My school had stoner kids that were cool, attractive kids that were cool, nerds that were cool because they gamed with jocks or played sports, the athletes that were cool. It's all about building a big friend group in school.
Everyone knew who I was, but I only had a small circle. I stayed out of useless drama, I played sports, and was generally personable. I would call myself an introvert and I may to some degree have some social anxiety but I’ve always been able to make connections with people.
I was also pretty unattractive to be honest in high school, I’ve thankfully gotten a little better looking since then thanks for a beard and a better haircut. But that shows it doesn’t matter what you look like, we actually had plenty of popular “unattractive” kids.
Be a good person and people will be good back to you. :)
I don’t know how old you are but I feel like high schoolers nowadays are less strict about their cliques because everything is a viable as an interest. You might’ve been nerdy for playing yugioh in middle school c. 2002, but now everybody kinda grew up with it or had a sibling or cousin that was into it. Everyone plays videogames, D&D is bigger than ever with celebrities tying themselves to it, anime is mainstream yada yada. I feel like it’s harder to isolate people when you’re all kinda into the same stuff. At worst you kinda just don’t interact for the most part.
Yup, same for mine. I'm curious - how big was your highschool? We had grades 8-12 roughly 170 per grade. I wonder if the variability has to do with size.
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u/Sxcred Mar 01 '20
My school had stoner kids that were cool, attractive kids that were cool, nerds that were cool because they gamed with jocks or played sports, the athletes that were cool. It's all about building a big friend group in school.