"Normal" HS Things E/D Did, but You Did Not...

I was visiting a thread on here, which led to another page and I think E/Ds Senior Photos were shown. For whatever reason, I found that fascinating. It is a common HS thing to do for students to do, but these aren't common students in what they ultimately did. It just struck me that they would even do this.

I actually did not have mine taken, and it made me wonder about other typical/normal HS type things you know they did...and you didn't.

I feel like they only had their Senior photos taken to please their parents
Notice how they are dressed a little nicer than in their previous high school yearbook photos

I looked awful in my senior pictures, as I did in nearly all of the pictures I took in high school. I never want to look at them again.

Eric and Dylan's lives were a lot more "normal" than mine. They had a lot more freedom than I ever did.

My mother was controlling and domineering. She never let me go anywhere without her. When I was 18, she treated me the way a normal mother might treat a five-year-old - she didn't even let me go into the backyard without permission. I never rebelled against her - I thought, "This is the way things are, and there's nothing I can do about it."

I sometimes wonder if my not having had freedom was a good thing. I now think it might have been. I was so fat and awkward and weird that, if I'd tried to live a normal life, I would have been roasted alive by the other kids.

Even though I never spoke to any girls, some of them went out of their way to let me know that I was not the kind of guy who was allowed even to look at them, let alone to talk to them. If I had gone around the school trying to get dates, I would have been crushed by the constant rejections.

The way I got through school was to say, "This is a job and a formality, nothing more; the other kids are bugs crawling on the floor and I don't need to worry about them." I buried myself in my hobbies and interests.

I ignored the other kids nearly all of the time, and they ignored me. In the end, that was a blessing.