What Were You Like Back in High School?

[JB1986]

I was very introverted and kept to myself the vast majority of the time. I also suckked at sports, so gym class was a nightmare sent straight from the bowels of hell. Being picked last and being called "fag" and "queer" just does wonders for the self-esteem. I was also really nerdy/geeky, and heavily into movies and music (I still am. ) I was also a band geek, so I had literally zero cool points. Glad that time is over with.

 

[USEDCAR]

I was a class clown and mess with people and stuff always touching guys and hitting on them. i wish i played sports and/or join clubs and met people and made some friends. I probably was the few who enjoyed highschool and miss it time to time

 

[Swellegant]

Depends on which school... I went to two, starting off at a large standard high-school (3300 students, mostly African-Americans and Asian immigrants) and finishing at a small arts magnet (125 students, evenly distributed ethnically, almost 100% oddballs).

At Oakland High, if I didn't dress extravagantly (and wasn't really tall and conspicuously white), I don't think very many people would notice I was there. Most of my friends went to a different high school, I only hung out with Caroline, and I didn't join anything. I was just there... I came in, did my classes, had lunch with Caroline, did a couple more classes, and left.

At the Arts Magnet, I started off in a renegade group of rather crazy people who were there because they weren't tolerated in a standardized test setting; but after my partner in crime got expelled for bringing a gun to school, I got sucked into the "cool" crowd of people who were there because they had artistic talent. I'm afraid I was rather hysterical in this time, as it was the first time I was allowed, encouraged even, to be as weird as I could be. I talked a lot and rolled my eyes a lot and made a lot of really bad art that had some weird dash of beauty hidden in it.

Anyway, I don't think I'd like the person I was if I were introduced to him now.

 

[JB3]

I sort of blended in with the crowd. I was a music geek, dressed pretty normally, and did nothing to draw attention to me. I was introverted at first, but became more of an extrovert by the time I graduated. I was actually a little more extroverted at that point than I was in college.

What was tough about it was that high school was where I basically came to the firm conclusion that I was gay. Couldn't act on it then (and didn't admit it to myself until last year), but I was sure then. As it turns out, some of the people I knew best, and hung with my circle of friends, turned out to be gay as well. Even then, as it turns out, I knew the right group to run with, haha.

 

[AngelFromAbove]

I hung out with the outcasts of school. We would talk about everybody else in the school. There were rumors among a few of the jocks that I was gay, so they were never comfortable talking to me or they would talk to me under ceratin circumstances. I excelled in school, so when people wanted to do well on a project, homework, or tests, they would talk to me. I really did not have time for a social life as I literally spent most of my high school career working after school.

Physically, I was tall, lanky, horrible hair, braces and I had bad acne. I was not the most visually appealing guy. I developed a reputation as a trouble-maker, because somehow I would find my way to the principle's office over some small issue that would be blown out proportion. It was not that I was really bad; it was that a few teachers did not like me.

I was a jaded teenager, who questioned and challenged authority, life, and everything else I possibly could in a respectful manner.

 

[Lukeee]

Everybody liked me even though they didn't know me too well. I had some closer friends, about 5-20 depending on what year. I didn't have many friends out of school but I did spend some time with a group of girls in the year above me. Being friends with them made me a bit more popular for some reason.

I did quite well in classes, I did most of the work and kept quite quiet so the teachers never bothered me. Most of them didn't even realise I was in their class. I didn't try too hard, I just did whatever was set but as little as possible.

 

[Grover]

I only finished last year. I went to a catholic all boys school which was suprisingly non-problematic for me, even though most people knew I was gay. I was kind of quiet but all the teachers liked me and most of the other guys there got along with me, but most people stopped associating with me after my best-friend there turned into an emo/goth kid and they sort of assumed I was too...

I'd say I'm pretty much the same person now, except the emo guy isn't really my friend anymore

 

[giftart]

Not the most popular guy but apparently everyone knows who I am. mischievous.

Too add on to my previous post I was in the orchestra so kinda knew many people. Everyone knew who I was and I got into a few quarrels with my teachers.

I was the good kid in class but a little rebellious if a teacher steps on my tail and is being a bitch. Almost gt detention for it.

Avg grades student only excel in my sciences lol.

 

[Elwood]

High school was a great time for me. I was on the student council and very involved in everything. We were a one of the last big grades, there were about 250 kids in my grade. We were a big bunch of friends and we always had a good time. I also had my first boyfriend in grade 11 he didn't go to my school though, we met at McDonalds were we both worked. Yup I have very fond memories of high school.

 

[self inflicted]

Well, i was a bit of a vandal, the kid moms wouldn't want her kids to hang out with, I smoked, drank and did drugs, but dealt rather well with being discrete about it. A bit violent and hyperactive, already clearly bisexual, got involved a lot in protesting and always trying to make authorities life's hard just for the sake of it (protesting and all that stuff is really common around here to happen in high school). Got along well with most people, clearly violent towards jerks and assholes, i had good grades without trying hard which gave me a certain impunty in school life, I was a bit of a problem, probably it was all about getting attention from adults as my mom worked the whole day I was rather alone in that matter, but liked by most teachers and some authorities, sheerly hated and hateful to the ones who condemned me and all along very social but a bit of a mess, but i had very good teachers that helped me a lot and still are some kind of parental image years later Luckily for me school gave me the contention I needed during those years.

I had a moment where I had to deal with my sexuality publically exposed. There were some rumors about me being gay because I jerked a guy off and he told everyone. It was a bit hard to deal but i never denied the event and even said some things in heated up moments that, well, kinda proved that (I publically threatened the guy with assraping him, accused him of being a traitor) and I spoke the truth about what had happened and how was I feeling with a couple of teachers. In the middle of a class I was called a fag and simply jumped on the guy and quite beat him, got away with it rather easily because he was a jerk, and somehow from that moment the whole thing waned off. It even brought some curiosity from a couple of guys.

Now I don't have a quarter of the energy I had around that time, learned how to deal with aggression, and teachers were so important I had become a teacher myself.

 

[boiseboy]

I was a douchebag. I went out of my way to just hang out with attractive people all the time, and was an asshole to everyone else. I made fun of a lot of people and was just an all around dick. Not too proud of it, but i still have too many good memories from highschool to regret it.

Have I changed? Not really, that was only last year. I'm still pretty judgemental. : (

 

[geloge]

I was very shy. I sat down in my place and drew in my notebook or in the table. I didn't speak to anyone if they didn't talk to me before. But I helped everyone if they ask me so, my buddies were friendly and protect me. And I started to avoid authority in those days the teachers.

 

[CudDULL]

I was pretty shy and kept to myself. I moved schools each year till my senior year I finally returned to the same school and got to be reunited with the few friends I made junior year. Junior year was a big growing experience for me with that new knowledge I grew even more and coaxed myself out of my shell by senior year. I learned so many things socially about people and having friends since I never really had friends to return to till senior year. I learned about all the drama and shit talking and backstabbing which for some reason I liked only because I never felt anything like it before I had friends. I guess I wanted friends so bad I wanted every experience good or bad. But I was still pretty shy and struggling with my sexuality and I had a low self esteem. Finally after high school I broke loose and stopped caring what people though and I came out and I felt alive again.

 

[Yohan1989]

Jeez a long story. I when form a all in the crowd dude from a evangelizing the school LOL

 

[jamie_01930]

deeply in the closet, introverted, shy. but liked by many

 

[G-Lexington]

Much the same I am now. Somewhat more awkward, somewhat more confused, somewhat less happy. I wasn't really in any one clique, but lived on the borders of many of them - I had geek friends, stoner friends, popular friends, but I was usually the guy on the fringes of each.

Lex

 

[erobert]

Sorry to hear so many people had bad experiences in high school.

It seems more recent high school graduates (2000's) didn't go through as much crap about due to being gay (or maybe I'm wrong) At my high school there were a lot of closeted and bi guys flirting with me at least.

Almost everyone in my high school looked like they could be an Abrocrombie model and this was in an affluent area so you would think there wouldn't be displays of homo or bisexuality but there were many that I experienced. Some of this behavior was hard to detect other times it was very obvious.

One guy on the baseball team even got very touchy feely with me during our classes together senior year- we had three classes together. One day our teacher told him to leave me alone and he said "why? We're comfortable with our sexuality."

In junior year a guy on the swim team I looked at during class winked at me when he caught me glancing at him for the 500th time. I didn't expect that:

And then there were the girls with no gaydar on the field hockey team who flirted with me and gave me rides home (I only lived a couple blocks away from school). They made good friends though.

I didn't experience any locker room antics though unfortunately but there were enough curious looks to go around.

Dang! If only I knew what I know now. lol

 

[bike10]

Enjoyed high school had number of freinds was going through period of discovery of being gay which at time in the 1960's was still a taboo. Was not in sports but was a faithful athletic supporter. Two day of my beat friends had back in high school are out of the closet. We keep tract on the internet and web cam.

 

[relaxin13]

I was very much in the closet in high school... other than that it was a good time. I was a huge stoner from sophomore year on (haven't smoked for about 3.5 yrs now), was on the soccer team, and was captain of the lacrosse team.

 

[boxerdudeuk]

i was everyone's buddy. football jock. all around nice guy.