"Peaking in high school" is a myth, amirite?

How is peaking in high school a myth if some people peak in high school?

by kaciesipes 5 months ago

Yeah, this makes no sense. It's a myth, but of course sometimes it isn't a myth.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

It's a myth that it's the norm

by EquivalentEffect6331 5 months ago

I fear you might be in denial

by Anonymous 5 months ago

The idea that people who are popular in high school are "peaking" and that it's all downhill from here for them is just pure envy perpetuated by people who wish they could be like them I don't know anybody who would trade their adult life for high school popularity, so reducing it to "envy" sounds like a projection

by Apprehensive-Cake735 5 months ago

I can only speak from my own experience but a couple of drugs deaths, alcoholism, homelessness, & imprisonment for armed robbery tell a different story. Although one had a successful career in the porn industry, Tbh I quite liked most of them, they deserved better.

by Afraid-Sector 5 months ago

‘Peaking' is generally talking about success, not necessarily popularity?

by sylvia09 5 months ago

nah it's about holistic personal development

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Plenty of people peak in high school. You'll know them for the people approaching 40 that still constantly talk about high school.

by Academic-Log 5 months ago

Did you peak in high school OP

by Aggressive-Bake 5 months ago

The definition of "popular" in American high school seems so bizarre and influenced by 1980s teen movies. It seems like most people just get along with people and go on to do fine in life whether or not they fit the mold of, say, the Alpha Betas in Revenge of the Nerds.

by Caryschultz 5 months ago

That's... that's not what it means

by Stunning_Tea 5 months ago

It depends honestly for who it is, some people do fall off in High School

by Anonymous 5 months ago

loads of people, probably. the countless ones that you never think of

by Anonymous 5 months ago

I dunno bout that one. Most of the popular crowd in my school year had kids before 22 & never left home. Some went on to be super successful yeah, but the large majority quietly dropped out. I don't even remember when. I just remembered I never saw them again.

by imacejkovic 5 months ago

if that is what you think you probably did

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Well it happens so I don't see how this opinion could be valid. It's no guarantee sure but happens, so can't be a myth.

by Puzzled-Bunch2442 5 months ago

Sound like you were popular in high school

by Anonymous 5 months ago

I guess things change. Being the class clown made you popular when I was younger. Those guys did that for a reason, and none of them ended up in College.

by Proper_Departure_350 5 months ago

True, but I'd argue the "class clown" isn't always somebody people actually like. A lot of the time people are laughing at them, not with them. I wouldn't say people consider a class clown as peaking haha

by EquivalentEffect6331 5 months ago

Trust me, that's as good as I've seen it get for some people. Being the class clown does make some people popular, otherwise I wouldn't have pointed out that it did.

by Proper_Departure_350 5 months ago

I guess this is unpopular in so far as the meme exists, but I've seen all cases. High school just overlaps with a very formative period of your life where you're "finding yourself" and for some, they find themselves and their confidence very early on, for others it happens later in college and for others it happens even later in their early adult years. People can peak at any point in their lives really...

by Anonymous 5 months ago

I mean to me it makes sense. When I went to high school, the popular kids were generally from wealthier families and kids from wealthier families tend to do better later in life as well

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Sure, if the reason they were popular was because they were awesome to be around. But at my hs, the popular kids were popular because they were rich

by Anonymous 5 months ago

I think this very heavily depends on why you were popular.

by Icy_Steak 5 months ago