Originally Posted by
silverchris9
I've probably met SLEs I didn't like before, when I was too bookish or shy or whatever. In fact, some of the SLEs in high school probably bullied(ish)/made fun of me. But I was never particularly annoyed by that. I was significantly more annoyed by stupidity than SLE-dom. SLEs usually aren't stupid (or don't come off as stupid to me). In fact, now that I think about it, I probably could've been friends with some of the jocks who were beta if I'd been a little less goody-two-shoes, and if we'd had a little more in common (and by "a little more" I mean "anything besides the classes I was forced to take with them").
Actually, high school is a good example of that whole duality from a distance not working, because many of the people who were most likely to have been SLEs were the most unpleasant to me in high school, because from a distance, SLEs can seem sort of random and as though they just do shit for the sake of doing it, which I thought was annoying and stupid, but close up, some of those same qualities can be more positive.
Besides people who might have been SLE in high school (and I'm sure at least one or two of them were, although I couldn't think of who, besides the one I still hang out with), I think I've gotten along with every SLE I've met and/or gotten close to, and I've certainly liked them all, even if I never get close to them.