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I was interested in attending my 10 year but I guess no one actually organized it so there wasn't one to go to.

If one was held, then I was not invited. In any case COVID fucked up my last 2 years of highschool, so I feel it would've been awkward.

I'm not even sure if my school had one, so no.

Nope, for pretty much most of the reasons everyone else in the thread didn’t.

I left school 27 years ago. I Don't think there has ever been one.

My school was in a small town. Half the kids lived in the town, the other half (myself included) didnt. When school ended the kids from town all stayed friends and ended marrying each other.

I've kept in vague touch with maybe 3 people since that time and that's barely anything except a happy birthday message every couple of years.

So no, I probably wouldn't ever attend a reunion

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 🤔

I couldn't wait to get those people out of my life. Why would I want to see them again?

My graduating class had seven people in it. Three of my classmates were from different foreign countries. One of the remaining is in prison. Oh, and the school closed the year after we graduated.

As far as I know there's never been discussions of a reunion, but I also moved far away and don't use social media lol

I did not go to mine. But I did watch Grosse Point Blank last night, still holds up.

Yes, the 20th one. The school had long closed, so it was at a hotel ballroom at a city central to everyone. It was awesome hanging with old friends and catching up. Even better was seeing the bullies turn into meek little men. After too many drinks, one tearfully apologized for being such an asshole. Lots of closure all around.

A couple of retired teachers showed up, and it was great talking to them like peers. And the one EVERYONE had a crush on, now with two kids and an ex-husband. Still hot as hell.

Nothing like Grosse Pointe Blank, but still fun.

Definitely, and enjoyed each one. I went to school in a tiny town where there is one school K-12. A classmate owns a winery, so we all get together there from time to time.

Going back to Bob Jones as a pansexual atheist is not particularly high on my agenda.

Oh hell no.

I didn't like the bulk of my classmates 40 years ago and from what I've seen in the FB group for my class, which I joined to find those few I did like, time has not improved them at all.

I looked for info about my 20 year reunion and couldn't find anything, so I didn't go and I'm not bothered one way or the other. I guess it might be cool to see some folks again, but no guarantee they come.

No. I'm still working on unfucking myself after the way those assholes treated me. Why would I want to see them again? I'm not successful enough to flex on anyone.

Haven't been invited. Really small school, for all I know there hasn't been a reunion

We haven’t had one, but if there were, I would probably go. I was pretty much friends with everyone, and I still stay in touch with a few people I am very close with.

My feelings towards a middle school reunion is pretty much the same as everyone's feelings towards high school reunion. I would never show up to a middle school reunion. There were some people who tried to do one 10-15 years ago, and I never went, and I never will. The people there sucked. I never want to see them again. If I do then I pretend not to know them and I am pretty sure they do the same.

Most of the people I went to high school with I don’t give two shits about. Maybe 3-4 of them do I care about. I don’t need a reunion for them. Hell like me they wouldn’t go anyway. In my opinion, reunions are either for people who peaked in high school and wanna relive that adoration or want to brag about their life to people who looked down on them in high school. I didn’t peak in high school nor would I want to brag to people I don’t care about their opinions.

I guess you could just want to see how people turned out is another option. Maybe I’d like to verify a few bullies that I’d bet died of alcoholism in their 40s.

But no I wouldn’t, and haven’t, gone.

My class has been kind of shit at getting the word out about reunions. There was allegedly a 5 year reunion but no one I know got an invite to it. I think it was kind of unofficial but together by a specific group of friends

10 years rolled around, they did a little better for that one, but I still didn't hear about it until it was too late to RSVP, so instead I met up with them like 3 people from my class I still talk to and went and had a couple drinks somewhere.

15 years I kept my ear to the ground, and did actually find it early enough. Decided I didn't want to go but did my part to try to get the word out to whoever I could in case they were interested. Met up with the same three friends again instead.

We'll have 20 coming up soon, and I expect my plans will be mostly the same.

Not at all. I graduated a semester early and moved to a nearby city where I immediately lost all my friends from high school. A few years later I moved across the country and never looked back.

No, there was like four people that I actually liked the rest of them can get in the sea.

Actually they're probably all right now but they're not a tits when they were kids, but I have no desire to find out.

No, because disaster struck. My high school’s tradition is that the graduating class hosts the reunion party in a decade, and everyone else who can attend is invited. When it was our turn, a weather disaster struck our hometown, so the reunion was canceled and we donated the pooled funds instead.

No.

A billion years ago, someone added me on Facebook and I accepted because I thought it was someone else. Then I realised it was someone who graduated alongside me and they were in a group organising a reunion and I blocked that shit so fast. One of the last things I did on FB.

Since leaving Facebook, I'm pretty sure I'm untraceable for anyone from back then so if they get any ideas about inviting that girl that most of them used to think was weird and best avoided, they're shit out of luck. I don't want to meet any of those people and those that I might tolerate for a bit don't balance it out.

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

Yes. My graduating year had a lot of tragedy occur, so we were all really tight knit (even with standard teenage drama). It was good fun catching up.

I never had any desire to go to one. I had a fine time in High School, college was much better. I had a good strong circle of friends in high school. That circle was a bit odd. There was four of us who hung out all the time and that started in the second half of my sophomore year.

In my quartette was me, two dudes who were one grade ahead of me and one guy who went to a different high school. There was also an extended circle of friends but the four of us were the core group.

So my high school reunion would mostly be people I didn’t spend a lot of time with in high school. I don’t have any animosity towards any of them, I just don’t have any desire to see any of them.

Now back when I did Facebook I did join a group that was my high school class and I recognized a lot of their names. The stuff they posted with the typical range of stuff, Many had kids and familes etc. A couple were religious fruitcakes. One ran for Mayor of the burg I grew up in.

No, I don't understand the point of reunions.

I never had any interest in hanging out with anyone from high school except my wife. I never saw the point of going to a reunion.

The 5th year reunion happened on the same day as my wedding. Haven't heard anything about any others since then.

40th will be in a couple years. I won't go.

Both times I just had another option with actual friends that I wanted to do more. I don't really give a shit about anyone from high school, but curiosity would have gotten me to go if it wasn't for the other option each time.

And, to be honest, I've seen a lot of them on Facebook and they're looking a lot older than I look, so I guess I could have rubbed it in the faces of some of the people that thought they were hot shit back then.

I changed high schools midway through my sophomore year, going from an all-boy catholic school to public, so I didn't really know many people from the public high school, besides my immediate social circle. Also they were the cool, class-skipping, weed and cigarette smoking kids, so I doubt they'd be at the class reunion, and they're probably the only people I'd want to see anyway.

There was this beautiful girl I went on a date with once who went to my high school... a couple years after I graduated, I saw her at a bar, and she gave me her number. I didn't even remember her. We went on exactly one date, where she revealed that she nanny'd for a super rich summering-in-a-french-villa family, and for some reason it intimidated me so much I had a panic attack, and before we even got to where we were supposed to go on the date, I turned the car around and took her home. Apologized, and never really spoke again.

I still think about her, and how beautiful she was, and what the fuck came over me that night. But I doubt she'd be at the reunion.

Also I haven't been very successful in my own life (not terrible by any means but, not great) so I wouldn't really be able to show off much of anything except that I'm much more handsome and physically fit now than I was then. I dunno. Doesn't seem like much when I'm still riddled with student loan debt and anxiety.

Oh fun, story time!

I didn't like most of the people in my high school, I'm sure some of them grown to be nice people, but my best friend in high school is still my beat friend now. In fact she is family and we share the same last name. (but we didn't get married!)

So back in the day we very briefly dated but it was clear to both of us that wasn't going to work but we've remained been friends ever since. Fast forward a few decades and I've finally came out and transitioned like I always wanted to. Was already no contact with my birth family for unrelated reasons, so when it became the time to legally change my namd... I took hers! She is the only person that felt like family anyways, every major holiday, birthday, breakup, we've always been there to help each other. So now we call each other sisters, I'm the cool fun aunt to her daughter and I've been maid of honor in both of her weddings and married to my own gorgeous wife. Life is good! Everything worked out, happy endings all around.

(Fun fact: technically you can say I lost my virginity to my sister 😜 )

But back on topic, I thought about going to a high school reunion just to see if I'd pass but even if I did, then I'd just be some random lady no one recognized? I felt like I didn't belong around those folk because of my own issues, but since I never made happy young memories at the time, I wouldn't have much to reminiscing about at the reunion either.

AFAIK we only had a ten year reunion. It was okay. I haven’t seen anyone from my high school class since then

Mine never even had one.

Because we don't have them in this country

Well, i live 1200 miles away, so i just decided i didnt care enough. Probably be another one eventually. Also deleted my socials, so never got officially invited.

I quit high school in grade 10, and I was still more literate than the graduating peers of my youth. After writing my GED and going to university, I went on to qualify for disability.

Nope. Didn't have any friends in school so why would i want to go back? Didn't want to go to prom or much of anything else for that matter. My mother insisted I go... ended up going to be treated like crap about 5 minutes after arriving so left and spent the night playing pinochle in a bar. I was the best dressed guy there though.

Honestly didn't care about the graduation and didn't care to walk across a stage to say I graduated. I was already testing beyond a high school level when I was in middle school so it wasn't really that much of an achievement in my mind. I didn't want to go but again my mother insisted.

I got pulled out of highschool before my junior year and got my GED, so I never really graduated, which probably explains why I've never gotten an invite. Even if I had graduated, I wasn't very popular so it's possible I wouldn't have gotten an invite anyway.

But even if I had, most of my friends were a year or two older, so there wouldn't be many people there that I'd actually care about seeing.