Peer Pressure In Middle School

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I was a very awkward child during middle school wearing dark and baggy shirts with a pair of jeans and some nike tennis shoes. I avoided the popular groups that talked a lot as cliche as this is if I was in a movie I would have been the weird basket case that was slightly artsy. Never talking to people in the halls just rushing straight to class so I could either read a book or draw. This continued to about tenth grade. While this makes it sound like I didn't have any friends that wouldn't be true during lunch I talked to a group of six or seven girls. Peer pressure was something I thought about very little about and when I think about it now people opinions are not something I care too much about. One thing you learn just by looking around

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