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Were you part of a clique? In middle school I was a disaffected punk skateboarder type but by high school I had downgraded to band geek. Where were you on the hierarchy? Any prom queens or kings here? I'm doubting it but I think it may depend on the culture of the school, like I went to a fairly big public school vs some private schools or the STEM ones may have less traditionally popular kids be popular.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:19
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I was super popular, feel free to ask me about the highs, and yes, the lows, of massive popularity.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:27
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I didn't have any friends in school, op. Thanks for reminding me.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:28
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the clique i belonged to, we did a lot of one man shows, it was tight af
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Mar 2, 2024 23:31
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I guess I was in the nerd clique, but had alliances with the weeb clique, furry clique, and the queer clique because the bi girls at school were all really into me which makes sense in hindsight.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:33
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I was the absolute bottom of the social barrel and it was a good day if I could just be ignored by everybody long enough to get through it and go home. I was a military kid and had the misfortune of moving to a different state between middle school and high school which was awful and I just sort of gave up on everything as my agoraphobia started to manifest itself along with a fun depression that lead to two hospitalizations and I began responding to any attempt at bullying me by throwing a punch because I knew it meant a week off from school and that was worth it even if it meant I got an rear end beating. I ended up being put on a home bound program my senior year and if I'd had access to firearms I could have easily been a school shooter. Thanks for asking, OP
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Mar 2, 2024 23:33
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No I was never a part of any clique. I have intensely strong negative feelings about cliquishness, but I might feel differently about it if I were, you know, good at it.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:39
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They let me read the morning announcements over the intercom every morning. I'd mock teachers, other students, had a joke of the day.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:44
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I thought this was gonna be a thread about Screeching Weasel. Now my brain hurts. THANKS.
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Mar 2, 2024 23:56
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I was the school slut
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Mar 3, 2024 00:04
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The music makers (band, orchestra, and mariachi classes) were all a tight knit bunch who hung out in the band room and orchestra pit together and tried to play off each other. Good times, good people.
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Mar 3, 2024 00:50
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Ever heard of the PEN15 club?
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Mar 3, 2024 00:54
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I moved every year (twice 2 years) of school until freshman year of high school. As such, I had honed my popularity seeking techniques to perfection.
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Mar 3, 2024 01:02
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I was a dangerous loner OP.
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Mar 3, 2024 01:06
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redshirt posted:I moved every year (twice 2 years) of school until freshman year of high school. Military family here, there were two kinds of military brats, those that learned to ingratiate themselves to the locals quickly, and the really loving weird kids.
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Mar 3, 2024 01:08
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Rhymenoserous posted:Military family here, there were two kinds of military brats, those that learned to ingratiate themselves to the locals quickly, and the really loving weird kids. lol right? Yep, sometimes on base (which in retrospect was a kid's paradise; behind a fence, lots of other kids, it was long ago so we were free to just go play....), othertimes off. I had a gameplan and my father would coach me up (hard) that first day.
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Mar 3, 2024 01:13
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I was bizarrely lucky my senior year in high school. I had my toes in all the social circles; the jocks and cheerleaders, the science nerds, the art geeks, the mods/goths. Not because I tried, just because I had classes and was friendly with anyone that would talk with me. This resulted in the strangest twist of events my senior year. I got voted in as Homecoming King. I have no idea how this happened. I remember a friend telling me my name was on the ballot and just assumed he was pranking me. With zero effort, I won. I had beat the sport jock kids and everyone else while not wanting to and putting zero effort into it. The upside was that this meant I got paired with the Homecoming Queen; which happened to be one of the best looking, smartest girls in the school. She was miles out of my league, but a super decent person. She was well-liked and popular; but she also did not put herself out there with any particular social circles. We had to attend a couple of events together, which was as wild as; going onto the field with some other kids at halftime of the football game and waving to the crowd. We even road on a float and waved to the crowd. At the homecoming dance we got crowns put on our heads that you'd think was some royal coronation. The whole time my friends and I were thinking; WTF, how did this happen? I got lucky and we actually kissed! A few years later I ran into her at a college party and we kissed again! We talked about it and she also thought it was the strangest/luckiest thing that could happen in high school. That was my big brush with being in the circle of cool/popular kids. To this day I have no explanation for it.
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Mar 3, 2024 02:04
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Internetjack posted:I was bizarrely lucky my senior year in high school. I had my toes in all the social circles; the jocks and cheerleaders, the science nerds, the art geeks, the mods/goths. Not because I tried, just because I had classes and was friendly with anyone that would talk with me. My man!
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Mar 3, 2024 02:07
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drop kicked the math teacher in the tooth because he denied the existence of God and got to sit at the jock table. for two weeks i was a king until they suggested i go back to the school shooter table so they wouldn't get too lonely
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Mar 3, 2024 02:10
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I don't think we had like strict cliques like you see in American movies. Like a bunch of my friends were nerds, but I also hung out with the "cool kids" or the sports kids or arty ones. Like you just talk to people right? People are just people, no one was being all "you can't talk to them!" cause that'd be weird as hell. I knew most people I was graduating with and had a decent rapport with most of them. I don't think I've willingly talked to anyone from high school since I graduated that weren't already close friends, but I figure that's because people are meant to move on in life right? I don't remember a tonne about high school, it was a pretty long time ago and it wasn't exactly clutch for my life.
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Mar 3, 2024 02:12
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I know this isn't realistic for most, but here's my "new school popularity template": 1 Observe and do nothing for some time, till the existing Bully is identified 2 Kick the bully's rear end 3 Do NOT take up any of the Bully's tribute streams 4 Savor the popularity for the rest of the school year as you have liberated an entire class
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Mar 3, 2024 02:21
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redshirt posted:I was super popular, feel free to ask me about the highs, and yes, the lows, of massive popularity. what happened? Why aren't you super popular anymore?
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Mar 3, 2024 03:31
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:what happened? Why aren't you super popular anymore? Massive concussion. Night and day, became a completely different person.
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Mar 3, 2024 03:39
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redshirt posted:Massive concussion. Night and day, became a completely different person. I don't believe that. gently caress you for saying CTE is a joke.
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Mar 3, 2024 03:45
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I don't believe that. gently caress you for saying CTE is a joke. Huh.
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Mar 3, 2024 03:45
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1st board on the chess team 
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Mar 3, 2024 03:46
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My buddy's dad was in the Rotary Club and I found that mysterious and alluring.
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Mar 3, 2024 03:48
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redshirt posted:Huh. no worries man. Go back to what you were doing
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Mar 3, 2024 03:59
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i was into wrestling and japanese Yakuza movies. played a lot of DDR and was good enough to AAA some songs. all my friends were in punk bands and I went to their shows in basements. high school was great.
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Mar 3, 2024 04:07
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Massively bullied in elementary and middle school (preacher's kid that endured a poo poo ton of belt punishment) but kiiiinda turned it around after I became a marching band nobody in 9th. By 11th I found out that being a class clown was still a viable strategy and I was head tuba player. Became popular-ish with the marching band kids but still hated the rest of the school until I graduated. Joined the Army after high school and really figured out how to be "one of the dudes."
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Mar 3, 2024 04:09
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I was bullied hard through most of highschool and I never understood where it came from. Like, complete strangers would shove me in to lockers I luckily had a fairly large circle of friends, though, that spread throughout many different cliques, even a couple of the "cool kids" I was secret friends with outside of school. My final year of highschool I switched to be in the same as my girlfriend and a couple of good friends. My friends were on a different schedule than me where we had completely different break times so we never saw each other and my girlfriend dropped out a few months in. Her circle of friends were all jerks who didn't like me and they constantly tried to get her to break up with me so once I had no obligations to spend time with them, I stopped. This school had pretty much no bullying of anyone, but everyone was also incredibly clicky. That left me with pretty much zero friends for the remainder of the year so I just smoked by myself and made niceities with the other smokers but we didn't hang out more than that. Somehow, this was kind of worse than having friends but being constantly bullied?
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Mar 3, 2024 04:18
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i got voted "best penis" in my graduating class
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Mar 3, 2024 04:21
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PokeJoe posted:i got voted "best penis" in my graduating class pics or it didn't happen
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Mar 3, 2024 04:27
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wow this guy wants to see a high schooler's penis. mods????
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Mar 3, 2024 04:34
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PokeJoe posted:wow this guy wants to see a high schooler's penis. mods???? I saw a hichshoolers penis like 20 years ago. wasn't impressed
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Mar 3, 2024 04:37
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22 years ago if im being real
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Mar 3, 2024 04:38
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I don’t remember anything of middle school because I was relentlessly and ruthlessly bullied almost every day I was there. I don’t even remember cliques existing that early, but I wouldn’t have been in one, anyway.
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Mar 3, 2024 05:01
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We weren't a clique so much as a fairly heterogeneous group of people who liked to get drunk, smoke a lot of pot, do a lot of drugs, and be generally irresponsible. Surprisingly few of us have died over the years.
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Mar 3, 2024 06:32
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CaptainSarcastic posted:We weren't a clique so much as a fairly heterogeneous group of people who liked to get drunk, smoke a lot of pot, do a lot of drugs, and be generally irresponsible. Surprisingly few of us have died over the years. I did
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I did Travis? That you?
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