What kid were you in highschool?

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MrOracle · Accepted Answer

Band Geek for sure, but I was also the Audio Guy and the DJ, so while I wasn't exactly "top of the cool list" by any stretch, I was known by just about everyone in school, and I still get recognized by people - even when I travel around the US - by people who knew me from high school. Granted, our class sizes were about 900 per grade, and my high school was 3 years (10-12th grade, which is unusual, but necessary because high school was overcrowded and they wouldn't build a second high school until 10 years after I graduated), there were 5 different classes at the school during my years there, which is about 4,500 people who all knew my face and name.

I mostly lost interest in school in Jr High - it was way too "lowest common denominator" and I was already taking college courses as a high school junior, so high school for me was about going to class as little as possible - and so as always, I found ways to get away with it. Being the "audio guy", I did the sound for every school event - including practices and rehearsals - so that was an excellent excuse to get out of class, and between that and Band, I'd be shocked if I spent even 40% of my time in class. I normally only went on test day, and I never did homework. I convinced most of my teachers to give me credit for my homework if I got an A on my test - a couple refused, so I got a few low grades, but I didn't care - I took over my own education in 7th Grade, and could successfully argue things with my teachers if I cared to.

Mostly, I just wanted to do the things I wanted to do, which was GIRLS, band, GIRLS, audio, and GIRLS. I wish I'd known so many things then that I know now - I'd have done much better with the girls, but I have to day, I did better than I had any right to expect. Having a bit of school fame didn't hurt, and having a reputation of being untouchable (I'm telling you, I was ALWAYS out of class, and yet the school admin completely ignored this, because I always was there to run their events) didn't hurt either. I did things that would get most kids arrested today - including setting up a sound system on the roof of the music building (no one was allowed on the roof), and when people asked, "I'm with the band" or "I'm doing a sound thing" and people would shrug and go away. I never had permission, but I had the audacity, and so everyone just assumed that I had the authority. It was very weird, but also a LOT of fun!

We also went on a LOT of band trips, and these fools let ME drive - at 16! - and load up a bunch of other band kids in my parents' van, to go to cities hours away from home and spend the night in fleabag motels, almost completely unsupervised. Even at the time, I thought it was insane that I was able to get away with all of that (and much more), and yet, I did, and the whole band did. We did crap even the football players could never get away with!

Telekinetic-Potato · Accepted Answer

I used to jump around groups, I played chess with the kids from the chess club, got kicked out of the debate club and then got quasi-let back in, president of the A/V club. I used to help the kids who were doing projects that needed creative work done. My friend Sam was really into programming and he used to ask me to make graphics for his projects. (mostly fun little games) I had another classmate who was trying to reinvent the schools newspaper by taking everything online. I helped them do some cool stuff too. I even was good friends with the IT guy there and we figured out how to live stream the graduation ourselves using firewire connections on old cameras we had. Just to put this feat in perspective, the school currently has a company show up and handle everything with the speakers and all. They stopped doing the live stream and it's far easier to do today than back in 2015 when we figured that out.

My closest friends were people who I perceived as accepting and neutral. I wouldn't change anything I did because they were decent friends, some who I still talk to.

I was a class clown too. I knew I was going to community College because I already had a plan for how I was starting a production company so I didn't care much in highschool unless it was something I took as a challenge like a project.

I used to love seeing just how much I could walk on the line, I was a menace.

Everyone knew me, depending on who you asked I was a smart ass or a dumbass, creative or a hack, honest or untrustworthy (in all fairness, my friends were some pretty untrustworthy people), balls of steel or a faker.

Back then I saw it as a bad thing. I thought people were just glancing at me, not paying attention long enough to understand me. I used to feel so unseen. But in reality everyone was looking at me. I bet it made me look like a giant narssicist.

The only problem was I never gave a shit because I know happiness comes from a choice to appreciate good things in my life and to be excited for the future.

melanieeeB · Answer

We have a little different school system but like from grade 4-6 I was the bullied one, the outcast, bookworm lol
7-8 kinda part of the normal girl group, still bookworm and not really "cool"
9-10 I was sitting with the popular girls and slowly became "friends" with them, started working on my confidence but I was still the outcast and weird to all of them

New school thing, new people
11-13 I had a friend group and I'm still friends with them today but in class I was sitting mostly alone or with the popular guys and talking with bunch of different groups

For my job I had to do a dual education thing for 3 years (working 32hrs/week and school 1-2 a week) and there I was the one who got along with everyone, one day I talked with the nerds, the next with the geeks, hung out with the smokers (without smoking) and just went from group to group as I please lol

bubblegunnn · Answer

Highschool.. i always made my parents proud.. im a high grades student since junior-senior.. i was on the top 3 ranks in my junior class, then went to top 5 ranks in senior class cuz i went to competitive science class w smart ass students..

On 2nd year on high school, after i went to this competitive science class, i got along w few friends and we became a gang lmao, my gang was 7 girls including me, and 3 of us went to science olympiad, one girl went to math olympiad, one another girl went to chemistry olympiad, and me went to biology olympiad, it just regional olympiad and we competitive with all high schools in my city, was fun but none of us the winner 🤣🤣🤣 but still im so proud of myself that i could represented my school and beat them students, cuz one science subject only allowed 3 students to go to olympiad..

Ok back to the gang.. our gang was pretty popular in high school because teachers loved us.. we never made trouble even tho we r a gang, we studied together and teachers proud of us.

Even tho i looked like a nerd, but trust me, y'all didn't look at me deep enough.. i actually tomboy girl who loves metal (now still), im not feminine even tho my girls are feminine and they were sweet cute looks, and all of them were k-pop and k-drama lovers, while im the only one who doesn't (now still), i was horror freak and can't matched w them, and besides talking about study, we are also talked about boys (uuuu lovers), nah i didn't talk about my boyfriend, i was a listener to them..

I dont really focus to boys when i was in high school and doing relationship i was thinking like, ew cringe.. but still i had secret admirer and crushin this guy lol.. but ya, everytime boys wanted to get to know me, then asked my number i didn't give it to them, still they got my number from my friends, and i ignored them, lol i was weird, but im straight straight as hell, just wasn't really into relationship back then.. and now i regret it, like.. damn they are all glow up, y didn't i give my number to them, y i ignored them, lmao.. but all good, it is what it is

Sparkie460 · Answer

I wasn't super popular but kids knew me. I was the kid that stood up for all the kids that were getting bullied. My group of friends were classified as the " burnouts". We listened to rock music, which is now called classic rock. We smoked, drank and did some drugs. We played handball almost every day. Cut class when we didn't feel like going. I've been suspended and in detention for fighting, usually beating up the school bullies.
I have since matured and grown out of the " burnout" ways. I still jump in to defend people. I would put my life on the line to protect the less fortunate people. God help the person who abuses an animal, child or woman and I see them do it.

BlurryHaze · Answer

Mainly just being an outcast. Only really had a group of other outcasts who only did things together by bullying one another. Didn't really fit in as I was either too out the loop to go onto other friend circles or they were all people who used to beat me when they had a chance, granted they were the older year groups.

I have trouble understanding other people's social cues, faces and humour, so I'm sure that didn't help my situation, and struggling a lot in the subjects. The only real friends I had were one or two teachers, and was so glad it was over in the end.

It's been a while now, and I doubt anyone still remembers me now.

mandyfire98 · Answer

I was all around pretty popular. Very outgoing and friendly. I was a cheerleader and didn't really play sports but I got along with mostly everyone really. I was a bit rebellious I guess at home. My dad was strict but a good father and I snuck out sometimes or snuck guys into my room sometimes as well. 🤣🤣

menina · Answer

I was a nerd. I tried to join the popular girls, but it didn't work out, I felt weird, and I didn't fit in. I had friends but they weren't nerds, they were quiet and unpopular.

I was interested in jocks. When I went to prom I had the chance of being with one of them (my crush actually) and it was the best night of my life!

Miss those times...

Guccigabbana18 · Answer

I wasn't queen bee or anything or the MOST popular, but I was in the "popular" group and my friends were popular. Everyone was bitchy lol. Everyone talked behind people's backs. People secretly disliked each other. It sucked and there was a lot of pressure to keep up an image that you didn't really want anyway.

mickmrly · Answer

I’d say I was a nerd at High School with a lot of sleepovers at friends houses where we’d have Halo LAN parties and watch Star Wars movies or some Star Trek. Good times. School was okay I guess, but we’d mostly be talking about games and TV shows when there.

BigschlongEnergy · Answer

I was the kid That Walked around school and class with a boner All the time had a hard time Trying to hide it so One day I just Quit trying to Push it down cause that didn’t work wearing a hoodie made it even worse so I Gave up trying to Hide my boner.

xJeremyx · Answer

I did not study in high school... Because the education system is modelled after the British system.

During my Secondary School and Junior College days, I was an outcast. I was that weird kid that had no friends in class. Im glad to say, I am in a much better place now.

HighValue · Answer

I don't know. Most of the school knew who I was even though I didn't talk to lots of people. I was big and strong, already had a reputation for being tough from beating people up in jr high. Me and my friends regularly lifted weights, played video games and table top RPGs, and occasionally played basketball on the weekends. We also played pool too.

tfan1 · Answer

Loner - I didn’t do well in my classes, I didn’t care for sports, I couldn’t get along with the others because I had a hard time figuring out the difference between kidding, serious, and sarcasm. That followed me through my community college years too. To this day, I have no real world friends - only online ones. 😞

skyee_727 · Answer

am a hs freshman, spent my first term barely passing all the subjects so im just an avg student rn, trying to do better. just a quiet kid at school that minds my own business most of the time. with that people get the impression that im some innocent nerdy kid lmao. but i have actually bunked a few classes here n there-

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

The class clown/annoyer. But there are times where people think i was acting "strange" because I sometimes caught being alone showing my emo, soft side unconsciously.

Twalli · Answer

Nerdy antisocial jock. I wrestled, got good grades, never went to parties, and rarely talked to anyone. I don't know exactly since we didn't have class ranks, but I probably graduated in the top 10 of my grade (granted that was out of 58, but still all if us got offers from universities). For example, every place I applied to gave me an academic scholarship.

gerald5466 · Answer

im kind of a jock and kind of a quiet kid since I'm shy I can't just talk to people unless I get comfortable with them first. for basketball, I'm around them basically every day so I am able to just go talk to them since I'm around them so I'm able to be comfortable. but the jock part is that I play basketball and im kind of good at it I can dunk a full-sized basketball on a 10 ft rim and im only 14 so I would say im kind of athletic but it also helps that im 6'2

Sour-rose · Answer

Just that sweet little girl who tried to obey the teachers aaand hid in my hoodie. I didn't get into trouble and was naive af. How depressing those days were buuut... i was that kind of a ghost.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

I was in a class all by myself, the whole having Haphephobia and not being able to touch boys and then graduating a year early. I was in the class of me.

Chubbychick · Answer

I was very, very shy, quiet, overweight and obsessed with school work. My now-husband was a football star who probably wouldn't have noticed me in high school. So you never know lol

nolabels · Answer

I was a good student who then fell deeply through the cracks because of a number of unfortunate reasons. Not complainin', just laying it out there without telling my life story.

poline1 · Answer

I was the student with high grades, until the last year of high school , when my health become not good, and i went in diet of no gluten again like in my childhood. I didn't like the diet, and i wanted to eat what i wanted to eat. So i was a little bit upset and my grades were too much low, like very low.

But i'm grateful for everything i experienced in my life, up and low.

AmandaYVR · Answer

Seemingly serious and quiet. I observed more than spoke up in class. But I had two really great girl friends and we spent all our time together so it was fine.

Andres77 · Answer

exceptionally fit nerd and reformed little crook. but very respectful...

i was diagnosed with aspberger's as an adult. it explained a lot.

my mom worked at the school so i made sure i never got in trouble there.

Adam1978 · Answer

I was just a normal kid, who liked games. We didn't have identity crisis or feel that you needed to be special back then.

TrueConfection · Answer

I was a cheerleader and a letter girl (I carried one of the letters at the front of the marching band) and I played sports.

musicbrain5 · Answer

I was a band geek, into sports, and I had quite a few friends. I was also a seemingly popular target for bullies.

SnowedIn · Answer

I was the mostly quiet, leaning towards introverted kid. Also did theater all through high school so I was the theater kid too.

DancingQueen16 · Answer

I always thought of myself as one of the quiet kids because in high school I was remarkably shy, socially awkward, a goodie two shoes and a nervous wreck and I only had a couple of friends

NathanDavis · Answer

I was that kid you could not exactly just tag or put a label on... lol I was THE Nathan, lol

Saltystardust · Answer

I was the weird skater/metalhead kid, but like most skater/metalhead kids, I had an extremely closeted nerdy side.

Ill_made_Knight · Answer

I was an arts and clubs guy. Drama, speech, band, choir, a capella, Also German club... it was a fun way to slip through those years.

Sixgun77 · Answer

I was an angry punk kid back in the early 90s. Even angrier one I found out that most people in the scene became "peace punks". They were basically a bunch of filthy spiky hippies.

ArtemisSilver · Answer

Kind of an outsider. On honor roll, but liked fighting and doing shady hustles lol. Worked full time in addition to school. Started out as a Catholic good boy but was having some fun by gr 12

WhitneySnow · Answer

I still am a weird combo of popular girl and geek girl

Anonymous · Answer

A lazy kid. I needed diapers till 12 because I was too lazy to learn how to use the toilet. When puberty hit, I learned how to because I wanted a girlfriend. I got one, but she left because she thought I was super lazy in bed and wanted her to do everything for me.

I fall asleep in class and do all the work at the last min.

ArrowheadSW · Answer

More along the line of "studious" and "nerd"...

Anonymous · Answer

Phoenix, I was that kid who played sports, got along with everyone and passed without much effort. Looking back, I wish I had put more effort into the school aspect.

XXblack88 · Answer

I don't think I ever had a stereotype in high school. I was the quiet kid that kept to themselves.

ViceGAG · Answer

I just wanted to tell you that the word around is that me and you are dating. I’m telling you this, in case someone asked.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

Nerd who got bullied in school

TheVigilantOne · Answer

The one who never fit in, the smart one who got bullied just for being alive. God I hated them kids.

blissinanarchy1 · Answer

I was that kid fucking his teacher. And I was home schooled.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

The tall one, in the back! See me standing there?

Asker2022 · Answer

I was the type that got along with everyone at school but I never liked seeing them out of school besides my close friends.

call_me_scar · Answer

The quiet kid for the most part but towards the end of it I did start making jokes

michael00007 · Answer

I was all in between lol. Im a very social guy so had ties with all kids in my class and the opposite class also.

Stevefiveo · Answer

Jock. Although I listened to the same music as the burnouts so I got along with them too.

Pterodon · Answer

loner that fell through the cracks

Passing_by · Answer

Quiet and reserved yet somehow very popular. A little bit nerdy but someone to mess around with.

Hispanic-Cool-Guy · Answer

Not good. I had a lot of problems in High School. Lost of identity mainly.

DevikaButts95 · Answer

More nerdy but transitioned into more kinky come college lmao.

BLP11520 · Answer

There were jocks freaks and geeks in the 70's Freaks loved music I was a freak

dinojames22 · Answer

The loner who most people didn't mess with (normally because I stayed under the social radar) and was known for the fight in shop class Jr year. at least until I stole a girl from her dirt bag prom date.

jimmy2 · Answer

Drugs baby it was Rock and Roll, sex and drugs time

berwise13 · Answer

I was a little mixture of all 5 kids in the breakfast club.

Anonymous · Answer

Piece of shit with no friends and that no one likes.

petitedollbabee · Answer

A mixture of emo, punk and nerdy.

BlueScorpio · Answer

I don't know there but not seen?

Horse-girl · Answer

I'm the one who no one notices is there.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I blended nerd with clown.

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