What did you do during highschool lunch?

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I was bullied, so mostly I would get as far away from the school as possible. I'd find an empty park to sit in, or just walk and walk. In the winter it's around -30, so I would hide in the bathroom, or even in my locker at times. One year I remember riding the bus around for lunch hours. By highschool, I was lucky enough to live nearby, and I could go home. Eventually I ended up dropping out of school all together and taking distance education courses while I worked. Even working full time for the last year, I ended up graduating with 42 credits instead of the usual 28 required.

Wow, when I read that back, I want to bully MYSELF
LOL!!

I started Freshman year looking like a stunned android. I went to a big public high school with about 2,000 kids, so lunch time in the cafeteria was not pleasant at all. I went mute every single time and I wasn't helping myself by staying there. Midway through freshman year I discovered the joys of the orchestra room. High school music departments are aspie-friendly because they usually have private practice rooms that make great hideouts. I would shut myself in a room and practice piano or do my homework. This turned out for the better because the popular kids would hear me play from the hallways. Eventually they started to ask me for help with audition music. I was still a social misfit, but at least I maintained a neutral relationship with the populars. The irony is that this all happened because of my antisocial quest for privacy.

We had some enrichment hour where half an hour was for lunch, and the other half hour was for enrichment hall (basically we sat in the theater hall and listened to someone yell at us for half an hour, and that was supposed to enrich us) Enrichment hour was supposed to be for getting schoolwork done, but it's hard to do schoolwork when sitting in a theater seat with no table and no legroom or sideroom. The "moderator", who was more like the Fuhrer, would go around checking on everyone, i.e. trying to find someone to challenge to a duel. Eventually, she would get frustrated, and yell at the entire room about how we were the worst high school class ever. This blowup happened approximately once a month. Usually, I tried to sign up for a teacher's room during the hour, which was a lot calmer, since not only was it quieter and it had less people, but there were people I might actually have something in common with, and I didn't need to get yelled at for having the nerve to exist.

When I was in high school, everyone had to eat in the lunchroom. During my freshman year, I just sat by myself and played games on my graphing calculator. Later years I still sat by myself, but worked on homework and other assignments. During my senior year, I went out to the patio (which was opened up to students at the time) and sat at the very back by myself where it was quieter. I once had a teacher threaten to write me up because I was reluctant to move under cover when there was light rain.

Spent it in the library reading books on war, socialism and politics. Sometimes I read the free newspapers. I was in there so much the librarians gave me no time restriction on the internet. I think there was a 2 hour restriction for other people but I would be on there for +6 hours. I met my rock star friend that way.

I was so f*****g lucky that lunches were planned the way they were at my school.

Lunch was split into A,B,C, and D lunch, depending on what part of the school you were at for your 3rd period class. While some people were going to lunch, others were going to class. We were able to go outside, but we were kept in a confined area. At least that was the plan. By the time I was done with my freshman year, I knew how to beat the system by getting whatever I wanted from the vending machines and GETTING THE HELL OUT of the lunch area before the bell rang. I was able to eat in a quiet part of campus away from all the BS that happened in the lunch area, and that was AWESOME!!

Yeah, I broke the rules, but I didn't cause any trouble or draw attention to myself, so I was never caught or punished for doing this.

When it was lunch time I would go upstairs and hide in a corner of the school and play my DS. I don't know why but I just don't like hanging around people that much.

I ate a sandwich (usually 2 sandwiches) and I went to go a walk to the town.

Ugh. Lunchtime. My least favorite time of the day in highschool.

I'd either be alone (probably working on homework, reading in the library, wandering around aimlessly etc) or sitting amongst a group of people. Sometimes I would go to clubs and just listen to the meetings. I had some friends that I would sit with, but most of their communication went beyond me. I'd listen to what they had to say, but rarely participate.

I wasn't too fond of lunchtime! I disliked the taste of school lunch and didn't have any friends so I often found myself eating alone. I also was ridiculed in the lunchroom. I usually went to the Library and read copies of Compute! magazine (it was the 80s) and asked the Librarian to make copes of source code to the various programs in the magazine so that I could type them into my Commodore 64 when I got home from school.

In seventh grade we were forced to eat at a table with our own class. I absolutely hated it, I just sat there, ate my lunch, and then waited to be told to go back to class while everyone else was talking the whole time.

In eighth grade, I went to a different school. Their lunch was way better, they let us sit anywhere, although this proved to be a problem because I had nobody to sit with. My mom got mad at me when I told her I ate lunch alone so I forced myself to try to make friends with people. Needless to say, that turned out wonderfully (sarcasm).

In ninth grade, my freshman year of high school, everybody ate lunch at the same time. Since I was living in California at the time, there was no cafeteria, everything was outside. Usually I would get my food, go find a corner out of sight and start doing some homework. A few times girls would come up to me and try to talk to me, which I found to be really annoying. I was too focused with trying to get my work done to really care about how lonely I was. And I forgot to mention that occasionally if I didn't have any homework to work on I would go to the library and read gaming magazines. I actually rather enjoyed that.

Midway through my sophomore year, I changed schools yet again (the military is great, isn't it?). Since everybody knew I was the new kid, I was invited to sit at a table with some guys in my class. I tried to befriend them, but it didn't work out, I thought they were absolutely crazy, and they think I'm boring. I still walk past them from time to time, and they are nice to me, but I don't sit with them anymore.

This year, I started doing what I did in the ninth grade, finding an isolated table somewhere, and doing homework. Towards the end of the first semester I had some projects to work on for engineering class, so one day during lunch I went in to work on it. That was probably one of the best lunch decisions I've ever made. I found that this guy in my physics class (who I now know is definitely an aspie) ate lunch in her (the physics/engineering/calculus teacher's) room while they watch sci-fi movies. For the first time ever, I had a place at school where I knew I wanted to be.

Then of course, for this semester, my lunch period got switched around, so now instead of having first lunch I have third, so I can't go eat in her room anymore. I went back to what I was doing, eating in the cafeteria, doing homework, and walking around outside if I don't have any. I hate it, but hopefully next year things will be different.

Go to the school library and read encyclopedias and other nonfiction books (this was just a few short years before the internet went mainstream).

During my freshman year and early in my sophomore year I tried to make friends but ultimately gave up and decided to settle for books over people. The emotionally bullying got so bad at once point, I would occasionally cut school to go to the public library (a mile from my school) and spend the whole day there reading.

Allie Kat
http://www.myaspergerslifestory.com/

Drove off campus with my friends to go get McDonalds or jack in the box or something like that or stayed at school with them and ate crappy cafeteria food while one friend was throwing food at all the girls he saw walking by.

Sometimes we drove to this one kid's house and smoked weed together.

Oftentimes I would get nervous and not eat at lunch though.

I would hide in the library stacks and eat my lunch, until I discovered that the music teacher would let me join in on whatever class she was teaching at the time. Then I just skipped lunch and played my flute with the grade 9 class on my lunch and helped the teacher teach them, and on my spare I played my flute with the grade 13 class and learned more. I was going to my own music class too, so I was going to three music classes a day.