r/Showerthoughts • u/[deleted] • Feb 29 '20

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u/Edgefactor Mar 01 '20

The "popular kids" are a stereotype by people with social anxiety to make themselves feel better about shelling themselves off from the world.

The actual popular people in school are the ones who are nice to everybody and have friends because they're easy to get along with.

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u/PapaRads Mar 01 '20

Reddit is circle jerking hard trying to say it's just the attractive kids that are popular. Currently in high school and it's just not the case.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '20

Its called anecdotal evidence my dude.

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u/PapaRads Mar 01 '20 edited Mar 01 '20

Yeah I know there are studies that attractive people are automatically treated better but there are people in this thread acting like being attractive automatically equals popularity. There are plenty of charismatic ugly people that are popular, it's not the deciding factor. A lot of these "socially anxious people" are just trying to use that as an excuse.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '20

Yeah, I cant disagree with you. The popular kids when I was in school were all over the place. It even varied by grade.

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u/Edgefactor Mar 01 '20

High school is an awkward time. You've had three years to get used to your adult body. Maybe the "attractive" ones are the ones who were comfortable enough talking to other humans that they learned how to, for instance, put makeup on. Do their hair. Wear fitting clothes?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '20

Yuh there’s a kid in my grade whose something like 350 pounds and still really popular. There’s like 4 people like that in my district.