I went to the year 12 graduation +30 years one as the first, mostly to see if anyone I knew was there
The main party organiser from class of 1995 was also in my house in high school and college (yr 11 and 12) and recognised me and everyone else and since then I met up with the group of people they get to attend events
It turns out most of them are on the wrong side of politics and don’t know anything about the internet. AI for them is a tool to make the peak of comedy - altering photos to have big noses or two of the men holding hands
I keep quiet about my history of not caring about the gender or sex of the person I’m fucking or who’s fucking me
No. High school for me was spent with people with which I have nothing in common, so I didn’t keep in touch with anyone there.
I still stumble into people I once knew, and I of course say hi and engage in some chitchat, but nothing beyond that.
Is that actually a thing people do?
I think it’s something more for the Boomer generation that didn’t have social media, honestly. My mom and dad loved high school reunions before he passed away.
Especially for the generation of people that rarely moved more than 10 miles away from the city they were born in.
It’s a lot easier to organize a high school reunion when everybody’s living down the street from where they lived in high school.
I moved 5,000 miles away from my hometown and rarely if ever go back, and I have no social media presence, so they couldn’t find me if they wanted to.
No. Don’t think I was even invited to any.
I’m not close to anyone from high school. I haven’t talked to anyone from that era in years. I wasn’t my best self back then, and I don’t really want to relive it.
No. It always seems to happen when im going through financial crisis. granted feels like half the years are financial crisis.
Never once. I still talk to the only people from there I care to know.
Never. For the 10 year I did go to the bar in town where I was certain everyone I was interested in catching up with would be.
After that - pretty much moved on from those people and that town completely.
I guess this year would be the 30 year actually - hadn’t even considered that until replying to this post 🤔
No.
I’d moved out of state by the time the first one came around. Seemed like a lot of bother and expense to see people I didn’t keep in touch with otherwise.
Thought about the 10 year then went to see phish instead
Yes and I even volunteered to plan it. We didn’t have one until 20 years and it is nice to see how much people all kind of become normal. Even the kids that were assholes were reasonable to talk to and several apologies were made.
I went to a smallish high school (a handful more than 100 per grade) and all of us were together since kindergarten. Some people flat out said they wouldn’t come and I think they missed out.
We had some teachers show up that were still in town. Some dude was like “hey dream_weasel I’m sorry I used to pick on you here’s why I did”, and some ancient crushes and gossip got revealed. It was on the whole pretty fun. I think we will do one for 25 years now.
I only went to high school for two years then took all my classes at the community college, so I wasn’t like super well known or liked or anything. I’ve also had a gender change since then, and I don’t wanna have that conversation the whole event.
I’m so relieved to find a ton of other “no’s” in this thread!
I always felt like I was being a bit antisocial not to go to one. I’ve never been to a college reunion either. I’ve kept in close touch with only one person from high school and a handful from college. Add to that: 1) I don’t feel like I have much to brag about; 2) I would feel icky bragging even if I did. And that’s what I imagine reunions to be, if you haven’t kept in touch generally: just a bunch of near-strangers posturing to each other to feel better about themselves. I just don’t have any interest in that. It’s much the same reason I got off of social media about 10 years ago (minus the link aggregators/forums).
No, and I doubt anyone would remember me. I sure as hell don’t give a shit about any of them. I was relentlessly bullied and picked on in school, to the point where my parents took me out and homeschooled me during my freshman year onward because it was obvious that the school staff wouldn’t do anything about it.
I’m not even sure if my school had one, so no.
Went to both my and my partner’s 10 year. Both sucked. Would never do it again.
