How was your high school experience/youth?

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I've reasoned that I've developed (since I hit puberty at least) about 2 years late.

So essentially I started high school looking like maybe 6th/7th grade.

The transition to 7th grade is notoriously difficult for normal youth, but it's an excruciatingly painful stage for someone who has been placed with "older" people, who reject the youth at such an emotionally needy and impressionable stage.
Sophomore year wasn't SO bad, but I kind of realized exactly what was going on wrong, just that I couldn't do anything about it.
It's getting better.

I am in my early 50s. I had a hard time in school and hated it.

<--- High school brought him noting but pain, misery and suffering.

I was real early with my puberty, and (looking back upon it all now), was lucky enough to be carried socially by being some kind of bodyguard for the most popular kids. So even though it was a very nervous time and still didn't really understand it, at least wasn't picked on for being weird, hairy, sweaty and smelly. I could literally beat up half the boys in my class at the same time and did so during PE sports to prove a point very early on when getting into new classes, then I picked the most popular kid and held onto him for dear life by being a "whatever you want"/"oh why yes I totally like the exact same thing you like" kid. Sadly that no longer works once you become "mature" though..

If I could take 10 years of my age I'd be loving school so much right now.

I was in a large high school in the early nineties, so I was luckier than most. I never understood the need for labels the other kids had, but they just assumed I was a "weird alternative girl", or occasionally "lesbian" due to a love of flannel and sensible footwear...
I was a good student for the most part, and felt more connection with some teachers than I did with any peers.

Luckily I went to a large High School so (almost) nobody gave a $#@% about me and that's just the way I liked it. I should mention I misinterpreted playful teasing as bullying early on and lost a number of potential friends as a result of my ignorance due to past experiences. It was like going from Medium to Minimum security prison: still awful but felt like heaven in comparison. Ironically enough I was warned repeatedly that if you think Junior High was bad High School is hell on earth but I didn't find it that way at all, at least when thinking about how I was treated by fellow students. Luckily the bad kids were into gangs and drugs and I had no interest for or against either so I was left alone. The average kids knew not follow because you can't hide an arrest from your parents. People were generally more accepting of diversity but lets not kid ourselves: it was far from ideal but at least I didn't wish to be run over while walking across the parking lot just so I wouldn't have to go to school that day.

For me, 16 was the age when things finally started to turn around for me. I got a part time job and as a result, met some lifelong friends who accepted me for who I was.

For me, high school was better than elementary and middle school since the bullying was pretty much gone and I had a small group of friends from being in the band and orchestra.

High school was a night,are for me, my bullies outnumbered my friends by about 10 to 1. To be honest I wouldn't want to inflict high school on anyone.

Myt highschool years wernt bad but neither were they good. I liked to think of myself at school as "a light weight in a heavy fight". What i meant by that was all of the bullying wasnt really that bad in comparison to the nations general idea of bullying. But it still effected me. One good thing that came from it is my sense of endurance. I used to sit in class with my head in my hands as kids would throw yogurt at me and stab me in the back with pencils (actually that only happened once). These days i feel like i could withstand a fair bit of punishment if i put my mind to it.

I didn't have many friends at first, but then I got really into high school wrestling. I was able to become team captain and win a few championships because of my aspergers, not in spite of it. People started looking up to me because of this and I gained a lot of friends from it. I miss high school every day.

High school was utterly terrible, I was in SPED with druggie kids of ill repute. The only positive thing about high school is I'm 21 and still have friends from high school, though I've been out of school since 2007. However, my friends are foreveralones who sit at home playing videogames. But good friends nonetheless.

One teacher did say to me, though "You just have to learn to play the game sometime." And I guess that's why I suck at life.

High school was much better than elementary or middle school for me. THe larger number of kids meant more variety and less ridicule. College was better still, as no one cared if I didn't talk to anyone else.

summed up in one word? sh***y. I was bullied severely and did not feel ample intellectual stimulation in many classes, the teachers preferred handing out busywork BS that they unloaded on top of me that I never seemed to have enough time in the world or enough motivation in the world to do.

maybe the only exceptions that were good about my high school experience, was my orchestra teacher (who was like a 2nd dad to everyone in orchestra) and the fact that I met my boyfriend there (who was just as much of a misfit as I was).

It was OK, to a degree. My friends appreciated my sense of humor and how I could brighten their days, but I had my share of some difficulties throughout, kinda like intermittent showers.

I wasnt bullied.

Or when I didn't give them a thing
to make them feel I would care about their mean behaviour.
I didn't care just felt it to be a weird thing that people would do that at all.

I didn't manage to get into any groups with my class mates, neither did I manage to get a girlfriend.
When I was older I found some good friends but not from my class.

I was really different but didn't actually worry a thing about that, although with the girls a bit...

My school time was pretty pain-free compared to many others.

But, I didn't learn very much about socializing either. Though I am not afraid of any social interaction
Still although I did so much wrong I just continue to like it to be with people around me

Sometimes they bore me, especially when I am not in a good mood.

Now that I realized that I am on the spectrum I begin to fear things.. Very bad