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30 People Reveal The Best And Worst Transformations They’ve Seen From Their High School Friends
Graduating from high school is no easy feat. After all, it’s tough spending day after day in the same building, going from one class to another, handing in tasks and assignments on time, all while trying to navigate your path in life. For four years straight, your hormone-overruled brains try to figure out dreams and make detailed plans for the future. However, it doesn’t take long to realize one universal truth — life is completely unpredictable.
Just because your classmate got straight A’s, doesn’t mean they’ll strive for a Ph.D. Or if your buddy moved through school with no academic success, that’s not to say they won’t do a complete 180 in the real world. To prove that you never know where people will end up, Redditor VirusMaster3073 asked: "Which high school friend took a path you didn't expect?"
The question resonated with many people as thousands immediately jumped to the comment section to share the surprising journeys their friends ventured on after graduation. Below, we have gathered some of the most interesting responses from the thread to share with you, so enjoy scrolling, everyone! Be sure to upvote your favorite replies and let us know about your own stories in the comments.
Psst! If you’re interested in even more high school memorabilia, check out Bored Panda's earlier pieces about the best and worst transformations seen during school reunions right here and here.
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#1
Super outgoing kid at my school, always wore suits, drove a classic Caddilac, straight A’s—absolutely fantastic guy. Never not smiling and skipping and dancing around. Star athlete too—state champion runner a couple times, had a full college ride to some D1 school. Two years into college tries to [take out] himself 30 times, evidently has a ton of mental health issues that he also had while he was in high school that he dealt with by smiling over them. Good part is though, that he’s in AA, getting proper therapy, and has a ESA cat that sits on his shoulders everywhere he goes! He hasn’t attempted suicide in like 8 months and now can smile for real. —he’s also actually me
Patricia Smith 3 years ago
Keep moving forward you give people like me hope
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ThatBiBookLover 3 years ago
YESSS CONGRATS! Hits me hard, if I ever commit su1c1de people will be very surprised as I laugh my problems away… holding on though. CONGRATULATIONS WOOO
Josephine 3 years ago
Is there someone you trust? It sounds like you could use someone to lean on, without having to laugh all the time.
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The Cute Cat 3 years ago
As a cat lover I can relate. Glad for your progress.. Live is always a struggle but we can do it.. with our cat..
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
OP you are an inspiration to us all. Thank you for sharing. And yes, cats are amazing and underrated companions. (I got one after I split with my ex, her name is Atti, Ms Attitude, shes helped when im low)
Elizabeth Bock 3 years ago
My heart goes out to you! Mental issues are a hidden disability, and everyone tries to cope in their own way. Hiding behind an act is often used. Be proud of yourself, and know that you are loved, for who you are, not how you act. Failing at one thing, doesn't make you less of a person, just stronger. You are very fortunate to have found a cat, that is that easygoing and cuddly!
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#2
I knew a girl in high school who was very sweet but very shy. She had very poor eyesight, had some tough dental issues, was overweight, and lived with a foster family in a trailer park. She wasn’t particularly close with anyone in school; I got the sense that she was just trying to make it through —- head down, get it done. But she was always kind and I would talk with her a bit here and there. Mostly she kept to herself and seemed to want to just not be noticed at all.
After high school, we lost touch.
Twenty years later, I get a Facebook request from someone with her name but the picture looks nothing like her. Not even a vague resemblance.
I accept because I’m curious.
Well, it was indeed her!
It turns out that she worked her way through/paid for community college, ended up getting a good job with a family company and worked her way up the ranks there. She saved all of her money. By her late 20s, she saved enough money and had good insurance for eye surgery and dental surgery. She also started really focusing on getting healthy. She said it all boosted her confidence so much that she started traveling around the country. During those travels, she ended up meeting a great guy. She and her husband have a nice family, good jobs, and live in an affluent community.
She acknowledged that her early years were tough and she had such low self esteem that she had a tough time making friends. She thanked me for always being kind to her.
She ended with “I may have blossomed late, but it was worth the wait”
I’m so happy for her. We keep in touch.
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
Reminds me of myself. I wasnt popular, skinny and gangly (kinda like a praying mantis lol), super low self esteem. My school years were rough af. But once I hit about 19 my body filled out, working at a country club. At 20 met the future mother of my children. The rest they say is history. Some of us bloom late its defiantly worth waiting for. I never reached out to any former school friends because i didnt have any, the bulling was horrible but it made me into who i am today. Younger Pandas, dont worry you will survive it, words are words. Bullies bully becuase somewhere in their life they have it bad and are trying to make themselves feel better by making you feel worse then they feel. School is the hardest time of your life, none of us know what we are doing, we all want to grow up too fast. Dont worry it does get a lot better in the real world.
Lilla Ontherun 3 years ago
So she was not ugly, she was just poor, because she didn't have the money for her teeth and to eat healthy foods.
Mattewis88 3 years ago
TLDR: Ugly duckling turned into a swan. Got married, has kids. Thanked OP for being nice to her.
#3
Myself actually. 10 years ago I was racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. Now I march in the pride parade, Iv been openly dating a trans person, and have found a new understanding and way of life.
In high school I thought I wanted to stay in the Midwest and become a mechanic. Now I’m a wildland firefighter. I never wanted to travel in high school, now Iv hitch hiked the US and been all over. I’m even planing a motorcycle trip to Panama.
I’m happy I was able to leave my small town, and grow as a person. Change is a good thing.
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
This is why canceled culture is so toxic. People can genuinely change. I’m so happy for you OP.
Jennifer Norton 3 years ago
THIS!!! We have to allow people to change! You are a product of your surroundings and can be a terrible person because of it. But then you can widen your horizons and become the best version of yourself. It doesn't matter if you were a racist, are you one today? It doesn't matter if you were homophobic, are you one now? Growing and changing is essential to being a human being!
#4
Girl in my high school was a terrible human being, selfish and totally self absorbed. I couldn’t stand her. One of the shallowest, nastiest people I knew.
20 years later she sacrifices her life trying to help save three children, unknown to her, from drowning in a rip current at a local beach.
Jeanette Dills 3 years ago
Just remember, you never know everything that is going on with someone. Our perceptions of who someone is doesn't always reflect who they actually are.
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago (edited)
I was wondering about an update. Thanks!
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E2U&U2 3 years ago
We have the opportunity to grow and better ourselves every day. It seems like she did some self-reflection and took the steps needed to change into a person who would be willing to go into the water to try to save others at the expense of her own life. Credit to her for her journey.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago
High school should never be someone's definining moment. Anyone who is still the same from HS 20 years later, or thinkmof HS as their glory days should be avoided at all costs! By the time you are 40, HS is only 1/10th of your life. Seriously, the emphasis put on HS being the "best years of your life" is such BS. I am glad tgis girl became more than her HS self, but sad she had to die doing it!
clairelise@pacific.net 3 years ago
Girl in my peer group, we used to get wet-nursed together, she was a budding...something: sociopath? Psychopath? She enjoyed hurting the family pets; like trapping the cat in small spaces & watching it panic, or inviting me to her birthday parties and lying about me so she could get the other girls to exclude and ridicule me with her, that kind of thing. When our friends got trapped in a high river current one summer and were both in danger of drowning, she became temporarily not the center of attention, so she went in to regain the limelight. And she died. Her parents are certain she was trying to help, but she wasn't: the thought wouldn't even have entered her mind. She was impatient for her turn at the "waterslide" so she tried to cut the line.
Krissy G. 3 years ago
Excuse my ignorance, but can I ask what you used to get wet nursed together means? I understand what wet nurses are, I just didn't think it was a thing people did anymore in most cultures.
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Cranky Gurl 3 years ago
Maybe her life at home was shitty,,, maybe she gave her life so others would believe she was worthwhile
#5
I think in this scenario I’m “that friend”. Throughout my entire school career I was advanced, including high school where I graduated with honors and an advanced diploma and went to a private college on a handsome academic scholarship. I was also a two-sport athlete and got along with every “group” of people. Everyone had me pegged for future lawyer, politician, or business executive. Something where I could use my intellect and likable personality to my benefit. A month before graduation I started smoking weed and hanging out with s**t heads (disclaimer: I’m not making the claim that smoking weed makes you a bad person or unsuccessful, I’m saying the people I surrounded myself with and lifestyle I chose to adopt were... not optimal). I left college after my first year and, after a semester-long stint in community college, I was done with education altogether. I got fired from a decent job for something that was truly not my fault but it was for the best. I worked with a bunch of s**t heads too. I spent a few months unemployed with no direction for the first time in my life. I started working in loss prevention for a big box store and really got along well with the cops who would come when we caught shoplifters, which was odd given my lifestyle but not surprising given my personality and ability to get along with anyone. One day I decided I was gonna turn over a new leaf and be a cop. Everyone thought I was joking. I had picked up a possession of marijuana charge in my travels and people thought I couldn’t come back from that. Nobody took me seriously but me. I’m going on 5 years in law enforcement now. I have spearheaded many community policing initiatives aimed at reaching at-risk youths. I get out of my police car at Section 8 apartment complexes and talk to everyone. I use my discretion often to favor people who made a dumb mistake instead of ruining their lives with criminal charges. I still charge people, don’t get me wrong, but I use common sense and remember who I was not that long ago. I love my career and I’m glad to have the privilege to do what I do. Yes, there are still good cops out there, plenty of us.
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
There are more of the good ones than bad. Its just the bad ones sour their reputation.
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Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
OP one of your brothers in law enforcement did what you did, helped me at a low point. I lost my wife, house and kids (ex kicked me out, she had a new beau), I got caught with a couple grams of w##d ( i worked for one of the big 3) and he knew it. We talked for like an hour and I finally broke and cried. He was so cool, he just listened and gave me great life advice. Didnt charge me with carrying or DUI. He not only saved my career he honestly saved my life. I was ready to check out once and for all. He gave me his personal cell and we have kept in touch for 12 years since. TLDR: Got pulled over for DUI found a big brother
deanna woods 3 years ago
There really are some good cops out there. One of the best cops in my small town was a man named Richard Beck. He was the plain clothes officer in the department store where my mom worked. He was killed while answering a domestic violence call. He will always be remembered and loved.
Autumn 3 years ago
Oh no. That reminds me of what happened to a well liked police officer near where I lived. He started his own gym and taught kids how to wrestle. He had a wife and children, one being a little girl that my sister knew from dance classes. He was volunteering to work one day. He didn’t even have to be there. When him and the person he was working with gif out of there car ti go up to another. The other cop went to the drivers side door and he went to the passenger side. The guy pulled out a gun and shot him. That man had a whole life ahead of him. I’ve always felt terrible for his wife and children. But I know he won’t be forgotten.
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ItsYourTurn2ChangeTheLitterBox 3 years ago
Good cops speak out often and loudly about the behavior and systematic atrocities in their departments. "Talking to poor Section 8" people doesn't make a good cop. Standing up for them against brutality from your colleagues does. You say that u get out of your cruiser and talk to "section 8" folks like it's not the bare minimum of humanity to talk to people deemed below you. I say this as someone who's whole family is filled with cops AND as EMS, who often deals with the aftermath of victims of "good cops".
Alex Freetime 3 years ago
The problem with good cops is that if they don't speak up against the bad ones, they become bad cops too.
#6
Low achiever, used to goof off in class all the time. Bit of a class clown. Used to tell everyone that her goal was to be a trophy wife so she could watch TV all day.
Has shown her designs at Paris fashion week and has dressed several celebrities.
You could have knocked me over with a feather when I was flicking through a copy of Vogue Australia on my lunch break and there was a 4-page article on her in there.
I was so happy, she always had a heart of gold and I feel like her teen self was a reflection of what her family thought for her, she deserved to be much more than someone's wife.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago
This is a prime example of how high schools need to branch out and realize traditional school is not for everyone. Imagine all the wonders that would be if kids were nutured to their nature, and their talents, instead of everyone must go to college and a one size fits all approach. Good foe her for realizing traditional academics is not the be all end all!
#7
Very plain looking nice but quite girl I went to high school with, NEVER would had thought she would go on to become one the the top 20 supermodels of all time. Married a very famous rock star.
She’s a sweetheart. One of my dearest friends and checked in on me almost daily for close to a year, when I lost my daughter.
Ben Stubbs 3 years ago
Stephanie Seymour (Axl Rose), Heidi Klum (Seal), Kate Moss (Pete Doherty), Christine Brinkley (Billy Joel), Iman (David Bowie)....x
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Brianna Tracy 3 years ago
I’m incredibly sorry about your daughter. Fantastic that she checked in on you daily when you needed someone most.
Jo Morris 3 years ago
Married to Jon Bon Jovi or someone from Duran Duran? Depends what decade she's referring to.
Sinkvenice 3 years ago
Jon Bon Jovi's wife is his high school sweetheart, she's not a supermodel.
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Stacy B 3 years ago
I did a quick Google search and none of the top 20 supermodels are from Missouri and one model who is isn't married to a rocker. Now I'm extra confused.
Skylar Jaxx 3 years ago
Where did Missouri come in and the age?? I don't see it mentioned in this post.
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#8
There’s this girl I know from H.S. who struggled a lot with depression and anxiety. Her freshman year she tried to [take out] herself and ended up in a long term treatment center. She now has a Masters degree in social works and works in a high school with kids like herself. It’s pretty cool.
BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
So she got help, turned her life around and is now helping others like her? Amazing!!
Minath 3 years ago
Quite a few people who help addicts turn their lives around were once addicts themselves, I think you can only really understand a situation if you have been through something similar yourself.
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PixieVonBehr 3 years ago
I'm sorry BP but on what planet is saying a person "took themselves out" a better, more compassionate way than the usual words or simply that they ended their own life. Jeez.
Lily Francis 3 years ago (edited)
BP censors every time you try and use the accurate words. You risk a time out or suspension if you will.
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Chaya Herrebrugh-Wachtmeester 3 years ago
A euphemism for ending ones own life.
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Blarrg 3 years ago
Side note- "long term treatment center" is very possibly one of those involuntary residential programs that have come up in other threads where everyone rages that it's horrible and they can't believe they are legal. There are abuses, but there are also many that are quite good too.
Nicola Mawson 3 years ago
I have a friend who was addicted to drugs and is now a social worker helping other addicts
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
That's a nice turn around. Sometimes we get the help we need and turn right around and give it to others. I'm wondering about this expression "take out"? I haven't heard it in the US where is this expression used for suicide attempts?
Metalhead Turtle 🇺🇦 3 years ago
I'm not sure. I just think it's from Bored Panda and their censorship.
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Probably the smartest guy in class but never actually paid attention or did his homework. Was always sleeping in class or doing his own thing or goofing off
Recently sold his startup for 8 figures and is now back to goofing off.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago (edited)
Nice! Good for him! My classmates would always get pissed off at me for acing tests, when I was would skip class, never study, and only sometimes pay attention. I never have made 8 figures, but I have gotten multiple degrees and advanced a lot in my career. Much farther than most of my "smart" classmates". I started working in my field (medical) at 16, and when I graduated in 99, I was making more than a lot of people make now on minimum wage. I have ADHD, and as a female, ot was very overlooked, but I found the amazing gifts that can come from having it early on, and never looked back (thank you lom and dad!). Traditional school and intelligence is not exactly what is a true path for a lot of people! Hopefully we can start to see this and start nurturing people nature instead of trying to make them villanized for being what society and schools say they should not.
I Am LoKitty Of Meowsgard 3 years ago
Exactly. We also need to stop pushing kids so hard about going to college and telling they'll figure out what they want to study, or what field they want ti go into, once they get their generals out of the way. Let's help them figure it out in high school. More classes revolving around trades, plumbing, electrician, IT, medical such as EMT or ER Tech, security, mechanic, classes involving taxes and business startups. Kids shouldn't be going into debt before they even know what career path or field of study they want. Taking an interest, making a plan, knowing what you want to leave school with should happen BEFORE getting student loans, not after.
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#10
On of my best friends was Arab but didn't give into her parents traditional ways. She would tell her mom that she was going to backpack through Europe when she turned 18, that she wanted to be a police officer, refused to wear a hijab although her parents kept on telling her to. Of course her parents disapproved of all this and told her "hell no" to traveling or becoming a police officer. Two years after high school she became very religious and married some guy in his late 30s and already has two kids and only hangs out and talks to people in her Muslim community circle.
I don't really talk to her anymore because I'm a guy (although I'm gay) because her husband disapproves of it. She also told me she doesn't support me being gay "because it's wrong" although throughout high school she was very supportive and was there for me when I came out to my parents and they didn't take it well.
I don't know what caused her to 180 and fall in line with her parents wishes, but I do miss who she use to be.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
I had a friend exactly like this, but she was a Jehovah’s Witness. We were BEST friends and she was quite a rebel - we’d often ditch school to sip wine coolers in the woods and gossip about boys. She was so much fun, the life of the party, and she told me she loved being seen as just a regular person instead of the class’s “token estranged religious girl.” Right after graduation, she suddenly told me we couldn’t be friends because I was too “worldly,” and that she’d asked her congregation for forgiveness and had to complete various humiliating punishments such as standing in front of the whole church and listing every “sin” she’d committed as a teenager (including the time she kissed a girl at a party, which apparently disgusted the church and almost got her defellowshipped, aka excommunicated). The only way she could stay in contact with her family was by ditching all her friends, devoting all her talents, time and free will to the church and only interacting with other JWs for the rest of her life, never anyone outside the religion ever again. :/ She can’t even teach her story because women aren’t allowed to teach or lead. Women aren’t even allowed to host a bible study. It’s been 12 years and I still miss her terribly, but it was her choice. I still miss and love you Jess and I’ll always be a friend to you, even if I never see you again 🧡
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Helen X 3 years ago
I think I have an idea what caused her to turn 180: peer pressure. The pressure from your own community to follow certain rules and become very religious can be unbelievable, especially in that kind of community. I know of stories where girls were murdered by their own fathers/brothers for not wanting to wear hijab. The story above sadly is a familiar story with girls with that kind of background. I knew several of those girls in college, when I met them after a few years they all had gone religious. As if they were suddenly ashamed that they had dressed otherwise before.
Gwyn 3 years ago
I had a friend like this. Grew up in a small town and talked so much about getting out and traveling the world, bucked her parents by choosing a different field of study, even went to college out of town. She came back for a job, didn't want to stay though. She talked a lot about her plans. But ... She met a guy and they married, got pregnant, he convinced her to stay at home and settle in the small town. We drifted apart (she started changing, no longer honest person). I miss her, she used to be a good friend, enthusiastic, ambitious, caring. Those qualities all seemed to diminish. I wonder about her now and then, and what happened to those dreams of hers and if she'll ever get to see the world like she wanted.
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago
That is something I find sad, too... assuming you weren't going to write anything hateful, I would love it if pandas could comment without having to worry about that.
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Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Something happened, for sure. And I don't think that is was something good.
Wintermute 3 years ago
I've seen a LOT of religious kids rebel in youth only to fall super hard back into their church when things get real. It's sad, really.
Atreïdes 3 years ago
If they’re happy and not hurting anyone, it’s good, right?
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Totally happy Panda 3 years ago
Looks like she's had to completely suffocate her real self. Sad
Channo Sagara 3 years ago
For the record, same sex relationship is not allowed in Islam rules. So as a muslim, although i personally support gays, i am not allowed to say it out loud. So maybe give your moslem brothers and sisters some slack. It's not that we don't want to support you out loud, most of us do. it's just the circumstances doesn't allow us to announce it.
#11
Me. I had a 4.357 GPA. Was always in gifted classes, AP classes, nerdy and quiet on the track to get into any university of my choice to become a doctor.
I got pregnant right before my senior year by someone terrible and even though I graduated, I ended up working at McDonalds for 5 years and married to a drug dealer.
Luckily I’ve turned my life back around and am doing ok now.
Need2Work4Myself 3 years ago
This was me. So much in 'book smarts' but not enough in 'street smarts' or 'worldliness'. Missed out on law school because before I could even get there, I got pregnant with my one & only kiddo my 1st yr of college. I know it's never too late for anything, but I'm a single mom now and I'd have to make some serious sacrifices to finish undergrad and go to law school. 😩
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SydneyGirl 3 years ago
Can Americans please remember that BP is international. GPA and AP classes mean nothing to anyone outside the USA.
Lily Francis 3 years ago (edited)
It's never too late to start over and try for your dreams. Or make new ones.
Channo Sagara 3 years ago
Well, my late mother (bless her soul) always taught me to get good grades. It's everything for her. So i lied and cheated and do every dirty plays on the book to get good grades. After she died, i lived awful life on the streets and my good grades means sh*t. Now i have a family on my own, i teach my daughter to make good decisions, good grades is just a bonus that'll help out a bit.
Himory TheDreamer 3 years ago
The begging sounds like my story except now I'm someone who wishes he could work at McDonald's. It's an honest job like any other, but it requires social skills I don't have like any other.
#12
Went to high school with Post Malone. He and I had a mutual friend in middle school so inevitably in high school we became close. I remember listening to him play guitar in his garage and telling him "you're gonna be big one day." But I didnt expect him to reach the fame level he did.
Tara Moov 3 years ago
I still don't know who he is/what he's famous for aside from tattooing silly things on his face.
Wysteria_Rose 3 years ago
I have a university friend that sings and plays. I always say I won't be shocked if he gets big and famous one day...I just really hope it's for his music and amazing voice and not his drug habits.
Eline 3 years ago
I went to high school with a girl who was very kind and funny. She sang a lot and played guitar. We grew up, took different paths un life. And then, 10 years later, i reconized her as the singer of a french band. I sent her a message on messenger, and we spoke a little bit. She's almost the same as the last time we met.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
Did he have tattoos back then? And he clue that he was going to be the kind of guy that tattooed up his face? I mean that's a pretty bold statement
#13
Best friend in high school. His step dad was a district attorney and apparently they didn't get along at all. This was the bible belt south east. I met him in the tenth grade as I smoked weed and he happened to sell it. He lived in a trailer park and financed it with his weed sales. My parents hated him. After he graduated from high school while living 100 percent on his own, he did two years of collage before getting accepted in a major medical university program that actually paid him to be there. He is now a pharmaceutical engineer living in Switzerland. My parents were surprised to hear that.
Garcsa Brooks 3 years ago
I don't see how they were surprised, he's always been into selling pharmaceuticals
onivdsrapowijap 3 years ago
Sometimes, kids who sell drugs do so because they really need money and there are motives strong enough for them to sell illegal drugs
LinkTheHylian 3 years ago
He's started a marijuana subscription service: Weed+. $9.99 a month for the premium package, $7.99 for the standard package with ads.
#14
Our class valedictorian, who was also a star soccer player, ended up turning down numerous full rides to major universities to basically travel the world doing random volunteer work in 3rd world countries.
Julieandthephatones 3 years ago
good for him. Im sure he mad a lots of peoples lives a bit better.
M 3 years ago
I am just curious, why did you assume it was him? I'm asking because I assume it was her :)
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Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
If he is happy in his work, he'll be OK. We place way too much emphasis on high salaries & not enough on job satisfaction.
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Kinda dumb. Could have gone to college first, and then taken as many years as he wants to engage in social activism. Having a degree expands the range of ways in which a person can help others. Each physician in Doctors without Borders is worth dozens of well-meaning kids from affluent families who are just one more pair of hands, and are generally far worse at the work they are doing than the people that they are trying to hep.
#15
The quiet, kinda nerdy guy in the back of my AP Calculus class is now the CEO of Playboy Thailand.
Lea Panthera 3 years ago
I'm stuck between wanting to Google them and not wanting to for fear of seeing...you know...
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Earl Grey 3 years ago
Pretty sure we won’t be hearing “The Lord works in mysterious ways” with this one.
#16
A friend of mine was a decorated student in high school. Top cadet in JROTC, top 25 out of 500 students, got a scholarship geared toward any STEM major, gifted chemist, and on top of that he joined Army ROTC in college to get in track to become a U.S citizen (he is undocumented).
So what happened?
He gave up everything to sell Herbalife and Amway thinking he will be a millionaire in 5 years.
So much f*****g potential... gone.
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
My father, a very successful exec, who helped design a popular 80's car (US) got into herbalife. Why? IDK. He still has boxes of that damn chalky strawberry shake in his garage. 🤦♂️
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago
Proof that intelligence and common sense don't necessarily overlap much. But con artists like that really know how to lure you in. Some simple ways to deal with that: If it sounds to good to be true, it is: walk away. If people don't give you time and space to think about a deal and you need to decide asap: walk away. If in any scenario you are somehow "the chosen one" and they absolutely can't to without you: walk away, even though it is flattering af
#17
Friend got brainwashed by Fundamentalist Christian group. Has 14 kids now.
ThatBiBookLover 3 years ago (edited)
Oh god- I mean, if he/she’s happy, who am I to judge 🤷♀️ (Poor kids tho)
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
Oh boy, one of those creepy Christian "mega families" where the wife spends half her life pregnant.
GoGoPDX 3 years ago
How the hell does a parent have an actual relationship with there kids when there are 14 of them?
Blarrg 3 years ago
I don't know... I know a family with 15(!) kids and the parents are amazing. Really present and engaged. And I know parents with one of two kids who let the TV or the phone or the nanny raise their kids.
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Blue Mar 3 years ago
I don't understand this weird desire to "multiplying". Like earth would need more people. Believe what you want, but times when mortality among children is low and no need to have 14! in medical ages it was common practice as not many infants would make it through to adult.
ADJ 3 years ago
How much do you consider normal number of children in developed countries?
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Lonely Tentacle 3 years ago
I saw you got downvoted, so I upvoted and I hope it helps. Downvotes can get people banned, guys, if you disagree don't downvote, just write it in a comment. It's a shame banning people just because they have different opinions than yours.
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Alex Freetime 3 years ago
He'll create a new soccer team, won the world championship and become a billionaire. That's the plan...or maybe he's just really dumb.
#18
Every school had the certified junkie, our was some real skinny guy named Avery. He not only was a junkie, he was a terrible student. He never did one piece of work and always talked back to teachers and it was an everyday thing for him to get kicked out of class. I'm pretty sure he was at the very bottom of our class. I saw him at Wal-Mart a few years ago and he did a full 180. It was very visible he was off drugs completely, he physically looked better and he was now a youth pastor. I check up on him ever so often on social media and it seems he's still doing fine.
Jo L. 3 years ago
Youth pastors often have the best stories of turning their lives around. We might not believe the same things, but the vast majority of the time, their hearts are in the right place.
Joshua Shamblin 3 years ago
So he went from being a junkie to selling b******t religion. He would've been better off still being a junkie. Eff your own life up fine. Selling bs religion to desperate people is far worse
#19
My best friend since I was 5 yrs old, smartest person I ever knew. She went off to college and got into heroin. She is now serving a life sentence for first degree murder.
Feminist Percussionist 3 years ago
Roses are red, cacti are prickly, well that escalated a quickly
Bored Retsuko 3 years ago (edited)
S**t. Edit: I don't like how this was censored, I wrote s h i t but now it looks as if I might have meant "sl u t "
Amber Bedard 3 years ago
I'm wondering if she got caught up in the opiate epidemic starting with pills Ex's by a Doctor. That has ruined so many lives when that OC came around. It's still ruining lives today. Everyone knows someone that got caught up in that mess I'm willing to bet
#20
A guy I was friends with in drama club became a professional drag queen. No one knew he was gay. I almost dated the guy. We made out once on a school trip.
Nicole Weymann 3 years ago
Good for him! Though I don't think being gay is a requirement for drag queening (or vice versa).
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
I won fifth place at an amateur drag show put on by professional drag queens (and yes they are all awesome and beautiful irl). I was dared to enter by my friends and got talked into shaving my legs, a queen let me borrow a nice little red dress and 2" heels, a little light make up and a wig. I had an absolute f"ing blast. Oh and Im hetro, with kids. My ex did my make up. I guess i have the legs for it. Enjoy life to the fullest, its the only one we have.
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Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
Not all Queens are gay. Could have been gay, straight, bi, aro, pan, etc.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
He may not be gay at all-drag queens are usually straight guys that enjoy the theatrics of the gigs.
#21
My female bully developed alopecia and lost her hair. While I don’t wish that on anyone, I appreciated the irony of someone who was so focused on looks/social standing going bald.
Glitterati 3 years ago
I wish that on my high school bully and I’m forty years old. I’d still be secretly delighted.
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago (edited)
My (previously gorgeous and popular and MEAN) high school bully never left our small home town, became quite obese, and is now a 29-year-old divorced mom of 3 who works like 3 MLMs and chain smokes on her patio all day. Her patio faces the high school. I like to think that she stares at it wistfully while she smokes, remembering the time she truly peaked in life 😇 (I wouldn’t normally be so judgmental, she’s just still a gaping a$$hole after all these years)
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Susan Bosse 3 years ago
I got to see my bully's house being raided by local PD/Sheriff departments. Really nice neighborhood hood but they had a meth lab going. I didn't know what I was seeing until later that night. I still love knowing that I witnessed karma.
Adrienne Doyle 3 years ago
A former bully from junior high ended up dying from a heroin overdose.
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kool mudkips 3 years ago
I can't delight in the suffering of another human being. Even if they suck. (Unless they're pedos.) I can't imagine losing all my hair permanently and I don't even care about my looks much. Bullies usually have bad home lives. (I know because I was a bit of a bully to one girl. Which I have since apologized to and became friends with. Luckily, she accepted my apology. The abuse I suffered was an open secret because my dad was a notorious fighter, drug dealer, abuser. So she knew. It doesn't excuse it but kids aren't just naturally bad. There is usually a reason they become what they are. Luckily now, I have 3 kids (who have never been abused in ANY way) and a great husband and the forgiveness of those I wronged. Also 11 years sober from heroin.)
Glitterati 3 years ago
I have absolute admiration for you and I wish I could be the same. My bully was very smart and managed to isolate me from everyone in my school year. This was a girls school so hideous anyway. She told different people terrible things I’d said about them. I hadn’t said any of these things, she just made them up. I lost all my friends, everyone hated me. I didn’t know what I’d done wrong as nobody would speak to me to tell me. To this day I don’t know what people thought I’d done. I do recognise why she was how she was as we were friends before she suddenly turned on me. She wasn’t abused but she was jealous of me. I tried to take my own life because of her actions. I didn’t want to but I couldn’t see any way out. She’s going great. She has no idea what she did to me.
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Mini Yaya 3 years ago
I was tiny in high school. 5ft zero. 98 lbs. I've put on a few pounds , kids, but still small. The girl who bullied me was the typical mean girl. Cheerleader, quarterback boyfriend. She made my life hell for 2 years before I moved away. Saw her picture on a friend's Facebook page, she is married to the quarterback and weights about 300 lbs. Not kidding. Karma will bite you every chance it gets.
Dill 3 years ago (edited)
Explain abusers who DO get away with it? Jimmy Savile is always an excellent example of that. He was even buried with honor initially... until they moved him once the truth was out there. A lot of people who wrong others never get any comeuppance. That alone makes it impossible to believe that there is some cosmic balance, or universal law. Nice if that is what you believe but the idea that even every school bully experiences an awakening or gets it back somehow but we won't see it? Seriously no.
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#22
Elizabeth the bad-a*s party chick. She was the brilliant and quietly rebellious type. She was pulling and getting away with s**t that most of the guys branded as trouble makers in school could only dream of, because she had the sense and savvy to not show off to the world. She wasn't doing s**t for the attention, she was just doing it because that's what she wanted to do. So smoking, heavy drinking, some drugs, staying out all night, whatever. She could out-do anyone else.
Anyway a little over 10 years later I caught up with her and found out she was a tri-athelete and overall health nut.
Jo L. 3 years ago (edited)
People with "extreme" personalities often end up like this - they decide they want something and they just go for it. This totally fits, imo. My sister quit her job, got really into weightlifting, became a stripper and started making bank, and dumped her husband for a guy she met at the club. Fast-forward a few years, she meets an ambitious younger guy at the club, who she married last fall, and they started a very successful company together. I subcontract a lot of work to them in my business and it's been great. I would have been perfectly happy for her if she wanted to continue in her previous line of work if she still loved it, but it's crazy to see how fast she's realized her other ambitions.
#23
high school meth dealer and local lunchroom pot/cigarette vendor ended up being roomates senior year. two months after graduation they both joined the las vegas PD.
Jody Whitmarsh 3 years ago
Best pot I ever got, before it was legal in Cali, was a tip from a cop when I was bartending. Lol
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Kevin Hickey 3 years ago
Georgie: [They've just stopped a band of tramps from beating up Alex] What's the trouble, sir? Alex: [looks up and recognizes them] Oh no! Dim: Well. Well, well. Well, well, well, well, if it isn't little Alex. Long time no viddy, droog. How goes? Alex: It's... it's impossible. I don't believe it. Georgie: Evidence of the old glazzies. Nothing up their sleeves. No magic, little Alex. A job for two, who are now of job age. The police.
Minath 3 years ago
I have no idea what you are talking about, but I gave you an up vote anyway so you don't get banned.
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#24
A really nice and shy guy who liked Queen and played guitar a bit. Became a bass-guitarist in #1 rock band in Ukraine.
Edit: it's Okean Elzy. He's not in the band anymore, but has been playing for first 10 years.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Okean Elzy is the band name. The band's vocalist and frontman is Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.
#25
The son of my teacher was a football player, had a beautiful gf (they broke up before he graduated though), and was a procrastinator. Once he graduated, he went to work at a restaurant for a year and as far as I knew, he was going to attend college the next year but he had no idea of what his major was gonna be. I just found out two weeks ago he got accepted to a local seminary and is going to become a priest! I was shocked to say the least
Geoffrey Hebel 3 years ago
That is most unfortunate nobody should applaud anyone getting into cult leadership
#26
Guy who sat behind me in hometown. Was a good student, but not an intellectual superstar by any means.
After I relocated to Eastern PA, turns out he was in Western NJ. Multi-millionaire, former CEO of a pharmaceutical company.
Great guy, super happy for him, but truly unexpected.
#27
When I was 10 I sat next to the sweetest boy in our class. (All the other boys I had sat next to in junior school were mild a*s-hats). I remember I lent him my Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory vhs and he lent me The Muppets Take Manhattan.
We went to different high schools when we were 12. I heard that at 16 he had been arrested for armed robbery. I still can’t believe it. What the hell happened to that kind and gentle boy between 12 and 16?
#28
One super shy quiet dude is now doing time for blackmailing girls and posting their nudes.
The Bookworm 3 years ago
I thought the exact same thing! Idk if it is or not though.
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Sandy Kavanaugh 3 years ago
This sounds like a logical progression, as there wasn't much known about him in school.
Michelle C 3 years ago
Here’s hoping that doing time will lead him to Jesus and he will never hurt anyone again!!
Lia Salvatore 3 years ago
I can't help but feel terrified that the guy in the picture will spill scalding hot coffee on himself
Mosheh Wolf 3 years ago
Not at all surprising. Typical Incel profile. He was always an a-hole, and he isn't "shy". He is a raging a-hole who is too much of a coward to be an a-hole where he can be identified and would have to pay a price for it. So he saves his a-holery for the internet, where he can hide behind a fake name and identity. He hasn't actually changed at all - the only thing that has changed is that he is no longer hiding his disgusting personality.
#29
A girl I knew was a strict Christian and floated between groups of friends. Her judgmental side came out from time to time. Once I remember her telling a girl she was going to “burn in the depths of hell” for having sex. I only know this because I was the lucky girl sitting between them when the other girl jumped over me to punch her...
Anyway, after high school, I heard she met a guy, stopped being a Christian and wrote all sorts of over sharing sexual statuses on Facebook. They got engaged and were hooked on drugs. She pawned her engagement ring for drugs and lived above a smoke shop out east.
Good news! She’s now off drugs, married and has a daughter. Still posts over-sexualized photos and statuses on Facebook. We’re good on seeing you in lingerie suggestively laying on your husband...
Amber.exe (She/They) 3 years ago
Wow from telling a girl to burn in hell for having s*x to posting sexual pictures on Facebook
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
That is the hallmark of an insecure hypocrite.
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Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago (edited)
When a Christian caterpillar transforms into a deviant butterfly.
#30
20 years later our class valedictorian was working at a Chick-fil-A
Question everything 3 years ago
It's the pressure. Many high HS achievers end up being depressed, anxious or stressed later as their brains are burned out at that young age and the way out of that is hard. Working jobs that require little thinking power is a godsent for them.
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Becky Woods 3 years ago
If they're happy, then they're successful in the most important way. Also, the person could have been really financially successful, but also really bored and so hot a regular job to see what it was like.
Satan Laughs 3 years ago
Aaaaand Chick Fil-A employees are the best!!!!! So TF what? Could have been her side gig.
ErrorGamer2000 3 years ago
My class valedictorian (I'm in senior year RN) is an absolutely amazing person and a genius. Sadly, he has absolutely no idea what he is going to do after H.S.
Madeleine 3 years ago
It’s ok to not know right away. Some people need a bit of time to sort out what comes next for them.
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#31
My brother. He wasn't unintelligent, just not that interested in school. He was social and kind of lazy. He is currently an RN (Registred Nurse) in a level one trauma center, going to school to be an NP (Nurse Practitioner) , and married to a beautiful, kind, super smart woman who is also an ER (Emergency Room) RN. He is one of the most wonderful human beings I've ever met and I'm so proud of the man he's become.
#32
Best friend in high school was kind of a mess; hanging out with older guys from the wrong side of the tracks, drinking smoking pot, etc. She became a heroin addict and disappeared for 15 years. She re-emerged as a recovering addict, got a masters degree in addiction psychology, married a wealthy rancher, became an addiction therapist, lost 100 pounds, lived happily ever after. I thought she was goner.
#33
The prettiest girl in high school, who was always nice to me (I was a bullied child) overdosed on heroin two years ago. I still cry for her.
ohjojo (you/your's) 3 years ago
Pretty does not equal happy. As adults, many of us understand this . Popular does not equal happy, class clown is not equal happy. Keep an open heart I look beyond the exterior. People may be crying out for attention and we don't even see what they really wanting and asking for.
#34
I was probably that friend. Overachiever, highest grades, super nerd throughout high school. In everybody's minds, mine included, I was headed to a great university career in engineering. Dropped out (technically "left it hanging" as you can do it in my country) after 2 years, traveled Europe and Vegas as a poker journalist. Heading back now to finish the degree I started 10 years ago, and I don't regret a single moment!
Totally happy Panda 3 years ago
That's a great way to live life. Do everything you wish for, making the right choice of course, and regret nothing!!! Happy for you
#35
In my graduating class of 149, we had 148 go to college. That one guy? He decided to go “on tour” with his band. The other members of the band were two guys that graduated from our school the year before.
About 6 years later, they are still touring full time and have made a pretty good name for themselves. They’ve headlined their own tours and have opened for some big name bands. It’s pretty cool to get to go to one of their shows and hang out with them backstage.
Edit: for all those asking, the bands name is New Madrid.
Detroit Citizen 3 years ago
Wow ive heard of New Madrid in passing when I was a DJ. Never listened to them tho
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Hey they’re pretty good! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tswMHbKLTA
#36
Punk lesbian who used to get me into soooo many shady situations in high school, skipping, stealing cars staying out all night, getting high. She moved for university, married a Greek Orthodox man, bought a house in the suburbs and popped out 5 kids before she turned 30. Her FB posts are now all hawking girl guide cookies and taking about the PTA and kids softball games. So f*****g weird.
Awkward lady 3 years ago
Oh, I don't know. Some people have to get the wild and weird stuff out of their system before they settle down.
#37
I would probably be a good post about this but since this isn't about myself here we go: A girl who was in the top 10 of my graduating class. Had plans to become a lawyer and probably would have succeeded seeing as how her 'mock trial' team won state. Went to college and learned she enjoyed the 'arts' much more. Briefly become an actress, but failed. Moved back home with her parents and started her own photography business but failed. Now she is a very successful burlesque dancer! While she has failed in many of her endeavors, I always admire her will to find something new to try. And the kid in our class who some of us were sure would become a mass murderer is now the Fire Chief of the local fire dept.
SCP 4666 3 years ago
Never too late to start something new. If an endeavor of yours proves to be not for you after all try a different one. No one said you have to choose one career path and stick to it no matter what
IDK_Something 3 years ago
You're right, there's still hope for the mass murderer yet! /s 🤣
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A kid named John. A lot of us smoked weed but John was a true champion. One thing I remember about him was him stealing his sister's pot pipe, a wooden penis-shaped pipe. He expected us to smoke out of it. We did. I mean...it's weed. His eyes were always at half-mast. His academic achievements were slim to none. Barely scraped by with D's. Twenty years later, I inquired about him with a common friend. John became an electrician in another state. He paid careful attention to the industry and felt that the commercial electrical supply firms were less than optimal. So he started one out of his garage. Now he owns a whole string of them, with millions in profit every year. From penis pipe to millionaire. It can happen!
Michelle C 3 years ago
Some people are just not responsive to more recent “traditional” schooling. Either that, really prefer something else entirely.
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Me. I was the kid who started smoking weed and cigs at 12. Moved to ecstasy at 14, Molly at 16, cocaine and oxys at 17 and by 19 was a full on addict to heroin and crack. At 22 I broke down and in a sobbing mess on my hands and knees cried out to God to help me and made the decision to turn my life around. It's now 4 years later, im married, raising her 3 children, one of ours, one on the way. I'm the Operations Director of the company I work for. Have an amazing relationship with my family that I never really knew. Usher and assistant to the youth pastor at my church. I spend my days leading the employees I have, the youth at church, and my children to be all they can, and I never pass an opportunity to help someone that struggles with addiction or self worth. I would have never expected to be here, and God may not be your thing, but my life is a million times better than I expected it to be because of the change of course I took.
Crouching hippo hidden panda 3 years ago
Well done, for helping yourself, helping others and congrats for the new arrival
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
Instead of ODing, he became an OD (Operations Director) :) I’m sorry I’m not trying to be funny, but it’s an interesting coincidence! Good for him for turning his life around so beautifully after such a long period of addiction!
Michelle C 3 years ago
I know someone very much like this and if it wasn’t for the original storyteller’s indication that he or she is married with three children, I would think this was about my friend!! He had some similar experiences growing up and is now an addictions counselor and motivational speaker. I also know him from church!
iseefractals 3 years ago
Um..."Molly" and "Ecstasy" are both just slang for MDMA (3,4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine) What people refer to as "ecstasy" is MDMA usually in pill form with some fun little bit of branding pressed into the tablet (Pikachu, Ferrari, Mitsubishi) those pills are often, but by no means always, cut with some other type of drug, Cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, LSD or other hallucinogenic phenethylamine or some combination of the above, while what is referred to as "molly" usually comes as a powder, often in a gel capsule and is treated as being a more pure or unadulterated form of MDMA, which is frankly, laughable. Regardless, this strikes me the same way as someone saying they've done crank, meth AND speed"
#40
Not HS, but my best friend’s freshman roommate was a weird guy. Brilliant. Literally 1600 SAT scores, full ride, brilliant, but never really showered. He was dating the sweetest, kindest girl, who dumped him after two months of trying to get him to take better care of himself and actually go out and do anything. We’d try to get him to come out of his shell because he was pretty funny and we liked the guy. After not hearing from him for 15 years, we looked him up. Apparently he cofounded Revolve clothing, is a multi millionaire, and parties in Ibiza and s**t. I’m genuinely happy for the guy, but I never, ever, expected him to hit it big in fashion.
#41
Coke and weed addict, best friend in 9th grade. Now in late tenth and she’s in military school across the country, sober since last Christmas, I’m so damn proud of her.
#42
Ditzy air-headed cheerleader is now a *very* high power attorney. Ms. Social Butterfly Party Girl is an Anglican priest. Mr. Most Likely to Succeed dropped out of college and is a construction worker.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
The first one sounds like Legally Blonde, without the a-hole boyfriend.
#43
There were two that really stand out. One of them was a girl who got in a fair amount of trouble. She skipped school, had a bad attitude and was more interested in hanging out with friends than learning. She ended up becoming a lawyer and eventually became the assistant DA of a city with about 3 million people.
The other was a nice guy, got along with most everyone, I even considered him a friend and hung out with him on occasion. He came from a great family and while he didn't get the best grades, he was good at things like fixing cars so I assumed he would end up going into that field. Instead, he started a career in drinking. By the time he was 30 he had been in jail several times, in a rehab a couple of times, had been arrested numerous times, had two restraining orders on him from former girlfriends, and had burned so many bridges with his family they had given up on him. Now in his mid 40's, he still lives in that same town. He looks like he is in his 60's, is on disability, and likely doesn't have much of a future as he continues to drink himself away.
Michelle C 3 years ago
Probably. I lost a relative due to alcoholism some years ago and she had significant trauma in her past. She had everything going for her, but never fully healed from her father‘s tragic passing and a few other circumstances combined to trigger a lifelong addiction after that. It’s been 14 years since she passed on and I still miss her very much. I always will until I get to Heaven and see her again!
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Dude was the typical c*cky douche to most people but we got along well enough. We're 25 now, and he moved to Vegas went bald, put on about a hundred pounds and is dating a sixty year old stripper.
#45
A friend of mine was really into herself and dated a lot of rich guys. She vowed not to get married or have children that she had goals to become a business professional woman. She did some modeling etc. Fast forward 10 years. She gained 120 pounds and her husband left her for another woman and she is raising a disabled child that consumes all her time where she cannot work. I have to say that she is an excellent mother. She basically turned into everything she said that she would not be.
#46
I had a friend in high school (still good friends now) who used to get in trouble with police, had a probation officer for a while before high school, and just had a general problem with authority. She's in law enforcement now.
Rave L. 3 years ago (edited)
Your juvenile record in the US is sealed when you turn 18 so a background check would not flag anything.
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#47
A lot of them! I don't know if there was something in the water in our town. A lovely girl in my class had severe anorexia, to the extent she had to repeat the year. She was strikingly pretty, with the face of an angel. Always wondered if she felt self-conscious and grew obsessed about her looks because it was what people valued - nobody made the same fuss about her good grades or niceness. She is now morbidly obese, couch surfing and pretty much always wears the same big brown coat and tracksuit pants. Was shocked to see her go from one extreme to the other. Still really nice, hope it works out for her. Another high achiever in our class is now a travelling musician and nudist. She dropped out of engineering and just travels from festival to festival as a concert goer, dressed as a barefoot rainbow fairy. Self-funds by offering tarot readings, spells, palmistry. Lived by the creek for awhile. Has a Pomeranian.
Stacy B 3 years ago
The 1st girl definitely needs help. She still has an eating disorder and issues with food its just the other end of the spectrum. I hope she can find help and support. It bothers me when people shame others for their weight. Its so unnecessarily cruel because they are harder on themselves then another person could possibly be. Be a solution to a problem not part of the problem, offer to walk with them or just be someone who doesn't judge them. Be kind.
#48
I had a wickedly smart and talented high school friend end up in p**n as a last resort (long story as to why it was a last resort- in a nutshell, at the time she saw it as her only way out of a bad situation that had spiraled out of control quickly). She finally managed to get out of p**n and studied to become a teacher, winning many awards throughout her years-long career. One summer, an a*****e parent came across her porn and decided it would be a good idea to send her videos to the local media and expose her past. Being a small-ish town, word traveled fast (I believe it even made national news at one point), and the more conservative people in the community called for her to be fired. The school district cowed to the pressure and let her go. Even though many other people did end up vocally supporting her after the news of her firing, she decided she’d had enough. She made the decision to leave the community and start over by focusing on her art and political causes that she was passionate about. Last I’d heard, she was doing well selling her art and teaching at a local university (not sure if she disclosed her past to the university), and is a very active member within the local chapter of her political party. Never would’ve expected this road for her, but I’m glad she’s doing well.
Stacy B 3 years ago (edited)
With how little money teachers in the US make they shouldn't be judging their other areas of income especially if it doesn't affect her teaching. I swear some of these parents are truly jealous and go around looking for things to complain to make themselves feel important. Its so low to ruin someone's career and put that person/their family in financial jeopardy for no valid reason. These parents act like they never did stupid stuff or made less than stellar choices. I couldn't care less about what past jobs my kids teachers have as long as they are helping my child and are a good example to the students now. This world needs more empathy.
#49
The flamboyant gay kid joined the Israeli Army and married a woman. Really not sure how that happened.
John Carr 3 years ago
Regular and reserve is compulsory. Maybe the OP meant that the person signed up for permanent service which some people do after their regular service period has finished
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Not a friend, but I went to middle and high school with a girl who went into acting.
Became a Power Ranger.
#51
He wasn't a friend, but I still value his story. He wasn't a very good student, quite a delinquent, and was known to have the most demerits. I didn't really know him too well, but he knew of me because I did really well in HS and word of me got around. One day during senior year, he saw me in the bathroom and started talking to me. He told me that he looked up to me, that I inspired him, and that he was going to turn his life around. He said he knew he screwed up here and there and that he didn't take things seriously. But he told me to watch him change himself, watch him become better, watch him succeed. I told him to go for it and never stop believing in himself. Never spoke to him again. We were connected on facebook so I saw his life updates on my newsfeed. He really did change his life in college. He got a 4.0 GPA, he stopped messing around and wasting his time... actually he became a studious nerd. He was succeeding. He did it. He proved he can turn things around. He proved that he would take things seriously. He was clearly very ambitious and taking every opportunity he could to advance in life. I never reached out and told him, but I was so damn proud of him. I was doing pretty poorly in my life at the time, and he became a source of inspiration for me. He inspired me, and I looked up to him then. I think he got off social media because I never saw any more news from him, but wherever he is and whatever he is doing, I wish him the best. I hope he accomplishes everything he sets out to do. If I somehow magically ever see him again, I'll be sure to tell him this.
#52
The happy surprise? One of the girls I went to school with kind of came from the wrong side of the tracks. Nice kid, but her family was known to be pretty trashy, and she dropped out of community college to be a stripper. A few years later, she got her s**t together, and now she's a corporate lawyer. The not-so-happy surprise? Dude was brilliant. He came from a wealthy family, he was good at sports, he was a hilarious person to be around. Even at the time, it was no secret that he had his demons, but he was just so damn smart that it seemed like if he could grow out of his adolescent angst, everything would be fine. (Again, wealthy family. Bright. Good looking. Bro didn't exactly have to hit a home run to do okay in life.) I believe he's working part-time at the grocery store now, but he may have gotten fired again. Or he might be back on disability. Or maybe he's working at Pizza Hut...it's always hard to keep it straight, because he doesn't tend to hold down any particular job for long. Honestly, if he weren't such a nice person, there might be a hint of schadenfreude there, but as it is, it's just tragic. He really was brilliant, and he really was a wonderful human being, but there weren't enough advantages in the world to save him from himself.
#53
One of the long- haired dirty metal guys became the kind of adult who goes to Disney without children. Had a wedding at Disney with mouse ears and everything, and now they have a little girl.
Jessica Wood 3 years ago
You'd be amazed at the number of heavy metal Disney covers there are.
Stacy B 3 years ago
I honestly never would have guessed that's a thing. Good for them!
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#54
Wan’t really a high school friend, but more like a babysitter’s high school friend. When I was in primary school, my babysitter and her cousin Madeline would hang out together while taking care of me. Madeline was everything you could have wanted out of a high schooler. She was pretty, athletic, and most of all, she was extremely intelligent. Got all sorts of awards and praises in her 8th grade graduation. Once high school came around the corner, we had the biggest hope for her. She planned on doing this program that would allow you to graduate your sophomore year. It was incredibly difficult, and you’d have to take junior and senior classes early on. We all believed in her whole-heartedly, and in short, she failed it miserably. Instead of studying, she slept around and smoked weed, did drugs and failed the test to graduate early. She got pregnant junior year by a married man. Ended up miscarrying, fell into alcohol, and is currently unemployed living under her mother’s care. All of this happened before I could even start high school. (A year ago.)
#55
A smart, not particularly pretty (at the time), tomboy best known for her active participation on the school basketball team went on to become Miss Country. She was in Miss World a few years ago too. She now runs a makeup business and continues to do modeling. It's said that one of the reasons she did well in the Miss Country pageant was she was much smarter than the other contestants, so she outshone them particularly in the talent and Q&A competitions.
#56
Not really a friend as I didn't run with their crowd, but like at every school there was the really popular girl. Pretty, cheerleader, everybody liked her, wealthy parents, etc... I'm sure you knew someone like that yourself. Just maybe two or three weeks ago she got arrested and charged with several felonies for possession of meth, prescription pain killers, and a large amount of weed. I moved away from that town years ago and haven't really kept in touch with a lot of the people from there. However a buddy of mine sent me a picture of the report in the newspaper and was like "remember her?" Definitely didn't expect it, that's for sure.
#57
ladies man guy with a big ego. He was fun for about 5 hours before you needed a break from him. anyway, he slept with like a good 1/3 of the cheerleaders, had a 4 way with some girls on the vollyball team, senior year he screwed a bunch of the drama girls, he loved hanging out with the drama girls. slept with them all of the time and they became his flavor of choice. turns out he cared less for the cheerleaders and drama girls and more about cheerleading and drama. Guy's in a gay p**no now and does some off-Broadway shows.
Joel Hopkins 3 years ago
Dang I'm dumb. I was like, how can a piano be gay? It's not piano. It's a video.
#58
She was voted most likely to succeed in our year, had plans on being a doctor, really smart. Ended up staying in state for college (pretty rural, limits options), we lost touch, she got married, she's a stay at home mom and a trophy wife, basically, traveling the world on her (doctor) husband's dime.
Not a bad life, certainly, but not expected.
Edit: I didn't mean to imply she's a golddigger or anything critical like that. She was the leader of clubs and teams during high school, and very pretty, and competitive with grades, so it's just interesting to me that so far she has been less ambitious career-wise. (She's definitely still very happy.)
#59
Former classmate from highschool was a skrewup, he skipped class to smoke behind the school, sometimes came drunk to school, and was into rap and really talented on the mixer, even had amateur studio kit. He got his s**t together and is now on his last year doing an M.D. I'm happy for him
#60
Had a friend who lived near me. Both of us went to parochial schools (which does not make a person good by itself, trust me) and had solid home lives. His was a little more tense but nothing abnormal. He was really close to his dad and brother and we were really close friends. All through middle school and the first half of high school he was like a brother to us in our group of friends. Then he started to make a dumb decision here and there but nothing too huge. Once we graduated s**t Hit. The. Fan. He got really into drugs. Started with pot first then shrooms, cocaine, lsd, all combined with large amounts of hard liquor. He got in trouble with the law and dropped out of college. Thing is he was very bright and a talented individual with an absolute heart of gold but there were issues he had been dealing with that he kept hidden underneath a happy facade. Any one of us would have dropped everything to make sure he was ok but none of us knew how much help he needed. I've always been a great judge of character and can just sense what people are thinking and feeling from just talking with them. This guys though taught me just how masterfully people can hide beneath a smile and a laugh; taught me to be aware of the small signs. The only benefit to this lesson is that I now know what to look for with students who may need help. People can be so skilled at concealment of their feelings and needs, you have to look for the small things and reach out. Maybe you won't fix it but it will help for them to know you care and are there for them.
#61
Friend I'd know since freshmen year (9th grade) of HS. Home life wasn't stellar. Abusive stepparent, control freak mom, etc. Joined the marines to escape. Met someone, got married, had like 4 kids and was expelled from service for medical reasons. Got divorced, dad got full custody, so she moved back home and bounced around in a travel trailer with a younger boyfriend, who stole his boss's business credit card before they bounced to lord knows where. Last time she surfaced, it was on Facebook and she was selling their wedding rings he'd purchased using the stolen credit card. It's a real shame how things went. She'd done well in the marines and even in the early years of her marriage. Not sure what the tipping point was. She was furious about losing custody but she wanted to uproot 4 kids from their home, school, friends and dad's side of family to bounce around in a 13 ft travel trailer living off her $650 in disability. She absolutely refused to acknowledge how horrible that would have been for them.
#62
Guess my high school best friend... he was tied for top average grade percentage across our high performing high school. Absolute scholastic unit... he's now a ultimate frisbee playing, fun cycling, stay at home dad with a double degree and has a highly successful business minded wife. He really was the smartest one of us.
#63
He was just this quiet kid that had a few friends. Didn't do clubs or sports or anything like that that I was aware of, and I worked at the school TV station so we had a hand in ALL the teams & clubs. Almost forty years later (Class of '84,) he's the lead guitarist in a fairly successful heavy metal band out of Phoenix.
#64
In high school he was quiet and nerdy. After high school he became outgoing, flamboyantly gay, and lived in the gym. Nobody saw it coming but my guess is he finally decided to stop hiding who he was and really embraced it. No idea what he’s up to now but I hope he’s still doing his thing.
#65
My best friend from middle school onward, not the “hang out every day” type but more the “always there when you need him” type. We’ve been out of high school 7 years now and we’re still in contact. I’m set to be his best man later this year. This guy was the smart, kinda dweeby type (not an insult in the slightest, I was the exact same way, maybe not as smart, but you get the point). He kept to himself unless you were in his circle, kept quiet even if you were and ALWAYS avoided any kind of confrontation. He’d go out of his way to not talk to someone if it meant he didn’t have to answer questions. Imagine my shock when, 2 years after graduation, I catch up with him and find out he’s in the Secret Service. Not presidential, but still up there. He’s done good for himself, and I’m proud.
#66
A girl in my year who smoked a lot of pot, dated her dealer, and then from the same hood dated another dealer after that. She and "dealer bf #2" are now married and are both successful marriage and commerce lawyers, with fancy downtown condo and little dog to boot.
#67
Allan...he was smart and funny, easygoing and everyone's friend. I always had a little bit of a crush on him and after high school we ended up hooking up and partying a few times. Last time I talked to him he was struggling with heroin and the last I heard of him he was homeless. He deserved more and I wish I could have helped
#68
Very plain Jane kinda girl, not promiscuous or especially outgoing or anything. After high school she started as an exotic dancer and has now gone on to make a pretty big name for herself in p**n under the name Nikki Benz.
#69
Teachers daughter used to hang out with a bunch of gang members. Super smart and Attractive and developed early. She was really friendly and I also remember her showing me where some guy signed her breasts in 8th grade. Later in my early 30s, I remember telling a friend that I was curious what happened to her but expected she had probably a number of children from different fathers (sh**ty of me I realize). Then he was like, No. She went to school for journalism and is the nightly anchor on the local news. I still feel bad about that. And also I’m happy for her. Another person was the vice president of the Christian club and was in a number of classes. She had a bit of a crush on me but we never hung out. Then I added her on Facebook and shortly after see that she was suing the state to allow her to get married to her partner and was at the Supreme Court when the decision was announced.
Stacy B 3 years ago
Yes seems like she is gay especially since marriage between a man and woman is legal.
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I had a friend who like apprenticed or whatever at like NASA. She graduated earlier than the rest of us, and went off to college like in North Carolina. Around my senior year of high school, I saw she came back after barely a year had passed. I think she failed out of college, and is into weed hardcore. Doesn’t have a job and still hangs with high schoolers. I feel horrible about her life now, don’t do drugs kids, it’s really not worth it :/
#71
Stoner black dude, was a huge clown, he was actually just annoying acquaintance of mine back in high school... we become best, and he ends up being a super hardworker in college, and goes on to get a PhD in math. It was pretty amazing to witness. Another dude, was this incredible uptight, annoying, nerdy, know-it-all chubby Indian kid. Hated my guts cuz I beat him at this one class, and often would get better grades in tests than him. Apparently he's now a nurse and super gay. Still an a*****e from what I hear.
#72
Nice kid in my high school was very quiet, whose father was theology professor at the local University. He became the outgoing openly gay Mayor of my hometown in his twenties and is now running for President.
#73
Had a friend that was the weirdest guy I’d met. He’d often yell random stuff for no reason, do every kind of accent, and was just generally awkward around people. Saw him a few years after and he was dressed to the nines, very clean cut, and socially well adjusted. Complete 180 from high school. Made me rethink all my life’s choices up until that point, since I was not doing so hot in life.
Edit: I’m loving all the people wondering if I’m talking about them, or someone they know.
#74
A friend of mine is a talented artist with a deep passion for video game design. He worked on projects for indie devs all through high school, and I thought it was certain he would quickly become an artist for some dev studio soon after. He now works as a furniture salesman.
#75
A well-off, innocent-looking white kid from my high school ended up covered in face tattoos and brandishing guns on the internet. Turns out, he joined a Mexican gang on the outskirts of our town. He ended up getting shot to death in a confrontation with another gang.
#76
Douchebag weightlifting party boy started a tech company that sold for $225mil a few weeks ago.
#77
Fun, sweet, alternative minded friend marries after getting her degree, becomes a stay-at-home mom of 4, settles for a time in the town I moved to. Excludes me and my same-aged child from playgroup because the circle she is in is more well-to-do than I am. Kids now grown, she now lives out of state, but has become so snobby and right wing she wont speak to our old group of liberal- minded friends from high school. I miss my old friend, hate who she became.
#78
I knew a guy named Neil, her name is now Sarah.
#79
Cheerleader who took a heck of a turn.
She was an impressive drinker in high school. She kept it up through college. Got a job, didn't love it.
She joined AA. Met a guy. Older, had nice finances. Estranged from his ex-wife, kids, no other family. They got married. A few months later, they're both drinking again. Within two years, he's dead. He left her everything. She is "devastated."
She goes back to AA. Met another guy. Apparently older men who are estranged from their families are SUPER easy to find in AA. You got it: they're drinking, next thing you know, he's dead. Left her everything.
Now she's gone back to AA again. She has met the most wonderful man. It's a shame his kids won't speak to him and won't come to the wedding. It's next month.
Cashme Outside 3 years ago
ummmm.. if this one ends up dead after leaving everything to her, maybe police need to take a look at her…
#80
there was this guy who bullied me and destroyed my self esteem on a regular basis. He became a really successful vegan chef, has his own restaurant, cook books, has been on talk shows to cook/promote his stuff.
#81
One of my best friends back in high school. He was brought up Catholic and had very strict parents and was so innocent in high school. Never went out with us or drank or smoked or did anything! Then college happened and he's hooking up with a bunch of girls, partying most weekends (him throwing his own parties at his house), and smokes. COMPLETE 180! I met up with him last month (been 4 years since I'd seen him) and he's still the same guy just way more adventurous I guess. He's still awesome to hang with and has a good head on his shoulders. Love that guy.
#82
Close friend of mine in 9th grade was kind of prude, didn’t really know anything beyond basic sex ed. I thought it was a little odd but also thought she’d just learn soon anyway. Last I heard she was in a sub/dom relationship and was living in a house with basically a sex dungeon, if I remember correctly. I think I heard she broke up with the guy but not sure. Hard to know hearing it all second-hand. Nothing wrong with that lifestyle if you’re into it, but it was a surprising transformation.
#83
Valedictorian, great french horn player, over 20 years ago, served me at subway the other day
#84
Not my friend, but I remember seeing his picture in the yearbook (one year ahead of mine) and wondering if he and the guy next to him were related, since they had the same last name. Apparently a pretty smart kid, and since my school was in an upper middle class neighborhood, evidently from a reasonably successful family. He was working on his PhD when he completely snapped and shot up a theater in Aurora, Colorado.
L̸1̶z̵ 3 years ago
S**t. I remember this being on the news a few years ago, maybe 8-10 years ago?
Michelle C 3 years ago
James Holmes. I’ve never forgotten that and never will. I don’t know why I remember this one particularly. I think it’s because I found I could draw a lot of parallels between Columbine, what happened when I was nine years old, and that shooting. I will never understand how some people can justify such cruelty to anyone else!
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I had a friend in high school who was high achieving academically. He was in the top classes, very nervous and well behaved in the classroom. Generally he was mostly thought of as quiet and the guy very few people paid any attention to.
He's serving eight years in prison for possession of drugs and child p**nography.
#86
Normal kid, AV geek, church organist, eventually got involved in fraud, kidnapped a kid, punished the kid to death. Didn't expect that.
#87
My friend was preppy and kind of argumentative. I always thought he’d be a lawyer or hot shot CEO, but he’s a biker straight out of SOA casting except he’s the real deal.
#88
A kid I really respected in Highschool. He was smart, and well adjusted. I remember the first time I met him he was playing Atticus Finch in our production of To Kill a Mockingbird. He later became a White Supremacists.
#89
Surprising one is the guy who was pretty much morbidly obese from y7->y13 going off to join the army, he used to constantly try and escape from exercise at school, then passed basic training.
Xenia Harley 3 years ago
Had a friend like that in high school. Over weight, etc. Joined the military, and became buff and super successful, only to get bone cancer in his mid twenties, and pass away from it. Very sad, and he really was a nice guy.
#90
There was a guy, more of an acquaintance, really, who was hella smart. And quite good looking. Popular. A real a*****e, but intelligent. Got a full ride to an out of state school. It was a big enough deal that it was announced at graduation. A few years ago I thought of him and looked him up. He looked like a total scrub. He used to have perfectly coiffed curly hair, dressed in button downs, and was generally a clean cut guy. But now, he's greasy. Looks like a guy who lives in the basement having band practice and getting high every weekend and works at a Lil Ceasar's all week. Was not attending college. It kinda shook me. Makes me wonder if he suffered some trauma. There was never an indication he wasn't happy as he was.
#91
Average guy at school. Dead through alcoholism by his mid 20s. It was apparently asphyxiation that got him.
#93
Kid I knew since middle school accused me of stealing from him in senior year. We always got along and never had any problems, but one day I was out for a walk and all the sudden I'm stopped by two cops who insist I stole this kid's bike. It was completely random. There was literally no reason for him to suspect me other than the fact that I happen to be out for a walk. I'd never even been to his house before, he was just someone who rode my bus and occasionally hung out with me during school. They wound up not pressing charges but it was a nightmare. I Googled him out of curiosity a few years later, turns out he's done a s**t load of prison time since. Burglary, squatting in homes, and some more stuff. Ironic.
#94
Had this one friend, most mature of all of us. She helped her family a lot and that helped her mature because of a lot of younger siblings and two good for nothing brothers. She always insisted right up to senior year that she didn't need to know exactly what she wanted to do with her life because she didn't want to pick when she was young and foolish. She went to college, which was good... Then she got into an abusive relationship before going back home. She works two jobs and the little free time she has is spent coaching her younger brother's sport team. We never realized her family basically was her identity, she has no interests beyond baking (for her family and sports team events) and anime, which she enjoys with her sisters. It sucks, they're all wonderful people, but it sucks. Don't think she even likes coaching but her mother made her do it. She was so smart and mature we figured she'd get an office job...
#95
This one girl who was super sweet shocked everyone by sleeping with her best friend's boyfriend. Nobody suspected it because she'd always been popular, pretty and a genuinely nice person, so the absolute last girl you'd expect to need validation in that way. She also announced she'd been doing it for years, to other women too. It divided the friend group pretty decisively. Turns out she was a lesbian. Is married to a woman now. Doing much better.
#96
This guy I went to middle and high school with was really smart and made good grades. He was nice. He was in most of the clubs, doing volunteer work...etc. Ever since I graduated high school I never saw or heard any trace of him(no myspace, no facebook..) until last year. He was in the local paper, he was arrested for stealing money from his job. He would take payments from people and add them to his personal account instead of whatever company he was working for. He got out and then made a facebook the next day. I just looked at his facebook, the last public post was of a phone he is selling for $200... oml.. Everyone else in my class went pretty much the way I thought they would.
#97
I knew a girl who was pretty, but dumb as f*****g rock. Like she didn't know which color was for hot and which one was for cold from the water cooler. She went on to co-host a reality show, which being pretty obviously helped. But, she was also only on for one seasons, for reasons I can only guess.
What do you think ?
Peign Gaming 3 years ago
Guy I was friends with in HS. Was the underachieving, school hating rocker who played DnD. Became a Kindergarten teacher.
kcanded 3 years ago
All right! I hope those kids get some fantasy into their school lives!
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Jody Whitmarsh 3 years ago
One of the biggest party dudes from my high school is now a rocket scientist
B-b-bird 3 years ago
Classmate of mine was making out with his gf in school bathroom, both got in trouble for that. Teachers were saying "this guy will never amount to anything in his life". Well jokes on everyone. He is successful entrepreneur and founder of biggest company in a field, married to same high school sweetheart, they have a bunch of kids, (I hope they are happy) and can wave smiling to haters :))) Guys, if you are happy and content despite any past, just wave :)))
Raccoon panda 3 years ago (edited)
There was a really bright kid in my class. 163 IQ. But she’s unemployed and lives off benefits. She’s the most traumatized person in my class and used to lash out a lot, and would smooth talk her way out of schoolwork and into slightly better grades. Almost didn’t graduate, and despite trying to take her future seriously, struggled to manage the present. Kept to herself. No friends at all. She was born with Autism and ADHD, crippling her executive function, and gained a chronic history of Depression, anger issues, anxiety, social anxiety, extreme boredom, C-PTSD, dysmorphia, insomnia, suicidal ideation, and DID. REALLY BAD home life. She recently was able to take Narcissism off the list, at least. And has better emotional regulation. She’s working with a therapist and is in the middle of becoming who she should’ve been all along. It’s good progress. But DAMN it! How the hell have I survived this long?
Cathy Jo Baker 3 years ago
Most of these are wonderful! As a high school teacher, I have to remember not to write off any student because they don't fit what society thinks they should be. People change!
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
One became a guy. I knew they were a lesbian at the time, but years later, when I accepted a Facebook friend request from a guy who looked vaguely familiar, I was floored that it was "Crissy", now just "Cris." Another one was a tall, stringy girl who wore thick glasses who became a model.
Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
Some sad, some wonderful, some inspiring, but the take away from all of these stories is "Don't judge". People are surprising.
Texas Gonzo 3 years ago
HS Valedictorian, straight As girl. Full ride scholarship, engineering degree. Close with her family, and 5 brothers/sisters. Then drugs and conspiracy theories. Has low tier sales jobs, and called me out of the blue once to try and sell me something my company had no use for. Sales Call went off the rails as she tried to convince me of every conspiracy theory you can think of. Her whole family gathers without her now.
similarly 3 years ago
When I was in elementary school, I had a lot of problems. It was the 70s, so we didn't have terms like "ADHD" or "learning disabled". My teachers literally called me lazy and stupid. I didn't discover until I was an adult that I also had undiagnosed dyslexia. My teachers would be surprised that I read constantly now (though I do usually use special fonts and backgrounds in kindle for dyslexia).
Peign Gaming 3 years ago
Guy I was friends with in HS. Was the underachieving, school hating rocker who played DnD. Became a Kindergarten teacher.
kcanded 3 years ago
All right! I hope those kids get some fantasy into their school lives!
Load More Replies... Jody Whitmarsh 3 years ago
One of the biggest party dudes from my high school is now a rocket scientist
B-b-bird 3 years ago
Classmate of mine was making out with his gf in school bathroom, both got in trouble for that. Teachers were saying "this guy will never amount to anything in his life". Well jokes on everyone. He is successful entrepreneur and founder of biggest company in a field, married to same high school sweetheart, they have a bunch of kids, (I hope they are happy) and can wave smiling to haters :))) Guys, if you are happy and content despite any past, just wave :)))
Raccoon panda 3 years ago (edited)
There was a really bright kid in my class. 163 IQ. But she’s unemployed and lives off benefits. She’s the most traumatized person in my class and used to lash out a lot, and would smooth talk her way out of schoolwork and into slightly better grades. Almost didn’t graduate, and despite trying to take her future seriously, struggled to manage the present. Kept to herself. No friends at all. She was born with Autism and ADHD, crippling her executive function, and gained a chronic history of Depression, anger issues, anxiety, social anxiety, extreme boredom, C-PTSD, dysmorphia, insomnia, suicidal ideation, and DID. REALLY BAD home life. She recently was able to take Narcissism off the list, at least. And has better emotional regulation. She’s working with a therapist and is in the middle of becoming who she should’ve been all along. It’s good progress. But DAMN it! How the hell have I survived this long?
Cathy Jo Baker 3 years ago
Most of these are wonderful! As a high school teacher, I have to remember not to write off any student because they don't fit what society thinks they should be. People change!
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
One became a guy. I knew they were a lesbian at the time, but years later, when I accepted a Facebook friend request from a guy who looked vaguely familiar, I was floored that it was "Crissy", now just "Cris." Another one was a tall, stringy girl who wore thick glasses who became a model.
Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
Some sad, some wonderful, some inspiring, but the take away from all of these stories is "Don't judge". People are surprising.
Texas Gonzo 3 years ago
HS Valedictorian, straight As girl. Full ride scholarship, engineering degree. Close with her family, and 5 brothers/sisters. Then drugs and conspiracy theories. Has low tier sales jobs, and called me out of the blue once to try and sell me something my company had no use for. Sales Call went off the rails as she tried to convince me of every conspiracy theory you can think of. Her whole family gathers without her now.
similarly 3 years ago
When I was in elementary school, I had a lot of problems. It was the 70s, so we didn't have terms like "ADHD" or "learning disabled". My teachers literally called me lazy and stupid. I didn't discover until I was an adult that I also had undiagnosed dyslexia. My teachers would be surprised that I read constantly now (though I do usually use special fonts and backgrounds in kindle for dyslexia).
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