What high school stereotype were/are you?

Question

I am a mix of nerd and the misfit lol

NathanDavis · Accepted Answer

I was the anti-stereotype... lol

about the smartest in school but not the nerd, captain of a couple sports teams but not a jock, the odd one out but always got along with everyone... known and noticed by everyone but not the popular nor one in the cliques/crowds

normalice · Accepted Answer

The outcast. Not even the nerds would talk to me.

nightdrot · Answer

Voted "Prep," but the odd part is that I was also a bit of a "nerd." So either answer would work.

For my part, I loved high school and enjoyed every minute of it. I was popular and became editor of the editorial section of the school newspaper. For me, that was heaven and my only regret in retrospect is that I was so involved in newspaper that I neglected other things I might have engaged in like student government and forensics. Stuff that is now - oddly enough - very much part of my adult life.

That said, I dressed pretty well and kept my hair short for the times. (I went to high school from 1977 to 1981.) However, I was also known as something of brainiac. I got along famously with all my teachers - which did not seem to count against me with my fellow students - and had friends among all the other social groups, even the jocks. Oh, and believe me, the one thing I was not was a "Jock."

Beyond that, if I was socially awkward, I never noticed. I attended Spirit Week events. I was not too much of a sports fan - in contrast to my younger brother who played, I think, just about every sport they offered - but would go to games. I attended the all night senior party on graduation night as well as the prom and had a steady girlfriend for my Junior and Senior years.

Yet, to repeat, I was the guy who would discuss politics. (I first became interested in the mid-1970s.) I was the guy who quote someone no one had ever heard of. For music, I did listen to a lot of the stuff my classmates listened to, but I grew up in a home with classical and Jazz - and I became a fan of the latter, and still am. So I was a little off the beaten path in that way.

Funny part is, I am still in touch with friends and teachers from my high school years, so I must have done something right if they still want my company.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

"All-Around Gal!"
1. Popular. However, I didn't like being considered the "school socialite" because people assumed I'm high-maintenance or stuck up which I wasn't.
2. Teachers' pet. I kissed up to the faculty to secure my rank as the "academic genius" of the class. All the women Teachers liked me. The male Professors didn't because I reminded them that getting a good education from a Teacher was what I expected to earn, not flirting with an Educator. However, the schools' admins considered me they're "nightmare" because I was a political activist numerous times.
3. I may not look like a nerd but I can be very nerdy. I've got high grades, accolades, awards & medals to prove that.
4. I was a fashionista on my own. I hardly bought expensive clothes that was in fashion, I just sewed up my own. Many copied my style than what was on the magazines.
5. Fiercely athletic. I was ready & willing to get bruised for that precious win for the school, the neighborhood, pride & my collection of trophies & medals.
6. Every guy's crush. I was one of the prettiest, sexiest, fittest girls in the campus during my time in school. Despite presuming I was a stuckup, I was actually very approachable & friendly. Almost every guy from jocks to nerds crushed on me.
7. I always threw or, at least, organized the biggest & best parties throughout the years I was I high school.
8. Trouble. Either I mastermind something dastardly or I played a key role in something that caused shockwaves throughout the school& beyond.
9. Tomboy-ish. I had more guy friends than girl friends but I never fooled around with 'em. I rode my bike, skateboards with my best buddies in & around campus and before during our hangouts before going home after school.
10. Fair & Reliable. I stood up against bullies for myself and the oppressed.

Shizunk · Answer

I guess nerd comes close, but weirdo is more accurate. I was known for wearing skirts and beards. I regularly did things like hand-sewing a costume to boost my concentration. The entire desk would be covered with cloth, needles, scissors, chalk and thread. But teachers soon learned to accept that because suddenly I was able to pay attention and actively participate because my mind wouldn't attempt to drift away to sleep.
Sometimes I wore chainmail underneath the sweater. And sometimes I argued with teachers and pointed out that they are wrong about the subject matter, only to fail the test later, because there were questions in it I wasn't interested in.
My classmates once told me how they got to know a bunch of new people when they realized those other people are talking about me and my classmates were able to brag that they actually know me.
A girl once told me "You know, walking next to you like this, I feel like a celebrity, since everyone is looking at us wherever we go." She was only half sarcastic.

MCheetah · Answer

Other: The anti-bully, defender of the weak in elementary and middle school, as well as one of the top athletes in Track and Field. In the 9th grade, I started to get worried why I hadn't grown since ten years old (I had Precocious Puberty), and had a falling out with two of my friends, but was still popular and athletic. Then by 11th grade, I started getting really worried if I'd grow or not, and started taking HGH and seeing a doctor regularly. I became depressed and after the SAT's, my grades took a nosedive. By 12th grade, I was super depressed, near suicidal and a loner, as all three of my former best friends since the 4th grade (one of them being female) outgrew me.

So I started at the top of the social ladder, was still at the top by 9th grade, and ended high school at the bottom and severely depressed. So maybe a Jock/Loser.

Cynicaldreamer · Answer

I was the quiet nerd/loner.

I didn't really fit in with anyone. I had "friends," and I use the term loosely because honestly I didn't fit in with them either- they were just the only people that spoke to me. Yet I had nothing in common with the majority of them. It's like the memes you see online where an extrovert adopts an introvert? That was me; I was adopted introvert.

I basically went to school, passed all my classes, and graduated. I honestly can't say I enjoyed or miss anything about high school, other than I miss getting out of school for holidays and summer vacation, haha.

Blackcupcake · Answer

I’d say I was a mix of prep and misfit lmfao…
The way I dressed and my natural poker face gave people the impression that I was bitchy/high maintenance/mean, but my personality is not like that… I’m pretty friendly, I can be not so girly and I have a crackhead humor and a lot of the people I had fun with were the “misfits”, so yeahhh😆😂

Anonymous · Answer

Misfit with no real group. Hung around the jocks and the popular kids a lot but I wasn’t one of them. I just seemed to always be dating a couple of them. Not smart enough to be a nerd. Not cool enough to be cool. Didn’t like weed enough to be a stoner. Kind of sporty but not in any sports so not a jock. I was just one of the guys in a lot ways except I was pretty and they definitely saw me as a girl. Tomboy in a mini skirt.

The popular girls all hated me and bullied me. The boys all seemed to like me and would ask me out a lot. I was known for being a little wild, fun, low maintenance and not stuck up I was always invited to every party and people seemed to know who I was even if I didn’t know them.

MelaninQueen21 · Answer

Although I didn't exactly fit into anything, in my opinion, there were many that I could fit into. My sister and I both stood out, aside from being identical twins. The way we carried ourselves, the way we dressed and talked were quite different. We also had friends from like different social groups, from different backgrounds with different hobbies and interests. We both had like that one Honors class, by the way. We knew quite a lot of people. Although we didn't know a whole lot of people, a lot of people knew us.

ItsTheNephilim · Answer

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Wraith_Cemetery · Answer

I hung out with the metalheads and the punk rockers. Leather jackets, spiked hair, chains, band shirts, et cetera. But I also played varsity sports so I didn't fit in anywhere completely well. The punks made fun of me for playing sports and the jocks made fun of me for being a punk. But it was fine, I had plenty of friends that had my back when needed.

dustybiker · Answer

Weird mix. I was a jock in the sense basketball/soccer and serious horse riding was going on. But also a surfer, nerd (loved all the off the wall things) and cared about my grades. Also all my friends were male and around home, so I floated under the radar in school. Least remembered. The girl who was off either doing sports or nose in a book.

Iknowbestgirls · Answer

A mix between the metalhead stoner skater anime nerd. In had a wide range if people that in was friends with. You forgot to mention the thug/cholos where I'm from that was a pretty big thing. And I hung out with a lot of them too! In didn't dress like them but in was always in good terms with them and a good friend of mine that is like a brother to me is a gangster and many other friends of mine are too. I wasn't a jock but I was in sports too. Like I said I hung out with some many different kind of people in high school!

Mossberg500 · Answer

Goth, and we didn't exist in the same era (with emos) when I grew up. Goths were mean and prone to violence. Emos were soft little punching bags. In fact I don't remember there being an 'emo' category until after I had quit school after being expelled twice. Putting them in the same category is 'Columbine' worthy.

ohshee · Answer

I was all the above except for also popular but with every scenario just very quiet because I knew everybody I knew this jocks all the coaches wanted me to play either baseball or football but I erased your bike so I did not want to do that the Stoners I knew all of them the back parking lot smokers I do all of them the Nerds I knew all of them because I used to protect him what else did you have down there yeah I was all of the above except for I was very quiet

CasstheLass · Answer

I’ll find out next year when I go into high school, I’m not actually in high school yet 😂 But I’ll just try to be as nice as I can to everyone and see what happens ☺️

Kaneki05 · Answer

Always have been and forever shall be goth. And eww emo's, Lucky there was no such thing in my schools. No one was emo. Just goth or not. And not many were goths tbh. But hey the most famous girl in one of my high schools was a goth, so not your typical blonde girl in pink.

Siren777 · Answer

A mix of different things at different times to different people haha. So at school preppy nerd, gym - athletic, at home playing games chilling somewhat goth barbie haha.. Out with parents - well groomed girly & classy.

TheSpaceGnome · Answer

Nerdy artist gamer who looked like a mental band guitarist's child, had the personality of a hyperactive hippy scientist, and the dress code of either an emo, or just dr malcom from the lost world, you pick.

libsaretards · Answer

I picked misfit because I really never fit in. I'd beat up the jocks, was not smart enough to hang with the nerds (although I protected them a lot from the jocks), left the stoners alone unless they wanted to share some food and the emo crown annoyed me (although I also protected them from the jocks). I kept to myself a lot in school, but could get along with anyone I chose to get alone with and made whatever enemies I chose.

Phoenix98 · Answer

I don't really think I had any sort of stereotype and I mean it wasn't a stereotypical school either it was a country charter school with like a 100 students total from all grades.

I don't think any of us really fell into either kind of stereotype to be honest.

DizzyDesii · Answer

Nerdy Overachiever, Teachers Pet, Goody-Two-Shoes

Paris13 · Answer

"G" For GREAT FRIEND TO EVERYONE!!! xxoo

CindyRuns · Answer

I was a mix of being a nerd and a jock !!! Did multiple sports and also graduated near the top of my class !!!

TwistedSukuna · Answer

I was definitely a bit of a nerd, and still am, just generally give a lot less of a shit now than I did in HS

bamesjond0069 · Answer

Honestly i was a mix. I played as backup for one of the sports teams. I smoked pot and drank often and got people hookups so definitely stoner. But i also was in chess club and band (although i played drums which is cool for band) so i knew all the nerds.

humpbackjack · Answer

I didn’t go to high school but I was definitely a stoner back then and was always in trouble. Don’t be like me school is important

FinalFantasyBro · Answer

I was the loner kid who was constantly bullied when I attended school.

SecretsofKB · Answer

In my school, most people weren't just one thing. I was more of the jock (if you can actually call a girl that? I played sports) and the preppy girl.

Anonymous · Answer

I would say D. misfit. But I wasn't even cool enough to be that.  I was just a ghost basically. Ever seen the movie "Mystery men" I was like the invisible boy. Lol

WhoRtheseGuys · Answer

Grunge, hard ass, bitch. I was never bothered. Doc Martens, flannels and headphones. Flipping everyone off because I was always angry. It was the 90’s in a snobby neighborhood. That was me.

Citizenkirk · Answer

Ogre's reason for getting out of bed every morning, "🤬Stupid🤔meathead🧐football🏈jocks🖕🤨🖕!!!"

slackbabbath · Answer

I was a nobody lol. Just stuck my head in my books and stayed out of everyone’s business. Huge loner but I wouldn’t say misfit. I didn’t consider myself weird or different. I just enjoyed being alone.

Iron_Man · Answer

The champion Athlete the head honcho the cream of the crop

BillyBalls · Answer

Loner Never had the need to belong to a group

clampfan101 · Answer

Nerd as always and to this day. ;) Also geek. Very much both.

TallAnon · Answer

Nerd/misfit, that tall dude in black that doesn't care

siseñor · Answer

i didn't even come in, i was absent at least 3 days a week

Avicenna · Answer

I was a nerd who played sports, was pretty social and had plenty of girlfriends. Didn't exactly fit one stereotype.

IveGotNoName · Answer

Misfit-antisocial-loner type. My friends were nerds I guess, and I did play the part of one, but I always felt dumber than them, and sort of not "worthy" of the "nerd title".

blended_ninja · Answer

I was a weird combination of everything. Jock, nerd, metalhead, goth, punk emo, thug, etc. I didn't really care about fitting in and ended up having friends in every group.

DarkCarousel · Answer

I was a loner. But I was interested in different clubs so I had random friends in various social groups. Not many close ones.

mooky06 · Answer

The floater? If that exists? Didn’t really have a group i stuck to, i was able to “float” from group to group and mix well

exitseven · Answer

I had a girl try to figure this out one day. She said that I wasn't a jock and I wasn't a preppie she finally decided I was a loner/. I will go with that 30 years later.

IAMNathanael · Answer

A videogame nerd, pretty much. My friend circles crossed into the whole emo/goth thing so I could be seen around them sometimes.

zagor · Answer

I was pretty much a loner and didn't run with any crowd. Didn't really have any close friends and was very glad to get out of the HS scene. I wish I had been more open to things at the time but that ship has sailed.

Anonymous · Answer

I actually fit in every catagory. I was a stoner & I played 4 sports. I was friends with jocks preps but preferred not to hang with them. So I was a misfit. Now almost 40. Years out of high school I'm still friends with people from all catogoies

SunnySensei · Answer

I was a loner, Miss, I did great in studies but I was not a nerd but I didn't feel comfortable in talking with people much.

dragoblack · Answer

I was the "popular loner" who was himself and didn't give a fuck because i got tired of being bullied constantly for over 7 years so i bulked up, and didn't trust anyone. I was told i "looked like the guy they wouldn't want to meet in a dark ally"

siegetiming · Answer

Artist kid whose sketchbook is public property (I hate that shit)

Assi2k · Answer

I skipped school 3 out 5 days. But in senior year, I got my self together but then I got mental :))

suisuiola · Answer

I was the popular, prep girl. I was lucky to have many friends and people around me

qwert1234 · Answer

I am in the middle. Got jock friends, got nerd friends. Able to hangout with both groups. Never bullied, never got bullied.

DarkWinterNights · Answer

I floated between the nerds, misfits and goths. Never really considered myself any one of them though. My school had a lot of weird crossovers.

nickaboy · Answer

Quiet kid, that got bullied Who Just wanted to make something of his lofe but was too scared to go all the way with studying out of fear getting bullied even more.

Sualina · Answer

I was the weird kid lol, people thought I was weird.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

I played sports, and I was also in band and choir. And I was a "smart kid.". But I was also mischievous and I got in trouble a lot.

Fuentes · Answer

Rebel pretty much i was always in trouble & i was not fucked with i went to 5 different high schools & i dropped out my jr year and went back and finished as a super senior

TheGreatAwan · Answer

Loner/weird kid. Kids rejected me because I was more intelligent and they were normfag trash.

Slim57 · Answer

Not sure, I was the jokester and had the nickname king which people still call me today, was friends and hungout with the jocks, nerds, rednecks, stoner/metalheads in my grade and in upper grades, hung out with everyone except the preppy kids

SlightlyEccentric · Answer

I had a few friends and we kept to ourselves. So somewhere between misfits and loners.

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