I know when I was younger you were trying everything for other peers to like you..and peer pressure was one of the most hardest things you had to endure during high school..
Constant badgering about smoking and ditching classes..
It was really hard for me to stay on the right track ..

Did you have same experience or do you know someone who has??
What do you think about people who are not strong and they do things because their peers are doing some things?
Did you need help to cope with this kind of things

also
if you are still in high school and need advice just ask us who were there..

This is open discussion and I want to know your opinion or the stories..

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Not really all that serious a case of peer pressure or anything, but in residence last year. All my floor mates would go out partying and constantly badger me to go out with them and party. Instead of staying at home and doing my readings/homework, etc.

I don't know why, but when I would say no to them I would feel bad. Like I let them down or something. I don't really know why. Eventually though I started to prioritize my workload, so I could my work doing the week and during the day part of the weekend so I could party at night with everyone. I guess in a way I gave into peer pressure, but I learned how to take control of it and have it not screw up with my university academic life.

But there was countless times where I did turn them down, so I didn't succumb to peer pressure.

well I know how you felt..It was same for me..I felt bad and I really wanted to like me..but I knew I had to finish school and that part of my life is only temporary...I mean how could I enter nice college if I had bad grades

I can't think of any specific peer pressure... perhaps swearing? I choose not to say any "bad" words for the longest, time, even though I knew them and it was "cool" to cuss like a sailor. *shrugs* Everyone would ask me "Hey! Have you ever heard of the word -insert any swear here-?" I would just answer "Of course I have.", people just didn't get why I didn't say them. Middle schoolers and high schoolers are weird. :/ Anyways, I did start swearing after a while, to get people to shut up. xD I guess I gave in so people would stop thinking I was stupid and didn't have them in vocabulary. It's not a good thing to have given in to... but I sorta got a kick from people's reactions when they did hear me swear. O_____O hahah! xD

I never really succumbed to peer pressure mostly because I'm an extremely independent person and I hate the idea of being coerced into doing something I believe is wrong. Sure, I've had them ask me to do this or that- but I turned them down. After watching the people around me suffer the consquences of their rowdy lives, I much rather prefer them calling me a "tightwad" over ending up pregnate or arrested. Needless to say, because of my choices, I suffered alot of mockery and bullying- but I didn't really care. I don't have the best self-esteem, but I would never allow myself to bow to other people's choices.

I never really had a problem with peer pressure, since my group of friends had the same mindset as me. If we wanted to experience something (drugs, drinking, sex whatever) then you did it, you may offer others to join you, but no pressure too. We skipped pep rallys because they were boring, and our parents would phone the school with a dr.s appoint or something, if we told them we were going to skip. So yeah... never skipped classes, (except for once when I went to the mall during a pep rally, and played mini golf, and missed my class ^.^')

I cant say I ever had any peer pressure from classmates when I was still in school. The few friends I had were smart enough not to do things just because "everyone else is doing it". Everyone else stayed away either because they were afraid of me or they thought I was a bitch, I'm not quite sure. It irritates me how strong peer pressure can be, I mean, if everyone was jumping off cliffs or bridges and killing themselves would you do it too? I think not. And yet most people will do anything for some sort of acceptance or risk being shunned poor things. Teenagers can be so cruel.

I never had peer pressure, I did what I did because I wanted to, not because someone else wanted myself to do what I did. I skipped school because I didn't like school; none of my friends skipped school, nor did I ever ask them to skip with me. I'd just go hang out with my older friends whom did not attend school. I'd tried drugs, because I wanted to, I'd ask someone, if they are with me, if they would like to try - but not pressure them into, just to be polite. I did everything because I wanted to. In fact, I don't really believe there is much peer pressure in school because I've never seen anyone do it. I only knew one person that would try to pressure other people into things, but that was one person out of everyone I knew.