Is it weird that I don't want to go to my high school graduation?

Question

I just don't want to and I have my own personal reasons that I rather not get into right now. How can I convince my friends to leave me alone and respect my choice? They're all treating me like if I'm some kind of freak.

My parents are ok with my decision and respect me for it so it isn't going to be a problem. I know for sure I'm not going by now and it's to late anyways because I all the tickets are already sold it so there's nothing I could do about it even if I wanted to.

Answer 1

Some people choose not to go, it's not weird. I am in the middle of deciding whether I want to go to my college graduation(I have a severe anxiety disorder and do not like large crowds).

If your friends bring it up just tell them that you are not going, have made your choice and to please not bring it up again. Simple as that.

To be honest I barely remember my HS graduation, and can't remember most of the names of the people I went to HS with. I lost track of many friends, of all the ones I had I still see only two on a regular basis.

It's your choice, just be sure that you will not regret the decision later. If you won't then what your friends think or say shouldn't matter.

Answer 2

Regardless of your reasons, when you look back on your final moment in high school, I suspect you will do so with regret, if you don't go through the graduation ceremony. It's a right of passage for teens, and it's important to your whole family. You didn't get through graduation alone, your parents, teachers, and many others helped you along the way.

Try to think a little bit farther ahead in your future, and then take a look at your past. Despite whatever is happening in your life at this moment, missing graduation will be a part of your history that you can't recapture.

If after you think about it from your parents, teachers and other supporters point of view, and you still don't want to attend the ceremony, then ask your friends to honor your wishes.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Don't worry about your friends, but what about your family? Unless you have a really bad relationship with them, you owe it to them to go. I speak from experience. I personally never saw any point in going to my college graduation or those for my first two graduate degrees. When I got the third graduate degree, my parents were there, and when I saw the look of pride on their faces, I regretted not having gone to the earlier ones. Graduation, like most other ceremonies, isn't about the graduate. It is about giving those who love the graduate a chance to experience pride in the graduate. Don't be selfish.

Answer 4

No, but your parents are probably going to make you do it anyway. I didn't want to go to mine either, but I was sort of shanghai'd. As for your friends, well if they cannot understand that there are things going on with you at the moment, then they are not your friends.

Answer 5

That's not weird at all, I didn't want to go to mine either. Just tell them what you said here....you don't want to go, and that's your choice, and if they're really your friends they stop bothering you about it.

Answer 6

I didn't go to mine. It is no big deal really they will not even remember in 3 years.

Answer 7

Graduation isn't about you... it's about your parents. The whole event is geared towards them. The only part that is about you is the part where the faculty praises you infront of everyone on stage, but then again that's more of a show for your parents too. Trust me, if you don't go to your graduation and you're parents really want you to go, you're a big asshole.