What were you like as a teenager.

[Shoesalesman]

Headbanger of the highest order! Your average teen getting average grades. Wasn't a lover, wasn't a fighter. I was a reader, a writer, a thinker. An idiot at times. Brilliant at times too. Good times and good friends was my philosophy. Would not change one thing about my teens.

 

[kellykid]

Rebellious, metal head stoner, that attended an all girl Catholic school. Partied and dated a lot lol Closeted nerd...kinda weird too. Was called strange, I always replied " Thank you"

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I was Ferris Bueller -- 70's edition. I hung with everyone and seemed to get everyone in trouble yet I always came out smelling like roses. I was the classic 'bad influence.' At my senior prom I was voted most likely to die by 21.

 

[Out of Order]

I was Ferris Bueller -- 70's edition. I hung with everyone and seemed to get everyone in trouble yet I always came out smelling like roses. I was the classic 'bad influence.' At my senior prom I was voted most likely to die by 21.

Was the vote before or after you get dumped with the bucket of blood?

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Was the vote before or after you get dumped with the bucket of blood?

No blood... Beer. After the prom we went to several parties. When I finally took my date home about 3 am sat up with her grandfather learning the correct way to drink moonshine. Went back to school about 7am because some time the night before I got roped into helping them tear down the prom decorations. Found out the couple we went to dinner with before the prom got into an accident in the middle of the night and totaled the car.

 

[Maddie]

I was a metal head, boy chasing maniac.

Didn't have a lot of female friends, mainly hung out with whatever guy I was dating at the time. The rest of the time I spent in my room reading or playing my Gameboy.

me too! I was a good girl but looked like a bad girl and would only go out with guys who were in a rock band or had to 'look like' they were! Fun times though. I still love all the same things I did back then but wiser and ever so grateful that none of my kids do any of the things that I did back then and would never wish on parents now that I am one .

 

[80sFan]

me too! I was a good girl but looked like a bad girl and would only go out with guys who were in a rock band or had to 'look like' they were! Fun times though. I still love all the same things I did back then but wiser and ever so grateful that none of my kids do any of the things that I did back then and would never wish on parents now that I am one .

Oh yes, long-haired boys got preference back then. I was a nice girl, but dressed like the girls from the the hair metal videos. When the boys realized you can't judge a book by its cover and that I didn't go too far past kissing, they didn't stick around very long.

 

[wdb1124]

Oh yes, long-haired boys got preference back then. I was a nice girl, but dressed like the girls from the the hair metal videos. When the boys realized you can't judge a book by its cover and that I didn't go too far past kissing, they didn't stick around very long.

Considering the amount of action I was getting in high school (read: none, seems like some things never change! ), I’d have been happy to get even THAT far!

 

[Doc Creed]

From age thirteen to fifteen I was hell on wheels. This was not due to drugs or alcohol (I indulged neither) but because of my rebelling against parents and uncontrollable circumstances. I attended four schools in three years, that didn't help. I was a loner but had a small band of trusted friends. I endured some bullying but nothing too harsh beyond middle school. High school was slightly better but I maintained a low profile and my nose was often stuck in a book. I'd say I was grunge and had a hard outer-shell but managed to make friends across the social spectrum. At seventeen I began to get a lot of female attention but had not yet grown confident, so dating was not something I did until after graduation. As GNTLGNT said, it's not a time that brings up many fond memories but on summer breaks there was markedly more freedom and fun.

 

[osnafrank]

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.

Damn, that describes me as a Teen damn good.

Other moms said to their Kids, "If you play with Frank we will disinherit you.
I was a Bmx driving,swearing defiant little nagger.

So, what has changed....i don`t drive a Bmx anymore

 

[HedlessChickn]

Oh yes, long-haired boys got preference back then. I was a nice girl, but dressed like the girls from the the hair metal videos. When the boys realized you can't judge a book by its cover and that I didn't go too far past kissing, they didn't stick around very long.

I was a long-haired goddam hippie.

Apparently, a lot of girls were in to me but I was oblivious to them. Unless they outright stated that they were interested, I had no clue, and even then I figured they were lying.

Yes, I do have trust issues. Why do you ask?

 

[ghost19]

Thick glasses, shy, awkward with girls and everyone else for the most part. Always in the library reading and trying to get the attention of a certain library aide I thought quite a bit of.

 

[Paddy C]

Avid reader, pretty shy and covered my insecurities by being a bit of a clown. Then I discovered Punk music and alcohol and that brought me out of my shell

 

[Kurben]

I was a shy bullied boy whose only good side according to classmates was that i was a good goalkeeper in soccer. A true loner. My best and only real friend was a girl who danced in her sparetime. We are still friends. At 16 i discovered girls but were to shy to act on it. Read many many books and loved nature.

 

[CoriSCapnSkip]

I was always a big reader, more after age 11 or 12 when I stopped playing with toys as much. I was told I was weird and determined to make my existence pay off.

 

[Srbo]

Many Metalheads here.
Makes me really happy.
Metal for life.

 

[Srbo]

Was the vote before or after you get dumped with the bucket of blood?

 

[HollyGolightly]

I was quiet and withdrawn, a definite loner. The tragedy of my teen years is the fact that all of my classmates thought I was the most likely person to shoot up the school when in reality I probably would have been the most likely person to die trying to save them.

This is heartbreaking! Those years are so hard.

 

[HollyGolightly]

I was mostly raised in large suburban areas - outside of Cincinnati, then outside of Mobile. But we moved to a tiny town of 1200 when I was 12. I was the outsider. Those kids didn't know what to make of me. I dressed differently, was used to doing things and going places they'd never had the opportunity to do or go to; I was quite liberal in my political thinking and that was taboo there and then. I escaped into books all the time. I never had a curfew, my mom knew I liked to be home early enough to read before I went to bed. I was terrible at drinking (I always puked), and I was horrible at smoking pot (I always got paranoid). In a town where there was nothing to do but sex, drugs and rock and roll, I was the designated driver and caretaker. I dated 1 boy for a while - he was the only guy brave enough to date the outsider. Shockingly, I received the "Superflirt" award Senior year. I never tried to flirt. I think it's my eyes and my voice - I just look and sound like I'm flirting. During my Senior year, my dad was at home dying of lung cancer. I just mostly stayed home that year. I'd take a dagger to the chest before I'd ever go back to those years, but the 80s were cool. I had tall crispy hair. Lots of eye makeup, wore legwarmers often. Neon colored pumps.

 

[Srbo]

I was mostly raised in large suburban areas - outside of Cincinnati, then outside of Mobile. But we moved to a tiny town of 1200 when I was 12. I was the outsider. Those kids didn't know what to make of me. I dressed differently, was used to doing things and going places they'd never had the opportunity to do or go to; I was quite liberal in my political thinking and that was taboo there and then. I escaped into books all the time. I never had a curfew, my mom knew I liked to be home early enough to read before I went to bed. I was terrible at drinking (I always puked), and I was horrible at smoking pot (I always got paranoid). In a town where there was nothing to do but sex, drugs and rock and roll, I was the designated driver and caretaker. I dated 1 boy for a while - he was the only guy brave enough to date the outsider. Shockingly, I received the "Superflirt" award Senior year. I never tried to flirt. I think it's my eyes and my voice - I just look and sound like I'm flirting. During my Senior year, my dad was at home dying of lung cancer. I just mostly stayed home that year. I'd take a dagger to the chest before I'd ever go back to those years, but the 80s were cool. I had tall crispy hair. Lots of eye makeup, wore legwarmers often. Neon colored pumps.

Wow, what a story. Love it. Sorry to hear about your dad, a parent dying is never easy, whether you`re 16 or 46.
I`m the same with pot, if I smoke it without having at least 4 or 5 beers already in me, panic attacks would never end.
HORRIBLE stuff, that`s why I never smoked it sober.
Luckily, now I don`t do neither anymore, was about time.
And that thing about flirting....being simply polite has gotten to be so rare that everybody gets suspicious and accuses you of flirting.
When, in reality, it`s the furthest thing from your mind.