Talk about your high school social experiences

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I was teased/bullied and constantly asked "why don't you ever talk?" and I always had my nose in a book.
It sucked, but I got a small joy from saying no to people when they asked me for the answers to the homework.

I developed early, and despite popular misconceptions, big breasts can be really annoying, especially when you’re a socially awkward teenage girl who isn’t particularly pretty otherwise and has the misfortune of being in a school full of misogynistic male teachers. My American history teacher made crude comments about me in front of the class and then docked my grades when I reported him. (He kept his job, despite the fact that I wasn’t the first person to report him.)

I was also clumsy and terrible at sports and music at a school that valued both. I was good in academics but not as socially adept as the other “smart kids.”

AND I was Catholic in a school where most students were some variation of evangelical Protestant. (Some bullies actually told my brother and me we were going to hell. Joke’s on them; I’m a Buddhist now.)

So, yeah, high school sucked. I’m grateful to have had some awesome female teachers who saw what I was capable of and encouraged me.

My worst years consists of the former half of high school equivalent years of trying to find ways to maintain 'image' -- when it's not meant to be.
Said worst years had me as someone to-go-to for those who gets bullied. Or if a group or so of girls are just not brave enough to risk themselves to suspicious or rumored corners. They're easily scared off, I'm not. They figured I never minded being dragged around.
Had a buddy of sorts, probably assigned to keep an eye on me or so but I don't mind that too.

I tried to stay away from dramas, and yet sometimes getting stumbled upon such without knowing.
But one thing remains the same: boys are still the bullies I've faced. Knowing myself, I still talk back with fists.

Until I start skipping classes... And quit school.



Then there's the latter half of my high school equivalent years, which is after 2 years of 'rest'. It was a different school.
It was one of my best school years. By not talking to anyone. Or knowing anyone. Practically a nonexistent social life.

Students figured enough too quickly that I'm too different.
Yet they seem to never stop approaching if not dragging me to places they felt like it. Never had a real reason to drive them away for wanting to entertain themselves at the time.
They also figured I wouldn't do anything 'wrong' for whatever reasons they'd assume -- they knew I'm vulnerable and being watched.

And some figured that I can be approached, be trusted and reasoned with. Yet nothing convinced me to have any interest to any relationship, when I found out that I'm much happier being left alone.

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