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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Thesis: A person who attended private or Catholic K-12 is likely to identify a person they met there as their closest friend. A person who attended public K-12 is more likely to identify a person they met in college as their closest friend, except if they still live in the town where they grew up.
Related premise: Men generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Women generally identify a woman as their closest friend. Conclusion: women make better friends, probably because they usually smell better.
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Public K-12: I met my best friends in elementary school, high school and college. My definition of "best friends" are those people I'd have stand for me at my wedding.
Friends that were there with you when you were really growing up will almost always know you a little better. They know how you got there and they most likely went through the exact same things you did. They know how much you've changed (for better or worse) and will definitely let you know about it ("you never used to be such an asshole"). We need that feedback.
My childhood friends have always been the most straightforward with me. They'll tell me when I'm being a dick, or when they think that they never would have thought that I would volunteer for something. They understand why certain decisions are made that even college friends wouldn't understand.
Personality-wise, we probably resemble our college friends more than our childhood friends. We may be more comfortable with our college friends and enjoy more mutual interests than our childhood friends. But our childhood friends know us better. They knew you when you were stupid(er) and confused(er). And they were with you when you blew up that mailbox or got pummeled in that crab apple fight. They knew you when you weren't
you yet.
I have one female best friend (high school). The others are male (childhood, HS, college).
