High School ConfidentialTALK

So, I'm seventeen now and I've been in a relationship with my boyfriend/best friend since we were both fourteen and 3 and a half years is just a LONG time. We fight a lot because of stupid little things that really shouldn't matter - I hate to compare, but it's a lot like Crystal's story from High School Confidential. He's my rock, I lean on him when there's no one there because my parents just don't understand and there's no one else who would be there all the time. However, the little fights are just too much, especially on top of all the stresses from the AP classes I take, professional internship and just other activities I do. Is that normal? We've been talking a LOT about breaking up because of all that's going on and I just don't know anymore. He's just the perfect guy - 6'0", 4.0, National Merit, 2190 SATs, 5s on APs, drummer, pianist, Varsity sports, newspaper journalist, attractive (not just biased! lol!) and very very trustworthy and honest; however, I think he's just taking me for granted now because I used to have a lot of guy friends so he'd feel the need to take care of me and think about me, but now I'm not even a second thought... I'm more of a fifth thought. What should I do? Will things ever change? College is right around the corner... so... ???

after life of high scool confidential

To the young ladies who decided to have the abortions, my heart goes out to you. And I'm sure the pain & humiliation you ladies now know,is more than sufficient to satisfy the "so-called"christians.I am a christian! And I know Jesus paid too far a price for ordinary people to decide who's forgiven & who's not.And the decision these girls made is theirs & theirs alone to deal with...Jesus will take care of the rest!!!Every one of the girls are remarkable,and just tryin' to survive this world.Keep your chins up, Ladies.

First off, Allyson had to have an abortion because of serious medical problems(heart) in which she would of had to be on bed rest for more than half of her pregnancy which would have cost her family more than they could afford...so adoption was out of the question...her mother is not as bad as they made her seem...they just cut up her interview to make her look bad...her father died during her freshman year in COLLEGE and saw his daughter off to school and past away in October 2006...and she participated in many activities that WE had on tape but did not show for some reason no one knows...her family and friends are very disappointed with WE and their depiction of her high school career...Allyson is MORE than a girl who had an abortion and lost her father...she graduated with a 4.3 GPA, National Honors Society, with many academic offers from selective universities, and her family has been supportive of her all the way through...people please dont judge because her life was nothing like what WE showed but more and very fulfilling...p.s. they didnt even know about the abortion til after she had it so they never followed her anywhere or knew anything about her decisions...they just asked about it the summer after she graduated...

Sarah T., Caitlin and Lauren G.

Lauren G. is a strong girl through all she went through. I was in school with a young lady who needed & recieved a kidney transplant. ANd I thought she was strong. Lauren G. supprassed even her is bravery.

Sarah T. and Caitlyn thought so much like I did in high school it was unreal. I knew a lot of people I felt "peaked" in high school. They still lived in their glory days. I knew by my senior year I was meant for college. There was more variety in college for me than high school. I wasn't an art student like Sarah T, actually I was in the nerdy some what religious (thought we were cute) group in a magnet school in Dallas, Tx but she was so right I was ready for high school to be over. ANd it was more than myself that thought that way. It was more out there for me to see that I was not going to see in the hallowed halls of High School for Health Professions/Townview Center. Caitlyn went to prom without a date and that was I. I almost had a date and that fell through. A group of us rented a limo and had a good time. And I don't regret the no date thing. I knew some folks with date that wanted be me because Mr Date was getting on their nerves. Right on girl for getting dressed any going any way.

Wonderful show. Wish someone would thought of the experiment during 1992-1996. I would have so signed up.

I still feel as though they don't really show high school as it is...Sure the girls had some problems,some bigger than the others, and I'm not saying they didn't go through emotional distress, but I went to high school in Long Beach, California. I went to Jordan High School, which is a school that is predominately African-American, and Hispanic students who listen to Rap music. I am a Caucasian student who listened to punk music. I believe I had way more problems and issues than the girls on the show.
My father left us when I was 3, a few months later my mom tells me she's pregnant with her boyfriend. Once they got married he totally rejected me. He lowered my self esteem to the point where I started slitting my wrists when I was 13. It went on all the way through 10th grade. I had my first boyfriend in 9th grade and it just led to more and more boyfriends. I did meth starting in 9th grade as well as started drinking, and taking any kind of pills I found.

My stepdad would call me fat ass so I became bulimic and then eventually anorexic which went on until the end of 10th grade. I started being made fun of starting 9th grade because first, I was white, second I was dressed in tight black pants, boots, and jackets with bands on it. So I was going to school and being made fun of, and coming home and being made fun of by my stepdad as well.

In 10th grade I had my first serious relationship and we started having sex. After we broke up I started having casual sex with different guys. A month before summer 10th grade I went to a party got drunk and ended up being in handcuffs on the floor. My mom grounded me and yet I still managed to drink, taking alcohol to school and spending all my days drunk.

That went on until October 2005, when 11th grade started and I starting going out with another guy Jesus. I ended up stopping the drinking and the drugs for him, and he did the same for me. We started having a sexual relationship in November 2005. I ended up pregnant in February 2006.I moved in with him and his family in April of that year. He stayed with me, and I finished 11th grade, But once 12th grade came in September 2006, I went the first 2 days, and ended up leaving...Being almost at my due date it was too difficult for me to sit all day,having to use the bathroom constantly, being hungry all the time.

So I had my daughter on October 2006. I went to home studies to acquire my high school diploma, but having a job, making time to do my work, and take care of a baby, they dropped me. So I am currently attending Alta-Med. A program designed for girls under the age of 19 who are pregnant or have a child, and weren't able to get their Diploma. I am still with Jesus and he is in the process of joining the United States Marine Corps.

So, after all that I went through, here I am, 18 years old, with a 1 and a half year old daughter. Everyone who sees me now noticed how happy I am now. I am unlike other young mothers, because I had my party time and I don't yearn to go out and get drunk like most underage mothers I come across.

I have a daughter who is a senior and she likes the show the two times she has seen it, I liked the show for the main reason that as a mother you can hear from these girls what your girls (daughters) might not be telling you about their feelings or issues growing up in this generation.

I work hard as a mother, wife, career person and need to escape so with my time limited I really do not want my personal TV "Me Time" spent watching everyday issues and problems. Instead of relaxing and getting to escape realty for awhile I end up with anxiety and creating a checklist of worries on a notepad beside my chair.

I was really loving the "Supernatural" block of programming they were airing, what happened? it was becoming a regular for me, candles, popcorn, and my very own big container of ice cream sunk down in a comfy chair for a couple of hours!

Signed,
TJ - Rescue Medium Fan

Well, my high school experiences were somewhat relived either by things that I myself went through or from what my friends went through. But from watching the show I noticed that nohings really changed all that much, and coming from divorced parents I don't think that a sense of morals and values are stronger if both parents are together, I'm not saying that it doesn't make a difference of course it does, but I have seen as we all have, kids with both parents in the home just go array, lose their way. I just think it depends on the parents themselves both as parents and as individuals. The same is true for the kids, from the time their inside the womb they are developing their own personality, character, once their born it grows, it just depends on everything and everyone around them to help them along the way, help them to develop their own sense of self, but theres never any guarantee how they will turn out, because it only takes that one moment, boy/girlfriend, comment, break-up, gossip, word or action to deviate them, and change them into someone unreconizeable.
But I do wish all the girls from the show the best of luck on all their endeavors! I just hope that they each get out of Kansas, theres soooo much to see in this world, and live the life, and take the path that makes YOU happy, genuinely happy.

I wonder if any of the girls ever go on these message boards. Anyway I just wanted to say how much I could relate to all of these girls all in different ways. I graduated in 2006 like them. Of all the girls, Cappie really appealed to me because of the situation with her father. My parents divorced when I was 3 1/2 and through middle school and highschool I fought so hard to be able to have a relationship with my father. Like Cappie I was not sure if my father would be at my graduation. Unfortunately my father did not come to mine with an excuse that my step-mom had a headache and he did not think he was invited even though I sent him an invitation. Unfortunately because of that last incedent I haven't spoken to my father since. It was nice to watch this and see that someone else went through something so similar to what I went through. I can totally relate to Cappie.

hey my name is kendra i am an 18 year old soon to be marine wife and i was just wonderin if anyone knew how i could email sarah i would like to know where her husband is stationed tbecause im in the united states and my fiance is also stationed at camp lejune sooo i was wonderin if he was stationed anywhere close to that i am just lookin for a friend that i could realate to he is in jacksonville n.c and i am 4 and a half hours away im in greensboro northcarolina soooo if anyone would know you could email me at kendra_hnt@yahoo.com. thnx i would highly appreciate it.