what were you like as a teenager?

Hard work.......sums me up
If there was a way to get my folks back up I did and in some fine style too.
Things have changed a lot now as I actually get on with my folks even though they now don't get on with each other.
I'm a dad now, and to be perfectly honest, I'm dreading my 2 boys becoming teenagers.
 
Until around 15, social and arrogant. From then upwards rather misanthropic and isolationist with no interest in social activities offline, a rather deep set hatred for most people in public.
 
in a word trouble

I drank, I did drugs, I raised hell and the cops all knew me by name.

I'm surprised my parents stuck by me tbh
 
Same as I am now really. I did go through a phase of playing on my PC non stop for a few years which caused my parents to think I was lazy, ok I was a bit lazy I suppose but I had computery game priorities, dirty plates in my room aren't my concern! but have cut that down slightly after getting a job on the computer all day!!! still drink and party at 25 and may it I stay this way forever. however I am getting a bit back into sport and stuff like my pre teenage years so maybe I am a real man now...

Either I wasn't a bad teenager or I am still a nob. :D
 
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Tbh I am amazed to still be alive looking back, if I had kids I would do everything I could to stop them riding bikes

I've yet to meet a man who has been a biker for any length of time who hasn't been off his bike. I'm sure it gives wonderful freedom, but I know I'd total myself due to incredibly poor balance :)

As a teenager I was a good child, very good, attentive, bullied, and horny as hell, spent some of my time playing games on my amiga, some time doing homework, and the rest lusting after girls....

Now I dont have homework, and I have a PC instead of an amiga.
 
A bit of a tinker sometimes.

I used to hang wround with a lad who went on to get a double figure sentence and I wonder if my arm hadn't been broken in a scrap when I was 14 and we drifted apart after that, what might have been.

I seemed to have the knack of evading the police at the time. Just as well I suppose.
 
Pretty quiet and reserved for 13-14, spent most of my time playing video games, didn't have many friends, but was a nice enough kid.

When I turned 15, my older brother started taking me out clubbing. I got heavily in to the music and the scene, social circles expanded rapidly, I became more outgoing and confident, even started to get girlfriends. And still was nice and polite to my and other parents.
 
Bit of a nightmare, drink, drugs dissapearing acts from the age of 12. Easily peer pressured, pubs from 15, fighting etc etc

Sorted it all out after leaving school, it was the crowed in school that was the problem
 
Ah, the teenage years. How I miss thee.

We were three good friends that whittled down to two when one guy moved for Bermuda. We were gym fanatics, computer fanatics and bike fanatics. I was always, but always out and about exploring but always with my best pal. We sort off shunned other people because they couldn't be as disciplined as us. I despised fat kids and their lack of willpower to hit the gym 6 times a week and run 6 times a week.

I was in love with a girl that lived down the road from us, the same age as me. She was in love with me but we were both too shy to do anything about it. It was only years later we talked and laughed about it. Funny how we both knew and wasted the time doing nothing. When she got married that first thing she did was Facebook message me and said 'It could've been you'.

Me and my pal double dated two girls we met at a public swimming pool. I gave my name as Eric (after Eric Draven in The Crow who was THE movie of our formative years) and he called himself Dillon (after Dillon McKay on Bev Hills 90210). They never knew.

I was a Japanese culture fanatic. Bruce Lee fanatic. Marilyn Manson fanatic. Occults fanatic and bodybuilding fanatic. We loved Quest For Glory games and spent days, weeks playing and replaying it.

Ok, too much info really.

In short, a loner along with my two best pals, awkward with girls, dismissive of other boys and hated authority with passion.
 
To sum up in 10 words:

Music (2-tone/mod/punk/metal)
Cider (Merrydown!!)
Glue (lighter gas or Lady Esquire!)
Rollies (GoldVag)
Hitching (to punk gigs everywhere)
FS1M 50 (google it vrooom!)
Black (hair/clothes/bedroom)
Thieving (fags and albums)
Gigs (all punk gigs I could get to!)
Squatting (at 16 I went to a gig in a squat in SE17 and didn't come back!)

Oh... and Skiving was a huge one, how could I miss that lol

I was an absolute w***** to my parents and I am amazed they didn't completely disown me. Needless to say I've conformed to fit in with society (square peg/round hole) as best I could!
 
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Only 16 at the moment and so far im doing ok in school, only been high once, drank a few times, loner, and only had one gf a year agow :(. not very much to look back on for when im 30 lol.
 
I did the bare minimum of work to get decent grades in school and college, but that was about as good as I got. :P

Used to get up and drink for breakfast, ride minimotos and motorbikes illegally, (at 14/15). I was never "obnoxious" though, so I never got on anyones nerves, so never got caught. (By parents or the police).

I used to be completely immune to peer pressure, wouldn't touch anything or get too drunk, now I'm the worst one in the group though, always getting too drunk and trying to smoke my t-shirt. :p

I'm autistic though, so I hate physical contact and I'm absolutely useless at meeting new people, the ladies especially...
 
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