I've always been a loner. I didn't understand then at school and tried to fit in. I hated school.

In elementary Catholic school my brothers and I were not from Italian families and were marginally popular. In middle school and early HS I was average popular. As a senior I had few friends but was on the varsity tennis and track team so my lack of friends was my choosing. Besides I did not want to belong to the jock football, baseball clique.

I was the ultimate loner, smart enough in my own way, not the smartest kid in the school academically, maybe number 3 but I didn't associate with the dorks either. I got on better with some of the teachers than kids, not as bad as it sounds, went surfing with a couple of them, by 16 I looked older so could go to a pub and have lunch and a drink with some of them. I began high school the most unfortunate skinny kid you could imagine, never saw kids outside of school. In my spare time I was active, long distance swimming, surfing had strenuous part time jobs. Came into my own just before I left school, we had a week at a research station on an island, civilian clothes. So all the guys had teenage boy physiques, I was 6ft2 with a 56 inch chest tanned and toned. Everybody including the teachers with us were like Shit XXX has really got a body. To add to this, a group of bikers ransacked the place while we were there, not a bikie gang, just a bunch of would be s. I didn't get to bask in my glory, my parents exited me from school a few weeks later. I have never seen any of those kids since, kept in touch with a few teachers for a bit including the super strict principal, aka Hitler who tried to stop my parents taking me out of school.

I was quiet, shy, an only child from a broken home when I met my best friend in 7th grade. Her family was well known in the community and she had an older brother and sister. In high school she was the jock, the class beauty, homecoming queen, class president and I was the girl who was always with her, so by association I was one of the popular kids.

I was the loner in high school, I preferred it that way. I still am a loner for the most part.

I was a keep to myself type, very quiet shy, kid in high school

I was neither. I was known by everyone in my highschool. I was trusted and respected by everyone. But I didn't hang with popular people. I hung with a small group of nerds. My honor was so well known, I could walk in late, and I would never be questioned. They all knew that if I was late, the cause would be rational. Course there were some that hated me because I made them feel stupid. But they still respected me.

classic nerd with math and science skills. Mostly kept to myself.

Only one friend and he barely admitted it in front of others (but he certainly didn't mind my sucking his dick...sorry for the crudeness but true).

Fact of the matter was I was bullied and shunned and ridiculed and generally despised, and if I had had access to a gun, Columbine would have been called Poston and happened in 1982 in Arizona. I seriously fantasized about going in and shooting them all.

I guess it was fortunate I didn't have a gun toting father. And that I grew out of it, found my place (enough so that I wasn't quite so miserable by 1985), and as the saying goes, it did get better.

I ate lunch alone everyday for the duration of high school. I rarely spoke to anyone. I wore a long black coat and did well in my classes. I am thankful I graduated before mass shootings became a thing or I would have been under suspicion. I just wasn't interested in that world. I was a self styled stoic and I was more interested in perfecting my emotional control. I worked out every day without fail. I do miss those days of hitting the bag for an hour in the basement.

A lot like Hominid's post - I was a city boy relocated to a closed knit rural community, so I was not very popular at all. It didn't help I was one of the smarter students that screwed up 'the grading curve' for the rest of the class. I was only accepted (and not beat up everyday) because I joined the varsity football team and so instead got beat up everyday with pads on at practice. I was the lightest member of the team, but at least earned some respect - the big guys on the team always came to my aid if someone started pushing me around.

I wore the same color as the walls and rarely spoke. I kept my head in books. Moving with my family made me the eternal "new girl".

I knew everyone in my HS but I did not hang out with them very much and did not date anyone in my HS. My best friend in grammar school was sent to a Friends school and I dated a couple of guys from that school. Mostly not interested in school and barely managed to graduate, spent the last half of my senior high. I had bought my own car and toted up every morning on the way in.

I usually kept to myself I had a couple of friends that I played with after school Went t all male Jesuit high school and college and worked after school

I think I was seen by classmates and teachers, as the peculiar one. I was pretty much cue blind as I had a weird backstory and my parents were mad as a poked hornets nest. I didn't actually have the option to do anything more than be in the out group but strangely it was the making of me and I decided to kick hard against all the conventions of school life and become "the outsider' for some inner strength.

Made up for a lack of confidence with forced bravado....sometimes. Most of the time I preferred to stick to myself.

Kept to myself except for a few close friends. Wasn't into the popularity thing..I was too nerdy anyway.

I was a loner and gravitated toward the stoner community.

I was a loner and gravitated toward the stoner community. I would also like to add that I was thrown out of my house at 16 and my 21 year old boy friend married me. All of a sudden, everyone in school, including all the guys knew my name. Weird.