our school had a graduating class of 9 seniors.... so I was the only goth girl in a group of freaks, outcasts, stoners, smokers, geeks, nerds and weirdos. At the same time I hung out with the boys over the girls and ran the schools christian group.... so yeah, strange time in high school.

They used to call me slut and lady of death, and yet I was the only one of the people I knew growing up who wasn't a parent before 18! less

I was an inbetweener...but most of my friends were stoners so I was an 'honorary' stoner. I was far too afraid of my parents to actually do drugs and my father is an alcoholic so they understood my aversion to drinking. I found the least amount of criticism from that crowd and was able to be myself there.
I was also part of the 'theater crowd' but OMG talk about pressure to conform! Odd sonce you would think it would be the opposite amoungst artsy folk...

My daughter made me choose the Llamas because if there had BEEN any Llamas in my High School I WOULD have hung out with them....ya know, cause they are Llamas...
She loves Llamas and named our guild in WOW "Llama Lords Of Science". Her sister chose "Sock Puppets of Doom"...my kids are just as oddly creative as their Mother and Father. less

I'm with LingaLoo here. There wasn't so much of a division in my high school that you could be called any one thing. I was into a lot of things, sports, chess, table tennis, general socialising, tech, even worked in the library on my lunch breaks. But that was mainly because I liked one of the sixth formers there.

I do have one question, though. What is a prep? less

I tried to avoid being in any group in school. I was in the advanced classes, but didn't really excel in them. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to band/orchestra or any other group that required some sort of purchase to participate in.

I hung out with lots of different people though, not groups so much. less

Yeah. An other post got me thinking about this. I am afraid I'll get the terms wrong....because I'm.....mature. LOL! (No, its because I've been out of High School a long time.)

I was just curious. You can vote for more than one.

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I think in smaller schools the "groups" aren't quite as active.

I took a lot of AP and Honors classes, too. Most of the AP classes at our High School was populated by a weird mix of Stoners, Geeks and Jock/Preps. These Jocks usually had little contact with anyone else at our High School.

I went to a HUGE High School and the divisions were pretty strong. Although the Jocks used to come over to the Smoking Section of the school (yeah, we had a smoking section, where I hung out, despite the fact that I never smoked.....cigarettes) where the Freaks hung out, and the Jocks came to buy their weed. Stoners would sell it at a mark up, because everyone knew the best weed (and acid) could only be bought from the Nerds and Geeks. I don't know if they grew it, or just had great connections or what. We never told the Jocks that, Stoners just bought it from the Geeks and made money marking it up for the Jocks, who didn't know any better.

There's a book with a movie deal in this somewhere. less

I tried to avoid being in any group in school. I was in the advanced classes, but didn't really excel in them. My parents didn't have the money for me to go to band/orchestra or any other group that required some sort of purchase to participate in.

I hung out with lots of different people though, not groups so much. less

Lessee ...

They say that everyone knows at least one 'character' in their lives.

I was that character.

I dressed in clothes I repurposed (tear apart and sew differently) from thrift stores, becoming a sort of anime-goth. I listened to 80's and classic rock instead of grunge or hip-hop. I was part of drama, the newspaper, and choir; the history teachers' pet. I was the fat bitch making caustic comments in the back of the class but answered everything correctly (except math - I wrote my first novel in math class). I was the Daria Morgendorfer of the class of '96 (didn't help that two of my guy friends were called Beavis and Butthead).I was the one who never bowed to any conformity or pressure to be something I wasn't, and was therefor considered by many to be the only Real person they knew. My friends were the freaks, outcasts, disabled, stoners, nerds, geeks, goths. I may have been socially awkward (and therefor bullied a LOT), but people trusted me and told me things that nobody had any business knowing. A dean once commented that she adored me because I was the only witty student she ever met in her years of working in education ... she was disappointed the one time I ended up in her office because a student finally figured out I had insulted them. My senior year surprised me when I became leader of a group of the outcasts. Everyone called me 'Mom' and came to me with their problems or whatever.

Had only one boyfriend (anime otaku and prep) for a couple of months in high school; first kiss and make out, then his mother forbid him from seeing me because she thought I was looking to get pregnant (I was the only girl who didn't want children). That was the extent. I was considered too fat, ugly, weird, etc. (and a mother figure) for anyone to want sexually. :-/

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I didn't really fit into any group. I've always had a lot of trouble making friends, and I got picked on a lot all through school. I had one friend from 1st grade through 10th, but she ended up getting a rich boyfriend and deciding she was too good for me.

Shortly after that, my senior year, I moved to a new high school where I made no friends. I eventually dropped out because I couldn't stand sitting alone at lunch every day and having nobody to talk to in any of my classes. I went back the next year to finish, and actually made a few friends and met my future ex-husband. It was kind of a weird school in that there really weren't many cliques. My old high school had tons of them (none of which I was part of), but the school I graduated from didn't. It was a small school (graduating class had 72 people), and everyone had known each other their whole lives. Most people just got along with each other. I'm not sure why I wasn't accepted the first year I was there (the year I dropped out). Seniors that year were just so...snobby. The next, they were fine.

So...long winded way of saying, no. I never fit into any particular clique. And I may have hung out with llamas. less