Why is my crush oversharing embarrassing stories with me?

[wadnerus]

We've been talking for a couple days now and he's told me that 'i make him remember stories' and he sent me an old picture of himself after he fell off his scooter and hurt himself, yesterday he told me 4 extremely humiliating stories about himself for example: him accidentally telling a girl that she needed to exercise more instead of practice more because he was teaching her ukrainian and used google translate, how he sneezed in class once and a massive snot his flew onto a girls book, how he farted in class and started clapping and then how he was peeing and a guy opened his door and flushed his tie down the toilet. Essentially just really embarrassing stories and i'm questioning like why are you trauma dumping to me?

The other conversations have been normal and have flowed normally and we've talked for hours but now he's telling me all these stories and i'm just confused as to why

Any ideas?

[Smart_Monk]

I see 4 opinions below trashing the guy. Without asking first: did you tell him that these stories annoy you?

What it looks like to me, is that you only crush on him for superficial reasons, be it status, looks, whatever. While he trusts you enough to speak about his most embarrassing things he would admit to nobody else.

If you were interested in him as a person you would be eager for every story of his. Except maybe those about exes that make you jealous.

If he wants a long term relationship with a girl, he tells her upfront his most embarrassing side. If you hate his full self, let him know so he doesn't waste time on you that only enjoys his "good side". ㅤ

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I would see that going two ways, either he looks at you like a sympathetic buddy, if not, then he doesn't look as accustomed to social rules as he should be for his age range. Please monitor the latter option carefully, because it can imply mental illnesses, the mild ones as much as the heavy ones.

[SueShe]

If he wants you to distance yourself from him, then those would be the perfect kind of stories to tell. Apparently, that is what he is hinting at. He may need some distance from you and it is his best way to hint at that fact.

I would simply forget him for a while and not answer his phone calls or remove him from whatever social media you are on.

This is obviously not a normal behavior from an adult (is he an adult or still a child/teenager). Those stories are typical for early teens trying to make them look interesting to others.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

He sees you as a convenient place to dump all of his negative feelings because you haven’t set any boundaries telling him to stop

[whosnumber_1]

Sounds like maybe he's nervous? I dunno. I mean one of those stories would be good enough to finish the comedy set off with.. but it's like he came back on for two more encores!

[Nikki1989]

He sounds really immature and wants to make sure you know it. Take the hint.

[LiamS95]

No ideas, it seems like a very strange way to react or to get close to a person of some interest.

[Redhanded1020]

He could be teasing out whether he can trust you to be comfortable with…

[Telekinetic-Potato]

Sounds like he's testing you tbh

[Anonymous]

Mind readers don’t work on weekends.