From: Moore, David (moore@cl.uh.edu)
Date: Sun Aug 29 1999 - 20:52:34 MDT
> Robert J. Bradbury wrote: Lets take a straw poll, how many people
> in the group were "outsiders" as children, e.g. played mostly alone,
> had only a few friends, or were generally rejected by the social
> cliques that educational system produces?
As a kid up to the age of 16 or so I was a LONER. I fondly recall the
countless hours I spent in my grandmothers spacious attic with a stack of 20
year-old National Geographics and the 1952 dedition of World Book.Later as I
got into my high school years I was pretty much the "cross-clique kid" that
Greg Burch described. I had no problem whatsoever mixing in with the
"Brains", the "Nerds", the "Jocks" or the "Dopers." That socialization was
confined to school though, away from classess I was still pretty much a
loner.
About the last two years of high school I became lifelong friends with a
"Brain". We happily spent the last two years of high school
attending countless Star Trek conventions, L-5 Society meetings etc...
David
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