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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "Spotty, fat girl who got bullied. Had music lessons and I was the tallest in my year  | |||
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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "A bit nerdy. And a bit of a loner actually. Come to think of it, I haven't really changed much  | |||
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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "when I was younger say 13 or 14 I was out of shape and a bit of an awkward kind of teenager to say the least also bit of a pest in school as I used to get into a bit of trouble... 16 onwards a lot different in the sense became withdrawn and kept to myself for a long time. nowadays at 23 still more or less keep to myself but do try to make an effort to speak with people plus I started training a bit exercise wise 16 on wards so dropped quite a bit of weight....also a lot less hyperactive and naughty like I used to be when I was younger now I more or less for the most part act older...  | |||
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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "I was your average joe teenager. I wasn't in a crowd per sa, but was in with the people you wanted to be in with for different purposes. I wasn't a bully. I got bullied a little bit on occasion, but nothing drastic. I hated music lessons, I always Mitched on those lessons | |||
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I met the boys dad 3 months after I turned 16 & discovered sex | |||
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Her: rebellious, drink and drugs, older men etc but settled down.in late teens. | |||
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still doing both but now slower at both haha | |||
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 I hung out mostly with the people in the year above me. Smoked, drank, misbehaved and have always been a bit of a rebel.
I talked to everyone though, the geeks and the arty kids. Definitely not a swot, definitely not sporty, a big bit gobby and pushed my parents probably further than I should have, certainly further than they deserved.
I had a part-time job from 15 though, I think that probably helped. My brother and I pretty much hated each other. | |||
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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "Quiet,studious with a need to be perfect
Loved ballet
Bullied for being quiet
Developed an eating disorder
Realised as I got older that it's more important to be happy than perfect | |||
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"very quiet and withdrawn, I had no friends at school and was bullied, I spend a lot of time in the care system being ping pinged from one care home and foster family to another because my dad was an alcoholic so me and my sister were taken from my parents, because of this other kids picked on us and their mothers didn't want us near their kids I decided around 18 this wasn't going to be my life forever, so I went to uni, I already had 2 kids by then, because I wanted better for my children than I ever had so I got an education and a good job" Well done you for putting in the effort to improve your life. | |||
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"Geeky, shy, loner (I have friends but they're all due to proximity when school ended so did my friendship with them). " I was the same regarding friends. I'm no longer in contact with anyone from school. | |||
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"In the words of my mum : 'You were a lovely kid ... until you went to secondary school and then you were a little bastard' "My Mum says 'you were a fucking nightmare from 12 to 22' | |||
"In the words of my mum : 'You were a lovely kid ... until you went to secondary school and then you were a little bastard'
My Mum says 'you were a fucking nightmare from 12 to 22' "I didn't realise she'd met me | |||
"In the words of my mum : 'You were a lovely kid ... until you went to secondary school and then you were a little bastard'
My Mum says 'you were a fucking nightmare from 12 to 22'
I didn't realise she'd met me " | |||
"Geeky, shy, loner (I have friends but they're all due to proximity when school ended so did my friendship with them). I was the same regarding friends. I'm no longer in contact with anyone from school." I like dipping into other people's lives, I like mine left alone. | |||
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"Inbetweener." which one? | |||
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"Inbetweener. which one? " I was inbetween all social groups. If I had to compare myself to an Inbetweener it would be Simon. My hair is almost as silly as his. | |||
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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "I think i was kinda somewhere in the middle. Minus the bully/being bullied. | |||
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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "I was a grade a student to 13 then a angry introverted rebel for three years who refused to tow the line. I played all three sports football cricket and rugby for all my schools smoking was for losers . I was poplar with the so called in crowd but also in with the geeks .I played sports for the school at the same time as playing D/D with the geeks. I was a streetwise council estate teenager who also read and wrote poetry . I was never bullied and never the bully . | |||
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"I kind of kept my head down, didn't really find me feet until my late teens." Me too | |||
"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "Believe it or not, but I was all the above. My best mate calls me a social chameleon lol. | |||
"My parents nickname me Kevin during my teens as I was like the character Kevin from the Harry Enfield sketch show "uh that's so unfair" was my favourite line usually followed by "why is it always me just cuz I'm the eldest" " I got called this by my parents as well. | |||
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"Fat, got bullied, quite and in no way popular:/" And look at you now!
You need to go to a reunion to gloat
I hated being a teenager - I was chubby with stupid frizzy hair came from a single parent family so I always looked a bit second hand!
( violins please )
I never had boyfriends and I was always best friends with the popular girls that made me feel bad!
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"As a teenager? Were you the rebel who knew it all or the swotty one? Playing sports or hanging around behind the bike sheds? Popular crowd or in with the squares? Streetwise or music lessons? Bullied or the bully? I'm curious... "I wasn't a rebel - as in, a naughty one who misbehaved, so guess I fell into the swotty camp? I never bunked off school or snuck out. Some of my closest friends were called teacher's pet, and did extra lessons through choice. Some wore no-name trainers, had no interest in fashion or what was "in". Some couldn't afford to. Some were the cool, popular ones, who at first, didn't understand why I hung out with the others. So I explained friendship to them. Those who "understood", were my friends. Those who didn't, weren't. I wasn't going to drop friends of nearly ten years due to superficial teenage bullcrap. Some were "rebels" and/or had problems at home who bunked off, and smoked behind the bike sheds or in the open, and were cheeky - not rude to teachers. Didn't play sport - apart from in P.E. and games but played it properly and not half-arsed for fear of messing my hair up of getting sweaty
Wasn't bullied, and didn't tolerate bullying of others, so often stepped in. Parents told me to be nice to people but also not to let people walk all over me, and if someone was being mean, there was probably a reason, so I should try and be nice to them and not be horrible back  . Also said I shouldn't care what other people think but should just do what's right. Made me unpopular with the not nice popular ones but I honestly didn't care, as I didn't want them as friends. I can think of one really horrible bullying incident where I came into the changing rooms late, and the other girls hid the towel of another after gym, and stood laughing at her overweight body, shivvering with cold. They always picked on her. I asked where they'd hid it and one told me and laughed. So I took the towel and gave it to it's owner. I was then verbally ganged up on, so I asked why they found watching a naked girl they didn't like was fun to them.
I'm been unpleasantly surprised to find out what the schoolaged home life of said girl was in recent years
Also, a few other people's schoolaged home lives - from all crowds. Makes you think really. Teenagers can be so mean. If only they knew what other pupil's home lives were like. Not always what they seemed.
Popular crowd and in with the squares.
Streetwise, and music lessons.
Baically, greedy as answered both to a few questions OP. | |||
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People are fascinating. Thanks for sharing all your stories.
I was never bullied at school and I've never been witness to that either. I'm a gobby sort so I'm pretty sure I'd have spoken out which is probably why I never saw it.
I did have a couple of fights at school though... neither of which I started but I wasn't gonna sit back and get beaten up. I didn't consider that bullying though. I just stood up for myself. On both occasions it was over a boy. | |||
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good old days ahhhh | |||
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