What was your high school experience?

[yourlibrarian]

As part of my effort to clear stuff out of the house, I came across my old yearbooks. (BTW, if anyone has any recommendations of places that will buy or take yearbooks, please let me know. I just want them anywhere not here without having to pay for postage). As I hadn't looked at them in quite some time, I browsed through them to see what condition they were in and ended up reading a bunch of messages across different years. I noticed a lot of people referenced the fact that I was writing stories in class.

These were mostly fanfic although I did draft an original novel at the time too as well as various short stories. (These efforts were almost uniformly terrible). The point being that while people did in fact know I was fannish about different things (which was mentioned by a few) they didn't know about fanworks or about it being part of the fan experience. If they remembered anything about me, it would be that I was going to write for a living (even though I never said any such thing to anyone).

I'm curious what experience other people had and whether they'd likely be remembered as a fan by classmates and why?

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[raine]

I went to high school in the late '80's - being a fan of something back then meant you were a Trekkie or a Star Wars fan or something else, and the 'something else' wasn't something I wanted to disclose. It wasn't until after college that I really got into fandom - basically about the time that Internet access was available to everyone. So I probably wouldn't be remembered as a fan by my classmates.

[yourlibrarian]

Ah, see for me it was music in high school. I'm not quite sure what the boyband era was -- after my time anyway. But I remember in art class there were a few band inspired paintings being done.