teenage awkwardness

[monkey]

i've been reading a few things about being awkward when you're a young teen, mostly in relation to chelsea clinton when she entered the white house at 12, and some stuff about the obama girls being too cute for words.

and then i had this conversation with my brother:
brother: "damn paulina, it took you a while to get pretty. you fought the pretty really hard in high school"
me: "what a backhanded compliment, you ass. at the least the pretty didn't skip me!"
brother (laughing hysterically): "i meant it as a nice thing! but it really did take you a while!"

now, i went through school and there were so many girls who were always beautiful. never any weird moments where their nose was half the size of their face or anything like that. so... im going to assume that there's gotta be people here who also went through a pretty harsh period of awkward. so share, how did you deal with it?

i didn't deal with it, by the way. i just accepted the ugly, and now it's something i assume exists. i don't see myself as having graduated to the pretty girl my brother thinks i've become. it's nice that he thinks so though.

[Bob]

i handled it by posting on the internet a lot

[ms.peachy]

Lots and lots of punk rock.

[abcdefz]

I rarely fell over.

Drunkenly hugged a tree and told it I loved it, though. In my underwear. About half a foot of snow on the ground. Oops.

[russhie]

I was really shy as a kid, and pretty awkward as a result. I didn't wear makeup or really nice clothes but I still had a boyfriend for most of my teenage years and other boys were always having a crack at me, though.

When I did my debutante ball, alot of people came up to me and said "shit, we thought you were pretty before but you're definitely most improved".

I don't think I was particularly good looking.

Now, when I wear nice things and look pretty I attract complete and utter dickheads.

[jabumbo]

never any weird moments where their nose was half the size of their face or anything like that.


so like, did your head grow, or did your nose shrink?



oh, and i don't think i get awkward around people unless its a girl that i actually like. and then when she reciprocates, i dont know what to do with myself

[Matt]

I stayed in my room a lot. I also posted here a lot.

Thanks for stunting my social growth, guys.

[Bob]

I stayed in my room a lot. I also posted here a lot.

Thanks for stunting my social growth, guys.

*high five*

[Matt]

*reluctant high five*

[Audio.]

I make new friends every year and would leave old relations in the past. I was also like Matt just that I never was in the same room. < Moved to different states alone. Meh, at least now I can say I visited 3 states and lived in 5.

[paul jones]

there's a percentage of teens who don't realise they're walking on a road with cars speeding both ways

[Adam]

you know it wasn't until I left school at 15 I realised I was a social retard.

The interweb was just starting then, maybe I was luck cus if online gaming existed in the early 90s* then I would of been fudged. Blame the internet!


*yes I know it will of existed but not for the mainstream ass

[Dorothy Wood]

I was the most awkward person ever in high school. I was terrified of everything. I blame it on spillover insecurity from being made fun of constantly in junior high when I was a chubby "new kid" with an afro. I dressed cool, played sports and had perfect skin, so the popular people tolerated me...even tried to let me into the circle, but I was so so weird and shy, I could barely speak to people without wanting to run away. I also didn't drink or do drugs, so they eventually they gave up. :/ looking back, I kinda was a stick in the mud. meh.

all the girls who were naturally gorgeous got pregnant and/or married and/or divorced years ago. so I win! I think.

honestly, I was very cute and fit in high school, but I didn't even realize it. I was too busy picking myself apart because I didn't look like a model. there were girls uglier and fatter than me that had loads more confidence. being a teenager blows.

[Bob]

years after i got out of high school i discovered that there were several girls who liked me (they told me, and two of them even made out with me...well one and a half) so i probably could have done alright in high school if i'd had self confidence and dressed a little better and brushed my teeth more often, but i didn't, so i ended up not talking to people and only graduating with like a dozen friends, most of which were friends from before high school.

looking back, i kind of wish my school had uniforms. i had NO idea how to dress myself as a kid (still don't actually) and i looked way dorkier than i had to. uniforms would have solved a lot of problems.

[TurdBerglar]

i was 16 when i was a senior and a bit of a late bloomer. i could pass as a junior high student as a senior.

[jackrock]

Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?

[paul jones]

Hey guys, what's going on in this thread?

mutual anal fisting

[ET]

all the girls who were naturally gorgeous got pregnant and/or married and/or divorced years ago. so I win! I think.


Yeah that's pretty much 90% of my graduating class. I had a mild crush on someone a grade lower than me and about 2 years out of H.S. I ran into her in a grocery store. We ended up talking for about 15 minutes and she admitted to being divorced after having her baby. I think she wanted to get with me because I remember mentioning that I had to go and we talked for another 5 minutes. :confused:

I don't care who I ran into after graduating but everyone knows my name. I was even voted most bashful and I barely talked and people still remember me. I think a lot of girls were into me back then and my self esteem got in the way of me realizing it. That helped. Also, internet! And drugs. And aggressive girls.

[a.k.a me]

I don't think I ever went through any of those pre-teen/teenage phases, at least it didn't seem that way-I've been pretty much the same since I was 5 or 6 years old. I used to be very girly before that...:confused:

[Matt]

I don't care who I ran into after graduating but everyone knows my name.

This happens to me all the time. I ran into someone I guess I knew back in high school at Circle K a few months back. I was drunk, so I treated this guy like my best friend in the world, and he did the same for me. We did an Obama-style fist bump, and called each other "bro" a lot (I never call anyone bro). He left saying we need to hang out again soon, and even though I know I've never hung out with him in my life, I replied in the affirmative.

After he left, I commented to my friend that I had no idea what that guy's name was.

[Bob]

I don't care who I ran into after graduating but everyone knows my name. I was even voted most bashful and I barely talked and people still remember me.

i was so quiet in high school, i didn't even get voted "most quiet," i lost to some other, more remarkable quiet kid

[hellojello]

looking back, i kind of wish my school had uniforms. i had NO idea how to dress myself as a kid (still don't actually) and i looked way dorkier than i had to. uniforms would have solved a lot of problems.

I dont know about that we had uniforms and it didn't help me, I was still a dag....even with uniforms teenagers (and the rest of society probably) still create their own hierarchies and means of subjection. It might look like on the outside everyone's wearing the same clothes... they're actually not..there's your brand of socks, brand of shoes, accessories, etc. Menial differences can become massive when everyone's forced to look/act the same.

[Pres Zount]

i was so quiet in high school, i didn't even get voted "most quiet," i lost to some other, more remarkable quiet kid

LOL

In high school I think I was pretty lucky. I was in the smart group, but managed to escape being labeled a loser by pretending that I wasn't. I doubt that anyone 'liked' me, but I once heard a girl telling another girl that I wasn't so bad.

Once girl A came up to me and asked if I would like to go out with girl B, but I said "that's nice" and left it at. I'm pretty sure that I dodged a bullet because I later saw the same thing happen to someone else and when they said YES they got laughed at.

I managed to fast forward the teenage years by reading books. Ones that weren't fantasy, by the way. Non-Fiction. Maybe some science fiction, but only if it was heavily based in science :mad:

I can't remember most people from school, but I do recognise faces sometimes, and some of those faces are attached to bodies that are pushing prams. It's scary. An acquaintance of mine now lives in China and has married a prostitute. They have a child. My friends were friends with him, but I hated him, and then I found out that he hated everyone but me.

We don't vote for "most likely to..." here, but reliable sources tell me that a lot of people thought I was a Nazi.

[Kid Presentable]

I used to beat off all the time, and joke with my friends about how I would talk to porno mags. :(

[hellojello]

LOL

In high school I think I was pretty lucky. I was in the smart group, but managed to escape being labeled a loser by pretending that I wasn't. I doubt that anyone 'liked' me, but I once heard a girl telling another girl that I wasn't so bad.

Once girl A came up to me and asked if I would like to go out with girl B, but I said "that's nice" and left it at. I'm pretty sure that I dodged a bullet because I later saw the same thing happen to someone else and when they said YES they got laughed at.

I managed to fast forward the teenage years by reading books. Ones that weren't fantasy, by the way. Non-Fiction. Maybe some science fiction, but only if it was heavily based in science :mad:

I can't remember most people from school, but I do recognise faces sometimes, and some of those faces are attached to bodies that are pushing prams. It's scary. An acquaintance of mine now lives in China and has married a prostitute. They have a child. My friends were friends with him, but I hated him, and then I found out that he hated everyone but me.

We don't vote for "most likely to..." here, but reliable sources tell me that a lot of people thought I was a Nazi.

we did at the student accomodation i lived at in year 11. I got the 'up and coming Premier' award.
I'm political. yeah.

[Pres Zount]

Yes, politics and history helped me cope. Being ugly and uncool didn't seem so bad when you compared it to the holocaust.

[beastieangel01]

i didn't deal with it, by the way. i just accepted the ugly, and now it's something i assume exists. i don't see myself as having graduated to the pretty girl my brother thinks i've become. it's nice that he thinks so though.

that's me.

I still feel like I AM that awkward girl.

My boyfriend saw photos of me when I was in high school and up until I started college. He said I definitely changed a lot, that I'm gorgeous now but we probably wouldn't be dating if I still had that look going on from back in the day :mad:

[HEIRESS]

my family didnt have the $ to buy me or my brother cool clothes, and I had bad skin and I spent all my time either working an after school/weekend job/studying for all my science classes/going off on volleyball tournaments so needless to say I never had any boys hitting on me in highschool.

I was disgusted by them all anyways and wouldnt have wasted my time on them.

my hermit-ways started really young.

[TAL]

I'm head of the class
I'm popular
I'm a quarter back
I'm popular
My mom says I'm a catch
I'm popular
I'm never last picked
I got a cheerleader chick



But opposite of that.

[Fern]

I have quite an impressive blowjob collection from awkward and fat chicas from high school. The kid knew what to look for......

[hpdrifter]

I'm with Heiress. I was awkward and gawky, had terrible skin and wore far too much makeup to cover it up. I went to a private school but was poor so I worked at school to pay my tuition and had an after school job. I think I probably worked about 30 hours a week on average. I had a small part in one school play but was otherwise not too involved in school activities, no sports.

I just stayed in my own head a lot.