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What was your own worst teen angst? Teen:14-18?
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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 591782" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>From when I was 11 until I was 17.</p><p></p><p>1) My parents put me in a girls' school that was a TERRIBLE fit for me. Their structure and teaching style didn't work at all with my Aspie brain, and the uniform was the worst sensory experience I've ever had to this day. Everything -- shirts, socks, tunics, kilts, neckties -- was made of the worst scratchiest fabrics, and I was near tears every day from having to sit through yet another day being rubbed raw like sandpaper. The teachers thought I was rebellious and insubordinate, but what I really was, was confused. My marks were high, so they couldn't kick me out for non-performance, but my behaviour was wildly inappropriate. I was always this close to being suspended for something or other. I ended up completing a compressed high school curriculum (completing a 5-year course load in 4 years), just so I could get out a year early. </p><p></p><p>2) When I was 12, my beloved Grannie died. She was my rock, and the one person that stood between me and my parents' worst excesses. Without her to help me, I was truly on my own. I pretty-much raised myself from that point on.</p><p></p><p>3) Eating disorders, throughout those years. Initerestingly, my father -- who is a paediatrician -- never noticed, and was stunned when I told him years later.</p><p></p><p>4) Major social confusion. During the conformist high-school years, being Tigger (the only one) is not very much fun.</p><p></p><p>5) My body aged much more quickly than my emotions. By the time I was 10 I had the body of a 16-yr old, and by the time I was 12, my measurements were 36-24-36, and I looked like I was in my early 20s. I was confused why the weird old men on the subway would say horrible things to me, why older boys paid so much attention to me, and why my mother was convinced I was an s-l-u-t when I'd never even had a date. All that led directly to the eating disorders, I think.</p><p></p><p>I left home to go to university at 17. Although I still had issues, being independent was the best thing in the world for me, and the line that kept me from difficult child-dom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 591782, member: 3907"] From when I was 11 until I was 17. 1) My parents put me in a girls' school that was a TERRIBLE fit for me. Their structure and teaching style didn't work at all with my Aspie brain, and the uniform was the worst sensory experience I've ever had to this day. Everything -- shirts, socks, tunics, kilts, neckties -- was made of the worst scratchiest fabrics, and I was near tears every day from having to sit through yet another day being rubbed raw like sandpaper. The teachers thought I was rebellious and insubordinate, but what I really was, was confused. My marks were high, so they couldn't kick me out for non-performance, but my behaviour was wildly inappropriate. I was always this close to being suspended for something or other. I ended up completing a compressed high school curriculum (completing a 5-year course load in 4 years), just so I could get out a year early. 2) When I was 12, my beloved Grannie died. She was my rock, and the one person that stood between me and my parents' worst excesses. Without her to help me, I was truly on my own. I pretty-much raised myself from that point on. 3) Eating disorders, throughout those years. Initerestingly, my father -- who is a paediatrician -- never noticed, and was stunned when I told him years later. 4) Major social confusion. During the conformist high-school years, being Tigger (the only one) is not very much fun. 5) My body aged much more quickly than my emotions. By the time I was 10 I had the body of a 16-yr old, and by the time I was 12, my measurements were 36-24-36, and I looked like I was in my early 20s. I was confused why the weird old men on the subway would say horrible things to me, why older boys paid so much attention to me, and why my mother was convinced I was an s-l-u-t when I'd never even had a date. All that led directly to the eating disorders, I think. I left home to go to university at 17. Although I still had issues, being independent was the best thing in the world for me, and the line that kept me from difficult child-dom. [/QUOTE]
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