Who do you hang out with//are you bullied?

[Mr.Blocko]

In my highschool I went to there was no such thing as popular

Lucky bastard.

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I'm pretty sure bullying is just a myth

[Georges]

why be homeschooled
seriously its very weird

I enjoy being homeschooled because I can go at my own pace. In many classrooms, stuff is taught at the lowest common denominator essentialy. It's designed so that everyone can understand it. This leaves those of us who are smarter with a lot of wasted time.

I've also learned how to manage my own time. This will be a vaulable skill come college and beyond. Not that this isn't something one can learn in highschool, but it's a looooot easier when homeschooled.

Lastly, it's a fairly large misconception that being homeschooled automatically means we don't take any classes outside of the home or don't have a social life/friends. Many homeschooled students duel enroll in college classes, earning them college and highschool credits simoultaneously. There are also co-ops and other places were classes are available. Personally, I'm taking an art class, a physics class (which I have 101% in. :P) and an American Literature class.

So yeah, I may be homeschooled, but I still have a social life, and the learning is significantly more catered to my learning style, meaning I can do better in less time.

[Dr.Block]

Bullying was basically non-existent in my high school, as far as I could tell. It was a myth. We had all these anti-bullying slogans and programs but I never noticed it being a problem. At all.

Back in jr. high I could name 4 bullies. Two of them were often a richard to me and the other two pop up in my friends' stories sometimes. But by the time we got to high school, all 4 of them were gone. Seriously. I don't know what happened to them. They just vanished. I think at least two of them went to prison but that could have been just a rumor. By sophomore year there was no sign of any of them.

[Rally]

I have a couple friends here and there. Used to be a super duper popular kid but then stuff happened and I started hating people. Then I graduated. Think people in your school are fake right now? Just wait until they don't have to see you every day. In 7th grade I had 3 friends. In 11th grade I moved to Australia and had a lot of friends because people thought it was cool to know an American. Then they found out I was a forget-up and I became sort of some 'novelty' conversation point. Don't get me wrong, it's cool to have people interested in you, but I'd rather be an outcast with 3 close friends than be a psychological mystery for every in-crowd starfish and their dog to poke at.

forget homeschool. I was homeschooled until 6th grade. Then in 8th grade I was put into all-boy military academy for two years. I had two years as a growing adolescent boy to talk to women. Now I can count the number of women in my life who don't think I'm a total loser creep on two hands. Homeschool has closed a lot of doors in my life and opened up a stuff-load of room for mental illness. stuff's just unnecessary. Don't homeschool your kids. Humans are social creatures and the younger years are absolutely critical for social interaction.

[Trogtor]

I have a couple friends I met on here that are homeschool and they have very odd personalities.

my churches youth group is about 80% homeschooled. im the type of guy who likes to act in a funny perspective and they tend to uncontrollably laugh out loud even at the slightest silly remarks i make. it's as if comedy is like a rare gold mine in their homes that they cant find. its like listening to an actual live studio audience and its really annoying

[Landmineman4000²]

My new "friends" are a bunch of cunts and all seem to have multiple personality disorder and it's really making me conflicted as to what i should do with them.
One second they're nice and fun the other they're making stuffty comments and excusing it as sarcasm, i call them out on it and they don't learn anything, they also don't have any social standards and just stuff out words, they all seem to hate eachother to, taking every opportunity to gang up on one person in the group and then a minute later on the other.
There's a couple of good people among em which is the main reason i haven't told them to go forget themselves yet.

[Planr]

i hang out with friends from my church. ive finished high school so i dont have to deal with any sort of bullying, but even when i was in higb school, bullying was something that happened extremely rarely among guys and really only happens with the girls. we had a lot of catfights at my high school lol.

[Foxscotch]

I'm not in high school anymore but when I was I didn't really talk to anyone. if someone said something to me I'd respond but there was nobody who I would have called friends
cus, throughout elementary school, and probably some middle school, I was rly shy, so I didn't want to talk to anyone, whether they talked to me first or not. and I guess there aren't many people who are shy here, so by the time I got over being shy, not talking is sorta what I was "known" for. so for the most part, the only reason anyone talked to me, was to ask why I didn't talk...
I don't really know how to start talking to people myself. I don't know how to make small talk. makes no difference whether it's online or offline, it is far easier for me if someone else says something first. and because of that I didn't manage to really get to know anyone in public shool

I don't think I would say I was ever bullied though. in 8th grade there was this guy I spent a lot of time around during gym class who had a habit of hitting me, a lot. like all the time. he would also call me names. but it wasn't anything really serious. it was beyond annoying, but I wasn't personally hurt by it
I dunno why I always hung out with him. I guess I thought it was better than sitting in the gym by myself

[Drydess]

I don't think I would say I was ever bullied though. in 8th grade there was this guy I spent a lot of time around during gym class who had a habit of hitting me, a lot. like all the time. he would also call me names. but it wasn't anything really serious. it was beyond annoying, but I wasn't personally hurt by it
I dunno why I always hung out with him. I guess I though it was better than sitting in the gym by myself

That's what beaten wives always say in regards to their husbands

[XR-7]

I don't hang out with people but at the same time, I'm not bullied. I talk to people at work who seem pretty awesome but I always feel like I'm missing some sort of quality that causes them to lose interest in doing anything outside of work. We get along well and laugh at each other's jokes, but there is still some sort of void.

[SBG]

None of my friends go to the same school as me. I don't talk to anyone, nor am I bullied.