# Who were you in Junior High School? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 16, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898 "2016-05-16T05:17:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/41 "2016-05-16T21:11:32Z")
First, no jr. high type place for me. In that range of grades, I was a proto-nerd. No computers, etc. yet but I was a card carrying member of the AV squad. In high school, the proto- was dropped. No issues in that range regarding bullies. ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/42 "2016-05-16T21:19:02Z")
I was kind of invisible. I was a band nerd and I had friends, but I certainly wasn’t popular and wasn’t bullied more than average. I suspect that’s what junior high is like for a lot of kids. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/43 "2016-05-16T21:49:36Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > Complete class clown. I only had one fight in junior high (because I’m a wiseass :)), early on, where this kid kept trying to kick me and I’d grab his leg and flip him. Basically I held him off for a couple of minutes until a P.E. teacher came running and broke it up. Nobody bothered me after that, though I really didn’t do all that much. I only had many “plans” for fighting bullies – but nothing in reality. I know only very few of my classmates from Russia – two became programmers and they are married. The main class clown became a Satanist for some time and recently he was arrested for drugs. In USA he would have gotten 10 years, but in Russia the laws are more humane so he was cautioned. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/44 "2016-05-16T21:50:57Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Discrete class clown. I was the one who rolled “joints” using minced pencil shavings from the pencil sharpener, then surreptitiously left them where they could be discovered by an adult, leading to a massive “Drugs are infesting our school” freak out. WOW! I was a class clown in USA – but much less original. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/45 "2016-05-16T21:56:52Z")
I also at 13 disliked adults and thought that they are fools. Now at 45 I am sort of a fool – I have no job. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/46 "2016-05-16T22:12:39Z")
I wasn’t any of those things. We didn’t really have bullies so much, not like they are these days at least. There were a few kids with anger issues but they didn’t get away with anything and nobody was being tortured that I know of save the one girl who got caught writing a love note to another girl. She changed schools almost immediately after and it was mostly giving her odd looks and whispering about her being a “lesbo”. I was more like one of those “Square Pegs” girls. I didn’t really fit in anywhere. No sports, no music, no performing arts, no special skills, dressed like a dork. Glasses and braces. I didn’t have any friends at all in school but I didn’t really seek any out. All my friends were in my neighborhood, I wasn’t anti-social, I guess it was just more formal back then. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/47 "2016-05-16T23:33:25Z")
I was in the “popular” group, which consisted of kids who did after-school activities. So mostly athletes and band/choir kids. The “unpopular” group was those who didn’t do things after school. It was a small school, didn’t have enough for more than that. My special spot was teachers’ pet. I did all the homework and actively participated in class, so got tons of rope to get away with other stuff. Although I mostly spent that arguing about abstruse points in class, because I was 13 and always right. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/48 "2016-05-16T23:40:10Z")
Junior high school in West Texas was a nightmare. I was mercilessly bullied. High school too, so much so that I dropped out after my junior year. I remain to this day a high-school dropout, but I still went on to obtain bachelor’s and master’s degrees from two different major universities. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/49 "2016-05-17T01:24:15Z")
I was bullied a little but not terribly so. Not enough to have really made a difference in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/50 "2016-05-17T01:40:40Z")
I was never particularly socially ept, but I had a few very close friends and I didn’t fuck with people, so they tended not to fuck with me. Bullee is the closest fit for me, but I didn’t really get bullied all that badly or much. I was a band geek who spent my free time on solo hobbies like reading, gaming, and doing homework. I never got into bully politics, even on the fringes, because the only kids I spent a lot of time around were band geeks (and we all liked each other). I had a minor bully in 5th grade (girl on girl) and she got nasty, but things were never at risk of getting physical. And even that ended when we got different teachers in middle school. ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/51 "2016-05-17T03:47:11Z")
In junior high? That was a total nightmare. I think I mostly wandered around really confused about everything but nothing that fits your poll. I try not to think about it. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/52 "2016-05-17T04:00:30Z")
I was one of the lucky ones. My junior high years were spent in the same school as my elementary years. I was two years younger than my classmates, so I was spared the agony of puberty until I hit high school. I was the 2nd or 3rd smartest kid in a class full of smart kids (I attended an experimental school) and was an athlete. Even though I was younger, I was tall. No one bullied me, I’d have given them a beat down - one of the advantages to living in a neighborhood where I was the only girl my age, I could defend myself physically. I wouldn’t have bullied anyone, either. I wasn’t built that way. High school was a real jolt, but junior high school was a happy, comfortable time for me. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/53 "2016-05-17T05:25:27Z")
I was bullied pretty bad in 7th grade but other than that, NOTA. I wasn’t popular, but I wasn’t unpopular – I was just right in the middle. Of course, this was at Catholic school, so there were only about forty kids (if that!) in our graduating class. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/54 "2016-05-17T10:33:52Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I also at 13 disliked adults and thought that they are fools. Now at 45 I am sort of a fool – I have no job. Circle of life, dude. You’re the Lion King! How cool is that? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898/55 "2016-05-17T17:55:33Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > I also at 13 disliked adults and thought that they are fools. Now at 45 I am sort of a fool – I have no job. I thought you were getting paid starting this month? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-were-you-in-junior-high-school/754898.md?page=2)