Yes I was really popular and highly respected, like I am here j/k

but yeah I would say I was leader of the pack at school..

REDBABY said:

whatta dork

twister6 said:

PISS OFF!

REDBABY said:

not at all... I was very much a loner through all my school years

Natisse said:

What happned to your fake ID?

twister6 said:

who the hell is this?

Within my own crowd, yeah...and we were a pretty big crowd, but only slightly among the "cool kids"

So many memories brought back by this thread...

Not really, no. I was considered gay, a swot and - in a small Welsh town - that makes you stand out a mile. Plus, I was extremely shy. I always felt different and never thought of myself as one of the 'cool' kids. I had a small group of friends that I hung out with.

Then I went to Uni and everything changed...

onenitealone said:

...and gave the Alun we know and love the chance to emerge

Natisse said:

What would I do without you, eh??

Thank you, hun. That's kind of you to say.

You bet I was!

I wasn't until I was in 11th grade. Up until that time I was invisible....couldn't get noticed if I was on fire..... then I got my braces off my teeth, a kind of makeover and played drums.... things changed for me then.

I liked Prince too...but growing up in Minneapolis during the Purple Rain days was pretty awesome and liking Prince was sort of expected I think....

I don't like this thread anymore

no i wasn't popular, i was the shy loner type, but i got along with pretty much everyone i met...plus i was mostly in and out of relationships most of high school, so i never really got all caught up in the peer pressure from friends type thing because i wasn't around my friends long enough...

onenitealone said:

Yeah. Apparently I set undergrad on FIYAHHHHH! (To borrow from Fauxie.)

what kind of a purple hippy joke is this?

twister6 said:

Dan wouldn't be mean either

Lammastide said:

Hey you! I bet you did.

It's amazing just how different one can be when you're taken out of your known environment. Instead of being told who you are, or how you should act, you just get on and do it naturally.

I'm popular now bitches!

I was 'popular' in the sense that I had quite a few friends. By my senior year I kinda hung out with a buncha different cliques that only overlapped a little bit. I had my 'smart class' friends, I had my friends in theatre, I had my friends I sat with at lunch (the freaks who dressed weird and listened to weird music), and the people I hung out with outside of school (parties, raves, general merriment), which were mainly like my lunch friends, only from various area high schools and such.
I was never part of what would have been called the popular crowd. But to be honest, I'm not sure I could have told you who was. I was sorta in my own little world and certainly didn't care. I endured teasing still from jocks and such (I once was literally shoved around by some stupid jock idoits for wearing plaid tights. ) but by senior year, Nirvana and Pearl Jam had hit it big and alterna everything was in the mainstream. The same girls who would ask me for help in class but not be caught dead saying hi to me in the halls the year before were suddenly asking me about First Avenue and telling me how cute my boyfriend was. It was weird. But whatevs. At the time I was resentful. Now I just find it funny.

onenitealone said:

Yep. I just stopped caring to perform... and I find more people actually appreciate THAT.

I was far from Popular - I was bullied severely throughout High School.

There was this gang of lads who used to pick on me everyday, I would get beaten up regular, not one of them ever got punished by the Teaching Staff. The worst event I recall was one day sitting at my desk in the class room waiting for the Teacher to arrive, the lads pushed the desk behind me and pinned me between both my desk and theirs, they then took one of their ties and began strangling me with it. I had a rope burn on my neck for months. The school did nothing.

High School pretty much sucked for me.

I did eventually stop the bullying, One day I just snapped and 'took them out' one by one, whilst they were alone. Bullies kind of depend on each other for strength, so I used that to my advantage. I nearly got expelled for it, but I no longer cared. Ironic too how I was punished for being a victim.

Heh. Let's put it this way: I was well-known in high school.

I went to a small school, so the cliques overlapped, and mine were the black-trenchcoat-goth-computer-nerd-drama-art-freaks. Really great group of kids, actually. . . smart, thoughtful, loyal. . . we took good care of each other in a place that was very hostile to us. I'm still friends with some of them. The really cool thing is that there was no internal hypocrisy; my friends had diverse taste in music and clothes and whatnot. . . I got no shit for being into Prince, and gave no shit for them being into Manson or the Cure or whatever. The only things that really tied us together were intelligence and respect for each other. If the "popular" kids had been cool by those standards, they could have hung out with us.

I dressed really weird (sometimes sorta Hot Topic, but more often it was wild thriftstore stuff. . . and I was famous for frequently wearing purple satin pajamas to school. . . or the one time I wore a t-shirt with the topless Janet photo on it and went barefoot -- bad idea at a school where a lot of the hicks chew). I refused to do shit I didn't want to do. But I was a good student, and president of the Drama Club. . . total theater geek at the time.

I left during my sophomore year to get my GED and started college when I was 16. That place was a waste of time, and dealing with terrible treatment every day from people I didn't respect was only going to make me bitter. It was a good call.


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HereToRockYourWorld said:

pictures please. thank you.

purpledisc said:

I'm sorry to hear that... I was bullied badly too all the way through my school years

it hurts and it never really goes away

jerseykrs said:

Well. . . ok. This is the only pic of me from that time that I currently have on my HDD:

HereToRockYourWorld said:

I went to two different high schools - the first one, I was a total Dawn Weiner/Jerri Blank uberpariah. I didn't like country music and I didn't like heavy metal and I wore weird clothes and totally didn't fit in with the "cool" crowd. But I thought they were a bore, so it didn't really bother me.

Then when we moved and I went to another high school, I got a little bit of popularity cred, but not much. I was one of the token "quirky" students and I got by on being an art/theater fag. I much preferred hanging out with the goth-oid art school kids after I got out of school, though. I'd even sit in on art history classes just for kicks.

I had more male friends than I did female.

Something about that just pissed them off.


And, I must say my male friends were the absolute best. Never tried any funny business with me.