long, but a nice read

[jdd2]

nymag.com/news/features/high-school-2013-1/

No idea how accurate some of the included ideas are, but a few hit home.

jdd

[xyrn]

That was interesting.
The basic premise, that we remain through adulthood pretty much the same we were in high school, is probably in general pretty accurate.
Developmental psych research has shown that by our teens most of us have established a pretty consistent pattern of how we individually view the world, deal/cope with failures or disappointments, how we relate to friends and strangers, and how we process new information.
The gauntlet known as high school tends to solidify those patterns.

Sure, we do change some throughout adulthood, but overall I think we remain pretty much the same, deep down.

In HS I was definitely in the nerd/dork/science/school-band category, and those days that was certainly not in the 'popular' category and I was often at the receiving end of taunts and jokes.

As an adult, I still am nerdy, but it seems there is less of a stigma about that in adulthood, and specifically in the health-care professions many of us were/are nerds and so I'm in good company. Overall I'd say my self-confidence, or comfort with who I am, has increased, but my interests and tendencies haven't varied much.

As the end of the article jdd2 linked, it's interesting that they talked about how Facebook is involved. Some people in adulthood try to distance themselves from what/who they were as a teen, but the average majority of FB 'friends' are people we knew from HS, or possibly only knew in HS, and to them, we still ARE that person as they don't know us now (due to living across the country or world these days).
So FB tends to perpetuate the "same as you were back then" premise.
Of course, those that are REALLY trying to disassociate from their past probably don't accept friend requests from old HS friends and acquaintances.

[John B]

I don't have any HS friends or acquaintances as FB friends, and I don't think I have any from college. Aside from family, my SoundHole FB friends are the FB friends I've known the longest. Otherwise, most of my friends are ones that I've only known for a couple of years.

[TKennedy]

Good read

[Ann T]

Very interesting, indeed!