• deft@lemmy.wtf
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    2 days ago

    I feel like people don’t do this anymore. My highschool was very large and I don’t think myself or anyone I know even knew who is responsible for it so it never happens

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    I did, but undercover. It was hilarious!

    A lot changed in my life after graduation, including my first name and my surname (the latter due to marriage, the first thanks to deed poll, I always disliked the name my parents gave me…).

    A few dear old friends from school knew about me living abroad, about all the other changes going on in my life and since all of us were the weird folks back then, we decided to prank everyone else big time.

    So, I went there as a friend of one attending. Fricking no one recognised me. Not a soul. But they kept asking why person x was the only one no one found contact details of online, or any other way of contact. The person they knew just disappeared into thin air after graduation.

    A big mystery no one could figure out who wasn’t in on the ruse. Some great theories we’ve overheard that evening included, but were not limited to:

    A) dead

    B) in prison

    C) became a hermit

    I stood right next to those people I went to school with for over 10 years, some I knew even longer.

    It was a fun challenge for me keeping a straight face for the entire evening while drinks were also involved. Not one person could figure out they knew me in the first place. :D

  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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    Fuck no. I was done with that shit the moment it was over. I didn’t give a fuck about them back then and I certainly don’t give a fuck about them now. Anyone I cared to keep in touch with I’ve kept in touch with.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    I cannot physically escape my high school reunion in this lifetime.

    I went to a fairly small school and I was the only one who graduated that year.

    So every moment of every day for the rest of my life is my high school reunion.

    On the upside though, I was the valedictorian, a fact which has actually helped me get jobs.

  • i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca
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    I went to the first one and didn’t enjoy myself. Saw the assholes are now cops and most of the self-proclaimed cool kids were now shilling one MLM or another. Everyone still hung out in the same groups they did in high school. They held a moment of silence for the popular dickhead who got drunk and drowned in a river after high school.

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      Having not gone to any of my 40-or-so reunions, I feel like they would only get interesting after 20. Maybe 30. That’s long enough for everyone to have finished all the school they’re going to do, for people to have moved beyond their first jobs, or even first careers, and to have experienced enough life to really become their own people.

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    If one was held, then I was not invited. In any case COVID fucked up my last 2 years of highschool, so I feel it would’ve been awkward.

  • butwhyishischinabook@anarchist.nexus
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    No. I’ve spent a long, long time and a lot of effort to try and fundamentally change the shitty person I was back then. I don’t want to revisit that chapter at all.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldOP
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      You know what? Same.

      It took me longer than it probably should have to mature. I’m glad not to have a reminder of it out there.

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    This year would be my 25th. Never been invited to a single one. There have been several, as a friend has confirmed.

    I’m not worried about ever seeing those assholes again. K-12 was spent being tormented for being different. Not something I need to relive.

    If I was invited, I doubt I’d go. It’s not even worth my time to flex on someone I couldn’t be bothered to give a cold shit about.

    I keep in touch with my real friends, always. No need to reuinte with a bunch of bigots who made my youth a hell in a box.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    Nope. Hell I’m not even sure there was one.

    The venn diagram of “people who organize and attend high school reunions” and “people I want to ever see again” are two circles drawn on different pages in different books on different shelves.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    No.

    I’d moved out of state by the time the first one came around. Seemed like a lot of bother and expense to see people I didn’t keep in touch with otherwise.