Did you go to your 10-year high school reunion? And why did you regret going/not going?

I did not. I only learned about it the day before and I live very far away. The people who planned it did a classically mediocre-at-best job about planning it, primarily by it literally being just a meetup at a restaurant that they advertised on their personal Facebook pages, and I'm not friends with them on there.

that being said, I was pretty significantly bullied in middle and high school by my peers and simultaneously verbally/emotionally abused at home by primarily my mom and my brother who ganged up on me with her. Because of this, I didn't know how to handle my emotions or socially interact with others and often cried at school in the bathroom, and more than my fair share of peers took advantage of that to boost their own self esteem and did whatever they could to make me feel like I was just crazy.

Ultimately, there would have been no benefit for me to have attended. I hated almost everything about high school and everyone who went to the reunion loved it and one another, many staying in the same general area with one another. To be frank, most days, I didn't even think I'd live long enough to graduate. But eventually, I moved as far away as I felt I reasonably could, because all I wanted was to get away, and I did. Things are so much better now, so I think not having gone was for the best.

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