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Re: POLL: Who were you...
Yes, I am one of those difficult b*tches!!
I was friends with people in all of these "groups" - I did not fit into one specific group. And I think this holds true with me today too - my circles of friends are all very different.
I think it was a front that I put on, and still do today when I'm uncomfortable.
Eventually I just become me, which is a mix of every single one of these, just a straight up dork who is kind of obnoxious.
I voted SS because I was firmly in two camps. I was the Drama Nerd hardcore- Drama Club president, Drama Queen, in all of the school plays, ect.
However, I was also a nerd who was in all the AP and honors classes. In high school a lot of people who didn't actually know me, "knew" me as a National Merit Scholar. So I was lumped in with the nerds a lot too.
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sarah we would have been BFFs in High school!!
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Yep, this was me too.
I selected "nobody/blended in well" because I did not have a label, as I blended with all of the groups. But I should have said special snowflake because I'm exactly what Katie describes!
I had some "popular" friends, but did not generally hang out with them in their group settings, if that makes sense. I also had nerd, drama, etc. friends.
I was in all honors classes, but that wasn't really a "nerdy" thing in my high school. Our honors classes were made up of a wide variety of kids, so it was no big deal. In fact, I think that's how I ended up with the variety of friends that I had--most of us were in all of the same classes together, so we were together a lot and got to know each other that way.
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I was what people often referred to as the "band geek". I was in band + smart.
I was made fun of. A lot.
My husband told me this weekend to "just get over it"... but I'm delicate and it shaped my poor mental health.
Haha. I was thinking the same thing.
I said prep, because I was kind of in the "good at everything" category. I don't know what it was, but I kinda rocked at high school. All APs, band and marching band, TV club, sports, volunteering organizations, leadership roles - I was a busy kid! It's funny because when I was in high school I thought I was really nerdy, but looking back I had a lot of friends in different groups. Also, I was in sports, but not very good at them, so I never identified with that group, but then when I got to college all my friends thought I was the sporty one.
I think I'm still a lot this way. I still consider myself a nerd in many respects (board games with friends is my idea of a fun Friday night), but I also still do the sporty thing so... I guess I still identify with a lot of different groups.
Gosh, I don't know. I guess I hung out with the popular kids and some were kind of slutty? lol I think the group we still hang out with are a lot of those same kids with a lot of the sluttiness weeded out.
I put nobody/blended in well.
I move to the area in 9th grade and all the kids had been friends since like the 3rd grade and I just didn't fit in because I didn't have Ms. so and so in 5th grade or remember X event. I think the problem was the fact that I didn't care and was actually glad I didn't. I hated where we lived and begged to go to another school, to live with my grandmother in another district anything.
I remember finding a friend who moved from area that was similar to where I grew up and we hung out together b/c she got me. We had the same clothes ( which weren't in style in GA but were in VA) and we bonded. Then she moved back to VA and I was alone. I hung out it different groups for a while until I found another BFF.
I remember not being slutty enough to be popular at my HS. The girls in my neighborhood growing up make Kim Khardashian look like a Mother Teresa. These chicks had sex tapes in the 9th grade on the school bus. I wish I could show ya'll the Alumni FB group and you would see what I mean. One of the recent questions was "how many LHS people did you sleep with". There were 188 detailed replies when I left the group.
Same for me.
My core group of friends was a good mix of sporty, preppy, smart, and popular. Although outside of that core group I was friends with all different kinds of people.
This...except replace "prep' with band geek. I was also on the dance squad, but they weren't really considered athletic. We should have been, but I digress.
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I chose drama club/ band geek because drama was what I was the most interested in, but I am a lot more like what Katie described.
I was in drama club, I was in a lot of groups like SAAD/ Rotary Interact, French Club, I sang in the school choir, took AP classes and I was a co-captain of the varsity track team... so I had friends in every group listed with the exception of the ultra-popular crowd-- a.) because I had extremely strict parents and was forbidden from parties and I was too scared to drink, and b.) because our ultra-popular group was a bunch of judgy, backstabbing slutty bitches like Regina George, and I had no interest in false friendship.
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