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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like pretty much everyone went to school their whole lives in one place?  Any diplomat or military kids who want to weigh in?  I went to three different high schools and three different colleges.  Pretty much had no friends, still don't save one from high school whom I keep up with on FB.  I am not a super star, didn't get a stealler degree, didn't go to grad school.  Didn't even know that was an option.  In my military family the expectation was to get the MRS degree (yep, sad) and that's pretty much what I did. So I can't really answer your question because I stayed so far below the friends radar I have no idea where anyone is these days and really don't care.[/quote]

Not everyone. I was like you PP. Not a military kid, but moved all over the country and went to 11 different schools in 12 years. 3 different high schools. It made me very shy at first, but by my final move in 11th grade, I was over it. I was sick of having so few friends, so I started to be more social. But all through high school, I was a brainy drama/chorus/art freak, and that didn't change. Didn't change in college either, where I became fairly extroverted in the end, with a large group of friends I'm still in touch with nearly 20 years later. I feel that all the moving made me very adaptable, comfortable with change, and able to fit in with different social groups. Now I work in media in a creative job I love, and have had success in my career. Married another creative type. My creative kid looks like he's headed the same way.

Like other PPs have said, tell your daughter to find a group of people she likes. It's not about being popular - it's about learning how to relate to people, how to develop a social radar. And it's also about being a good person. Karma isn't always a bitch the way we'd like it to be (mean popular girls do not typically end up in trailer parks), but popular or not, if a mean person doesn't change and grow beyond high school as most people are able to do, life will catch up with them eventually.[/quote]

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