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 did, but undercover. It was hilarious!
A lot changed in my life after graduation, including my first name and my surname (the latter due to marriage, the first thanks to deed poll, I always disliked the name my parents gave me…).
A few dear old friends from school knew about me living abroad, about all the other changes going on in my life and since all of us were the weird folks back then, we decided to prank everyone else big time.
So, I went there as a friend of one attending. Fricking no one recognised me. Not a soul. But they kept asking why person x was the only one no one found contact details of online, or any other way of contact. The person they knew just disappeared into thin air after graduation.
A big mystery no one could figure out who wasn’t in on the ruse. Some great theories we’ve overheard that evening included, but were not limited to:
A) dead
B) in prison
C) became a hermit
I stood right next to those people I went to school with for over 10 years, some I knew even longer.
It was a fun challenge for me keeping a straight face for the entire evening while drinks were also involved. Not one person could figure out they knew me in the first place. :D
I went to the first one and didn’t enjoy myself. Saw the assholes are now cops and most of the self-proclaimed cool kids were now shilling one MLM or another. Everyone still hung out in the same groups they did in high school. They held a moment of silence for the popular dickhead who got drunk and drowned in a river after high school.
Having not gone to any of my 40-or-so reunions, I feel like they would only get interesting after 20. Maybe 30. That’s long enough for everyone to have finished all the school they’re going to do, for people to have moved beyond their first jobs, or even first careers, and to have experienced enough life to really become their own people.
my 40-or-so reunions
Do you have a reunion every single year?
I think it means the reunion when they’re around 40 years old
I cannot physically escape my high school reunion in this lifetime.
I went to a fairly small school and I was the only one who graduated that year.
So every moment of every day for the rest of my life is my high school reunion.
On the upside though, I was the valedictorian, a fact which has actually helped me get jobs.
I feel like people don’t do this anymore. My highschool was very large and I don’t think myself or anyone I know even knew who is responsible for it so it never happens
Never once. I still talk to the only people from there I care to know.
Fuck no. I was done with that shit the moment it was over. I didn’t give a fuck about them back then and I certainly don’t give a fuck about them now. Anyone I cared to keep in touch with I’ve kept in touch with.
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.
The entire purpose of highschool reunions was rendered irrelevant as soon as social media was invented.
Good point…
Nope. Hell I’m not even sure there was one.
The venn diagram of “people who organize and attend high school reunions” and “people I want to ever see again” are two circles drawn on different pages in different books on different shelves.
Never got invited lol. Not that I’d go, I have no interest in mingling with white supremacists. I grew up in a fun area.
Thought about the 10 year then went to see phish instead
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.
No. I’ve spent a long, long time and a lot of effort to try and fundamentally change the shitty person I was back then. I don’t want to revisit that chapter at all.
You know what? Same.
It took me longer than it probably should have to mature. I’m glad not to have a reminder of it out there.
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).
