I guess I was just a weird teen lol cause I just never really cared. Even now as an adult, I still donβt really care.
No, I preferred to be the outcast, I had a few friends then that were similar to how I was
It wasn't important to me, but I was friends with everyone, so maybe that's why.
Popularity always matters when unpopularity can mean getting your head kicked in. I was too loud to fly under the radar. Looked about 2 years younger than I was, and skinny as a rake. Nerd in junior high, started smoking in the boys room and listening to heavy metal in senior. Got bullied pretty regularly until I gave one of the bullies a black eye. Couldn't wait to leave.
Nope. I was a nerd. I just wanted to get out of there.
It did not. But I did find out that there were two other students that shared my birthday. Juan who was Puerto Rican, and Donna was African-American. I was a white girl but we somehow managed to convince everyone we were triplets. We were famous! So we started an underground School newspaper. I think the newspaper put us on the map.
I'll be honest. I desperately wanted to be popular, or really, fit into any group. I didn't get the memo that it requires conformity. I've always sucked at conformity. Even if I want to conform to social mores, I have/had no idea how. I didn't have anyone until my senior year and even then only part-time.
High school was where l learned to get along with different groups of people. I was a wandering independent who had friends in all of the little social groups in high school. That is the only thing about high school that seems to have had a significant impact on my life.
I didn't give it much thought at the time. I went to a selective single-sex school (Age 11-18 ) I was smart and athletic and mixed easily through a wide range. Maybe because of this, and I didn't really notice at the time, I made few close friends.
At the end, I walked away and never really looked back. When the precursors of today's social media sprang up, I joined the sites for my schools. The greater interaction came from my classmates at elementary school rather than school.
Having transplanted in midlife, I have come to appreciate the value of meaningful relationships and the difficulty of creating new ones.
Didn't really care. I had friends and always attracted attention so I didn't have to
Short answer: Yes. It's important to every kid! In high school, I was not a member of the popular crowd. For example, the Key Club or the football team. However, I was in the chorus department, and I was very popular there. There were a couple of my friends in the chorus department who were also in the "in crowd". If I had played football, I would have also been in the in crowd. But now I would probably have CTE! I was bullied by the football players so I'm glad that society has now developed the anti-bullying campaign