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Who were you in high school?
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Quiet kid that got bullied a little bit here and there but it didnt bother me that much. I guess I always looked sad bc people kept asking me what's wrong? But in reality I'm either focused, annoyed at all the other dumb kids in class, or just day dreaming about some anime or games. I was probably the 'artist' in the class, everyone knew and would go to me for help with their projects.
Loneliness wasn't new. some years it was worse than others, but I had at least some friends so i'm glad i could accomplish that much.
A lot of kids would sit next to me because they assumed asian means smart. but jokes on them, I barely did my homework.
Loneliness wasn't new. some years it was worse than others, but I had at least some friends so i'm glad i could accomplish that much.
A lot of kids would sit next to me because they assumed asian means smart. but jokes on them, I barely did my homework.
I was excluded every day at lunch of middle school, where no one would want to sit with me. I switched to private school for high school and had a blast. There weren’t that many students in the school to begin with so everyone was basically friendly with everyone and we had a ton of fun while learning. I ended up graduating Salutatorian (2nd best GPA) as well. I’ve always thought of myself as someone who’s not afraid to speak up about what’s on their mind. I was born with Aspergers (ASD), but it doesn’t feel like I have it anymore. I’m able to relate to both people my age, people younger than me, and people older than me nowadays, which is why the age of someone I talk to doesn’t really matter to me. I’m also one of the most empathetic people I know and go out of my way every day to talk to my friends and people and ask them how they’re doing, to try to help them out. I would do the same for a stranger if they truly needed it. I do this because I don’t want anyone to ever have to feel like I did in middle school.
So yeah, my high school experience was great and helped shape who I am today a lot. I will say that now, as I’m reaching the end of university, I realize that I’m always too hard on myself especially when it comes to grades, and I always end up doing a lot better on things than I thought I did. I never really cut myself slack and tend to get snowed under a bit by being critical of myself. One of my greatest strengths, however, is that I’m able to bounce back from both physical, mental, and emotional pain faster than anyone I know. But yeah, as far as people goes I do my best to get to know and be friends with practically anyone, because I just love people in general.
So yeah, my high school experience was great and helped shape who I am today a lot. I will say that now, as I’m reaching the end of university, I realize that I’m always too hard on myself especially when it comes to grades, and I always end up doing a lot better on things than I thought I did. I never really cut myself slack and tend to get snowed under a bit by being critical of myself. One of my greatest strengths, however, is that I’m able to bounce back from both physical, mental, and emotional pain faster than anyone I know. But yeah, as far as people goes I do my best to get to know and be friends with practically anyone, because I just love people in general.
I was excluded every day at lunch of middle school, where no one would want to sit with me. I switched to private school for high school and had a blast. There weren?t that many students in the school to begin with so everyone was basically friendly with everyone and we had a ton of fun while learning. I ended up graduating Salutatorian (2nd best GPA) as well. I?ve always thought of myself as someone who?s not afraid to speak up about what?s on their mind. I was born with Aspergers (ASD), but it doesn?t feel like I have it anymore. I?m able to relate to both people my age, people younger than me, and people older than me nowadays, which is why the age of someone I talk to doesn?t really matter to me. I?m also one of the most empathetic people I know and go out of my way every day to talk to my friends and people and ask them how they?re doing, to try to help them out. I would do the same for a stranger if they truly needed it. I do this because I don?t want anyone to ever have to feel like I did in middle school.
So yeah, my high school experience was great and helped shape who I am today a lot. I will say that now, as I?m reaching the end of university, I realize that I?m always too hard on myself especially when it comes to grades, and I always end up doing a lot better on things than I thought I did. I never really cut myself slack and tend to get snowed under a bit by being critical of myself. One of my greatest strengths, however, is that I?m able to bounce back from both physical, mental, and emotional pain faster than anyone I know. But yeah, as far as people goes I do my best to get to know and be friends with practically anyone, because I just love people in general.
you seem so kind-hearted and resilient !!
i'm so proud of everyone in this thread who has shared their hardships in high school and have, or are working, to overcome them. as i'm about to leave high school, i've learned that there's a big world out there beyond the microcosm of high school, and it's less scary than i thought. and the people who i looked up to for being so outgoing and busy have their own struggles, aren't as busy as social media makes them seem, and are usually more approachable than you'd think. the strengths of others aren't a hinderance to your own, and the ignorance of others and how they treat you isn't a reflection of yourself.
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lazyislander
Senior Member
I ended up dropping out my junior year because of depression/anxiety and getting my GED. I had really good grades, despite missing months of school at a time. I just couldn't do it anymore. It was the best decision for me.
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Jas
Teary-Eyed Grandpa
honestly, i did really well! i kept up my grades (except math LOL) and had a good circle of friends from the theatre program after i left band and the band kids kicked me out of their friend group (!!) - i cried a lot and spiraled for the summer of grade 11 and then got back up and kept going! i was really shy and hesitant to perform in my first three years, but senior year was so good to me and my confidence rly picked up. i even won a few awards !! i'm in my third year of university now, and i'm struggling a little with all of the projects i've taken on but still doing okay!
Oldcatlady
A young cat lady
I was the quiet straight A student. I took AP classes so everyone else in class were just as or more hardworking than I was though so no one really asked me for help. In fact I joined the tutoring club so I could get tutored by others XD I met a lot of people through school clubs. I was really scared when I went to high school because I couldn't speak english that well & didn't know anyone at school (besides one girl i was not close with) but I ended up making some great friends and having fun ^^ I still talk to some of those high school friends everyday even though it's already been 6 years since we met each other & some of them no longer live in my city
I think I was lucky that I had a good high school experience and met some amazing people there
I think I was lucky that I had a good high school experience and met some amazing people there
HistoryH22
Senior Member
I was a ghost of sort. Knew mostly everyone, but generally kept to myself outside of a couple close friends. I certainly don't miss it. Im glad I came out of my shell in college.
sleepydreepy
legendary egg
I had a lot of emotion problems in high school and therefore isolated myself. I chose to not have friends, go to social events, etc. and literally never talked to anyone. Instead I spent all my time making sure I was an excellent student and college candidate. I did a lot of volunteer work and several extracurriculars outside of school and graduated with a 4.0 gpa. I later got into a top US liberal arts college. I looked great on paper but in person I was a mess. Thankfully I got control over my mental illness in college enough to find myself and make lasting life-long friends. But in high school, I often felt like a ghost. When people ask me "who was I" in high school I feel like I wasn't anybody at all.
I was the shy, quiet, smart girl. I got straight A's and was ranked in the top 25 in my school based on GPA. Most of my teacher's loved me because I actually enjoyed learning.
Despite all that, I was generally liked by the other students too and never got bullied. Maybe teased a bit here and there but it was never meant to be taken seriously.
I didn't go out of my way to make friends, but a lot of different groups were open to me because people generally considered me nice and I was a pushover for helping people. I tried sitting with several of them at lunch, but I never clicked with them. When they were all talking, I felt left out and when I spoke, they would listen politely, but didn't seem interested in anything I had to say.
I finally found a small group of true friends when I joined the 'outcasts'. That group was made up of all the people who didn't fit in with any of the other groups. We had a super religious girl, a goth girl, a foreign guy who drew comics all day, a guy who loved working out and martial arts, etc. Somehow, despite our diversity, we all had interests that would overlap, so we got along great. For instance, I could talk about video games with the martial arts guy, compare poetry with the goth girl, watch plays with the religious girl, and so on.
We were also all constantly making up stories. We all had these alter-egos we came up with and we would act like we were in different scenarios just to escape our normal lives. I later learned about the Japanese concept of chuunibyou and realized that was exactly what we did in high school.
My friends really helped me feel comfortable in high school and I started to come out of my shell just a little bit. Unfortunately, most of them were a year older than me, so they graduated ahead of me. I spent my senior year alone for the most part. I would eat lunch in the classroom with my English teacher. I was kind of lonely, but since I'd been a loner most of my life anyway it wasn't too bad.
Despite all that, I was generally liked by the other students too and never got bullied. Maybe teased a bit here and there but it was never meant to be taken seriously.
I didn't go out of my way to make friends, but a lot of different groups were open to me because people generally considered me nice and I was a pushover for helping people. I tried sitting with several of them at lunch, but I never clicked with them. When they were all talking, I felt left out and when I spoke, they would listen politely, but didn't seem interested in anything I had to say.
I finally found a small group of true friends when I joined the 'outcasts'. That group was made up of all the people who didn't fit in with any of the other groups. We had a super religious girl, a goth girl, a foreign guy who drew comics all day, a guy who loved working out and martial arts, etc. Somehow, despite our diversity, we all had interests that would overlap, so we got along great. For instance, I could talk about video games with the martial arts guy, compare poetry with the goth girl, watch plays with the religious girl, and so on.
We were also all constantly making up stories. We all had these alter-egos we came up with and we would act like we were in different scenarios just to escape our normal lives. I later learned about the Japanese concept of chuunibyou and realized that was exactly what we did in high school.
My friends really helped me feel comfortable in high school and I started to come out of my shell just a little bit. Unfortunately, most of them were a year older than me, so they graduated ahead of me. I spent my senior year alone for the most part. I would eat lunch in the classroom with my English teacher. I was kind of lonely, but since I'd been a loner most of my life anyway it wasn't too bad.
i’m still in high school but i fall under the polite introvert who rarely ever shows up category lmao. nobody knows me and i tend to fall into the background fairly easily - i’m the kid who always has to awkwardly shuffle up to the teacher for help during groupwork and who’s always left by herself but that’s showbiz, baby.
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I was a weirdo that belonged to all groups and didn't belong to any group at the same time. I liked studying and sleeping in classes, I was obedient and delinquent, too serious or too silly, quiet and polite one minute, loud and rude the minute after.
Not sure how other student saw me, I remember in the beginning of a year in French class, that I came late with pink hair with my bag full of stickers and marker drawings and the girl in front of me who was passing our tests with our results, looked at me and said "well we won't expect much from you" then got extremely surprised when she saw my score which was way over hers. I was not the best student but I was in the top 5, we had some genius twins in class that beat us at everything.
In class, I was often sitting with either the nerds, either the bums, depending on my mood but the bums had to behave because I hated losing my time in class....apart English class, the teacher and I hated each other so I slept in that class. On breaks, I could drink, smoke and do illegal stuff then suddenly get bored and run to the library to read about Joan of Arc. When the delinquents were seeing me studying they thought I was joking until I got mad and made them shut up. I was terribly rude and my sentences were 90% cursed words. When the nerds saw me joining them for some activities they were scared to death wondering what were my true motives, even more when I was going to the youth ministry to chat with missionaries. On week-ends I was staying home doing chores and reading or drawing and on week days I was often partying and not sleeping that much.
Also, I didn't look like the sportive kind but I liked cross-country skiing (I was rather good at it)and karate. I was only respecting authority when I felt like it but in karate class I was always obedient whatever punishment I got, and because I was the only girl there most of time, they were trying hard to make me cry...which never worked of course because I was really maso and stubborn and all of this really amused me. Once the guys caught me after the class, tied with their belts, shoved me in their shower for the Scottish shower special (alternating cold and hot water plus whipping me with wet karate belts). I thought I would die laughing.
Well I had a lot of fun in high school (unlike elementary school), I was the weirdo...but not the weirdo you can mess with, the weirdo you wanted to avoid.
Not sure how other student saw me, I remember in the beginning of a year in French class, that I came late with pink hair with my bag full of stickers and marker drawings and the girl in front of me who was passing our tests with our results, looked at me and said "well we won't expect much from you" then got extremely surprised when she saw my score which was way over hers. I was not the best student but I was in the top 5, we had some genius twins in class that beat us at everything.
In class, I was often sitting with either the nerds, either the bums, depending on my mood but the bums had to behave because I hated losing my time in class....apart English class, the teacher and I hated each other so I slept in that class. On breaks, I could drink, smoke and do illegal stuff then suddenly get bored and run to the library to read about Joan of Arc. When the delinquents were seeing me studying they thought I was joking until I got mad and made them shut up. I was terribly rude and my sentences were 90% cursed words. When the nerds saw me joining them for some activities they were scared to death wondering what were my true motives, even more when I was going to the youth ministry to chat with missionaries. On week-ends I was staying home doing chores and reading or drawing and on week days I was often partying and not sleeping that much.
Also, I didn't look like the sportive kind but I liked cross-country skiing (I was rather good at it)and karate. I was only respecting authority when I felt like it but in karate class I was always obedient whatever punishment I got, and because I was the only girl there most of time, they were trying hard to make me cry...which never worked of course because I was really maso and stubborn and all of this really amused me. Once the guys caught me after the class, tied with their belts, shoved me in their shower for the Scottish shower special (alternating cold and hot water plus whipping me with wet karate belts). I thought I would die laughing.
Well I had a lot of fun in high school (unlike elementary school), I was the weirdo...but not the weirdo you can mess with, the weirdo you wanted to avoid.
CasualWheezer
Senior Member
I'm still in high school right now. But it's been one heck of a journey.
Freshman year was practically a waste of my life. I had all regular classes so I guess there wasn't that much homework. I took AP Human Geography and I really didn't do the work properly. I had maybe one or two or three close friends that really weren't good friends at all that I hung out with all the time and really was spiteful of everyone.
Sophomore year did get better in the first semester actually. I started making new friends and in particular I made friends with someone who was like me in so many ways and we would just spent time together, eat lunch, and go off campus on Wednesdays. I became a little more respected and also made friends with someone who is an important part of my life today and on. That friend who I was talking about earlier however had really bad mental health issues and he would cut a lot. Eventually, conventional high school was too much for him so he goes to an alternative school now and he's doing much better. I can't say second semester was particularly good, but it was the time where I strengthened the relations with the friends I made during first semester. I even got friendlier with people that I would've never imagined them even liking me and when they signed my yearbook, I got really hopeful.
And now I'm in junior year. And this is where everything changes for the better. I do the ib program which is really stressful and is exhausting but a lot of the connections I made are something I can't get anywhere else. I think it was during homecoming week when I really changed, I started to talk to people that I never talked to before and really got good with them. It's a feeling that I can't describe, imagine knowing these people for years thinking that they don't like you and then realizing they actually do! A lot of those friends I made I would consider to be my closest. As for second semester right now, I guess things have slowed down a bit and I'm just trying to get through the mountains of homework and projects. But life has become better.
Freshman year was practically a waste of my life. I had all regular classes so I guess there wasn't that much homework. I took AP Human Geography and I really didn't do the work properly. I had maybe one or two or three close friends that really weren't good friends at all that I hung out with all the time and really was spiteful of everyone.
Sophomore year did get better in the first semester actually. I started making new friends and in particular I made friends with someone who was like me in so many ways and we would just spent time together, eat lunch, and go off campus on Wednesdays. I became a little more respected and also made friends with someone who is an important part of my life today and on. That friend who I was talking about earlier however had really bad mental health issues and he would cut a lot. Eventually, conventional high school was too much for him so he goes to an alternative school now and he's doing much better. I can't say second semester was particularly good, but it was the time where I strengthened the relations with the friends I made during first semester. I even got friendlier with people that I would've never imagined them even liking me and when they signed my yearbook, I got really hopeful.
And now I'm in junior year. And this is where everything changes for the better. I do the ib program which is really stressful and is exhausting but a lot of the connections I made are something I can't get anywhere else. I think it was during homecoming week when I really changed, I started to talk to people that I never talked to before and really got good with them. It's a feeling that I can't describe, imagine knowing these people for years thinking that they don't like you and then realizing they actually do! A lot of those friends I made I would consider to be my closest. As for second semester right now, I guess things have slowed down a bit and I'm just trying to get through the mountains of homework and projects. But life has become better.
visibleghost
ʕ •̀ o •́ ʔ
i was the extremely shy person who spoke to no one and didn't have any friends. eventually i made friends with my twin sister's friends and sometimes ate with them but most of the time i was alone. i was also Very Mentally Ill and would never wear short sleeves, even in very hot weather so. i was weird in many ways i guess.,
cornimer
grab acorns 'til you're delirious
I wasn't all that different than I am now, except I put more effort into my schoolwork in highschool than I do now in uni lol. I was one of the top students, very quiet, only ever had one friend. Spent all my "free time" doing music (community choir/voice lessons/piano lessons). My values, beliefs and interests were similar to what they are today. I just know more now based on my experiences. I also dress better now lol, I had absolutely no fashion sense in high school (we had a uniform but anytime I went anywhere outside of school I would wear the ugliest clothes that didn't match whatsoever). I guess another thing that's different is I had an eating disorder in highschool, thankfully now I don't.
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DJStarstryker
Senior Member
An introverted shy smart nerd that was bullied for maybe freshman year, but then mostly ignored for the last 3 years. I did end up finding friends starting in junior year, but they were all nerds like me who were into anime and video games.
