What were you like as a teenager.

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Grandpa

Grandpa

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I was in a couple sports, nothing special. I had good strength and athletic ability but no sense of competitiveness. I played football and wrestling, didn't letter, and ditched them in my senior year.

I had some friends but didn't hang out with them, with the exception of one guy, Jeff. He and I were close. In the cafeteria, I was the kid you'd typically see sitting by himself.

I was pathologically shy. I didn't have nerve to ask girls out, or even to dance.

I was not a good student. I could learn anything but didn't really want to take the time to do any homework. The smarts that I had were used mostly to figure out how to just get by.

I know this sounds like a bunch of negativity, but I didn't have a whole lot of positive things going on in high school, with one exception. In my senior year, thanks to my childhood friend Curt, I started going out with a pretty blonde.

Curt died when he was 16. Jeff died when he was 20. But the pretty blonde, we call Grandma.
 
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Grannie CeeCee

Grannie CeeCee

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Hard a** tomboy, but with a pretty steady moral code. I spent a lot of time on my bike, in trees, and playing football. I had a smart mouth, I never walked away from a dare (stupid kid), and I almost never got caught. I knew a lot of dirty jokes and all the swears. I snuck out, smoked, fought and kept a duffle bag packed in case I decided to run away. I was the kid other mothers didn't want their kids around. They sure didn't want their boys to date me.
 
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Blake

Blake

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Feb 18, 2013
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Introverted. I think I became slightly weird because looking back I think my parents were slightly weird. Like our front door had four dead locks on it, two chains. A peephole/spyhole. My mother and father never went out and socialised. My mother always liked to have the blinds drawn. My mother used to vet what I read. My father did as well but he didn't say I couldn't read something. My mother was a bit prudish.
 
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swiftdog2.0

swiftdog2.0

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Mar 16, 2010
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I was a teenage SwiftDog :)

Nerdy and Geeky.

Adept at not getting caught doing extremely stupid things.

Awkward with girls.

Had a few very good friends.

Very into horror movies and literature.

Read a lot.

Way into music. Started playing guitar when I was 13.

Wasted many hours playing video games.
 
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JMR

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I sort of the same I was then has I am now. I like the same things. I hope i am bit wiser. I grew old and still growing old. But I will never stop liking things I like. Music, horror movies, role play and such.. I still talk a lot and tend to stay away from people. On here it ok. But people find me odd...and still do
 
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rockerchick

rockerchick

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Aug 21, 2009
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I was a geek and a wallflower until I got my contact lenses. After I got rid of my glasses, I got more attention from the opposite sex, but most of the time it was from the wrong people. I also started making art and read a lot of Stephen King. I went to nursing school when I was 17. I think I was the youngest person in my class.
 
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mal

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Jun 23, 2007
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Troubled, angry, thief, shoplifter, shameful, lots of fistfights, wary, quit school, worked, studied. Escaped, not unscathed, but better for it. Still had fun and friends between it all as life should always carry on, no matter what. I still have remnants of that chip on my shoulder but mostly a peaceful goof who has learned to be humble. I'm probably better than most at being humble.
 
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HedlessChickn

HedlessChickn

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Jun 14, 2015
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HedlessChickn said:
An angry, spiteful, hateful little son of a bitch that was far too smart for his own good with a repulsive sense of humor.

Much like I am now.

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On second reading, I realized I was a bit harsh on myself.

I did have good characteristics as well, I'm just not so great at pointing them out.

And I meant "repulsive" in the "disgusting bodily fluid" interpretation.
 
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Srbo

Srbo

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Mar 23, 2008
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Nothing special, normal guy.
Reading, writing, movies, music, loved to hike...basically, same as now, not much has changed. :)
Oh, OK, I wanted to become a Ninja, trained hard for that for years and years.
Now I don`t wanna be a Ninja. :D
 
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wdb1124

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Sep 12, 2017
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Very quiet, very shy. I've been told that there were girls who wanted to go out with me but I was too shy and nervous to ask them out. And they wouldn't ask me because it was the early 90s in southern Virginia and that sort of thing just wasn't done then!;;D So yeah, I was pretty reserved, but I had some close friends that I was able to "cut loose" around a little. But it was weird because I didn't fit into any of the stereotypical high school groups. I wasn't smart enough for the nerds, the troublemakers thought I was TOO smart, I wasn't athletic enough to be a jock...but I could get along with any of those people when I needed to. Guess that's life in a small town...
 
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GNTLGNT

GNTLGNT

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Jun 15, 2007
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....only way I'd ever want to return to those times, is if I could go-knowing what I know now-I was an overprotected, only child that was not allowed to have many friends, play sports etc.-then being tall and large to boot-made me even more of an oddball and a target for bullies.....I read, built models and the like...lots of solitary tromps through the woods with my rifle and when I could-hanging out with my one friend in the neighborhood.....it wasn't till I was a Senior in HS that I figured out some girls liked me-but I was to much of a goober to do anything about it....sarcasm and humor were my armor-and eventually getting physical with the bullies when I had too....that time sucked, and I have no interest in ever seeing it again....very few "fond" memories.....
 
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Grannie CeeCee

Grannie CeeCee

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GNTLGNT said:
....only way I'd ever want to return to those times, is if I could go-knowing what I know now-I was an overprotected, only child that was not allowed to have many friends, play sports etc.-then being tall and large to boot-made me even more of an oddball and a target for bullies.....I read, built models and the like...lots of solitary tromps through the woods with my rifle and when I could-hanging out with my one friend in the neighborhood.....it wasn't till I was a Senior in HS that I figured out some girls liked me-but I was to much of a goober to do anything about it....sarcasm and humor were my armor-and eventually getting physical with the bullies when I had too....that time sucked, and I have no interest in ever seeing it again....very few "fond" memories.....
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I see you that and raise you a never, ever. ever.
 
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