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I overheard my 30 year old daughter talk about a old classmate of hers. Apparently he just lost his virginity at the age of 30. I wasn't sure whether to laugh or feel sorry for him. When he was a teen he was one of those kids that everybody thought was weird. He didn't have any male friends and girls didn't pay attention to him. He used to eat lunch alone. I know popular culture likes to believe that these kids grow up and become "cool" or whatever but it kind of surprised me that it took him so long. That he was still struggling socially throughout his 20's.
I know many of you probably don't have children in their 30's and I know in many cases kids from high school have graduated and left the city but for those of you who know what happened to the kids that everybody thought was "weird" in high school? Did he struggle in adulthood? Did he thrive?
This is why I don't keep in touch with former classmates. If you give them the power to keep scrutinizing your life at 30, that's what happens. Cut the cord.
Quite odd post. I dont know if I would use the term "weird" but people come in all different types. I for one was always teased a lot and socially awkward and awkward in sports, though I loved watching them. I ate lunch alone, so might have been considered "weird" to some. But I also was highly intelligent and went to college and graduated in the field of my choice and have held a steady job in my profession ever since graduating college in 1988, never having to depend on anyone else for income. Still socially awkward at times, yes....but in most aspects one can consider I am thriving.
I think many of them went on to be successful. Remembering back to high school, "weird" usually translated to a refusal of that person to go along with the herd mentality. This made the popular kids uncomfortable.
If I had a do-over, I would gravitate more towards the weird kids, and try less hard to be "popular".
I wasn't sure whether to laugh or feel sorry for him.
How about neither? Maybe he waited until he found the right person because of his personal or religious beliefs.
Frankly, I find it refreshing when people don't have sex before they are ready because of peer pressure, embarrassment, or some kind of societal expectation. I wish more of our teens would wait.
IMHO, it's kind of weird that the parent of a 30-year old would laugh at or even be aware of the sex life of his/her daughter's former classmate.
When he was a teen he was one of those kids that everybody thought was weird. He didn't have any male friends and girls didn't pay attention to him. He used to eat lunch alone.
Weird kids know they're considered weird. And yet this "weird kid" shared a detail about his sex life a decade later. Right.
Frankly, your daughter needs to mind her own business. She's spreading gossip about someone she wouldn't even eat with 12 years ago.
It is not so fun to always get everything you want. Like a very good looking normal acting person can get all the relationships he/she wants and from whoever they want. It can get to where there is no fun or excitement or passion in that!
But if you have never had something and always dreamed or fantasized about having it, I think that would be much more exciting! As they say, the fun is in getting there.
So that "weird" person might just have had more fun fantasizing all these years than you or I have had with our relationships. (Another way to look at it.)
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