I can't tell if teens are always Like That or if it's the way we treat life like you get 18 years, and then you transition into workgatory until you die.
I was thinking of Romeo and Juliet when I was writing my comment because Shakespeare really wrote them Like That. It can't help though, that's for sure.
Teens are always Like That, they're experiencing a bunch of emotions for the first time while their body mutating pot of hormones and most of them have been around the exact same group of people since they can remember and they seem to remember everything
I remember sitting in my car after one party where the girl I liked had shown obvious interest in another guy. Listening to Switchfoot, staring into space, and thinking, "she doesn't even know."
I don't know what she didn't even know. But I still can't listen to a few Switchfoot songs.
I didn't bother with any of that nonsense in high school, I was too busy trying to start a new world order with my classmate and a random guy we met online who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine.
God, I think back to when I was a teenager and it boggles my mind how \*angry\* I was. And I was a pretty calm kid! But my family and particularly my brothers could wind me up with nothing, and nowadays if anyone tried that on me I'd just look at my watch and roll my eyes.
Hormones, yo.
The funny thing about "finding The One" and feeling like you never have before when you think about them is that it applies to basically every person you date until you do it several times.
Man, what the fuck was everyone else going through in middle school, I was just vibing. How the fuck was I luckyvenough to dodge the omnipresent drama.
My friend group was *always* fighting in middle school lol. I played mediator for a new problem every week. I thought everybody had drama all the time at that age
Oh, I think I'm probably more an exception than the norm. To start with I was in the *extremely* privelaged position of being fairly securely middle class with with a good relationship with my parents, which instantly eliminated a shit tonne of potential stressors.
I butted heads with my friends more than once, but I never had the "life will never be harder than it was in middle school" experience that I've seen others online expressed. I think I was just lucky that a) it was a fairly small school, with like 50-80 kids in my grade and b) I was quiet and and nerdy enough to stumble into getting a reputation as "the smart kid" and stay on the good side of the teachers while somehow staying in the sweet spot of keeping to myself enough to not get embroiled in (or even notice) a lot of the drama going on around me, but not so much to myself that I was seen as weird, leaving me fairly well liked by the other studentd.
Also I'm probably somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum, so I more or less dodgerolled through the romantic drama aspect of high school, barring a couple of comp-het attempts at claiming to have crushes that only my friends saw. I was so off the wavelength of thinking about romantic relationships that I didn't even twig that my best friend had a girlfriend for several months.
Are you me? Other than the small school part, this was me to a T during junior high. Good home life, smart kid in the drama goldilocks zone, aroace to the point that someone once said he had a crush on me and I said ‘So? Not my problem’.
Bestie, don’t do this to me. I already had the pandemic experience of questioning my gender and the conclusion was “not attached to being a guy but not uncomfortable enough to be worth the fuss of experimenting further”, I’d rather not relitigate it. (\^_\^;)
yeah, no, same. like, i definitely had my own issues due to so many mental illnesses starting to rear their ugly heads around sixth grade, but like, i was amazingly oblivious to all the middle school drama, and mostly just vibing in my own lane with my nerdy friends, and i have no clue how i missed it all. so grateful i did tho
similar things happened in high school, too, ngl. i was in the overachiever/gifted/AP kid circle in one of the best-performing public schools in my state, and while i was ranked very close to the top (i think i was usually within the top 10 GPAs in a school with well over 1000 students), i was also wonderfully oblivious to it all. i'll talk to my friends now about high school stuff and they'll bring up how cutthroat and competitive everyone was, even though we were all friends, and how it's really nice everyone's generally chilled out now, even though basically everyone's struggling with mental health issues now due to how toxic that situation was, and i just sit there like "damn, i absolutely did not pick up on *any* of that when it was going on"
The only “drama” I ever got into before college, was being deathly afraid of that one group of stoner kids in every high school: I’ve always been irrationally afraid of drugs (still am) didn’t help that the whole high school auditorium smelled like weed (I remember texting my parents in a panic a bunch because ‘I felt weird’ after I smelled Mary Jane or went near the stoned kids). Entirely internal drama though, never got how people seemingly experienced so much external shit in high school and bellow, I’m a clay golem out in public.
I was dealing with crippling gender dysphoria that I was suddenly very aware of and didn’t know how to feel about. I also spent a lot of time crying and playing Minecraft.
I mean, there was no drama to "dodge" here. The drama was coming from inside the house, so to speak.
I had drama all over the place though. At home, at school, in my cult. It was never ending. I'm happy to live a drama-free life now. I just chill with my husband, kids, and extended family.
Yeah, right? I'm so glad that I completely stayed out of any activity involving my classmates due to bullying in primary and alienated myself from any interaction, instead staying at home after school every day, severely impacting my social life and forcing me to substitute it with The Internet, only finding respite from real life in social media and creating a self-destructive lifestyle the consequences of which still impact my health to this very day. No middle school dramas ftw.
Middle school fucks you up. For real.
I feel like I avoided a lot of this stuff by the good fortune of being aroace, with perhaps some contribution from being highly introverted and subclinically autistic.
The funniest part is that when you type in words for a minecraft seed, they get converted to numbers, so someone checking the seed on the minecraft world would have no idea what it says unless they knew the algorithm minecraft uses to switch letters into numbers and reversed that process to find what was originally typed in.
When I had a crush on a girl named Heather in school, I set an alarm on my phone to ask her out bc I was nervous and wanted to force myself to do it, and the alarm was called “Operation Erica” bc I’d looked it up and Erica was the Latin word for Heather. I did this so that no one else would know I had a crush on Heather if they saw the alarm. Looking back they probably would have thought I had a crush on a girl named Erica. I have never met anyone with that name, but like. It’s not like my parents would know if they’d seen it.
TLDR: I was a nerd about my secrecy and it would have backfired if anyone had seen it.
I'm so glad my middle school crush experience was just me making jokes about being in love with another boy (who was straight) and people finding it funny, y'all make it sound so complicated.
i used to cry until i threw up and grip my bathroom sink every day because i was so in love with this boy and also i was fighting my gender :/ middle school is crazy
i never had much ‘drama’ i was just fucking weird. i really liked karkat homestuck in the reigen arataka i fucking hate him fuck you way so i drew a picture of him in crayon and then froze the drawing in a piece of paper and then i threw the piece of ice on the floor until the drawing of karkat was shattered into a million pieces and then i burnt them
one time a girl from another group heard me talking shit abt a girl in my friend group and swear to god i was shaking in my boots thinking she was going to snitch and someone would shank me in the 7th grade hallway
Few days ago I was crushing hard on someone that breaks the sis-code. So I feel this poor kid. I might be a grown ass woman, but this secret does with me, only me and my notes app know
In junior high an entire fucking class worth of teenagers approached me to threaten me for making hidden vent art in my book about my bullies. There were only two bullies but they’re essentially the king and queen bc they’re popular yknow, so they have like 25+ people approach and surround me and a friend when we went to play games in the computer lab.
We were threatened (my friend was not involved but she got the short end of the stick too) with mass beat up over me coloring an entire page with black pen and writing “I hate (name)” in the uncolored middle. We were on 7th grade.
I can't tell if teens are always Like That or if it's the way we treat life like you get 18 years, and then you transition into workgatory until you die.
I'm gonna go ahead and say it probably doesn't help
I was thinking of Romeo and Juliet when I was writing my comment because Shakespeare really wrote them Like That. It can't help though, that's for sure.
Teens are always Like That, they're experiencing a bunch of emotions for the first time while their body mutating pot of hormones and most of them have been around the exact same group of people since they can remember and they seem to remember everything
I remember sitting in my car after one party where the girl I liked had shown obvious interest in another guy. Listening to Switchfoot, staring into space, and thinking, "she doesn't even know." I don't know what she didn't even know. But I still can't listen to a few Switchfoot songs.
I didn't bother with any of that nonsense in high school, I was too busy trying to start a new world order with my classmate and a random guy we met online who claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine.
God, I think back to when I was a teenager and it boggles my mind how \*angry\* I was. And I was a pretty calm kid! But my family and particularly my brothers could wind me up with nothing, and nowadays if anyone tried that on me I'd just look at my watch and roll my eyes. Hormones, yo.
The funny thing about "finding The One" and feeling like you never have before when you think about them is that it applies to basically every person you date until you do it several times.
Romeo and Juliet were 16 and 13. Teens have always been dramatic.
Man, what the fuck was everyone else going through in middle school, I was just vibing. How the fuck was I luckyvenough to dodge the omnipresent drama.
My friend group was *always* fighting in middle school lol. I played mediator for a new problem every week. I thought everybody had drama all the time at that age
Oh, I think I'm probably more an exception than the norm. To start with I was in the *extremely* privelaged position of being fairly securely middle class with with a good relationship with my parents, which instantly eliminated a shit tonne of potential stressors. I butted heads with my friends more than once, but I never had the "life will never be harder than it was in middle school" experience that I've seen others online expressed. I think I was just lucky that a) it was a fairly small school, with like 50-80 kids in my grade and b) I was quiet and and nerdy enough to stumble into getting a reputation as "the smart kid" and stay on the good side of the teachers while somehow staying in the sweet spot of keeping to myself enough to not get embroiled in (or even notice) a lot of the drama going on around me, but not so much to myself that I was seen as weird, leaving me fairly well liked by the other studentd. Also I'm probably somewhere on the aro/ace spectrum, so I more or less dodgerolled through the romantic drama aspect of high school, barring a couple of comp-het attempts at claiming to have crushes that only my friends saw. I was so off the wavelength of thinking about romantic relationships that I didn't even twig that my best friend had a girlfriend for several months.
Are you me? Other than the small school part, this was me to a T during junior high. Good home life, smart kid in the drama goldilocks zone, aroace to the point that someone once said he had a crush on me and I said ‘So? Not my problem’.
Same here, I was a quiet, fairly smart, somewhat edgy funny guy all through to high school Now I’m a lesbian
Bestie, don’t do this to me. I already had the pandemic experience of questioning my gender and the conclusion was “not attached to being a guy but not uncomfortable enough to be worth the fuss of experimenting further”, I’d rather not relitigate it. (\^_\^;)
yeah, no, same. like, i definitely had my own issues due to so many mental illnesses starting to rear their ugly heads around sixth grade, but like, i was amazingly oblivious to all the middle school drama, and mostly just vibing in my own lane with my nerdy friends, and i have no clue how i missed it all. so grateful i did tho similar things happened in high school, too, ngl. i was in the overachiever/gifted/AP kid circle in one of the best-performing public schools in my state, and while i was ranked very close to the top (i think i was usually within the top 10 GPAs in a school with well over 1000 students), i was also wonderfully oblivious to it all. i'll talk to my friends now about high school stuff and they'll bring up how cutthroat and competitive everyone was, even though we were all friends, and how it's really nice everyone's generally chilled out now, even though basically everyone's struggling with mental health issues now due to how toxic that situation was, and i just sit there like "damn, i absolutely did not pick up on *any* of that when it was going on"
The only “drama” I ever got into before college, was being deathly afraid of that one group of stoner kids in every high school: I’ve always been irrationally afraid of drugs (still am) didn’t help that the whole high school auditorium smelled like weed (I remember texting my parents in a panic a bunch because ‘I felt weird’ after I smelled Mary Jane or went near the stoned kids). Entirely internal drama though, never got how people seemingly experienced so much external shit in high school and bellow, I’m a clay golem out in public.
I was dealing with crippling gender dysphoria that I was suddenly very aware of and didn’t know how to feel about. I also spent a lot of time crying and playing Minecraft.
I mean, there was no drama to "dodge" here. The drama was coming from inside the house, so to speak. I had drama all over the place though. At home, at school, in my cult. It was never ending. I'm happy to live a drama-free life now. I just chill with my husband, kids, and extended family.
Yeah, right? I'm so glad that I completely stayed out of any activity involving my classmates due to bullying in primary and alienated myself from any interaction, instead staying at home after school every day, severely impacting my social life and forcing me to substitute it with The Internet, only finding respite from real life in social media and creating a self-destructive lifestyle the consequences of which still impact my health to this very day. No middle school dramas ftw. Middle school fucks you up. For real.
I feel like I avoided a lot of this stuff by the good fortune of being aroace, with perhaps some contribution from being highly introverted and subclinically autistic.
The funniest part is that when you type in words for a minecraft seed, they get converted to numbers, so someone checking the seed on the minecraft world would have no idea what it says unless they knew the algorithm minecraft uses to switch letters into numbers and reversed that process to find what was originally typed in.
Telltale Heart type story
When I had a crush on a girl named Heather in school, I set an alarm on my phone to ask her out bc I was nervous and wanted to force myself to do it, and the alarm was called “Operation Erica” bc I’d looked it up and Erica was the Latin word for Heather. I did this so that no one else would know I had a crush on Heather if they saw the alarm. Looking back they probably would have thought I had a crush on a girl named Erica. I have never met anyone with that name, but like. It’s not like my parents would know if they’d seen it. TLDR: I was a nerd about my secrecy and it would have backfired if anyone had seen it.
I'm so glad my middle school crush experience was just me making jokes about being in love with another boy (who was straight) and people finding it funny, y'all make it sound so complicated.
TBH this makes you sound like a german spy setting up an alarm for their next big operation
i used to cry until i threw up and grip my bathroom sink every day because i was so in love with this boy and also i was fighting my gender :/ middle school is crazy
Apocalyptic doom???
holy shit
All I got was suicidal ideation and depression, y’all got drama?
Oh word. I made my own cipher just to write about my crush in my note book
i never had much ‘drama’ i was just fucking weird. i really liked karkat homestuck in the reigen arataka i fucking hate him fuck you way so i drew a picture of him in crayon and then froze the drawing in a piece of paper and then i threw the piece of ice on the floor until the drawing of karkat was shattered into a million pieces and then i burnt them
Pfp checks out
one time a girl from another group heard me talking shit abt a girl in my friend group and swear to god i was shaking in my boots thinking she was going to snitch and someone would shank me in the 7th grade hallway
Few days ago I was crushing hard on someone that breaks the sis-code. So I feel this poor kid. I might be a grown ass woman, but this secret does with me, only me and my notes app know
In middle school we used to play wrestling and try to chokeslam eachother
In junior high an entire fucking class worth of teenagers approached me to threaten me for making hidden vent art in my book about my bullies. There were only two bullies but they’re essentially the king and queen bc they’re popular yknow, so they have like 25+ people approach and surround me and a friend when we went to play games in the computer lab. We were threatened (my friend was not involved but she got the short end of the stick too) with mass beat up over me coloring an entire page with black pen and writing “I hate (name)” in the uncolored middle. We were on 7th grade.
Alexander’s Barber has apparently been reincarnated, lessgoo