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ButterflyEffect  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, I want to know: Were you ever one of the "popular" kids?

Eh, sometimes some pretty darn personal stuff gets posted around here. Question, if you found this elsewhere (Reddit, Hackernews, etc.) do you think you would have shared it? I'm just curious.

I can't even imagine most of what you said. My class was ~300 people, with about 1000 people TOTAL between grades 9 and 12. There weren't any really upper class people, certainly not people with mansions or getting Mercedes on their sweet 16. I guess it has to exist somewhere though. Oh yeah, I was on prom court junior year and my friends were king and queen senior year. Went through that fun stuff too.





havires  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't post anything here yet, but if I posting to Reddit I'd fictionalize it just a little bit. Change the names of every person involved, including myself (whom I would just refer to as either havires or "Me".

_refugee_  ·  3813 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For the record, small site though this is, it still might be safer to change people's names :) You never know!

havires  ·  3813 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I change names regardless, so there's that. (Comes from all the time I spent on 4chan... I've seen what those fuckers can do when they have even the slightest bit of information.)

water  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well since I'm new here, I felt a little more free to divulge this story. If I were on any of those other platforms? Probably not. I really like it here too, so I'm just sharing what I can that's relevant and exploring and learning. I'm sure I'll regret posting that at some point haha

I'm happy that I'm not the only person that's gotten personal or over shared(I'm bound to do that at least once...)

I noticed though.. No personal share link of your own! Are you more reserved in your reveals, ButterflyEffect?

ButterflyEffect  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I'm glad you did, it was a good read. People are generally open about things here, which is why I was comfortably posting this.

Personal share link? The comment I linked to above links to this post I made a couple months back that's pretty darn personal. Know why I made that post? Because I value what everyone that commented has to say and know they would say things that mattered more than what a lot of my friends were saying in person. To answer your question, not really.

water  ·  3814 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just read that :/

I want to give you a big hug! I hope you're doing much better, breakups are so painful and can really be tumultuous to get through.