When I was in the states I kept off the radar with a small group of people to the side of the lunch room. Was better that way, everyone else was either an starfish or superficial. I don't mean to be 'le higher level intellect' or anything but I grew up humble, spent most of my time in a southern correctional boarding college, and by the time I was supposed to have friends I was in some rich tight ass suburb wearing a flannel and jeans and everyone else was exclusively wearing polos, khaki shorts and boat shoes. Me and some other middle-class kids who didn't fit in grouped together off to the side and convinced ourselves we were better off that way until a couple years later when half of them either ended up in fraternities getting stufffaced every night or moved to the other side of the country to get a degree in dancing.
When I moved to Australia I ended up in another middle-class suburb but with the way aus works it doesn't really matter. Despite going to a private school I never had issues with trying to fit in based on your wealth class because everyone had uniforms, so the social ladder essentially boiled down to how many chicks you could pull at the local club. Even though I had no interest in romanticized night life I was still very popular because Americans are apparently a rare breed in Western Australia, everybody knew my name, but it wasn't long before I had marginalized myself off to the side again, so by the time school ended and I walked away with only a handful of new friends, despite knowing everyone a year below me kek
High school 'popularity' is a pipe dream and doesn't count for squat later in life. Should rather focus on making meaningful relationships than chasing after hierarchies.
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