This troper. He started interning in radio at age 15, he's done professional photography work, and people say he has musical talent. He's fairly outgoing, and people have described him as "handsome," "very bright," and "very well-spoken" and he doesn't have trouble making friends. Yet, he's an entirely different person in school - he's practically invisible. No one has taken anything resembling romantic interest in him, practically no one talks to him of their own accord, and, even worse - he's a terrible student.

My friend is one of those. Beautiful, funny, amazing singer, smart, and friendly, but she is completely disconnected from everyone except for about four people, two of whom are ex boyfriends of hers.

This troper self-describes himself as a loser (although mostly due to SelfDeprecatingHumor...). He never dated anyone, has had enemies, is sorts of invisible - 6'1, but can perfectly go unnoticed in most places - and is considered insane (some loathe me, some love me, but everyone thinks I'm crazy). On the other hand,''everyone'' who knew me remembers me, most of them nicely; reasons for it including being smart, funny and an overall NiceGuy.

Excuse me, are you me?

You and I are eerily similar. Except that I'm short.

This troper is either a straight example or some kind of deconstruction. I'm an attractive female who's brainy, artistically talented, and decent at DeadpanSnarker wisecracking (when relaxed), but I literally only talk to people to borrow things thanks to a combination of crippling social anxiety and the pessimistic expectation (which I'm aware is toxic but that won't go away) that most people I talk to in the real world will turn out to be small-minded and painfully ordinary.

Holy crap, did I type this before without realizing it? This describes me to the letter!

This Troper found out she was one of these in high school during her senior year when so many people signed her yearbook all basically saying that they thought she was cool and always liked that she didn't try to pretend to be anybody else. So yeah.

Apparently, this troper was one of these in high school as well. I've never been socially awkward, got along with everyone, pretty good grades, was able to hang out with a lot of different kinds of people, and I even played football one year. I just didn't go out and party all the time, didn't have numerous friends, my dating life was practically non-existent, and pretty much never got a whole lot of attention. So when my name was called during graduation, I was pretty surprised by the pretty loud reaction I got, particularly from any of the kids I had classes with. And like the above example, everyone liked that I was just who I was, no more and no less.

Pretty much the same thing for this troper except she was on independent study for two years of her high school life and grew up with about one fourth of her graduating class. I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of applause I got from my peers and the fact that years later when I run into any of them they still remember me and greet me with a "How have you been?" or a hug.

This troper had a friend who was very pretty, kind, and star of the softball team, but was mostly unpopular outside a very small group of friends due to being painfully shy. She rarely spoke in class and sat in the back corner so few people in her classes even noticed she was there.

This troper wonders if he's this kind of loser, or the normal kind.

This troper has long been aware of her CoolLoser status. Described as being very attractive by others, generally liked by everyone whether they be nerd, cheerleader, or teacher, a regular DeadpanSnarker, and yet never really being very popular. The thing is, although I CAN be outgoing, I'm more often than not terribly shy and tend to hold people at arms' length (having a lot of weird interests makes one rather guarded). There's also the possibility that I might go the other way (if I find out someone is a fellow nerd) and come on REALLY strong. ...Let's just say I'm generally awkward socially. Heh heh. Heh.

Are we like, kindred spirits or something?

This troper. Shy and admittedly extremely weird at times, but one people get to know me they almost universally seem to like me a lot. I didn't realise this for a long time, though, since my shyness stopped anyone from getting to know me until my best friend, bless him, forced a social life on me and I learned that I could do the whole people thing. Now I have a very large group of friends, some of whom I'm very close to. A fair few of them would fit into this trope as well, in many ways. I'm still awkward when there a lot of people around, but no-one seems to mind.

This troper could probably qualify. Barring some {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies and extreme shyness, he is kind, polite, and caring, and has been complimented as "intelligent", "talented", and "funny" by many. How many of these traits may apply to him is debatable, as he barely knows anyone who would want to associate with him.

I fit this trope, but only sorta. I consider myself an outsider, and I'm not really included in any social gatherings. But I'm still well-liked, I'm just not close enough to anyone to be invited to parties, I guess.

Same with Me, I'm humorous, kind of cute (As described by other people), really smart, Great cortoonist, Crazy awesome, but at the same time have a stutter, suck at sports (Which I joke about), & are into Comics & have a Man-crush on DEADPOOL, but are kinda Adorkable, yet I've been bullied since I was 6 & lack self confidense to do most things. Although people who are good friends with me tend to laugh at my jokes, snarks, or general shinanigans, people who don't know me personally tend to be jerks to me, including former friends who insist I'm not funny (I once made a joke about Harry Potter & Slytherin & was called a nerd, despite the fact I was making Fun of Harry Potter while they were seriously discussing it, simply because I knew the name of two of the houses), however, other friends I know are all this aswell so...

This troper was one in high school. It stemmed partly from the fact that she was no good at socializing but mostly from her best friend being the school's Loony Lovegood.

This troper sat next one in a class in high school. I didn't know him well, but assumed he was cool despite being very overweight because he got moved up to the varsity football team as during the summer training between the freshman and sophomore years (mostly b/c of his aforementioned weight combined with his 6'3'' height). Then this troper got assigned into a health class with him. The CoolLoser joined with the nerds in making fun of the only other athlete in the room, a sophomore football player, throughout the semester (jocks and nerds had a rivalry and this one was an easy target all alone, also he was pretty quiet). Then, one day we were supposed to list 5 friends (to explore whether they were "giving" or "taking" relationships), and the CoolLoser listed three nerds as his friends, and still needed two more friends (and detailed this all out-loud for whatever reason), so he said he would add another guy (not in the class) who he thought was pretty much his friend. A friend of the guy then said the guy actually hated the CoolLoser and had said so repeatedly. Then, the CoolLoser said he would add the football player, (the one he had made fun of all semester). The football player proceeded to have a HeroicBSOD.

This troper found out he was this in Junior High in one of my own personal CMOA's. In grade school I tried to be the the guy that everyone knew and liked, it worked to an extent in that everyone knew me but I was also obnoxious and weird. In Junior High, the increased count of students and the onset of puberty resulted in these feelings becoming revealed and magnified tenfold. I became convinced I was not as well liked as I thought (read: at all) and this resulted in me being mostly quiet and borderline emo from 6th-7th grade. My grades suffered, my relationships became strained, and I thought of suicide on almost a daily basis. In 8th grade I had decided that enough was enough and I was going to end Junior High with a bang. I focused more on my schoolwork and maintaining the relationships that I had, as opposed to becoming one of the cool kids (who I had come to realize had traded in neurons for looks). My 8th grade year went much better, but I never though of myself as being all that special or unique, the difference is that now I was okay with being a "Cool Loser." The kicker came at the 8th grade dance that was at the end of the year. We were told to vote on mock awards that would be given to various people in the class, there was only about 15 of them so not everyone would get one. This troper nearly fainted when his name was called as the recipient of one of said awards (granted it was "most scientific" but still). To this day he remembers the thrill of being presented the award, and the class cheering for him and everyone coming over after to congratulate him. A teacher offered to take the award off my hands until the night was over, but I held onto it until I got back home.

I am a weird case concerning this trope. I find myself to be a incredibly weird and geeky, tend to be alone most of them time and not talk much at school. However, I'm considered to be attractive, incredibly nice, incredibly amazing, smart (Although I tend to hide my true intelligence). I have a lot of friends, and am very well liked by people. But as I stated earlier, I'm generally timid and show many geek qualities, due to some of my closer friends being full fledged geeks. Not to mention how I have yet to kiss a girl, let alone date one. In the end, I am cool and a loser. (Sad face.)

In this Troper's high school, if you wear something different from tan Uggs folded over, you are automatically unpopular. Of course, if all just depends on the popular kids, doesn't it? Some are accepting of who you are, some aren't!

I thinks I may be one of these. I am smart, funny (when relaxed), not very bad-looking, and pretty much everyone I know likes me overall. I'm just kind of shy, very quiet and a bit of (okay, very much) an otaku. (Luckily there is a bit of an unofficial club for people sharing my interests at my school.)

One of my former classmates back in high school was this: he was the school basketball team's star(he was 2 meters/6'8 foot tall), an A+ grade student, witty, funny, and every girl loved him, so I was naturally shocked to find out that the guy had ''no friends'', and had to spent the weekends in his house watching TV or playing with his PC. He finally averted the trope when he joined my group of friends ( and so far, he's still part of it).

I had a major case of this in high school. I fancied myself TheLoner and a bit of an outcast, weird and never invited to parties, never asked out on dates. Found out at graduation that everyone at school knew me and thought I was a great guy. Weird, yeah, but I didn't get invited to the parties because they didn't think it was my thing and the girls were waiting for me to ask. Go figure.

I'm not sure if I could qualify. I could definitely qualify for the "loser" part, because I'm shy, socially awkward, don't consider myself good-looking, have never had a girlfriend, spend very little time outside, hate sports, spend a lot of time in solitude, go on the computer and play video games a lot, and hate myself, but for some reason, people have called me smart (especially when I say something I consider common knowledge, or something anyone could figure out), talented (I play the piano and the cello, with many mistakes, and people still somehow say I'm good), and nice (it's actually a mask I use to hide how much I hate humanity, and my social awkwardness definitely helps with the politeness). I find it weird that more people know me and/or talk to me than I know and/or talk to people, and it gets weird when they greet me and call me by name, and I don't even know what their names are. Also, I still remember one time I approached some kid in my class (I don't remember why, I think I was going to ask him for something), he said, "What do you want?", I don't remember what I said then, but that's not important, and he spontaneously said, "Why are you so cool?" In truth, I'm not sure if people are just doing this to try not to hurt my feelings, since society has taught them to be insincere and pretend to be nice.

I might possibly be this. I'm really shy and awkward, am by myself playing games or at the computer most of the time, never had a boyfriend or been asked out, and hate sports. However, I'm usually nice, funny and smart, and while not "popular", most people seem to like me (or at least tolerate me).

This troper had a deal like this due to...well, the ''other'' people thought we were VitriolicBestBuds; I thought they were intentionally hurting me. Made the HeartwarmingMoment a little more believable.

I used to be that at university. Most of my fellow students thought I was really weird because I didn't want to associate with them. However, I had a wild social life... off-campus.