Do you skip class reunions too?

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I never went to a reunion, not one. Hell, I don't even know when they were held. They also called me Brainy Smurf. In any case, I grew to despise high school to the ends and depths of my being. I didn't drop out because I do have a history of finishing whatever I've started and I was planning to go to college in a far away state anyway.

I also avoided reunions because of my long history of homelessness and drug abuse. Yes, I was one of those kids expected to have become a doctor or lawyer. Guess what? I failed. I didn't even have kids like everyone else in my family. Oh, well. You win some, you lose some.

I dropped out of high school because it bored me to tears, reminded me of prior educational traumas, and I wanted to attend college (of which I also dropped out after three years due to financial reasons despite two or three simultaneous jobs).

As such, I have never been eligible to attend a reunion (graduates only). I would have enjoyed attending one, though. Based on what I have learned from former classmates, I made a bigger name for myself avocationally than all the "most likely" drama and athletic students in my graduating class did.

I would never have attended otherwise.

Exactly like me

No, I do go to the major ones. I went to my 25th year reunion for the class that I graduated with. Many of them came up to me and actually talked to me, something that most of them would not do back then. The worst bully from my class is already dead by his own actions, so I knew that his bunch would not be there. I got to visit with my old high school chemistry teacher which made the trip worth it.

However, I will never attend any reunions of my previous middle high to sophomore school that I attended. Words cannot express how I feel about that place.

There hasn't been a reunion for my year yet (2012) but I have no intentions of ever going to one. I couldn't stand high school and it is something I'd like to forget.

Also, my unfortunate high school nickname was "Psycho Pig".

I graduated in 2011. I suppose there will be a ten-year reunion come 2021. They were talking about having a five year. But, I guess that fell through.

Will I be attending? I don't think so! There is a Facebook group for my graduating class. I left that group several years ago. I did that mainly because I wanted to downsize the list of numerous groups I was a member of.

Psycho pig? That's awful! I graduated in 2011 and I can't blame you for not wanting to ever attend class reunions.

There hasn't been a reunion for my year yet (2012) but I have no intentions of ever going to one. I couldn't stand high school and it is something I'd like to forget.

Also, my unfortunate high school nickname was "Psycho Pig".

I knew our ten-year reuinion was coming up, so I asked around, and I heard from someone, who heard from someone, who heard from someone else, that there was a Facebook group where a few people were talking about having one. There was no committee, no one tried to reach out to anyone, no nothing; it wasn't at all like it is on TV.

Since I wasn't invited, I didn't go. Since almost no one was invited, it ended up being like five people, and they went out for a night of bowling. Woo!

I wouldn't mind going to one, but I don't have high hopes of it ever happening.

Even though I graduated HS in 2008, I have no interest in going to any reunions. In fact, I just don't see the point as to why reunions are organized in the first place.

However since 2008, I have had many run-ins with old HS classmates and I just pretend I don't know them, or they are mistaking me for someone else, or just ignore them and keep going my way.

My 40 year high school reunion (graduating class of 26 kids) was about 2 or 3 weeks ago and held less that 2 blocks from where I live now. I saw no reason to go and relive being the outsider. Besides, I seriously don't remember having "friends" in school, so what would be the point?

Yes, I do skip those as well. First of all, I don't want others to know that their classmate is on welfare although her beginnings were so promising - everybody expected me to become I even don't know who. Anyway, when it comes to my elementary school which you graduate from at 15 in Poland (from high school - at 19), I was bullied - I was called fugly, a whore and a barnacle (yes, this arthropod ).

Thank you for your kind words