What kind of kid were you in school and how would you say you're like now?

[BrickPoet]

quiet an quiet

I was quiet and shy at school but as an adult I'm more outgoing.

I was loud, disruptive and outspoken at school (masking HARD), these days I'm incredibly socially awkward and quiet.

I was the bullies' victim.

It is still extremely difficult for me to trust people.

I guess I was in a ‘cool kid’ group, but never felt ‘cool’ myself. I preferred being with my fellow goofs. This has been reflected through my life. Going travelling, I started with a cool group but eventually gravitated towards my now best friends who couldn’t care less about looking cool and just wanted to be silly.

So, I was goofy then and I’m still goofy now! With patches of trying to be cool 😎

At school I was quite shy and quiet. Now I have a reputation for talking too much!

Never in with the In Crowd but as an adult I've found my tribe.

Worked hard and played hard! Boisterous, energetic and spoke my mind.

Nothings changed .

Absolutely invisible. I think I had PTSD but it's taken 50 yrs to realise it.

Frightened, abused, bullied, invisible, I was a “nothing”.

Still am all of the above but no longer bullied.

Quiet, organised....same now

I didn't fit in anywhere for a long time as I had undiagnosed SEN and I was well behaved but not clever. Then I did a level 2 course before a levels where everyone wanted to be there but we all had between 1 and 3 gcse's. It was a close knit group and we supported each other. I'm still quite shy though.

Quiet but sociable within my group. Helpful to teachers in school and respected for being a sensible sort. Wouldn’t challenge things.

fairly outgoing and still quite sociable within my hobby groups, definitely an organiser, will call out things that are off or plain wrong and not afraid to stick my head over the parapet.

Quiet and bullied. As soon as I left school it started to change. Now socially always busy and have lots of fun and interesting friends.

Quiet, pretty much invisible.
Still mostly quiet, depending on company, but have no problem whatsoever in being quietly (or occasionally loudly) assertive when necessary.

Quiet but with a firm group of girlfriends. Still friends with some of their now over 40 years later. Much more outgoing as i matured and much more confident.

Quiet as a mouse. Not at all like that as an adult, but it took a while for me to get here. I still cringe at some of the things I put up with in my early working life.

Highly anxious and stressed over achiever.

And yes - exactly the same as an adult.

Quiet, anxious and shy at school. Afraid of speaking in class. Now? Still shy and often anxious although I can cover it up. I find speaking out in a group almost physically painful although I can do it. Not much has changed really.

I tried sooooo hard to fit in. Then I'd screw it up. Target for bullies. Was very capable academically, able at all sports which helped me, also consider quite good looking in that interesting way (so they said. Certainly didn't feel it with my big wavy hair - wanted sleek blonde!).

I'd copy people I thought I was friendly with.

Diagnosed autistic and ADHD as an adult (my children are SEND).

Can never decide if to apologise to those whom I genuinely liked and respected for being painful or just leave it behind me....

Lonely, desperate to be liked to the point of being an arsehole just to get attention. Always felt like I was on the outside. Angry.

One ADHD diagnosis later and I'm much happier in my 40s, but still have my moments.