I don't get to leave the house much, but whenever I go out and interact with people my age they tell me i'm as radical as you guys think I am.
I always kinda thought I was a loser, but everyone i've met thinks otherwise.
Have I already avoided Wizardhood?
In my experience, the Hollywood stereotype of high school and college, where there are "popular" crowds and "unpopular" crowds that are fiercely at war with one another, is mostly bull****. There are your outliers like the extreme nerds with personality problems that keep them from being socially acceptable or the stuck-up ***holes who fit the jock/prep mold, but all in all, teens just want to be included and find friendships everywhere. I think in retrospect people are more afraid of what they
think people think of them than what they actually truly think of them.
I always considered myself a "nerd" and an outlier because of that, but really, I knew every single person at my school and only really had beef with one of them, specifically because my girlfriend cheated on me with him. Past that, I was at least friendly acquaintances on a first name basis with literally everyone. My idea that I was an outcast was mostly self-imposed. I was fine. So was almost everyone else. We just rarely thought so at the time.