Taylor Louderman Quotes

I can't say that I ever abided nerd stereotypes: I was never alone or felt outcast.

I was the worst-dressed person in Scranton. I was a total nerd. Obviously, I got picked on, but I was also able to find my own cluster of friends, and I think when that happens, you get by just fine.

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

I was bullied. I was a bit of a geek. Good-looking guys were off-limits. I didn't start dating until I was 18.

I don't want to stay underground for just the cool people.

I've never hung around with any models. I've always hung around with my friends from school and kept myself to myself.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between.

I was always kind of searching for the right social group in high school and never really felt like I belonged with any one specific clique.

Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell those people. It's like people that don't know me or people that aren't even my friends saying I've changed. I have two friends - exactly two friends. It's like, how can someone that's not even my friend say I've changed?

At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.

I was never a nipper; I was so uncool. I was way too unfit to be a nipper.

I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.

In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.

I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.

I think that most of us would prefer to be popular than unpopular.

You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.