I would say it was alright. I may not have had many friends, but that extra time I had allowed me to get into programming with JavaScript and Python.

It has had its memories. But, whenever I’m asked if I had any fond memories from my childhood, I leap to teenager years and high school. Because they were infinitely better.

My middle school years was filled with tons of humiliation, tons of setbacks, tons of embarrassing moments and nothing about it I’ve ever looked back on and was proud about. I was so hateful of my middle school years, I shredded all of my report cards. Not that they’d mean anything, but they reflected upon things about myself then and where everything was at the time. Sure I was a kid who did kid things, but I wasn’t considered a normal kid and I didn’t get to live a normal kid life.

Mostly spent time alone, I was too naive to understand how broken I really was, would be nice to back to that

Horrible time of my life.

Year 7-9 was pretty alright for me! I had cut out all the people I dislike in my class by year 6 so after that I had a nice, tight-knit friend group.

School in general sucked for me. Getting bullied and treated like garbage from kindergarten all the way till graduation does that. Made me not want to touch any form of schooling for years afterwards. I’m only now, 13 years later, starting to slowly open up to the possibility of maybe studying something in a structured school environment one day when I’m rich enough to afford it.

Well, one time a bunch of kids hit me and beat me with sticks like i was a piñata then they pushed me into the street whilst a truck was driving towards me. And the teachers didn’t do jack squat about it because they didn’t see it happen.

So no, Middle School was awful

Bad. Homeschooled and socially isolated so on the rare occasion I did interact with kids my age, I didn’t understand when I was being bullied, yet was so confused when someone was nice to me I thought they were bullying me. Oof, the 20/20 hindsight still burns a bit.

It sucked. My worst experiences grades 1-12 were in middle school.

I threw up every morning from anxiety.

It was alright

In and of itself was a good safe excellent school & peers & teachers but hormonally I had a couple crying episodes right in the middle of classroom those years.

Worst years of my life. Some par for the course, some not. For example, it probably didn’t help that my school district was going through a reorganization and I went to 4 different schools in 4 years (grades 6-9).

Is that equivalent to years 7 to 9? I don’t want to share too many details online, but safe to say those years were not a good experience for me.

I went to catholic school till 8th grade and was pretty introverted as a kid. So mostly bad but it basically got better really as I got older and high school was much better. I went from being the geek of the class to being in a group of geeks at a school.