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[Boggart]

I was browsing through YouTube comments and basically losing all faith in humanity but quickly reminded myself that the people in YouTube comments are probabbbbllyyy 11-15 (I hope so anyway). But the things they say... my Lord. It's ignorant, rude and just downright unnecessary. In combination of r/cringepics on reddit of "self-cringe" aka really stupid things people did in their past that they look back upon now.

 

Which made me think of myself as a teenager; I really did not do too many things that I look back upon and cringe. I DID however, at the age of 16 think that I completely 100% understood how life worked and that I had outsmarted my parents when it came to life experience. I also thought that if everyone acted more like me then the world would be perfect. I was an idiot. I am still an idiot. I was also so starving for attention that I did some really stupid shit that I look upon and go "oh Lord why" but specifics aren't really interesting.

 

What about you? Were you a HUGE belieber and sent death threats to Selena Gomez when they broke up? Did you have a huge crush and spazzed out on someone over someone where there was DEFINITELY no future? Did you eat a pile of dirt because someone said it would make you more tan?

 

 

[DonValentino]

I spent thousands of dollars playing games online, stealing money from my family to do so. 

Just Teenage Things

[Rocket]

In middle school I was a huge nsync fan and cried when I didn't win ticket's to their concert, then my parents ended up buying them for me.

 

I also smoked a lot of pot in high school, I remember one time (I was 15) I got home from hanging out with my friends and we were high as kites, my mom wanted to take me practice driving, and I was like nononononononoooooo and she's like yes you need to practice. So I drove and almost crashed because I was so out of it. I actually told my mom this story a few years ago and she was not impressed. But it was her fault, I said NO

 

 

I'm sure I'll think of other things later, I'm old and my memory isn't that great.

[talbs]

Every Friday after our high school football games would end my best friend and I would head back into the locker room after getting beat down and get our showers and our belongings and whatnot and then we would always go eat at Taco Bell. Afterwards, we would try to make it home in time to watch a nightly news show that always had highlights of the high school games in the area. When it would end at 12:05 we would always round up some more friends and meet up and make a fire in a field and throw down, or find an existing field party and just drink and raise all kinds of hell. It became a tradition/routine. It was never anything too crazy, but looking back now it was too much for a bunch of 16/17 year olds to be doing, and we often discuss and wonder how we never got in trouble or injured or even killed. 

Edited by talbs, 29 July 2014 - 08:50 AM.

[Irradium]

I didn't do anything majorly stupid, but I did also think that I knew more than my parents/most of the world, I rejected pretty much all authority and was generally a dumb, edgy teen. I also flirted with about a quarter of my year group, including the ones that were way out of my league (which, at the time, was almost everyone), either as crushes or stupidly trying to hook up someone.

 

Specifically, I pretended to lick one girl's phone (but I forced a perspective such that everyone thought, and still thinks, I did actually lick it) quite vigourously and told her that was what I was I going to do to her pussy.

 

I also made a terrible innuendo; basically telling a girl I was masturbating to her over text... yeah, I'm not proud of either of those.

Edited by Irradium, 29 July 2014 - 08:59 AM.

[Keil]

I was a world class WoW player. Stupid teenage years.

[Elindoril]

I caused a big fight and separation within my group of friends at school because a friend of mine who was dating a girl I liked also had a "relationship" with a girl on Maplestory and I just did not like that.

[Karla]

I never got the opportunity to do stupid teenager things. All I can remember was my folks forbidding me to do anything fun and focus primarily on music and homework. I actually kinda envy you guys. :C

[Mizk]

I was the kid who didn't do anything bad, but whose parents treated them like they were into all sorts of bad things

I played WoW with my RL friends, and I hung out with them when we weren't playing WoW

My senior year, I ended up being grounded from computers (in my house), and I had to be home before 10pm or my mom would call the cops on me. I still have no idea what I did wrong

 

[Cass]

I was super depressed (which was actually quite severe and not just some teenage phase) and it resulted in me being this terrible goth girl. Thank god that goth phase is over.

 

I only started playing WoW when I was 19 xD

[luvsmyncis]

I spent way too much time obsessing about a guy who seemed to have no interest in me. I found out, years later, he WAS interested, but he was 'playing cool'. Now he's all fat and bloated from being an alcoholic. He's not young and fit and drenched in sweat, rocking out on electric guitar like how I'll always remember him. I'm forever grateful that my feelings weren't reciprocated, because (besides him being all ugly now) it made me think "What's wrong with me?" and "What's so special about him?". I realized then, that no one is fucking special, no one is worth all the stress I created for myself. I decided that I will reject anyone who decides to play cool with me. I don't have time or energy for games, just give it to me straight. I've learned a ton about myself from what I perceived as rejection, and although I think about my imperfections here and there, I'm completely comfortable in my skin. It was long after these revelations I noticed my current boyfriend with his long flowing raven hair, soulless black eyes, and gentle voice at college. I started stalking him from class to class, following him like a creepy little Smeagol. Well. It's 10 years in September. We've never played it cool with each other, that's for sure.

 

How would eating dirt make you more tan?

[NapisaurusRex]

 I was relatively smart, tested in the top 5% in the nation on the ACT, took all the AP classes, did a couple college courses, etc... But I was crazy depressed. So I destroyed like every brain cell I had in high school. Did a bunch of drugs, popped various bones out of place without every breaking anything, got pregnant a couple times, tried to kill myself.

 

Normal stuff.

[Boggart]

In middle school I was a huge nsync fan and cried when I didn't win ticket's to their concert, then my parents ended up buying them for me.

 

I also smoked a lot of pot in high school, I remember one time (I was 15) I got home from hanging out with my friends and we were high as kites, my mom wanted to take me practice driving, and I was like nononononononoooooo and she's like yes you need to practice. So I drove and almost crashed because I was so out of it. I actually told my mom this story a few years ago and she was not impressed. But it was her fault, I said NO

 

 

I'm sure I'll think of other things later, I'm old and my memory isn't that great.

NO MEANS NO MOM

I spent thousands of dollars playing games online, stealing money from my family to do so. 

Just Teenage Things

I did that with porn. I wish I were lying. I was so stupid.

I didn't do anything majorly stupid, but I did also think that I knew more than my parents/most of the world, I rejected pretty much all authority and was generally a dumb, edgy teen. I also flirted with about a quarter of my year group, including the ones that were way out of my league (which, at the time, was almost everyone), either as crushes or stupidly trying to hook up someone.

 

Specifically, I pretended to lick one girl's phone (but I forced a perspective such that everyone thought, and still thinks, I did actually lick it) quite vigourously and told her that was what I was I going to do to her pussy.

 

I also made a terrible innuendo; basically telling a girl I was masturbating to her over text... yeah, I'm not proud of either of those.

If you had that as a video I would be cringing.

I caused a big fight and separation within my group of friends at school because a friend of mine who was dating a girl I liked also had a "relationship" with a girl on Maplestory and I just did not like that.

I'd fight over a body pillow that could play Maplestory too though

 

 

How would eating dirt make you more tan?

Love you

 

And I dunno... pregnant women eat dirt because they think it tastes good. That logic can't be that far off.

[Rocket]

I did a lot of emo things too, but I'm not gonna post that here.

[Boggart]

I did a lot of emo things too, but I'm not gonna post that here.

GOTH ISN'T A PHASE MOM

[KaibaSama]

I had a crush on a guy for all three years of middle school. I was obsessed. Well, guess what? Now he's gay.
I wanted to go find the director of Thor 2 and beat him when Loki "died".
I still think I'm awesome and better than some people.
Wait....I am a teenager. That explains all this then.

[Frizzle]

I foolish tried to take over Europe but only managed three counties before giving up.

[Boggart]

Omg yes, when I was in my young teens I was addicted to Habbo and I used the phone lines to purchase credits and I shit you not I would use other people's house phones to do it. Like my parents, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, and basically anyone I was visiting. The second I had a moment of privacy I rang up that shit and got me some credits which ended up on their bill. I spent like $200 of other people's money before my grandmother busted me.

Did you have to pay them back?

[Pilot]

Lets just say if I could travel back in time and came across my teenage self I'd slap the angst out of myself so hard it would shift the continental shelf

[Emily]

I really can't think of anything stupid I did as a teenager besides talk to strangers on the internet. 

 

But I still do that so... 

 

I dunno. I was a pretty good teenager. I didn't drink too much or really get in trouble. I only really went wild my freshman and sophomore year of college and even then, I wasn't that bad. 

[Padme]

Internets.

All the internets.

 

I would play games until 5 am. Go to sleep until 7. Go to school. Fall asleep in options classes.

I didn't ever really get in trouble at school except for lipping people off. I had great grades and didn't hang out with friends outside of school a lot.

I joined school teams (basketball, volleyball, cheer, soccer, track & field, dodgeball.)

 

However, talking to strangers on the internet was a stupid thing to do when I was 11-17 haha.

I also googled how to starve yourself and proceeded to do that for the better part of middle school.

On the bright side, when a group of my girlfriends started shop lifting I took the high road and decided I'd rather have no friends than be a thief. 

 

Also, marijuana & Harry Potter. 

Edited by Emily, 29 July 2014 - 03:23 PM.
No pictures of illegal content, please.

[Ali]

I spent 14-16 drunk on cheap cider, building a nicotine addiction and going out with dubious boys. Spent 17 being a lot more sensible but ridiculously unhappy and was just a general mess. Grew up at 18, haven't changed much in the 7 years since then.

[Bones]

Biggest thing I ever got involved with was a online game called Tankmania.  This thing took over my life and had a few real heated arguments on there.