FigureBySnacks:
High school was pretty awesome. I was the skinny weird chick, but I was never really bullied or anything. Stage crew, choir, anime club, Teen Advisory Board and Writing Group at the library. And when I say "weird" I mean, I did (and still do) strive to be weird af. Like running around with post-its that say things on my forehead, writing poems and taping them to my back, knee socks with capris as a regular outfit.
WaistingAway:
I can totally relate! In my high school class (BHS '72) my set was known as the freaks. We showed up to school wearing capes and masks and ran our own underground newspaper. As I recall, nobody in my group gave a shit whether you were fat, skinny, ugly, beautiful, whatever. We let the popular kids worry about all that. We went out of our way to do stuff that made us outcasts -- except to each other.
FigureBySnacks:
Haha, we were going to start our own paper, but apparently doing so would get you suspended/expelled because the uncle of one of our friends ruined that for everyone well before we got there! I don't think many people would have blinked if I wore a cape. I did somehow get away with wearing an "illegal" trench coat rather often. I'm not sure how I never got in trouble for dress code violations.
I wasnt allowed to write for the school paper because "Red Sox updates aren't important." Meanwhile the "sportswriter" consistently got our names wrong in the paper after football games and wrestling meets.