Was you a geek or a rebel in high school?

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I was sort of a geek in year 7 (the first year at high school), but as the 5 years of being at high school went on, I began getting more and more of a rebel (not rebel enough to get expelled - just rebel enough to get socially accepted).

In high school I didn't have many friends, but when I got to year 10 I had found a little group of friends, although things didn't go so well in the last year (year 11). We kept on falling out over nothing much, but I won't go into all that. All in all, I don't think I did too badly in my last 2 years of school. I was never see on my own, and I never looked like a geek or anything like that. I went around with my shirt untucked, my top button undone, and didn't even take any writing books to the lessons any more. Stereotypically the special needs teachers sort of expected me to be ''good'' all through school, with my uniform always perfect, my homework always complete and on time, worrying about my work more than making friends, having a huge back-pack for all my books, practically living in the library, and speaking in a nervous monotone voice. But instead I was the opposite: would rather hang out with mates than study, sometimes bunked lessons with one of my friends, had detentions, actually secretly done my homework in the lessons at the same time as doing the schoolwork (with the homework book on my lap so the teacher didn't see and my school work on the desk), not in the library at all, and not taking a school bag when I got to year 11. I shoved all my pens and pencils and everything like that in my blazer pocket (along with the lunch money), and some spare paper in the front blazer pocket. The teachers kept the text books in the classrooms, and if I needed to take a text book home I just carried it under my arm.
I wasn't rebel enough to smoke because I didn't like smoking, so I just used to stand with one of my friends who liked to smoke. But all this doesn't mean I'm not Aspie - I got angry when my friends suddenly fell out with me, and was crying my eyes out in the office saying that no-one likes me, and ect.

I'm glad school life is over for me though.

rebel, Choose the wrong type of people to hang out with. Smoked, drinked did weed 4 days of the week. I hated these people but i had no one else so i just went with it. first 2 years of school i was geeky, third year i started to become more outgoing since i spent 3 years with the same people and got comfortable. Fourth year i was put with people 30 iq points lower and spent 2 years rebelling and ended suicidal. After that i returned to my true geeky self. Still have some rebel appearance but mostly geek values underneath now.

I wasnt really a geek up until 19 years of age, before that i never did much for school.

Both. So, so much stuff happened in school though, I'll just answer anything you have to ask.

Well I was sweet and geeky for my first two years of secondary school. Then at about age 14 the hormones started to kick in. I had a nose stud, pink hair, and went into school every day wearing a multi coloured coat, (we had a black and white uniform). When I was younger I had one friend who was lovely but it fizzled out as we grew up. I became a member of a friendship group which was ok. Then a girl who had bullied me in junior school became a member, to cut a long story short it did not go well for me. I was in constant trouble for stupid things. So I was fed up. At registration one day my form teacher started yelling at me. Apparently I told him to f**k off, I cannot remember it, I only remember being outside and walking away with him standing there screaming behind me. I walked out of school never to return. So to other people I must have seemed quite the rebel.

I was probably every stereotype in high school at some point or another. I started as the loser who sat by himself at the lunch table, and eventually I sat with the cool kids at the cool lunch table. In between I was the guy who got along with everyone, the jock, the nerd, the irritant, and the class clown. I remember one time I was in a situation where I was expected to deliver a clever put-down to the geek loser who sat in front of me. I chose not to do that, and although people were disappointed in me, I gained a certain appreciation for how tough it is to not give in to temptation. Bullies are basically junkies of a social nature, and the withdrawal effects are when people don't accept you for "sticking up for them" when Dorkwing Duck is disturbing the peace. They constantly have to prove themselves, or else people will think they are falling off. That's why they are always showing up at parties, because if you decline one too many times, you are out of the group. I was popular with that crowd until I declined two parties in a row, and then all of a sudden I wasn't cool anymore. I was never a rebel in high school, in fact I was the type of kid who in many ways would be the pride and joy of yuppie parents everywhere, and in other ways I was the kid that those same parents would be horrified to be in the same room with. Although I showed up for class every day, went to the bathroom about once every school year, and always raised my hand to participate in class discussions, I was also the kid who disturbed the class with commentary, the creeper who grossed out the girls, and the guy who always turned everything in late. I wasn't great about doing my homework (why is it mandatory if it's supposed to be for our own benefit?) and I wasn't always appropriate.

I was a rebel

I was bottom of the social ladder, many in my friends group still weren't keen on me being around, and I was badly bullied in school, however I enjoyed being a bit of a secret rebel...I was a good kid but so much was going on with me and I was so frustrated with things that I just gave-up on being well-behaved and quickly realised there were few repercussions.

Classes bored me senseless - I found them too easy so I'd do the work in the first ten minutes then slack off, but teachers didn't see that and instead they treat me like I was unwilling to learn, so in the end I stopped working or participating in classes at all, thus I sat out of classes a lot. I never wore the right uniform, I had excuses for why I never tucked in my shirt, wore trainers, wore my school tie short and wore a leather or denim jacket, but really I just disliked teachers telling me what to do when their rules were stupid.

I never did anything that I didn't want to do in school, I wrote graffiti, I'd just not bother going to class and wonder round the school finding something to do or would escape out of school to go hang out somewhere with friends. I smoked, drank and took drugs outside school and in school, at school I sold cigarettes, fake ID's and tickets to my parties and raves.

I wasn't as bad as I sound...honestly! But I did definitely rebel in high school, I think it's a pretty normal thing for teens to do, especially when there are problems like asperger's or home problems, it makes you want to act-up. This is my old high school - http://www.monkseaton.org.uk - they've changed a lot since I was there, things such as 'spaced learning' would probably be totally great for aspie kids, if they had done this while I was there I may not have been such a rebel.

I am definitely a geek, and PROUD OF IT! I have straight A's, get everything done on time or early, rarely miss a class, participate actively in class discussion, do as I'm told etc, etc. I have an almost physical compulsion to do those things. I'm also involved in a few extracurricular activities (swim for my school, have a supporting role in the musical, worked on the yearbook, founded a science club), so I guess in some ways that might qualify me as being preppy? But I'm far to intensely focused and don't have enough friends, so I'd say I'm more of a geek/nerd than anything. As far as I know, preppy kids don't make bad math jokes with their teachers.

I was a full-on geek.

(Well I have always been kinda a geek and a rebel.)
You were talking about year 7, and that translates to 7th grade, and I was full-on rebel in 7th grade....
Then in 8th I was half geek, half rebel
9th- 1/3 geek 1/3 rebel 1/3 athlete
10th -1/2 geek 1/2 athlete
11th -1/2 geek 1/2 athlete
12th (this year) I am more geek than athlete, but I STILL have athlete in me(even though i am not in a sport this semester, I was last, and I am training for a marathon)

That being said, I ALWAYS try to avoid doing homework at home.
I will ALWAYS have a rebellious side.
I never really took any hard classes (aside from physics my sophomore year, and precalc this year).

I'm a total nerd. Like AstroGeek, I have a sort of compulsive need to do my work and do it perfectly. I've become too antisocial to have many friends at all, and all my friends are nerds and geeks. All I do outside the regular day is NAQT and chess club, then I go home and do nerdy things like watching Star Trek, playing old video games, and talking on a specialized psychiatric forum.

I was a geek, sort of, but then I moderated to a person who really had no label. I did hang out with the cool kids and the "rebels" who were a lot nicer to me than the nerds, ironically.

I've been on both sides and I'd say the Rebel part was more interesting...hated by most peers was both bad and good but at home I was bullied by neighbours more or less.

I became more geeky when I went to High School for simply remembering techniques to cope with Maths/English better.

98% geek, 2% rebel.