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Anyone other nice high school stories to share?
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Do people in high school really know when your birthday is and give you gifts?
not gifts, but i'd throw parties every year with about 50-60 people attending. my 18th had about 100. We had a large yard.
Dayum. I always thought big birthday parties were a Hollywood thing.
Nah, the hollywood portrayal, outside of everyone looking like 25 year old models, and having stylized dialogue, was pretty on point from my experience.
i'm a musician. had several larger social groups, and then there's the people who haven't figured out how dorky musicians actually are and think we're cool.
I’m a musician too but back then all I was was extremely socially awkward (we’re talking Bocchi would look normal next to me).
If people were generally nice to him, I can see someone with autism getting excited for their birthday and announcing it to everyone weeks beforehand...
Sometimes! At my high school, it was a thing for your friends to decorate your locker for your birthday as a surprise. One year my friends covered my locker in Christmas wrapping paper with a giant drawing of a dog on it, because our running gag at the time was that my hairstyle made me look like a spaniel
Depends on the people, but sure, sometimes!
Nope.