Social Groups

[Psyre]

Hung around with the skate punks and raver kids. never really fully committing to either. had some rivet head/gamer friends for a while. none of it really stuck. I still don't have many close relationships to this day. I hang out with people and def have friends but I've never really had like a "group" of friends. closest thing I had were bandmates. And my dog, but she's a little hipster asshole.

I agree, the individual I spend the most time with is my cat. Other than that, my roomate, who is also my bassist that I have known for 16 years. I really only have 2 other good friends, not including my girlfriend,that I met in college. My current guitarist and my old campus roomate, who is now in China.

[bigchiefbc]

I did sports growing up, so kept doing it through most of high school, but I never hung out with the jocks. I was mostly a stoner/grunge/rocker dude, but also a nerd. Those were the two main groups I hung with. So I had long greasy hair, wore flannel, played football and got straight As. Pretty tragically unhip, in the least ironic way possible.

[&-e]

Band geek, the only one in my grade. There were two in the grade above me so we hung out as much as band geeks do. After school I'd stay late so I could have unfettered access to the marimba & vibraphone, then go home and practice piano and guitar. We made atrociously vile Ween 'The Pod'-style recordings (but we were utterly ignorant of Ween's power yet) with a beat-up used Tascam 4-track. Man was I a dork. In college I discovered drugs & alcohol, tried to go grunge too late, still too dorky (and additionally stoned as hell) for even all the wannabe alt/grunge bands to welcome me in. Now I'm a dad and full time IT nerd and once in a blue moon fraternize with others in the same field who are equally socially awkward.

[D.o.S.]

Excellent avatar, dude.

[Mudfuzz]

outcast

[tuffteef]

it could be worse
i was on the list of kids who may gun the school down

they put me and my friends in mandatory counseling. it was so offensive that it was hilarious. id pretend i had issues so i didnt have to go to english class

the joys of punk rock

[Gearmond]

i was totally a nerd, but in a school with uniforms, you don't really have social cliques cuz it was basically preps and everyone else

[GardenoftheDead]

My "group" consisted of 7 people at one point but eventually shrunk to 3. We were basically just the weirdos. I was one of 2 crazed atheists with a dark sense of humor. We also had the shy gamer girl, the psychotic goth chick, the long-haired metal head, and two rabid anime nerds. We were basically united by not fitting in with anyone else because most of us didn't have much in common.

[tuffteef]

my small niche group of friends were like the cool asians, me and my doppleganger

[fiddelerselbow]

I was just one of those kids that were into music. Where I come from, you either played team sports or you didn't. Most of the kids around me were in bands and my clique of friends didn't really hang out with the other rock kids. We were way into nuggets and punk, so we didn't really get along with kids from other towns. Plus the whole emo thing was in full swing when we were kids, so we spent most of our time in the city picking fights with them.

[Big Mon]

Elementary school: power metal and thrash, along with Sabbath, ruled me. I dressed the part. And I hung out with a few other dudes ballsy enough to wear metal shirts.
Junior High (we didn't have middle school down here at that time): Shed my mullet, listened to punk and first got into Dino Jr., dressed a bit preppy. Hung out with metal heads and one guy that liked the Cure.
hike sk00l: Hung out with anybody that wasn't a dick, mostly other musicians.

[hollowhero]

I was definitely a nerd, but I always hung out with the punk/outcast/goth kids. Eventually I started hanging out with the metal guys and we started having jam sessions at lunch and after school.

[Radical AC]

Basically the freaks from Freaks and Geeks. Mid sized Catholic high school that was incredibly cliquey.

[black mess]

I was the dorkiest metalhead ever.

[phantasmagorovich]

After I demanded to chose my own clothes I think I have probably tried to be every thing on earth. Problem was that I went the only german school in lisbon, which basically meant you were stuck with mostly the same classmates from beginning to end. Everybody had a formed image and I was only able to reinvent myself when I went to Uni. And that is when females came into my life etc.

started out as a gamer nerd (I had a t-shirt with a plastic alien coming out of it, like a little figurine thingie covered in gore)
turned metal (but not for long enough for the har to really go anywhere)
added shades of grunge
turned sxe (hair cut short, lots of concerts, skating etc)
turned hip hop at the same time (without the pot until I gave up on the sxe part of the hardcore thing, graffiti and lots of shit)

Coming to think of it, none of these were actually social groups. They were a couple of people where it wasn't me just copying styles off of MTV and powering through it on my own.

I later still had flashbacks of grunge and hippie attire but it basically just turned into an alternative or respectable sort of look and many artist and musician friends as well as a couple of psychologists and similar background thinker types. One of my bands is made of science dudes though. Two IT dudes and a chemist.