friends not in your grade?

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I used to have a 'thing' about people who weren't in the same grade as me. As in, somehow I got the impression that it was 'wrong' to make friends outside my grade. My mother certainly discouraged me from making friends with anyone that was at least a year or two older or younger than myself. Looking back it seems very strange.

Additionally, I found that when in school we had split classes (part of the kids in my grade in another room), and I had less contact with the kids in the other part, I sorta drifted further away from them.

I also had another wierd problem...I resented anyone who was older than I was by the order of a few months. Not that they knew this, it was a secret resentment. But if someone was more than a couple years older, it did not bother me.

I used to as well. I was always worried about what the older and younger kids in my classes did or said or if they liked or hated me. I never said a word through school though so most simply just ignored me. Felt terrible to be so ignored, but mostly only remember my old classmates. I did recent some that I knew that were little older than me for awhile as well in school.

me, I completely kept the idea of being friends with the kids in other grades out of my head. I was never approached by kids in other grades for friendship anyway, so I thought this was not done.

i have a lot of younger friends. i think they are less judgemental.

Never made any friends out of my grade. I never made friends outside of school either. Mostly because I was stuck with the people in my grade long enough for me to get comfortable with them and for them to get passed the awkwardness/ shyness.

the kids im friends with outside of my grade either rode my bus or i went to camp with them

I have friends outside my grade. Most of them are either one grade below mine or one grade ahead, although i do have some who are 2 or 3 grades older.

A lot of my friends are outside my grade, either through school(before I graduated) or church youth group. Mostly younger, I'll add, but I do get along with a lot of older, more mature, students.