How Were You As A Young Teen?!

[Scarlett]

I’m trying to think of things that REALLY mattered to me when I was 13; and what was SO UNFAIR, that I would now find hilarious! Think Kevin the teenager. What really mattered to you at 13, that you can now see was just your hormones?

[burlyshirley]

I was a 'gawky' 13 year old on the cusp of being a woman and not quite still a child ! I'm tall and hadn't quite 'blossomed' then, but that came a couple of years later and I enjoyed being 15/16 much more. Wouldn't like to be 13 again unless I was less 'gawky' ...

[david small]

Good grief nails, no wonder you have issues. What a *** existence.

[Peter Pedant]

I found being geeky was more or less a permanent state

[DTCwordfan]

Penny Ham, I could still cream over what I experienced.......aaaaah, memories. If I die tonight, it will be with a smile on my face.

[Peter Pedant]

// the honour of having men we ere at school with much later, sending an intermediary to ask //

yeah foo easy
one is sitting in a pub wivva pint ( mainstream essex here)
and ven....
a stranger comes up to you, and says
"there is a man over there who says he was at school with you. Do you want to talk to him?"

and you look over to someone who used to bully you
and you thing ( sozza fink) "why not"
so you do (go over and pass time of day)

God I know it is not me - it is the profusion of double digit IQ men on AB

and that is why PP wrote that an intermediary was sent over.....

what happens in Essex ven? - A pint flies across the room wivva a voice: "oi! I havent finished wiv you, bratface!"

such is life

[Prudie]

PP When you frequently refer to the double digit IQ of most AB members of either sex are you assuming they don't realise how rude you are being because they only have double digit IQs?

[nailit]

I'll have a can of what he's ^^ just had.

[Grumpygrandad]

We were so poor my parents couldn't afford hormones for me.

[nailit]

PP that is...

[Redhelen72]

Well I could tell you nailit that I was obsessed with them as it gave me an alternative to dealing with the reality of an alcoholic mother who used to beat me for the slightest reason and I spent so much time trying to hide the marks!
But I thought this was supposed to be a happy thread.

[nailit]

//Well I could tell you nailit that I was obsessed with them as it gave me an alternative to dealing with the reality of an alcoholic mother who used to beat me for the slightest reason and I spent so much time trying to hide the marks!//

Maybe we all have so much more in common than our differences?

[douglas9401]

Nope.

[Tilly2]

Do you know, I really can't remember. Being top of the class probably. I can't think of anything that I thought was unfair. I was a pampered and much loved only child. Tough hey?

[Redhelen72]

I am glad you had a lovely upbringing all children should, it’s unfortunate that they all don’t

[MissTerious]

At 13.
All girls grammar school. Well behaved and never grumpy. No real problems I was content. I can't remember what really mattered to me. I was happy and enjoyed life.

At 16 I left school, went to college and went a bit wild!! But that's normal, surely.

[MissTerious]

In fact very much like Shirley, even the tall and gawky descriptions.

Even in my wild days I was nice. I can't remember every being a difficult person and my parents were modern and open minded.

[jennyjoan]

loved school and my school friends, was able to get to the Gaeltacht in Donegal for a few weeks at 13 - had the time of my life. My first holiday ever.

[Zacs-Master]

Is Gaelic your first language then, JJ?

[Canary42]

Hated school, being struck by Teachers for their inability to help me understand things (I'm sure the tinnitus which I now suffer was from a maths teacher who clouted both ears at once). Became very introverted and shy, took (too many) years to recover.

[JimF]

Like lots of my pals, dodging the blows when the old man came home stocious. Until I got a bit older and a bit bigger, and I punched the drunken ***'s lights out one night. He died not long after. I didn't cry.