How is or was your high school social life?

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Two schools, two countries, zero fun, one extended headache.

It wasn't great. Miles better than middle school, at least!

I never got bullied, but I also never fit in. That was painful in and of itself. I don't think the other students disliked me, but I don't think they knew what to do with me, either. I always felt like I was on the outside looking in, able to watch, but unable to join.

Everyone told me it would get better when I got to college. That was true, but it was some very, very lonely years of waiting.

It was hell on earth for me. I still bear the scars thirty years later.

School and college... (Was more like my collage years then college years! ) Both schools and college were the worst times of my life, but this does not mean it was all bad. It was just I had a hard time of it. Much bullying on and off by kids and sometimes even teachers... (Some teachers were nice. A few were not). When in college it reached a climax just before my final exams when the whole class turned against me.... I became so petrified that on one ocasion I was just about to dive straight through the glass of an upstairs classroom window in the hope I would land in the top of a tree which was about 30 ft high below so I could make my escape. I stood on the desk ready to run and then the teacher came in.... (And told me off but at least I could make my escape the normal way out the classroom with him there). I gave up trying to pass exams ad failed most of my course. I just didn't see the point of doing anything but surviving. Why disn't I mitch school or college? Because if my Dad found out I would be in deep trouble, so I just had to keep going until the end. I hated college and school. Due to prosoprognosia I was always homesick. I was dead quiet and withdrawn. I was bullied at times... If it wasn't for a few really special people I just don't know how I would ever have coped. One person I HAVE to mention here. When I was 11 I moved up to secondary school. That is where everything started to fall apart. Primary school.. The first few years of age 4 and 5 were hell, but... age 11 to 12 years I had some really tough times. But during this time, a prefect who was about 17 and then 18 years old took a liking to me and she stood in and made sure I was ok at break and lunchtimes. She was awesome. I just HAVE to name her. Sandra Abraham . If it wasn't for her help, I juat don't know how I would have coped. She was an an angel to me! Wow! What a young lady! Whoever ended up marrying her must have had one of the very best wives on the planet!

I was home-schooled from 5th to 11th grade and for 11th to 12th grade I went to an alternative school for people over the age of 22 who did not have a diploma or GED. Everyone was too focused on getting their diploma to fraternize.There was zero bullying at this place. People were here because they wanted to be not because the government forced them to be there. If there was no bullying, I usually thrived in school. I thrived at this place. I was a teacher's pet and my nickname among the teachers was "star student". I didn't have a social life, but I didn't need or want one either.

I am starting to realize that I have a good social life. I'm definitely not popular but I have really good friends who understand. I sort of like school. It definitely gives me anxiety but I feel a purpose there. I feel happy when I complete work and hand it in. It takes me longer to do assignments and I am in Special Education but I feel confident knowing the material rather than not learning. I have good relationships with my teachers. They like me. I'm graduating when I am 21.

I went to special ed, it was kind of an unspoken fact that everyone there was autistic or had some other form of disorder. I had loads of friends. But everyone had friends, even those who preferred not to talk and just play games would quietly play DS games together. Bullying rarely happened there.

High school days were the worst years of my life. I regret not quitting after Freshman year and not bothering with High School and College, Years wasted and now I am unemployable and will never ever work. My high school years of being bullied and picked on every day has destroyed my life. I have severe anxiety and depression as well as Aspergers.

Neutral, I had only one friend and was rather resistant to any teasing or bullying and I didn't mind being alone too much. However, there were many I think embarrassing social faux pas that I did that I wish to forget forever, so I try to forget my high school life in its entirety.

Basically non-existent outside of group work. I graduated a year and a half ago.

What's social life?

Uhmm. What's high school? A school in a tall building?

Mine was really good, I often went to a concert or club at the weekends and went to festivals with my friends in the summer.

I tended to have either one friend outside school or no friends depending when and what year etc.

I was fortunate to have a cousin five years older who used to stay with us so the years I had no friends he would take over. I was allowed to go cycling with him down to the beach and country park. I was't allowed to cycle there alone until I was older.

Zip (a.k.a. Nonexistent). LOL... I only did 1 year of high school and went straight to college. Any of you who want out of H.S. try doing Apex or Home School or Online School.

When I was in High School socializing and making friends was hard because there were many things that teens in general were interested in and these topics were things I was not ready for. Topics like dating, life a a minority in the United States, hating immigrant parents, drugs, fighting, getting straight As all the time, looking down on others and acting "cool" was not part of what I liked or even consider. I really did want to maintain excellent grades but it took me much longer than someone who did not have a disability. My attendance was not great and got bullied for it and the most common thing they said about me is that "don't talk to her she's weird". I went through high school in ostracism but never liked to view it that way. Teachers and staff felt bad for me but didn't know have to solve the issue because they were afraid of being called racist since they were white and the students were minorities. My school consisted of mostly Asian students and then other racial groups. I never considered race as a factor but my parents definitely did because they spent many years in the united states as immigrants.