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Not that it matters now, but I'm curious. I don't know if I was popular. I had a lot of friends in middle school and I would say I did in high school too, but a lot less people knew me as the middle school I went to was smaller.

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[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, I was not and unfortunately was often picked to be bullied until I raged and went to his throat to close it (English isn’t my native language so don’t know to explain it otherwise).

After that no bullying but wasn’t popular either. However, fun fact; no one who was popular at that time succeeded it life. They didn’t really went far either education and some even went to jail.

And myself? I got myself from a practical school to now having bachelor degree. So, fuck them.

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Hope you're doing better now.

Growing up for me, the popular kids were actually also usually intelligent and got into good universities. So the stereotype of popular kids being dumb really doesn't ring true everywhere.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

School is a prisonlike environment, so it's not surprising that the people who did well there went on to prison