in before school because then your day will be ruined from stomach pain

    There were many days I had to find an empty classroom or office to plank in to clear the air, err, my stomach

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
    3·
    9 months ago

    Reading these comments… I’d like to add to the discussion, that farting being ‘unacceptable’ is not a cultural universal, globally, and it’s amusing to me how strongly some people think it is.