Were you Popular at School?.........why?

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I was a class clown, known as the weird girl. Even the hall monitors knew me as the weird girl.

I was sort of ridiculed by some teachers and by some of the more popular students and athletes like I was half ret*d despite being a better student and athlete than most of them. That confused me back then. I never really got what I supposed to do not to be talked down to constantly at the time. There were a few times when I came close to just throwing somebody against a locker and beating them up, which really would have cost me I am sure. Despite my lack of status, I still had a few opposite sex relationships and at least a few people I could call semi-friends and could hang around with in and outside of school.

Same for me, I'm good at music so my small circle of friends were also into music, we did a few in promptu shows at school for the childrens outreach but aside from that I was president for the Science and Technology club and a member of the junior tennis team all the way up to varsity. That was a bit tricky since Im a bit uncoordinated but needless to say I learnt but it came slower than my teammates. I tried to be as active as possible since in my culture bullies dont exist for the most part and I had the opportunities before me.

I'm being sarcastic. I may have not gotten it as a kid but I do as an adult. Empathy is probably always going to be an alien concept.

I was very well known at school, everyone knew who I was. I was not popular at all though, I've always had a few friends to call my own but at the same time I was the easy target and was one of the main attractions for the bullies. Even friends could turn on me when they wanted. I tried to be popular and tried to act like a popular, but failed miserably though so I gave up in year 8.

i did not intentionally act in a way to make people laugh, but my ODD was exacerbated severely in that environment of authority, and my way of interacting with teachers made other kids "giddy with excitement" to witness the inevitable clash that mounted between me and teachers after one of my triggers was tripped.

some of the kids had an uncanny sense about what set me off, and before anything even occurred, they would tap other kids on the shoulder and say "watch this".

if a potential incident was brewing in the playground with a teacher, then, before long, lots of kids all gathered around, and some even went and got others from other parts of the playground to come and watch.

one kid told me that he knew that a serious incident was going to happen even from the other side of the playground if he saw that i was being addressed by a teacher, and i removed my glasses and i started rubbing the back of my neck while looking at his shoes.

I know how you feel.

I remember being 12 and planning to get a machine gun and walk into my school and waste everyone who'd ever bullied me.

I even told one of my few friends this and it went all around the school...*sigh* More trouble.

I would say i was quite popular as i was well known to many people.

I was popular with the kids who weren't popular. That is to say, I made friends with all the other kids who were considered outcasts. In elementary school, this included foreigners, kids with chronic illnesses/disabilities and kids who came from poor or broken families. In junior high, it was a mixture of goths and anime geeks.

I was never popular in school, except for with the teachers (with the exception of the occasional English teacher). In primary (elementary) school, I was picked on by almost everyone, even the kids in other classes, and in high school, I was cyber-bullied (other kids were making abusive comments about me, prank calling, spamming my e-mail etc.)

In highschool I had a few groups of friends. I played sports most of the year so everyone knew me, although I wasn't popular. It seems as I'm getting older I'm becoming a lot more reclusive though. I'm pretty sure everyone at work thinks I'm weird.

I used to believe I was the most unpopular kid who ever went to school in my district, but do have proof of that? Probably, I am somewhere in the bottom ten percent.

You know all those poor kids the bullies would pick on? I was the one they picked on after the bullies were done with them.

The bullies kicked them about.

They kicked me about.

It gave purpose and meaning to my life. I was a natural punching bag.

Yay.

I was really well known, mainly as a trouble maker. Kids heard my name and automatically thought of that funny, cool, kinda weird, super smart stoner kid that didn't give a f**k and was in the principles office daily. I had a lot of friends, a few enemies, and a whole lot of acquaintances. Nerds hated me because I was smarter than them, and just as weird, but wayy more popular and well liked. The "popular kids" liked me because I was good at making jokes, telling stories, playing football, and I let them cheat off of my papers..sometimes. Most of my best friends were and still are partiers, stoners, athletes, and intellectuals. I get along with a lot of people. It probably helps that some of my main special interests are to do with social skills, body language, group dynamics, basically the areas where I'm supposed to have a deficit, I excel at. At least for an aspie...

I'm the opposite...thought about pulling a Jeremy almost every day. Only reason I didn't is that I had no way to get a gun. Middle school was miserable.

Partway through grade 9, I gave up trying to fit in. Surprisingly, people seemed to like me a lot better after that, although I was never popular. There were a couple of girls who went out of their way to make high school hell, but it didn't always work.

I had a lot of friends, as I made an effort to figure out who was feeling left out, unpopular, and unhappy and went out of my way to befriend them. It was a small school (24 in my graduating class), so I got to know girls (it was also all-girls) in the grades above and grades below me. My best friend was a year ahead of me, and my "sister" was two years behind. I was known as smart, artisic, and "dark." (They meant "goth," but no one knew the term at the time.) Three of my friends and I were called "the Freak Posse." It pissed the popular kids off when we began calling ourselves Freak Posse (still love that term)! I'd been writing poetry for years, and in 9th grade I began sharing my poems. This made me more of a freak, but some people thought it was awesome that I wrote poetry and wasn't embarrassed. I write a lot of social commentary into my poems -- I'm not sure how many people got it, but as it turned out, a lot of people liked it. My class elected me to speak at our graduation, something I'd dreamed about for years but figured I'd never get to do, because I was most emphatically not popular and didn't really get along with most of my classmates. But by that point, as one of my classmates I was friends with told me, "Well, maybe you're a freak, but your our freak." I read a poem at graduation.

I never experienced popularity until I started taking IB classes in high school, which are like AP classes with international standards. The atmosphere of those classes was so liberal and welcoming in comparison to those of other classes that I completely came out of my shell. Instead of giving standardized answers to standardized questions, we had to argue our own points of view in response to open-ended questions. We had to do this out loud, so we really got to know each other. I wasn't afraid to say what I thought because the other students were so respectful and open-minded. I became known as the smart girl with the kinky sense of humor. Unfortunately, other elements of high school overwhelmed me to the point that I couldn't take it any more, so I ended up dropping out anyway

I see this experience as proof that society is the problem, not non-neurotypical people. Imagine how different the world would be if everyone was as welcoming and understanding as my IB classmates. I also think that everyone, not just high achievers, should get to experience IB-style classes. Everyone should be taught to think critically if they can't already, and normal classes don't do enough of that.