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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've heard lots of people tell stories about how they or their children didn't turn 21 until halfway through their senior year, and how terrible it was to be left out and not be able to go out with their friends. However, whenever I tell people about how my son will be graduating this spring after 5 years while he had to watch all his friends graduate last spring, it gets brushed off by everyone, even those who simultaneously think that they or their kid had it rough by not being able to go to bars with their friends. I understand that there are much bigger problems in the world than social isolation. What I don't understand is why it's understandable to feel left out when your friends go to bars without you, but not when your friends graduate without you.

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You need new friends. LOL

Op be proud your child finished. Be proud of your child and their accomplishments.
What is wrong with you? Plenty of kids take 4.5 years and 5 years. Except for the financial complications for some families who gives a shit that your kid took longer. It's not their friend's responsibility to hang with them while they finish and if they dropped them then they were not friends to begin with.

Why didn't your kid try to make some new friends, join new clubs. Why didn't they end in four years if they always have to follow their friends? Did they follow their friends to college from HS? Did they plan on following them to a city after college?

What a bizarre post. This is your problem and you made it your kid's problem. [/quote]

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