What kind of teenager were/are you?

I wore flanel shirts and jeans, hung out with the skaters. I was pretty much a loner. I didn't go to the parties, or get into to much trouble. The way you are now is okay. You show most people what individuality really is, being you without pleasing the "in crowed" or trying to fit in with all the others. Keep being you, it will make you stronger when you grow up into a mature adult. Most of these teens will continue to try to please everyone and end up with a job they hate and in a marriage that is un happy and to afraid to speak their mind for fear of being rejected. JUST BE YOU!!!!!!

Hi there. I'm also still in college now. I'm studying away from my hometown (in Singapore). Well, I guess I'm not the most outspoken or the most distinguished student, because I dont feel very comfortable with strangers, but I have a bunch classmates in class to talk to and play with. Sadly, i must say, that most of us are not friends beyond school. They are mostly busy their own life outside school hours. I guess friendship becomes more shallow nowadays (even if we do not do bad things,like bullying, back-stabbing to each other). I will say that on the outside I'm just an average student in college, but I like do crazy things and joke with my closest friends, basically just open up more. Thanks for letting me share.

I was a loner, and did not have many friends, I preferred nature and animals. I loved to dance and sing though and hang out with my cousins. I did not care what people thought of me and wore my hair and clothes how I liked them not what was in fashion then or to be popular. I rode my horse a lot and loved to read. I had a couple of friends and we hung out at times. I did not date much and mostly older guys because I was older than most the kids in my class by two years As a child I was ill and in the hospital more than once and missed a lot of school so had to repeat first grade and later 7th grade. I was interested in guys in their 20's as I was 18 and 19 when a freshman and sophmore. The boys at school to me were childish and so I dated guys 20-23 with my parents approval. I did stick up for myself a few times. For awhile I carried rocks in my purse and if someone wanted to hurt me I wacked them good with my purse they learned to let me be. Recently my brother came to visit and brought his best friend who is three years older than him and a year younger than me. This guy remembered me and my purse. We laughed about it but he did get wacked back then once. LOL. Now we are in our 50's.

I didn't really fit into any specific group of kids. I was fairly smart and non-athletic. I had friends in the band and hung out with them. They tried to get me to play an instrument without success. I have no rhythm and a tin-ear. Some of my friends were on the syncronized swim team and I was the manager. Others were on the gymnastics team. I watched practice and goofed around on the equipment for fun, again, no skills. So, I guess I was peripherally involved in stuff that my friends were involved in.

Hello! I am still a teenager. And I find it hard to define myself. You know, you could call me a nerd. But I'm not a nerd. I'm not the kind of person who is alone and is always studying, carrying books, and that doesn't know how to talk. I do have friends. I have great friends, and I am very active as well. But I do study. I guess I am partially nerd, and a small percentage of popular... And a bit of a poet, a bit of an artist, a bit of everything. I guess I do not fit in any stereotype you can tell. I am always surprising people with my actions and way of being. They always think one thing about me, then they know me and start thinking differently. I have great friends and a different way of being. But everybody is different. I am just not into any of those groups. Respectfully, Munhozmib.

Oh I was definitely a loner in high school. And I'm sorry to say it, but it's not really something you "grow out of". I'm a mom and in college now and I'm still a loner. I was very artistic, and I discovered a natural talent for writing. I'm pretty much still the same person I was in high school, except I actually have less friends now that everyone moved away to go to different colleges. And I dress better now. Lol.

When I was a teenager I was the one who smoked pot in the alley with all the guys and there where some girls there but not too many. I was a wallflower and I stayed out of the way of the bullies they never picked on me that much because I was pretty but I didn't want to be in the IN crowd so they kind of just let me slide by I was friends with the people that got picked on and I didn't pick on anyone because I don't think it's right. People should accept everyone for who they are and if you don't like that persons values than you have the right to steer clear of them. I wish you the best in school it's a hard thing to keep up with your studies and deal with peer pressure. You'll make it you sound like a strong person. Happy Myloting :)

I would say that I was not the most popular but I was one of them. I was probably too nice to be up at the top. I was friends with anyone and always liked people for who they were and not because they tried to follow a crowd. I also wanted to be friends with who I wanted to be friends with and did not like it when my more popular friends tried to control who I talked to, was friends with, or who I dated. Which they tried to do. I never found that to be cool. But I was still friends with them though not as close as I could have been if I had conformed, but I was also friends with many other different types of people. I always called myself neutral territory. I was mean to a girl once just to try to impress people. I apologized immediately after schoo and still feel bad about it to this day. That was not me, and I really don't know why I even did that. I refused to ever behave like that again and would even stand up for people who other people did that to after that. When people make fun of other people they are insecure, and are usually only doing it to give attention to their selves. It is a pretty sad way to exist and those people who treat people like that will eventually pay for it.

I think I was probably a bit like you. I liked reading and writing and NOT being the centre of attention. Groups of bossy, confident girls scared me, actually. I wasn't ever bullied though - I had a best friend, and we basically stuck together. Not like my daughters - all three of them had lovely groups of good friends, and they still keep in touch with their friends, even though they ended up all going to different parts of the country. My girls were all much more confident than I was, and have gone out and done very interesting and exciting things because they don't think 'what if' like I used to. Because of that, I didn't ever have any ambition or push myself much. Sad really.

In high school, I was pretty much a loner too. I had a few select friends that I would hang out with, and even now, I am still in touch with a few of those people. I was the type that worried more about school work than boys and popularity, and I was teased quite a bit because of that. I was teased, but sometimes, I was asked for help when it came to understanding an assignment. I was also teased because I was overweight, I wish those people could see me now. LOL Looking back at it all, I would have to say that, although I was not into sports, only student councel, and singing, and I was very smart and got almost straight "A's", and due to all of that I was teased, I wouldn't change any of it because it did help make me what I am today, and that is a responsible, trustworthy mother, wife, and businesswoman. If you are okay with who you are, and you should be, don't let those that tease you get to you too much. You will be surprised at how the tables turn once you are out and on your own in the world. One thing I tell my kids is this, you only get the opportunity to go through school one time, learn all that you can while you are there and the rest will fall into place later on in life. A lot of those people that you go to svhool with now won't be in your life later.

I'm also currently in high school,so I think I know you very well.I'm a freak,but I'm not alone.When I get along with classmates,I just be myself,if they call me do something I do not like it,I just say no.I'd love not to please somebody.To my fortunately,a lot of guys around me have the same ways with me.So,we get along with each other very well.Just be fine what you are,that's simple and OK.

hey i was a very naughty teenager as many are.. but the best part of my self was that i was a very bright student and i never neglected my studies. i think that being childish, naughty and irresponsible is a part of the teen age but one should not be so irresponsible as to ignore their studies... that a part of the life which makes us prosper and flourish in future.. right??

I was a loner type in high school. I kept to my self and a very small circle of friends. We were labeled as hoods cause we wore all black and leather jackets 99% of the time, we were not trouble makers just kept to our selfs and had strange ideas as our parents said. I was not popular and was made fun of on a regular basis, and your right if you laugh at them they dont know what to do. As long as your happy with you nothing else should matter. Self confidence is the most important thing you can have. Good luck with coming out of your shell. I know that its a hard thing to do.

When I was a teenager in high school I was just about the same as you. I didn't talk to many people just the friends that I had. I thought of myself as a very outgoing person who got along easily with people. But when the snobby girls would say somthing rude to me and i would say somthing back they would just look at me like o my god I can't believe she said that!I took no crap. I always thought if to be funny cause most of the popular girls in my school were all ugly, fat or dressed like protitutes. Today I think of myself to be more popular than I was in high school cause now I'm not afraid to come out of my shell and there is no more peer pressure involved.

It's been more than a decade back when I was a teenager. It was fun in those good old days. By then, there was no cell phones and computers for me in those days. I got my first cell phone after I graduated and my first computer when I was in 2nd year of colleage. When I was in secondary school, I always did good in my academic results. I was not hard working though, but just simply did my study as planned according to time table. It's very effective, especially if you need to take care of 10 subjects! My hobbies are watching television, cycling, swimming, playing guitars and etc. I am the only child of my parents, therefore, I am shy and introvert sometimes. But I still have many friends in school, and didn't have any problem mingle with them. Just that, I am not outspoken type.

I was somewhat unruly as a teenager, known as a troublemaker. I have no idea why, other than I stood up for myself and wasn't afraid to use some rather foul language Although cursing is part of school language these days, it wasn't in the 60's, so I often did get into trouble. That and smoking on campus, they frowned on that When I wasn't in school, I was in the bowling alley working or across the street at the pool hall just hanging out

Hi sheepie, I had a really different teenage life I was and still am very artsy and I wasn't to shy as a teen but I wasn't a nerd or cool I was somewhere in the middle I think teens have it much harder these days especially when it comes to school and dealing with there class mates I thankfully didnt have to deal with being teased but my life defintly wasn't a walk in the park, it was rough at times but I got through it, I dont understand why other youngsters teas each other its just not right and if I ever have kids I will make it a point to to teach my kid not to teas anyone as my parent's taught me.

I am just an average school girl in high school I am not popular but I have sets of friends back then that I would say it helped me in my position right now because my friends help me mold my personality to be a happy and flexible person. I have good grades back then and I belong to the top section in our batch but still I am just nobody compared to my classmates who are very into extracurricular activities in school. Now things change I am quite popular in my work right now because I am a trainer and everyone would say good morning to me and say hi and they have to make things to impress me is that very contradicting I am nobody in high school and sometimes looking back I just smile because some of my classmates who are very popular back then I've seen them like they are nobody now with no job and just stay home all the time.

Well I am 16. I would say that I am a loner. However, I am also very athletic. I'm also pretty nerdy too though xD. Quite an interesting combination huh? The high school that I am attending is an all boys high school. It was ranked in sports illustrated as one of the top 50 sports high schools in the nation(USA). Anyways, I'm an pretty dorky/nerdy, but I do not look it and I hide it at school. I do not really have any friends at all. Sort of 1 or two... Last year as a freshman, I had the top freshman mile time at the end of the year with 4:46 on the last race of the spring track season. So..ya. Anyways I just try to keep to myself and stay out of the way during school. I mean I get along with basically everyone, like I talk to them if they talk to me. But I don't usually ever start a conversation with someone else. Wow..enough of my unorganized rant of idiocy xD.

I'm a teenager that is myself in a world of teenagers that are struggling to find themselves. I stopped procrastinating and stopped just talking about what I wanted to do and started doing it. I dropped out of high school and began my own study of self interest and started pursuing the career that I want most: being a musician. I've began to dedicate my life towards expressing myself and my visions. I feel that I am going down the path of righteousness as of right now and I hope to continue my life the way I am living it currently.