Were you popular in high school?

I've never thought about this much. I didn't have difficulties getting along with others in high school, but on the other hand, I didn't reach out a lot or seek popularity, nor have I since. I do better being close with a few friends - actually there were only 2 that mattered much to me in high school.

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Because of my hand tremors, I kept mostly to myself. I would be approached by cliches but would not get involved. A nice, popular hunk latched onto me and once when my tremors showed to our english class students, he tried to comfort me by saying it was alright to be nervous. (groan, I had not been nervous) He became very serious in senior high, but long (hiding tremors) story short, I painfully backed off and he joined the marines. Years later, I found out that another 'hunk' had thought to ask me out, but didn't because the first guy was his friend. 🫤
 

Well this is just a shocking thread! The nicest people on the forum weren't super popular? Pepper wasn't Valedictorian? Trade wasn't Mr. Cool? Aunt Bea wasn't in all the plays?

I'm sorry you all didn't go to my little West Virginia school where there weren't enough of any one type to form cliques.
Like Pinky, I was shy with the boys but had a nice circle of girlfriends I had known since first grade,. We were like family, we had no choice but to put up with each other.
 
Although the town I grew up in wasn’t that big my graduating class had 854 students because we were all baby boomers. There was no way that you knew everybody in your class.

I had a really nice group of friends and had so much fun in high school. Of course there was always the most popular kids that were the football players and cheerleaders. Most of these kids came from very affluent families. I have a friendly and outgoing personality so I would talk to the popular kids and they would be nice back to me.

All of my friends in high school had more money than my family did, but it didn’t make any difference at all. They were all still raised with the same middle class value so weren’t spoiled kids.
 
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I wasn’t accepted by my peers. I moved around a lot because my dad was in the military. This went on for my entire childhood and teenage years. At some schools I was very popular and friends with everyone and at others I was either ignored or very badly bullied. It was the most confusing crazy case of emotional and social whiplash! I would go from having a great group of friends at one school, having sleepovers and hanging out all the time to having absolutely no friends and being bullied for everything (especially my second-hand clothes) at the next school.
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I had almost exactly the same..for the same reasons that we moved house a lot.. and different schools...

In the first school I changed from it was to another city so I was badly bullied due to my accent being different to theirs...then a year of that and then off to a different school.. and then bullied for being the newbie , being poor.... and so the vicious circle continued.

It wasn't until my last 3 years in senior school that I finally had some real friends
 
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I was a background kid. You know in the movies the kids in class or the hallways who never say anything? There were a lot of us. We weren't athletes or outstanding scholars. We didn't join school clubs or run for office. You won't find many photos of us in the school annual. We just attended classes and tried to get along because it was something we had to do.
 
In high school yes. It makes me feel like a jerk to say so. It bothered me that people may have had the wrong idea of me, so I became a rebel and they liked that even more.

By college I became very studious and serious and I was treated more like a normal person. That was better.
 
We moved when I was in Jr. high. Had to start all over. Eventually, I was in a group of about a dozen friends. And we interacted with several other groups. It’s really difficult to stand out in a school of 2400 students. It was a regional high school so it drew kids from many towns. Socioeconomic-wise, it was quite differentiated. I think that was a good thing.

I had to add this. The boy voted most popular/attractive was unrecognizable at a later reunion. He was quite overweight, balding, and seemed like he had shrunk a couple inches. Time was not kind. He did have an interesting international business career and was apparently was quite wealthy. Can’t have it all, I suppose.
 
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Unfortunately I was many years in classes only with male classmates. This changed only the two last years. In Germany we have the grades 5 to 13 at high school. School starts at 6 years. This means that you come to high school at age 10. At the end of high school you're 18 years old. Thus I only had female classmates from 16 to 18 years, much too late (sigh).

I've had half of a dozen classmates as friends and no problems with the others. I think this was quite normal. I never got harassed or bullied.
 
i spent my childhood in a hospital and even went away for two years to a school for asthmatic children. it was hard for me to make friends.

i was very shy and hung out with a girl in my neighborhood that everyone made fun of, for some reason. we were best of friends. lost touch with her but saw her one day at the mall and she literally ran away from me.
 
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Unfortunately I was many years in classes only with male classmates. This changed only the two last years. In Germany we have the grades 5 to 13 at high school. School starts at 6 years. This means that you come to high school at age 10. At the end of high school you're 18 years old. Thus I only had female classmates from 16 to 18 years, much too late (sigh).

I've had half of a dozen classmates as friends and no problems with the others. I think this was quite normal. I never got harassed or bullied.
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Not in my school. High school was 12 years old....
 
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We moved when I was in Jr. high. Had to start all over. Eventually, I was in a group of about a dozen friends. And we interacted with several other groups. It’s really difficult to stand out in a school of 2400 students. It was a regional high school so it drew kids from many towns. Socioeconomic-wise, it was quite differentiated. I think that was a good thing.

I had to add this. The boy voted most popular/attractive was unrecognizable at a later reunion. He was quite overweight, balding, and seemed like he had shrunk a couple inches. Time was not kind. He did have an interesting international business career and was apparently was quite wealthy. Can’t have it all, I suppose.
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this is very often the Ironic way....... and vice versa..
 
Not in the school I went to with kids who were classmates from first grade. When I changed senior year to the school across the state line, we were all popular. There were only 99 of us, and I guess I was accepted and included because my family was "prominent" and extended family very large and all living in the same town. The two towns in different states were only separated by a river so family was as well-known in the first town as in the second. Go figure.

However...after we came back Stateside, my parents bought a house in a neighborhood that wasn't high up on the social scale. None of the kids I'd gone to school with first through eighth grades were "popular," either. Add to that that my parents were divorced, a definite no-no. Oh, the horror! At the school I transferred to, nobody seemed to care.

First town after the war? Maternal grandfather was the fire chief and grandmother head nurse in the hospital.

Second town? Paternal grandfather was the fire chief and a business owner.

Popularity pretty much depended on whether you were from a "good" family and lived in the "right" neighborhood.
 
Definitely not one of the popular ones. Mostly just ignored. There were some who did try to bully me.
Got the usual snarky remarks. To be honest I gave as good as I got. So I was no angel. And still arent. :D
The three of us tall ones hung out together so guess we were a clique. :D

I ticked all the unpopular boxes.
Poor. Hand me down clothes. Moved every year. Sometimes twice.
Too tall. Nerd. Graduated 3rd in my class. NHS. Went to college on a full scholarship.

Im an only child. Mom let me do as I pleased as long as I got good grades and didnt cause any trouble.
So there are no stories about at home punishments after the fact. Anyways Ive always been a "grown up".
Thats what happens when youre big for your age. :D

It saddens me when I meet other tall women and they tell me their stories.
And then they ask me didnt those things bother you and I say no.
You have to be my friend to hurt my feelings. :D
 
There were about 2500 students at my high school, so there were a lot of "groups". I can't say I was popular or unpopular. I found my niche group and pretty much stuck to it. I realized that I was never going to be a part of the really popular crowd, the cheerleaders or the really elite group called "The Kittenettes" (who went around wearing matching pastel angora sweaters on Fridays and who we all, secretly, would have sold our grandmothers to be a part of), etc. I was a little brainy, a little artsy, on Student Council, the yearbook editor and on the school newspaper staff. That wasn't "much stuff that dreams are made on" according to Shakespeare. I was never in any danger of being elected Homecoming or Prom Queen.
 
I forgot. I was in the Prom Queen's court at second school. Not because I was popular but because my date was in her court. And it wasn't even when I went to that school. I was a junior that year at the first school! LOL

Also forgot that I was military ball queen in my freshman year at first school, only because my date was the highest-ranking officer in ROTC. More LOL

Whenever I was noticed, it was only because I was riding on somebody else's coattails.
 

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