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How popular were U in H.S.?

How popular were you in high school?

  • Very popular

    Votes: 10 10.3%

  • Mostly popular

    Votes: 12 12.4%

  • Moderately popular

    Votes: 20 20.6%

  • Minimally popular

    Votes: 24 24.7%

  • Loner (one or two friends)

    Votes: 31 32.0%
  • Total voters
    97
Eh. I was nice enough and interesting enough and kind of funny sometimes, so I had plenty of acquaintances and pretty much everyone liked me. But I wasn't THAT interesting or funny to make any really close friends, so I had to find a couple of kids to hang out with all the time or else I'd end up being that one kid without a partner or a group, not because no one liked me, but because there was always someone they liked more.

Kinda depressing. I haven't really had a best friend since elementary school... just a few decent friends, a few more acquaintances, and a whole bunch of people that might say "oh yeah, that kid's nice, I guess." On the bright side, no bullying!
 
I guess that would be considered popular. I was somewhere between popular and nerd. I hung out with everyone from ''nerds'' to ''jocks''. It was kind of weird because I didn't really belong to one 'group', and sort of fit in everywhere. I didn't have many close friends though, but had many people I knew and would hang out with pretty regularly.
 
Something interesting about my high school situation. Like I said, I was pretty popular, everyone knew my name, etc., but like I said I never really cared about any of that. As I mentioned, I felt like quite the outcast on the inside, and had rock bottom self esteem, but was really good at pretending to be something I wasn't. Because I felt so crappy on the inside I was ALWAYS the kid that was friends with the outcasts and other overlooked kids. That ranged from nerds to kids with aspergers to goths, art and drama geeks, possibly gay, all of them, because in truth I related to them far more than I did anyone else. And that willingness to be kind to the people that no one else seemed to care about was the very thing that caused me the most trouble. Other popular kids, for whatever reason, had a problem with that and gave me some shit for it. Ultimately none of that mattered to me. Most of the time the people that don't fit in are the most interesting and that's all that was important to me. As it turns out I'm a massive nerd at my core, only now I flaunt it with pride. :)
 
I had a decent group of "friends" in high school. They were more friends of convenience, though, and I stopped talking to everyone pretty quickly after graduation. My close friends were made outside of school, and I didn't really care for most people in my year (or school, for that matter).

At convocation, when each person walked across the stage, there were applause for each person. I remember being caught off guard at the swell of applause and cheering when I crossed, so maybe I was a bit more popular than I thought?

Doesn't really matter... I hightailed it out of that hell hole, and as the final year wore down I attended class as little as possible (and still made honour roll ;)).

Did I mention I didn't like my school? Wankers.
 
Thanks everyone for voting and thanks for Bumping
my thread.

Now everybody knows how unique or common their situation was.
 
I was popular but I never enjoyed it. I never wanted to be noticed for fear that they would also notice I was not straight. I was always putting up walls between myself and others, only letting them get so close, even with my best friend. Ironically, when I was 20 and my old classmates found out I was gay, they were pretty cool about it, but that was not the case with my best friend. He never talked to me again. Popularity is not important, but true friendship is.
 
sixthson said:
I was popular but I never enjoyed it. I never wanted to be noticed for fear that they would also notice I was not straight. I was always putting up walls between myself and others, only letting them get so close, even with my best friend. Ironically, when I was 20 and my old classmates found out I was gay, they were pretty cool about it, but that was not the case with my best friend. He never talked to me again. Popularity is not important, but true friendship is.
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This sentence means everything to me. Beautifully said. :=D:
 
I was pretty minimally popular in high school.

All in all, I was a major geek. Haha. I was really active in my high school's student senate and spent a LOT of my free time in the student senate office. Also, I took my grades pretty seriously at the time and was a total goody two-shoes--I was far too timid at the time to even dream of partying with the "popular" crowd. I think I also consider myself a "late bloomer" in the looks department--I lost 15-20 lbs. by the 12th grade, my skin cleared up significantly and I started dressing up a little more for school.

BUT at the end of the day I think I'm better for it. I didn't have a lot of things handed to me because I was "cool," "popular" or attractive in high school--and I think that's fabulous. It not only gave me an idea of real, grown-up world dynamics, I think it also shaped my overall outlook on life and my sense of humor and for me, that's worth the cost of not being well-liked as a teenager.
 
benners said:
I was pretty minimally popular in high school.

All in all, I was a major geek. Haha. I was really active in my high school's student senate and spent a LOT of my free time in the student senate office. Also, I took my grades pretty seriously at the time and was a total goody two-shoes--I was far too timid at the time to even dream of partying with the "popular" crowd. I think I also consider myself a "late bloomer" in the looks department--I lost 15-20 lbs. by the 12th grade, my skin cleared up significantly and I started dressing up a little more for school.

BUT at the end of the day I think I'm better for it. I didn't have a lot of things handed to me because I was "cool," "popular" or attractive in high school--and I think that's fabulous. It not only gave me an idea of real, grown-up world dynamics, I think it also shaped my overall outlook on life and my sense of humor and for me, that's worth the cost of not being well-liked as a teenager.
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:=D: And you turned out really effing awesome! (*8*)
 
I was a huge nerd in high school (well, I still am) and only had a handful of friends. However, that didn't stop me from enjoying myself and having a great time with the people around me.
 
I said moderately popular...

I say moderately popular because I had a small group of friends (about 4 people) that I hung out with on the weekends and did stuff with on a regular basis; but at the same time my involvement in school meant that I was known and things like that...

I was involved in drama, so a lot of people knew me through that; but I was also President in Grade 12...So I must have been well enough liked to get elected, right?
 
yummylongsword said:
not because no one liked me, but because there was always someone they liked more.
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When I finished reading this, I actually said "wow..." out loud, because I can relate so much to that.



I did belong to a 'clique' in high school - but within that group, they all liked each other more than they liked me, and I was always forgotten and left out.

I'm usually not one for confrontation, unless it's absolutely necessary (and even then I'll try to be as respectful as I can), and I was generally nice to everyone, or found some way to relate to them if they spoke to me. So nobody really had a negative opinion of me, but they didn't like me enough to invite me out with them. Nobody really knew me, I was more of the "who? Andy? ... oh yeah, he's pretty cool" guy. Deep down, I think where ever I go, I'll always be that guy.

People had no issue speaking with me when I was around, but when out of sight, out of mind. I can't count the amount of times I would be sitting with my friends on Monday morning, listening to them reminiscing about the weekend past. Quietly pondering the notion that not once did they take a second to even think about the fact that they forgot to invite me out with them.

I wasn't really a loner, but I sure felt like one. I had people around me that would say they were my friends if asked, but I guess looking back, they never really acted like it.

I guess I'll go with 'minimally popular', then.
 
justaguy said:
What a shame. Did he at least give you the courtesy of explaining why?
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He didn't need to explain. My worst fear growing up was that people, especially my best friend, would find out and reject me. That fear was realized.

A few years ago, a friend encouraged me to write to him. I did. I told him about my life, my man and our children. He wrote back asking me never to write to him again.
 
Wow.....a thread about popularity .......turned out to be very POPULAR.:gogirl:
 
I was a skinny, geeky, nerd. Not popular at all.
 
Between loner and minimally popular. I have more than 2 friends in HS, but I'm only popular (I take this to mean I'm well known and can casually talk to anyone) with a segment of my band class, not the whole class.
 
High school was 30 years ago for me but I would say I was moderately popular. It was a big high school in a comfortable suburb with all the usual cliques - jocks, cheerleaders, drill team, band, drama, choir, etc. I was friendly with kids in each group and remember getting along with most people. Sure, there were stuck up jerks, too, but I just avoided them. I was in the band so I might have been classified as a "band nerd" but didn't care. That's the group I hung around with, was an officer and elected "band beau" my senior year haha.
 
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