How popular were U in H.S.?

[wonderwort]

I got this idea from reading Esquire0399 post on how much bullying affected them in High School.

I was pretty much a loner in H.S.

I'm a social late bloomer. I didn't really pickup on social skills till after I got my job in hospitality industry. (at age 21)

Back in high school I didn't talk too much, now I wont shut up.

Now, I would rate myself mostly popular.

If you find this topic interesting please bump so people can vote or discuss

 

[Esquire0399]

Hey look at that, I inspired an entire thread, with a poll and everything!

Anyway like I said in the other thread, popularity does NOT equate to inner happiness. The cheesy morals of all those bad teen movie really are true. I just happened to be really good at pretending to like myself. Fact is I really, really didn't. And really, popularity was never something I desired or considered important. There were lots of times when I would have preferred to be irrelevant, because it fit who I really was at the time so much better.

 

[wonderwort]

<----------always like to give credit where it is due.

 

[LilBit]

I was the uber-nerd that even the nerds picked on. Oddly enough, though, the stoners and headbangers really liked me. I never really understood that, especially given what a goody two-shoes I was in HS...

 

[GamerBear]

I was not popular in High School, only had one or two friends. Students thought I was planning to shoot up the school so they would tell teachers or other school officials that I'm planning to do it. The advantage to that was nobody picked on me or tried to attempt to bully me. Graduated my Senior year with almost straight A's.

 

[MoufOfKhaos]

Fuck popularity. I was not and would have never been - thank HELL for that.

 

[Esquire0399]

The people I feel the worst for are the high school kids who believe popularity will mean something once they leave high school. It's always sad to see that blow up in their faces. College is a bitch when it comes to that kind of thing.

 

[wonderwort]

another poll thread? really?

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<---is a poll whore.

(loves looking at bar charts)

Mr loki81 said he was on B-list in H.S. I was on the beyond invisible list. Spent a lot of time sitting in the hallway by myself.

 

[Audio Tech]

Total loner. I had 3 friends, who were also basically loners.
I didn't mind, nor care.

 

[asu1117]

I voted mostly popular. I was fortunate enough to rarely encounter any bullying in the traditional sense. Popularity was never something that I sought out very much, I suppose I probably could have been more popular had I really tried. But I just didn't care all that much. I had good friends in all sorts of cliques. I got more backlash from some of the less popular groups of people than I did from the "jocks" or whatever.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Very popular... given the ammount of time bullies spent at pestering me.

 

[wonderwort]

interesting results.

 

[FineFreshFierce]

I went with mostly popular. The school population was pretty large and I knew a lot of people, and vice versa. I guess I measured this by how many people I would say hello to in between classes and during lunch period

On the flip side, I wasn't very "close" to too many of the people I knew. I only had about 4-5 friends that I would actually hang out with outside of school. Other than that, everyone else was just an acquaintance and I was fairly well liked. I have this kind of sarcastic humor that a lot of people liked.

 

[HornyHenry]

I was much a loner, had a few friends including one I called a best friend who looked like what some called a nerd/geek in high school. The affluent A-listers were actually boring so I never envied them.
There were a few guys who turned me on but I never came out until college.

 

[ChickenGuy]

I was a loner. I had only 1 friend (and I developed an insane 4-year long crush on him)

I was more interested in hiding out in my darkened bedroom and playing my Amiga and watching sci-fi.

I'm still something of a loner. And now I have no friends.

 

[FuryOfFirestorm]

I was fairly popular in HS. I got along with all the usual types...the jocks, nerds, stoners, etc. (there were no goths at my school though). I was even nominated as funniest student in the Senior Yearbook (but didn't win).

Of course, I wasn't "out" at the time, since I was still coming to terms with my sexuality.

 

[wonderwort]

very interseting....votes and post

 

[paatreides]

Not very popular at all. Of course, I worked from the time I turned 15 - and that keeps one out of doing a lot of the usual high school things. But I did have a small circle of very close-knit friends - one of whom I'm still in touch with.

 

[Latimer]

Voted Most Popular and Most Artistic, but I turned down the former for the latter. Went to a small school, very fluid socially, and there weren't really sets--of the seven smartest guys in the class (myself included) six were jocks.

 

[winterknight]

I had no friends at all.

Fourteen years later, I still don't.