If you managed to have friends at secondary school, did you drift from group to group?

[ofwarren]

I masked well enough at school to be accepted into groups. I was always on the periphery though.

I never seemed to stick with one group of friends. I would have a falling out with one group or would feel that they didn't like me so I ended up tagging on to another group.

When I left school I had no strong friendships so I lost contact with all of them as they were just people I knew, rather than friends.

Did you have a friend group at school and did you move from group to group?

I went to a school for people with nd, so I guess that might make my experience a bit different to the norm, but I stayed with the same one group from 11, I would have been too scared to move groups basically, I like constency!

I was excluded by everyone at school, they wouldn’t even let me tag onto a group. As an adult I have managed to tag onto some groups, usually boyfriends friends. Obviously when we split up they were no longer my friends so I’d have to get a new boyfriend and tag onto his friends instead.

I was exactly the same as you op. Akeays in the periphery. Left school with no friends and went my own way in terms if college etc didn't make any friends there either.
School was really hard work for me and something that still causes me upset when I think about it.

@Nortd

I went to a school for people with nd, so I guess that might make my experience a bit different to the norm, but I stayed with the same one group from 11, I would have been too scared to move groups basically, I like constency!

Oh wow, what was school like for you?

I mostly stuck to my group of fellow outsiders.

Really good for the most part, was probably the time I was most relaxed/at ease it all went completely downhill after that when I had to join the nt world!
Small classes, lots of understanding
I sometimes watching the various educating (Essex, Yorkshire etc) shows and think about how I would not have got any GCSEs in such large, loud, scary schools.