Hoping any of you may have some input--my son is a bright, sports-loving, video-game-playing, athletic, fun-loving person who finds "partying" type situations uncomfortable. After we moved midway through his high school years, he came out and told me that the reason he doesn't go out on the weekends is because he does not like the party situations in his new high school--he thinks people start acting like fools and he just feels very viscerally uncomfortable and makes some excuse to leave. He is nice-looking, funny, and people like him, but he is very leery of the whole party situation in college, especially because most of his top choice schools are reputed to be party schools. He articulated the problem: one can have great 'friends' in school who share your interests (sports, video games, fantasy football, pranks, in this case), but those people also tend to be the out-of-control partiers outside of school. He said he doesn't want to have to split "school friends" and true friends in college, and I don't know what to say...
There have GOT to be other kids like him who are into fun, silly guy stuff but who are not partiers--but who are also not social misfits! Are these people going to be so hard to find? As a parent, would you steer your child away from the known party schools? Thanks in advance to any and all who respond!
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