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What Stereotype Were You Closest To In High School and How Did Life Turn Out?
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| DD is going through her artsy Goth stage. DH thinks the world is coming to an end. I tell him it's just a phase, and anyway, so what? I was a nerd in high school, and while I still exhibit some nerd-like tendencies (like habitually reading DCUM), I actually blossomed later on in life. So, I am curious how many of you high school jocks, rednecks, brains, druggies, nerds, losers, etc. fared after high school, and whether you in fact shed whatever stereotype you fit into, or whether you've more or less stayed within stereotype throughout your life. |
Anonymous
| Redneck in the AP and honors classes. The only one, as it turns out, and the kids from the good neighborhoods never let me forget it. I was written up in the senior yearbook as a "fashion model for LL Bean." Did I turn out OK? I'm happy. A lawyer now, but one who much prefers hanging out with the Gaithersburg crowd vs. those in Potomac. You can only change so much. |
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| Music-obsessed druggie in HS. All turned out fine. My HS self just got absorbed into a larger whole. Don't sweat it about your DD. Good luck. |
Anonymous
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cheerleader who dated quarterback... Popular crowd.
Age 35 now, never married no kids... Things don't always work out the way you think they will 
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Anonymous
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OP, is this more about you or more about DD?
Really, let it go. |
Anonymous
| Punk skater artsy theater kid. My life is good, and my friends are still doing their artsy things with careers (or night jobs) playing in bands and taking photos and writing for magazines. We are all still the most interesting of the folks back home, if I do say so myself. |
Anonymous
| OP, it doesn't really matter what clique you belonged to way back when. What really matters is that you don't act high school anything now; and that you don't have an overinflated perception of yourself which is just so common, that it should be embarrassing! |
Anonymous
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hippie.
I ebf, sah, don't shave, eat organic and DC only used cloth diapers. Seems like things haven't changed much around here. I'm not yet 30 and get asked a lot if I'm a college kid. I like it. |
Anonymous
It's funny how the hippies never have to work. |
Anonymous
Rail thin, artsy, theatre nerd in HS. Went to art school, then art grad school and still considered arty but not as thin 
Left a small town and am by far way more interesting/accomplished than my friends in HS-they all got married and had kids at 19 or 20, didn't go to college and most never left the small town. |
Anonymous
Do you sometimes think about moving back to escape the big city? |
Anonymous
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Theater geek, class clown.
Now I'm a PhD in economics. |
Anonymous
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Then: Goth girl. Jet black hair, pasty white skin. A little too into the Cure and bands of their ilk. Yet, also an honors student.
Now: masters degree, working in job I love, married mom of 2 living in suburbs married to former jock. |
Anonymous
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HS: Essentially "good girl" with a rebellious streak, shy and quiet, good student, gets along with everyone but doesn't exactly stand out. (In other words, boring).
Now: pretty much the same, except with more self-confidence (which is still not a lot). I guess I pretty much stayed "on track". |
Anonymous
Ok I'm really disappointed with the I was edgy or artsy but a genius confessions so far. Where are all the stoners who flunked out and are living off of the state? I'd like to hear more of those please. 
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