Would you class yourself as popular in school?

[reecejackox]

I wasn't , I had a few friends but wasn't popular by any stretch.

 

[EMom]

It's rare that anyone on these threads admits to being popular in high school, but someone had to be.

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Yes but not in the cliquey, Mean Girls kind of way. I wasn’t part of a big crowd. It was really just me and my best friend, but we hung out with everyone outside of, and inside of school.

 

[RUDisney]

Yes but not in the cliquey, Mean Girls kind of way. I wasn’t part of a big crowd. It was really just me and my best friend, but we hung out with everyone outside of, and inside of school.

That sums it up for me, too.

 

[ols386]

No I wasn’t popular back in high school, but I wasn’t what you would call unpopular either. I had a couple of close friends. I wasn’t in any cliques either.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Not at all. I had 2 friends throughout my entire high school career. We used to sit under the stairs in the science building for lunch.

Now, my sister - she was in gymnastics, spirit squads, student government, drama - she was popular.

 

[indimom]

Uhh, no. DH and I (we graduated together) go to the reunion every five years (and we're 46, so we've been going for a long time) and very few realize I'm one of their classmates. I keep telling DH he needs to introduce me as a French model he met on the internet.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I was popular in my circle of friends, which were the band geeks (we had a different word for us back then).

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I was a square peg, but luckily I went to a creative and performing arts high school. We were all square pegs. I had friends, the only thing was that since we had three classes a day in our chosen major we were all thrown together and tended to only pick friends with the same major.

 

[aristocatz]

Nope, definitely not. I had a few good friends, who were part of some of the popular crowds, but most of my close circle of friends were not very visible, like me. I was very quiet, shy, unsure of myself, and pretty depressed. My BFF and I were also often bullied by a few of the rich kids. Once I got to college, I found my path and really opened up & became much happier in my skin. I joined a rather large circle of friends & made amazing memories that I will cherish forever

 

[tvguy]

Not at all. I was kind of invisible in high school. Fast forward to my 5th reunion, I was one of the few that had finished college and was working full time, in a job that many of my classmates were aware of.

 

[gillep]

No. Not popular in the slightest, but not unpopular either. I had a good group of close friends and got along with most people quite well but would not have been thought of as popular.

 

[katie01]

I was voted "Nicest person" and feel I was well-liked, but I wasn't the cheerleader, "go to all the cool parties" type. I went to a small school so I was able to be involved in lots of activities, and had close friends I am still friends with today, I feel very fortunate in that way.

 

[jaiminee krikit]

Nope, big nerd.

 

[mumto3girls]

I was in the smart kid crowd which overlapped with the band kids. I was in both the band and took most of the college prep courses. Definitely not in the popular group, but had plenty of friends (for me) and the popular kids tended to be nice enough to me, probably because some of them wanted me to be their lab partner or in their group for a group project or help with homework etc.

 

[Sabeking]

I was popular but I think it was by default. I had four older brothers that went to the same high school as me. My twin brothers were the class president and Vice President. I was always so and so’s little sister. They had tons of friends and our house was always filled with kids. Since they were good looking all my girlfriends wanted to come over and hang out.

 

[pens4821]

Didn't hang out with the in crowd or go to parties/have much fun with people, and minded to myself for the most part. I did have a close group of a few friends that I did hang out with. However, I knew alot people, and alot people knew me. I was known/knew and talked to people from every group (cool, jocks, bad, nerds, loners, etc.). So I don't really know what I was. Known, but kind of a loner I guess. I'm still that way now. Have fun at work and I think most people like me, but I don't really hang out with any of them (like high school, a close group does get together).

 

[Elle23]

I was popular in middle school. In high school, I was just a small fish in a giant ocean. I’m not even sure there were popular kids in the same sense as middle school...more like different groups that people belonged to (the jocks, the artsy kids, nerds, etc).

 

[superme80]

I was sooo popular that everyone had to find a new way to make me cry on a daily basis. Making my life miserable in Jr. High was the hobby. Homeschooled in high school and STILL got made fun by people in youth group. So everyone knew me, but not in the way I wanted them to.

 

[EMom]

I admit it. I was popular and had a blast in high school. When I went to a LARGE university, I met DH, who was the introvert to my extrovert. But together, we balanced each other. But I had a lot of friends he never met, and vice versa.

We went to his 10 year reunion of his class of almost 800 graduates. I ran into some women I'd known/been friends with from the university and spent some time catching up with them. When I walked back to DH and his college roomies (who had all known each other since they were in elementary), they were gobsmacked and wanted to know why I was talking to X, Y, and Z. So I explained that I had been friends with them in college. What I had not realized is that they were the popular girls...the cheerleaders. And in a class that huge, most people just watched the cheerleaders from afar and didn't ever really know them. Without repeating exactly what the roommates said, they were unnerved that I was friends with "those people." It was as if they had always been two separate circles, but now they intersected and I was a member of both sets. They didn't know what to do with that.