Were you a cool kid at school?

I wasn't cool, but I wasn't uncool either. But Cher, you weren't demonstrative enough. Pfffffft!

If we attended school together, I have a feeling that I would have discovered your hidden coolness.

I would dive for you, puberty or no puberty.

i wasnt either really, i had my friends, i went through different phases where i would be in with the popular girls, then i wasnt then i was!
i at one point was hated by the cool lot, but as we grew up it kind of just drifted. by the time i got to 6th form (college) there was still the popular/un-popular that seperated us all, but it was far more mature!

i feel that i was cool at school, in my own way, i also had friends who cared about me, so yes i think i was very popular in that sense

I was on my school newspaper too, Val! And Callie, you're quite cool here so I'm thinkin' that you would have been cool in school as well.

at one point Jen, i was enemy of the cool kids, some of them just didnt like me, i kind of got in with some of them in the begining of high school where there is no 'food chain' established, this was when i began smoking, they never pressured me into it, maybe i did do it to fit in, although i never changed myself to be in with anyone, our high school was kind of split into 2, there was the french students and german students, i was on the german side, my best friends by the end of school were in the french side, by the end i was just known by them, liked by most, and had my close friends, in 6th form i began more of a bond with some of the cooler kids, because they were in my form group and most of my lessons as we all studied health and social care

We never had ANY animals in our school.

Good to know!

I was not considered cool, and I only had about one close friend for each year.. lol I'd find one other person and latch on to them... or nobody at all. Some years I had slightly more friends, I guess. I made less and less friends as I went up in grade... Most of my friends moved away, so it was hard for me to find a new "person" to hang out with. The only way I made "friends" while in HS was through my neighbor who I knew since I was 3.. but I did meet one person in lunch who is still my friend to this day.

I was just the smart, quiet girl with natural, hippie hair (some frizz). The stereotypical "nerdy" kids would get mad at me if I got better grades than them and ask me how it was possible, as if I cheated. I guess they didn't know I was also a nerd, I just didn't have on glasses for them to easily identify me ;p lol I was kind of invisible, in a way.. but every now and then people made fun of me and put things in my hair. You know, the "COOL KIDS".. cool kids just love to make fun of people for no reason. Maybe that's why I could never be cool.. I would never do that!

I just didn't fit in at all. Everyone was so preoccupied with being pretty and cool (and MEAN), and I wasn't. I felt like the biggest loser ever back then. To give you an idea about my loner/loser phase... I skipped lunch a lot of the time because I didn't want people to see me eating alone and judging me. I just spent all of lunch time in the bathroom by myself if nobody I knew was going to be in lunch with me that day.

You're cool Heather!

I would have liked you in HS.

We all mature, eventually.

Thinking back, we ignored those kids we didn't like
or didn't fit into to our standards.
We were the cool kids and you couldn't play with us if you weren't.

I do think I was the least mean about it.
We had quite a few Indians at our school and I was almost
the only girl that spoke with them.

Some of the girls were outright mean to them.
I was not ever, but I will admit I didn't find them particularly attractive.

Funny thing, most of my friends now from HS were not in the "cool" group.

Well, I don't think shallow is very accurate.

People mature, change, and develop new interests.

Sometimes the old gang is just not interesting anymore.

I am NOT the HS girl I was, for sure.

Ok but that's more age related than a personal trait Heather.

My nieces and nephews love me hard, but prefer to spend more time on their I-pads than with me.
They are not shallow.
Immature like the kids in HS, but not shallow.

Love and caring has to be taught, and nurtured, almost continually.

That's what's great about humankind.
We evolve and change, hopefully for the better, as we age.

Heather, I would have been your friend for sure.
I was not ever stuck up, ever.

I'll admit some of my friends were.

I was so NOT the cool kid. I was the one the cool kids were afraid of.