Were You Popular In School?

[demoness]

honestly i am just really good at playing the social game and mirroring people to my advantage, so if it's desirable to be popular i know who to focus on to get there. that and only being disabled physically and the only mainstreamed disabled student made me hard to miss. but yeah i was and also was a massive flirt and fashionista. yikes.

 

[Oldcatlady]

Nooo lol. I'm quiet and like to keep to a small handful of friends. Maybe kinda in high school? I was part of that AP crew and everyone knew each other. I also participated in band and a lot of school clubs and became acquainted with people of grades higher and lower than mine, but I would definitely not consider myself popular.

 

[WynterFrost]

I would say I floated in the middle. I was definitely intimidated by the popular girls even though they were always pretty nice

 

[Tao]

Throughout regular 'mandatory' primary/high school, no, not really.

Throughout primary school I had 1 friend in school. In high school I had 2 friends, all of us being the 'weird kids', none of us were popular. Nobody else in the school would really even talk to me if they could help it and I got bullied pretty badly basically throughout that entire time. Anything I'm self conscious about these days is because of that period, even if I know now it's 100% not true.

Outside of school wasn't much better either. I had 1 friend until they moved away at the start of high school, but at least I didn't get bullied.



Collage on the other hand? I was really quite popular. I took music in collage and I was/am very good at the main instrument I play (guitar) and can dabble enough in everything else. Everybody wanted me to be in their group for stuff, I would be asked by everybody to hang out and do stuff after collage, the drama department asked me specifically to do a few things for them, people on other courses we never really interacted with knew me in the corridors,. It was at a point where the music theory teacher really took a disliking to me because everybody would kinda just ask me to teach them everything he was teaching.

I got a huge confidence boost in collage and it translated to outside collage where I was pretty popular as well.




Now I'm just in a happy medium, which I'm fine with. Couple of friends I see and hang out with very regularly and sometimes getting recognised from 'back in the day' or from being in bands.



I think it helped in collage that I didn't know anybody and there weren't any preconceived notions about me. A lot of people from primary school went to the same high school, so the crap sort of followed over. Collage was a fresh slate, so it kinda proved to me that everything said in high school wasn't true as nobody since then has thought or said those things to me...Plus collage is a choice, all the idiots didn't choose to stay in education, from what I've seen they largely chose state benefits.

 

[Buttonsy]

I didn't go to school much for health reasons, but the few times I did go, I was a liiiittle popular in elementary school just because I was more outgoing, but when I got to the middle school years, I was way introverted and didn't really reach out enough to be particularly popular.

 

[rhinoo]

nope. i choose not to be tbh. i guess i could be classed as kind of popular bc im friends with some of the more popular ppl.

 

[moonbyu]

well, not like super duper popular. a lot of friends, yes. but not popular.

then again, i went to a small school, so everyone knew each other's name.

 

[Soigne]

i always thought i was bullied and no one liked me in high school but recently i?ve asked old high school friends if they ever heard people talk about me and apparently most people thought of me super kindly? so i suppose the answer is kind of. i have a distorted view of my high school time.

 

[Princess Mipha]

Nope, not at all. :')

 

[Corrie]

Nope and I didn't want to be. I wasn't a 'loser' either though, I was in the middle. I had my friends and that was that.

 

[mogyay]

nope! i wasn't disliked or anything, people were always nice to me but in no way would i be considered 'popular', in saying that tho i don't really remember a 'popular' group in high school

 

[Kaiaa]

I wouldn?t say I was popular popular, but I got along well with everyone. I had friends from all walks of life and they were all wonderful people. Very different from each other, but very wonderful all the same. I might have always been the ?mom? friend now that I think about it...

 

[Shellzilla_515]

No, I wasn't, and thank goodness I feel the same as other people. I feel like being popular involves so much work to keep your reputation like that.

 

[Saylor]

No haha. In high school I usually had one or two people in each of my classes that I'd talk to and I got along well with everyone who talked to me, but I mostly kept to a small group of friends. I'm in college now and my best friend here seems to know like everyone who's taking the same kinds of classes we are so a lot of people know me too by extension, and I hang out with some of them every now and then, but I've never been able to shake the thought that people don't like me or that I'm bothering them or something so I kind of keep a distance.

 

[nintendofan85]

No, not really. I could've been considered more popular in high school than I was in elementary and middle school, but that's not saying much.

 

[dizzy bone]

I've always had a small group of friends in every schooling phase of my life so I wouldn't say I was popular. I was quiet for the most part and people mostly knew me for being involved in art or sports or something. I was really into the hip hop and club scene when I was in high school lol so while I didn't necessarily hang out with a lot of popular people at school, we'd usually end up crossing paths in the clubbbb and turn up like it's nothing. Fun and weird times.

 

[EpicGamer12]

I think the people that liked me really liked me, but the people that didn't know me thought I was pretty weird. Just like on TBT, I used to do things just to get reactions out of people in real life. For instance, I once spent an entire lunch hour pretending to trot around the school and banging imaginary coconuts together in my hands and occasionally neighing like in Monty Python and The Holy Grail. I think I was a bit socially delayed, but people admired it. I don't think I was popular, but I was definitely an infamous character at my high school.

In university, nobody knows me because I don't do much extracurricular activities at the university. I have a few good friends groups that I enjoy spending time with, but I seldom see them at school anymore, more so in the evenings. If I am known for anything in university, it is for helping people with cover letters and resumes for internships.

 

[maple22]

definitely not lmao

 

[AquaStrudel]

i'm the quiet art kid who gets good grades lol. probably came off as very unapproachable

 

[Jacob]

I tried to stay unproblematic and I think that went a long way, I went to a small all boys high school so there wasn't really a popular group. We had the sporty guys group which I guess could be considered popular within our school, but I personally somehow found myself in 2 large but super intimate friend groups of about 25 people spanning across 3 or 4 high schools. I had a sizable amount of friends in my small high school but most of my good friends and I met up after classes in town and on the weekends.

My friends met because we all had pretty niche interests for a place like where I grew up (graffitiing, skating, photography, etc) which the "popular" kids from other schools would sometimes try to join us in, but we ended up only really being with the popular kids at house parties. (One of my closest friends had that high school party house and would throw something every weekend, we had a lot of people come to those and that got our name out)

Otherwise I chose "kind of" popular, my friends and I got along with and knew just about everyone from the high schools in our area, but we were definitely more chill and kept to our friend group rather than trying to appear wild and popular on social media like a lot of high schoolers do

In college I have less friends, but that's because I don't really like going to house parties anymore. My best friends are the kids in my major (which is only like 20 something kids) because we spend hours together working on projects. I have like 3 friends from high school at college with me, and I live with my brother and 2 other guys, so I'm friendly with their small group of friends as well. :>