I was generally popular or unpopular because:

I was sort of unpopular because I couldn't do the things that the other kids could do, like deliver newspapers - you had to collect money and turn it in and know how to take your cut, and I was always having to put wood in the cellar or coal or shovel snow. Being unable to read and do math sort of kept me as a loner person, I kept to myself. I just made my own way.