1. You have absolutely no problem discussing menstruation and sex in incredible detail.
2. Or pulling up your tights and adjusting your bra in public.
3. Basically, you have absolutely no need for privacy of any kind.
4. Because you grew up without any boundaries.
5. You're an expert at navigating gossip.
6. And you could turn a school uniform from drab to fab within a matter of minutes.
7. Getting on the school bus was the highlight of your day.
8. Followed closely by logging into MSN the minute you got home.
9. If you were tall, you played a boy in every school play.
10. And if your school hosted discos with the local boys' school, the girls and boys stood on opposite sides of the room for the entire affair.
11. Your school uniform was invariably a very dull shade of a primary colour.
12. But by the time you got to sixth form, you had bought your entire wardrobe from New Look.
The coolest item of clothing was a jumper with a shirt's cuffs and collar sewn into it.
13. And you stuck to the principle that if enough people continued to break a uniform rule, your teachers would probably stop enforcing it.
14. Your school bag came from Paul's Boutique, and you carried your P.E. kit in either a Jane Norman or a JD Sports carrier.
Anything else was profoundly uncool.
15. Your sixth form common room had a dedicated Man Wall.
16. You knew how to turn the smallest nugget of information into the juiciest gossip ever, especially if it contained any romantic details.
17. You became an expert at discreetly texting underneath your table.
18. And also at consoling anyone who locked themselves into the toilet in floods of tears.
19. You always got your mum to write you a sick note for swimming on period days.
20. You learnt everything you know about sex from the first girl in your year to lose her virginity.
21. Because girls are more efficient than boys, being surrounded by them made you an expert at power revising, power shopping, and power stalking.
22. But the best thing about your school experience was that it never occurred to you that you can't do exactly what you want to do.
