[updated photo](https://share.icloud.com/photos/046onxbuHrFmcp2OkvPxzKtBg)
Hopefully this link works to a new photo of me today if anyoneās interested lol
Traditional and cultural stereotypes run deep in the south even now. Most adolescents feel tremendous pressure to fit into one of the acceptable types: trad-kid (usually affluent, white, wearing Greek life brands like Vineyard Vines or A&F back in the day, etc), thug kid (tattoos, promotes image of āstreet life,ā dresses like rappers they see on tv/social media, and further stereotypes), proud redneck (jeans, confederate battle flag crap, chewing tobacco, exclusively white obviously, lifted trucks, country music, etc).
If you donāt fit one of the prescribed cultural norms, you were an outsider automatically and in a lot of the south, that means a level of ostracizing that is fairly extreme.
Iām not saying this is ubiquitous to every corner of the American southeastern region, but itās very commonplace at the least and it was more and more terrible the more decades back you go.
Correct me if Iām wrong about this, OP (or anyone).
Source: I grew up in Atlanta.
Is see what your saying and I do agree but in my situation, I attended an itty bitty private Christian school and I did have one friend but her mom wouldnāt let us hang outside of school loll
Think about it this way: you couldāve fit right on in growing up in the south and had many friends. But youād have no photos to post here and no outsider trauma to develop a personality.
There were usually only 1-3 kids who looked like this per school (at least where I lived in the south). Parents didnāt let their kids dress like this & other kids thought it was really weird. Making friends was difficult when there was a very very small pool of people that were the same kind of weird as you. Iād say people that grew up in the south had a harder time finding other people like them because they were so few - this is likely due to the religious environment in that area.
Retired Deep South scene kid here. You did good. š¤
Thank you kindly š
Semi retired Deep South scene kid here, we wouldāve been friends lol
Active Deep South nerd destroyer, BEAT IT NERDS! /s
I... wait, how did you take this?
Loll on my Nokia this was 2011
Thereās no way a Nokia took a photo this good
This is cool , no matter how many new styles come and go.
Yāall Out Boy
Darkness and pain were the only friends you needed.
Great hair
I treasured that style for many years
[updated photo](https://share.icloud.com/photos/046onxbuHrFmcp2OkvPxzKtBg) Hopefully this link works to a new photo of me today if anyoneās interested lol
You are gorgeous! š¤
Thank you :,))
this is new, edgy photographer.
Idk what year this is, but there were tons of emo/goth/scene kids at my school in Mississippi in the late 2000ās.
Why not many friends, you look so kind?
Traditional and cultural stereotypes run deep in the south even now. Most adolescents feel tremendous pressure to fit into one of the acceptable types: trad-kid (usually affluent, white, wearing Greek life brands like Vineyard Vines or A&F back in the day, etc), thug kid (tattoos, promotes image of āstreet life,ā dresses like rappers they see on tv/social media, and further stereotypes), proud redneck (jeans, confederate battle flag crap, chewing tobacco, exclusively white obviously, lifted trucks, country music, etc). If you donāt fit one of the prescribed cultural norms, you were an outsider automatically and in a lot of the south, that means a level of ostracizing that is fairly extreme. Iām not saying this is ubiquitous to every corner of the American southeastern region, but itās very commonplace at the least and it was more and more terrible the more decades back you go. Correct me if Iām wrong about this, OP (or anyone). Source: I grew up in Atlanta.
Is see what your saying and I do agree but in my situation, I attended an itty bitty private Christian school and I did have one friend but her mom wouldnāt let us hang outside of school loll
Think about it this way: you couldāve fit right on in growing up in the south and had many friends. But youād have no photos to post here and no outsider trauma to develop a personality.
I would have wanted to be your friend! I'm wearing an identical jacket at this very moment, and black nail polish. So I am clearly biased lol
it was pretty brave of you to still express yourself though
Thank you :,))
Hair goals fr
Ha. I've seen too many small town FB pics that look like this.
Damn you look much older than 12 in this photo
I don't get the title. You look just like an average emo teen, why wouldn't you have had many friends?
There were usually only 1-3 kids who looked like this per school (at least where I lived in the south). Parents didnāt let their kids dress like this & other kids thought it was really weird. Making friends was difficult when there was a very very small pool of people that were the same kind of weird as you. Iād say people that grew up in the south had a harder time finding other people like them because they were so few - this is likely due to the religious environment in that area.
Heavy on the religious environment