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41 Most Regrettable ‘It’s Not A Phase, Mom, It’s My Life’ Examples Shared In This Online Group
Our moms knew that when we were sincerely telling them that there was no need for us to go to school anymore because we were in a band now, that wearing fedoras with anime pins was a thing, or that opening a bar in Jamaica with exotic snakes in glass cases was our future career—they really knew it, it would only be a phase. Redditor u/GeorgoyFriendman asked his fellow users of the r/AskReddit community, “What was your biggest/most regrettable 'It’s not a phase, mom. It’s my life.' that, in fact, turned out to be just a phase and not your life?” and the funniest and most hysterical stories poured in.
So if you had an emo ‘phase,’ if you wanted to wear colored contacts but there was nothing wrong with your vision, and if you really thought you were a rapper, check out the best entries and vote for your favorite ones. And then carry on regretting those questionable fashion choices and tramp stamp tattoos.
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#1
When I was 16, I kept my hair dyed blue, and kept myself fairly busy earning money to keep buying the hair dye so it would stay that way. One summer, one of our cats, a gray and white one, had to have a leg amputated after being bitten by a snake, and I noticed that the skin beneath the fur was the same color, in the same pattern, as her fur had been.
And it was just enough to pass idiot teenage muster.
So, I shaved my head with the intention of getting my entire scalp tattooed blue, thinking that when my hair grew back in, it would be forever blue. I even found a tattoo guy willing to do the job, but only if an experimental square inch worked.
I'm still blonde, but I do have a tattoo on my scalp that's just a blue square.
My mother was too dumbfounded to say anything. And my step dad just walked out onto the back porch to stare into the yard for a while. It was never brought up again once it was clear the experiment didn't work.
I never dyed my hair again after that either.
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
Yeah, sometimes we only learn through experience.
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Rae Black 4 years ago
"And my step dad just walked out onto the back porch to stare into the yard for a while." Laughed SO HARD!!!
Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)
Me too LMAO I'm sorry for the mom and step dad but 😂 To be fair, if I were the step dad, I'd do the same
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
You should thank that tattoo artist for agreeing to this on a condition of only an square inch. Artist knew this wouldn't worked and telling you, a determined teenager, otherwise would have just kept you looking for one that would eventually do whole scalp out of greed. That artist made you find out on your own that your idea was flawed. Artist saved you lot of life time of regret.
Jordan Floyd 4 years ago
I think thats why he agreed to the sq inch and thats pretty awesome of him
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#2
I was VERY into The Transformers when I was a wee lad in the 1980s. One day, I decided to change my name to the name of my favorite Autobot. My name was lame, and I wanted an awesome Transformer name. And I was VERY insistent that my parents only call me by my new name. Calling me by my 'old' name would cause a big fat tantrum on my part.
So for the better part of a week, my poor parents had to call me Wheeljack.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
80's kid, not a nerd but I knew immediately that wasn't a transformer, plus, nerds are cool.
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Giaan Beeltje 4 years ago
OMG of all the Autobots he wanted to be called Wheeljack! He's a scientist who's experiments are notorious for blowing up! Amazing 😂
Jonahs Mrs 4 years ago
We have this at the moment with our youngest who will only answer to "the mighty bumblebee " 🤣😂🤣😍 x
Katy McMouse 4 years ago
My youngest sister went through a MASH phase. One week, she'd insist on being called "Frank" (Burns), the next week, she'd be "Huck-eye" (Hawkeye), and so on. Went on for months.
Whawhawhatsis 4 years ago
When I was around 5, for at least six months I changed my name on a nearly daily basis. It drove my poor father crazy. But if he called me by my real name, I would have a crying fit, so he had to play along or my mother would fuss at him because it wasn't important that I be known "correctly" or not. I'm sure he was very grateful when I grew out of it!
Linda Cowley 4 years ago
I wanted to change my name to Guinevere. By the time I was old enough to, I didn't fancy it any more
Kelzbelz79 4 years ago
Omg so reminds me of when my nephew was a huge Simpson's fan, he was probs 7 or 8, anyway he would only address you if you called him Bart!.
#3
My friend and I decided we were going to open a bar in Jamaica with exotic snakes in glass cages in the walls at each booth. We convinced ourselves it would be amazing for at least 2 years in college. It was going to be called Fredro's.
My entire family made fun of me for it. Once we got out of college, we realized it was not feasible and joined the office grind. We're also 2 white guys with no ties to Jamaica.
Judith Wilson 4 years ago
I know this is funny and it really would have been a blast. I did something similar and somehow ended up pregnant. But PLEASE leave the animals alone. Snakes should NEVER be in cages. No animals should ever be in cages - except for humans who never learned how to get along with others.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
Don't know why you have downvotes, you are absolutely correct.
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denzoren 4 years ago
I'm from the Caribbean and even I had to join the office grind. No shame in that.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago (edited)
Same man, from a young and angry metal-head punk who just wanted to play rock n' roll, I'm now part of the rat race. Anger and awful music doesn't pay bills.
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Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Never make fun of anyone's dreams or you'll never hear the music as the sun goes down and the moon comes up in Jamaica and you enjoy a drink at Fredroe's.
Raven Sheridan 4 years ago
But what about your dreams to pass the doochie on the left hand side!?
Natalie Seaton 4 years ago
Hey, it could have been worse - trying to create a bobsled team in Jamaica. Oh, wait.
François Carré 4 years ago
And some poor exotic snakes will never know which bullet they have dodged here.
#4
My boyfriend when I sixteen that I swore to god was my soulmate.
I don’t even remember his name now.
Sorry mum.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Billy, that was his name (mine not yours) and definitely NOT my soul mate, but I thought he was. Dodged a bullet, but will always have a small tucked away place for him in there because well, he was my first real relationship.
Zenozenobee 4 years ago
Félix....Dodged a bullet too. After I broke up with him, I was late and made the mistake to tell a friend. He, of course, learnt it. He thought it was a sign that I must stay with him, that I must keep it and that we were going to move with his mother that would raise the kid for us.... I broke up without really knowing what bothered me, I suddenly had an epiphany
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Potato Puffin 4 years ago
Stoooooop! I could've written this. My dad referred to my ex (who I was with since 15) as a "cancer attached to his daughter". To be fair that was his star sign but he was an emotionally abusive gaslighting asshole that stole my entire early adulthood.
Jean-Daniel Mohier 4 years ago
This picture reminds me of the opening credits of Six Feet Under.
Zadie the Swiftie 4 years ago (edited)
"Back then I swore I was gonna marry him someday/ But I realized some bigger dreams of mine/ And Abigail gave everything she had/ To a boy who changed his mind/ And we both cried/ 'Cause when you're fifteen,/ Somebody tells you they love you/ You're gonna believe them"
#5
I wore a top hat with an anime pin on it for around a year. Met one of my current best friends while wearing it, idk how he could bear to speak to me after that.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
My friend Jason still wears a top hat, he is a big metal dude with long hair and beard so it kind of suits him but if he likes it and it makes him happy, crack on dude.
Birgit M 4 years ago (edited)
Sounds good and reminds me of my best friend. He‘s also a big metal dude (6,6ft, 240 lbs) with hair to his hips. Especially at festivals he likes to wear a top hat and sometimes a long skirt.
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Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
As I have taught my kids, the best thing you can do with another person is giggle uncontrollably together over something corny. And if you and your partner are able to giggle together in the bedroom, that's a keeper. Life has too many moments that require seriousness. Friendship shouldn't.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
I have always believed in individuality, only simpletons wish to be "Like Everyone Else"?
#6
Really wanted a horse.
Ridiculously allergic to horses.
Also could not afford a horse.
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
My very first word was HORSE. Everything I wore had to have a horse on it. Started riding lessons at 8. My instructor said I was a natural with the horses and she had only a few students like me over the years. Parents said when I was 15, they would buy me a horse, but I had to pay for the board. Found my perfect Arabian horse...and she was pregnant so I had TWO horses. Exercised other peeps' horses to pay for my board. Fast forward 20 years later, bought my own farm. My babies (original horses) lived 35 years. Bought a small ranch in New Mexico hauled my horses cross country. So here I am, 65+, still just as horse crazy, and the best part of my day, here in the most beautiful location in the world. is taking care of them. Here is the view from the front of my ranch. Proof you should stick with what is in your heart and do not give up! South-Mtn-...5d0cb2.jpg 
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
I am STILL horse crazy--see comments above!
Load More Replies... Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
I don't blame you for wanting a horse. Horses are majestic.
Edgar Rops 4 years ago
Never wanted a horse, never knew anything about horses, until some fifteen years ago I met a young lady, who was riding. On our second date we went to the stables. Fast forward 15 years, we are 12 years married, have three horses, three kids, and a farmhouse is on the way
Kanga9ine 4 years ago
I had read that a 10' by 10' area was okay for a horse. I can't remember my exact age when I presented horse ownership to parents. My bedroom, across the hall from theirs was 10' by 10'. Perfect size for horse. Took me a few years to figure out why the didn't go for it. My mom had a horse named Bookcase when she was little. And her grandpa, her father, sent me $5.00 folded into a bow tie to help buy my horse. Another tough lesson on the road to adult
𝖊𝖆 4 years ago
Haha same. They just looked so majestic! I blame my love of the Black Beauty book as a kid.
Jackie Porter 4 years ago
My mum once asked my sister if she wanted a pony or a younger brother or sister. My sister said a pony. She got me. She's never let me forget it either. She never got her pony.
ArhomR 4 years ago
Yes, allergies. Sneezed through an entire performance of the Lippizaner Horses in Vienna just shy of 17th BD.
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
I have friends with horses who are allergic to just about everything. She bathes her horses in a special soap that holds down the dander. It works!
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Acting like a thug ... being 12 years old from a white middle class family but acting like a career criminal, born in the streets, who had done a nickel of hard time in the clink. At the mall on a Friday night giving you the crazy eye with my backward hat and baggy pants.
If someone did actually “try” me we would usually just bump chests and say “do something then” “go head then” “no you do something homie” walking in circles with my hands by my side because I’m more concerned about looking gangster than I am about defending myself. 9/10 times nothing would happen but I would definitely chalk it up as a win for my crew anyway.
Side note tho one of my best homies head butted a guy with terrible head butt technique and it knocked them both unconscious, but because my friend woke up and got up first he declared himself the victor, it was surprisingly hard to argue with that logic.
Also I had my nickname embroidered on my fitted hat from lids “Lil E” but because of the calligraphy style font and bad spacing it appeared to read Lile or Lily as most would pronounce it and that sucked ass ... spent like a whole months allowance on that stupid hat never to be worn again, but also never forgotten by my friends.
Sincerely yours, Lily
Grace Noyes 4 years ago
Ok, my older son went through this when he was 13/14, and his thug name was Whiteboi. Then he created an alter-ego on MySpace called Ronny Hell. He would have run like a freaked out chicken if he'd ever actually been challenged to a fight. And we've never let him live it down. I have a friend who still calls him Ronny Hell sometimes.
CynderAce 4 years ago
That's hilarious, but Ronny hell is a badass name too
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lmao omg I can't stop laughing you're my spirit animal my dude. hahahaha
New Prometheus 4 years ago
It would be funny if there weren't these little gangstas terrorizing neighbourhoods, selling drugs and straight out killing people in where I come from. They have no sense of laws or responsibilities whatsoever, and are constatly hight and hired by adult criminals to do dirty work on streets.
Emma Crompton 4 years ago
This reminds me of the absolutely best bad documentary I watched on YouTube about a bunch of white kids in like rural nevada or something acting like they were straight outta compton. I wish I could remember the name because it HAS to be scene just for the absolutely most cringe inducing ending. Sad thing is they did end up killing people to prove how 'gangsta' they were.
#8
Being a mall goth was "just who I am, mom!" I am 34 and no longer a mall goth. But I do still look back fondly at all the stupid s*** I used to wear. It was a lot of fun.
denzoren 4 years ago
That's the best part for me, you experienced it and it was fun but it was time to change.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
For many people, you don't always need to change, plenty of people are goth throughout their whole lives. I just hope people change because they want to, not because of what "society says you should look like". I'm still the same metal-head wearing pretty much the same sort of clothes as I was at school and beyond.
Load More Replies... Duchess Raven Waves 4 years ago
Still goth. Just soft and elegant. Lace and stuff. Chains are only for night time now. ;)
Jessica Shookhoff 4 years ago
As a former (and still secretly closeted goth, lol) I enjoy watching my oldest daughter insist to me that she's 'Not A Goth, Mom!' while wearing a number of outfits that look almost identical to what I wore in high school. Except, she does it a lot better than I did!
grotesqueer 4 years ago
How is a goth a closeted goth, exactly? Being a goth is all about the music, the style is just a bonus for those who want it. If you're still a fan of goth music you're just as legid as a goth as anyone. 😊
Load More Replies... Potato Puffin 4 years ago
Everyone has a phase they went through at some point. I've had goth, grunge, thinking i was Lara Croft, indie/brit rock, J-rock/visual kei, Kpoo, tried goth on again, wore really bright cardigans for a while, went vegan (stopped when pregnant as cravings for chicken were insane and i just went with it)... theres no "ah I'm finally me" moment, as who knows when I'll find a look or worldview i want to try on for a while. Might decide tartan suits are a thing. You're never restricted to dressing one way as you're always still you underneath. Have fun with clothes!
Brandi VanSteenwyk 4 years ago
Yup... The clothing choices that defined who we were. Mine was a puffy, black, pleather bomber jacket that somehow caused me to walk straight, tall and confident. Until.... I heard a chant from my fellow classmates: "Studette, studette, studette..." Apparently I was considered a female stud.
#9
I went through an Eminem phase were I decided to speak more “urban”. It was basically me saying “yo” a lot and making fulsome gestures with my hands. I would work lyrics into my everyday vernacular like “how ELSE do you get to the booty” and “rap god!” Usually they were completely out of context and inappropriate. I called my friends my “peoples”.
I’m cringing into the floor just thinking about it.
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
i say "yo" a lot lol but im not going through a phase ive just always done that
Douglas Turner 4 years ago
The way you worked fulsome into a story about the... followed up by vernacular. You didn't fool anyone, did you?
#10
Scene fashion. I back-combed my hair to hell and back, and got quite a few facial piercings I still have scars for lol
The worst part was the actual clothes. I still cringe thinking about when I wore these neon blue leopard print leggings with a pink tutu skirt. And all the tacky, cheap beaded jewelry. My mom told me not to leave the house like that and I told her she didn't "get it".
All the cringe.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
I'm not sure if should admit this, but I once wore almost that exact outfit to a Halloween party. I also had wings, a wand with a two lb weight on the end, and a t-shirt that I made that said "Cheer the F*** Up!" I was the Morale Fairy. I'm still the only person who thinks it was funny. *wistful sigh*
Claire Pettifer 4 years ago
Reminds me of the days when my staple " going out" outfit was black studded heels with black fishnet tights UNDERNEATH black cropped low waist trousers with a big chain attached,black boob tube with matching fishnet gloves, a necklace made out of guitar plectrums,trucker hat and back combed pigtails...It was like an alternative version of "The Fly", except Gwen Stefani got in the machine with 10 emos.
H Edwards 4 years ago
For a while my uniform was some old band t-shirt, a denim mini skirt, neon fishnets and slouchy boots. It is a look I remember fondly and with zero cringe.
Easily Excitable Panda 4 years ago
I misread this at first and thought you said it was your old band uniform. :D
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Emma London 4 years ago
There's nothing wrong with dressing ugly. I like it when I see teenagers who willingly don't aim to blend in!
C.S. E. 4 years ago
No, let your kids make that kind of mistake. Scars aside, that's the experimental time. Your child is obviously old enough to dress themselves so, if a stranger judges you on how you can let your child out like that, bugger 'em. The more you struggle, the more they dig in. Let it ride.
natie marie 4 years ago
I was in that awkward age group between grunge skater and goth, and emo and scene... and we poorly attempted to be both at the same time. i massively miss seeing groups of alternative teens loitering in town on a weekend.. they reminded me of when i did the same.. now a combination of covid and rock/metal music being dormant has killed it
Ms LaDonna 4 years ago
Why are you so afraid to be you? wow all these poor people forgetting how life can be fun.
LittleMissLotus 4 years ago
I wouldn't say this is someone who is afraid to be themselves. I think this is someone who has simply realized that they are a different person from who they used to be, and that their tastes in fashion have now changed. You don't have to spend your entire life dressing one way because otherwise you'd be "fake." People are allowed to experiment. And nowhere here does she say she is having less fun because she isn't "scene" anymore.
Load More Replies... TheReader19 4 years ago
It's are part of life and finding youself; you shouldn't cringe, just laugh
#11
I had a posh phase once. Spoke in a terrible british accent, put my pinky out while drinking tea, said pardon a lot. My brother told me to stop so i did
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
There was a TV series called THE INVADERS in the 60s, and the aliens looked human except they could not get their pinkies uncrooked!
Kristal 4 years ago
Is 'pardon' suppose to be fancy? I thought it was just a polite way to ask a person to repeat themselves. Is it a British thing? I'm so confused.
Carrie de Luka 4 years ago
Pardon, if anything, is considered 'middle class' in the UK. The word 'What' tends to be the word used by posher people. Just how it is, not judging anyone.
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I was obsessed with "The Craft" in junior high and was convinced that I was a witch. I basically just drew pentagrams all over my school work and wore a lot of rings on my fingers. That's it.
F. H. 4 years ago
Yes, it has been around for a long time. Since the 1950s. Call me close minded, but I think religions actually gain credebility with age - just because things get lost in time adding to the mystique.
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Bob Belcher 4 years ago
There were a lot of kids like that at my school. I read an Occult book because the drummer from Tool is heavily into it. It sounded so dumb even at 15. I was embarrassed of having the book so I didn't even bother to donate it, just tossed it in the trash where it belonged.
Cecilia Buhler 4 years ago
imagine the teacher calmly grading papers and she sees a pentangle on the school work just picture the reaction.
Just JoLynn 4 years ago
I too was obsessed with The Craft in middle school, and I tried to start a coven.
#13
Just the standard: "I don't NEED to go to school, MUM. I'm in a BAND!"
Susan Trevaskis-Owen 4 years ago
"Yeah, and so is Brian 'I've got a degree in astrophysics' May so get your a$$ to school."
Mysterious Panda 4 years ago
Roger was also a dentistry student, Freddie was (at one point) an art student, and John was an electrical engineer.
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Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 4 years ago
Tried to convince my dad to let me drop out of high school to go on tour with a band called "The Loading Zone" - I heard that 2 months after they left, their plane crashed and everybody died... Thanks, dad
Claire Pettifer 4 years ago
Exactly what I used to say as I slunk off to get the train to band practice,electric keyboard on my lap. It actually makes me laugh know I think of it
Karen Lyon 4 years ago
I have a nephew who felt that way about work, for awhile. (He had his AA in music, wasn't planning on teaching music, so he wasn't interested in two more years of college.) His reasoning was that he should be able to make a living off his talent. Would be nice, if it could be that way, it's just not. I've known several musicians who understand that they often need a day job so that they can do the music they love. My nephew just didn't see this at the time, and it drove my brother nuts. My nephew did find out the "starving musician" thing was not all it's cracked up to be though. He's working been in retail for awhile -- and is more than one band, so he's figured out how to follow his dream and support himself during tough times, like the pandemic.
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
Yep. I was gonna be a rock star, no backup plans. You may have heard of me...if you were my mom.
#14
My gymnastics.
Then I slipped up and paralysed myself. Had to learn to walk again which took 3 years.
Interestingly, where my parents discouraged me from "wasting time" on gymnastics before the accident, after the accident and my recovery they encouraged me to take it up again... but i cant. The accident and the horror surrounding it still gives me nightmares some nights.
Lynne Monteith 4 years ago
So sorry you had to go through this. It takes great strength both to do gymnastics and to recover from such an injury.
Emma London 4 years ago
I never understood the idea of "just getting back to the saddle" after a traumatic event, visiting your crash site, etc. In some cases it might be a good thing that one faces what happened, but it's not that simple. So many things could go wrong without adequate support, and re-living a traumatic event usually isn't good for you.
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
I'm sorry, you're amazing. Battle of mental strength is the true strength.❤️
Jessica Shookhoff 4 years ago
Oh, I'm so sorry! But you're a badass for learning to walk again!!
Glynna Bowood 4 years ago
Very surprised they would want you to go back to gymnastics after that bad of an accident!
TheReader19 4 years ago
I'm sorry to hear that, but previous to the accident there was nothing wrong with having a passion
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
I don't think this was a phase the OP grew out of. It was an activity that she loved but was tragically forced to abandon.
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
To be clear, I'm not in any way trying to diminish her story. That was a horrible thing to happen, and she shows amazing strength of will in her recovery. Her parents should not have tried to get her to go back to gymnastics.
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Oh god..... i was a fedora guy once. I hate myself so much for it.
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
But only when they're not spherical and misogynists.
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Fidgets McGee 4 years ago (edited)
They were trending from the early 2000's for a few years, and yes sexy and hot for everyone wearing them. Then as all trends got super over-done like bad bbq and everyone got sick of them. Then you were "that dude" if you wore one. But come on, it's been 20 years kids, let's give them a break--lets make Fedora today's come-back kid...yes.we.can.
Dynein 4 years ago
At least one "wrong: thing about them is that they are associated with the scene of pickup artists, nice guys(TM) etc. Men who believe they are by nature smarter and more logical than women, and that women by nature are highly emotional and entirely instinct-driven in regards to their choice of men (have the right looks and they'll flock to you en masse to be begat, solve them like a puzzle and they'll do what you want).
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Oskar vanZandt 4 years ago
I like me a fedora... stylin'! I'm lucky I have a head that suits a hat.
Virgil Sanders 4 years ago
lol that was actually my first thought also XD
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#16
I wanted to be a big-time hero and save the world from every bad thing.
I just play D&D now.
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
Me too. I want to have magic and super powers, but I'm just Noemie so I play D&D.
YoChicken 4 years ago
yo D&D is awesome. D&D will take over the world one day.
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Jon S. 4 years ago
I wish I could read the text to figure out what it is, it's not a game I've seen before
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Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
Guys, I think we just found ourselves a cult. The best cult there is.
François Carré 4 years ago
I actually trust D&D players to save the world from many bad things.
#17
Being a hippie. Still love nature, meditation and the Grateful Dead, but it's nice to have a clear head and a meaningful career.
Tim Haight 4 years ago
Unfortunately the idealism of the summer of love (1967) died the next year with the assisinations of Martin Luther King JR and Robert Kennedy. Also the Chicago 8 rioting at the Democratic National Convention and the escalating war. I still love the music and nature too.
Blue of the yams 4 years ago
Oooh yep. Me too. When I was nine, I wore my hair long, always had on a tye dye vest, wore a bindi (?), and was SUPER into incense. Thought I was so cool
Chich 4 years ago
Knew a group of people who were really into the anti establishment, drugs, paisley shirts - whole hippie trip. Then within a short period two or three OD'd, another died when she decided to get out of a moving car on the highway while stoned and another who passed out drunk and choked to death on his vomit. Suddenly many of the rest had jobs and haircuts. I ran into one in a suit with a briefcase waiting for the bus.
Marcia Cash 4 years ago
70 years old and still a hippie, it's been hard to maintain those values through the millenium. Unfortunately, communes never work because hippies won't work, but I've held onto the farm all these years. The mortgage was paid off decades ago, so we can live cheap.
JessG 4 years ago
I hope you're kidding? You do know who the Dead are right? I just want to make sure...
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#18
Trenchcoat phase after I saw the matrix. Turns out a goofy f****** 13 year old doesn't look or feel as bada** in one as Neo does. EDIT: I was a sheltered kid in a sheltered town. I'd heard of Columbine but had not seen the video and had made no connection between the coat and the event.
My O My 4 years ago
Columbine? Coat? What does it have to do with one another? Can someone please explain?
La Petite Morte 4 years ago
And those of us that were goth got A LOT of harassment in the weeks and months after. Rocks thrown from moving cars, tough guys menacing a woman out walking her dog... it was awful. The denizens of the local goth club created a charity group so we could get out there and prove we were normal people, too. Our motto was "Black Clothes, Warm Hearts". We did telethons, charity drives, charity walks, you name it we were there.
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Toasty 4 years ago
Yup, me too. My group was called the trench coat mafia, and we thought we were extra hard. Walked around giving everyone the evil eye and punching lockers to appear badass. Columbine happened one year later, and we had enough sense to stop wearing the trench coats after that.
Kelzbelz79 4 years ago
I know it's bad of me and I'm prepared for all the hate, as soon as I read tranchcoat and my first thought was columbine.
Sergio Bicerra 4 years ago
Not bad at all, is a ñn awful part of history and should never be forgotten.
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Don't Look 4 years ago
my ex-husband was this way when I met him. He's arab too so he just looked.... scruffy. Wore ugly as hell sneakers and baggy black jeans. Actually, he had no sense of style. Ever.
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
My big brother kind of did this but with the glasses n a shorter black leather jacket.
Amelia Bedelia 4 years ago (edited)
The shooters were both known for wearing trenchcoats.
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#19
I have a real whopper.... I loved anime as a teenager. This was in the 90s so it wasn't that mainstream yet. Because I had no interest in anything else, I took a year of Japanese. Then because I STILL had no other ambition or interest, I signed up in the military to go to Japan. For 8 years.
Got out, went to college and because I STILL didn't know what I wanted to do, I studied Japanese. By this time, the interest in anime had worn off, but learning culture and history was cool. So... I went to college to learn Japanese. As a major.
6 goddamned years, a ton of core classes and not a single interest in any other thing. I was "done" with the Japanese language at that point, but because near the end, my class literally couldn't be run without me, I stayed. I stayed because I felt like it would be a waste if I changed it. Like everything I had done up to that point was a lie.
Here I am with a degree in Japanese Language/History and Culture and I'm not at all interested in it anymore.
I'm looking for a real job, have been since I got out of college but for now I work for a temp company for a Japanese air conditioning company.
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 4 years ago
As someone working in sociolinguistics, interpretation and translation is a thoroughly rewarding and challenging career field. However, you truly have to love and have such a deep knowledge of the language(s) and culture that you work with. There is absolutely no way you will succeed in the field , which can often be extremely cut-throat, if you are don't have what we like to call a specialization.This specialization is the field of study you excel in when interpreting or translating (example:some interpreters specialize in politics). It really pains me to read stories like this, especially, when it is so difficult to get younger people interested in language and culture. Unfortunately, Japanese is not an official UN language, but I wholeheartedly agree that this young man should look into a possible career in translation, interpretation, or language protocol.
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lara 4 years ago
There are a lot of companies who would kill to hire you as you speak and understand Japanese and Japanese culture. The international business community is always looking for people who speak and understand more than one language. You can almost write your own ticket. There are a lot of Japanese who speak and understand English, but someone like you is very unusual.
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
You aren't giving yourself enough credit for the FANTASTIC accomplishments you have already. You must not be looking in the right place. I regret that I did not follow through with learning Chinese or Japanese but Spanish instead. The right position will find you..just wait!
QueerTheory 4 years ago
One of my German friends who has a similar degree is a Manga translator. Japanese sub culture is huge in Germany.
Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
Dude, you just need to change your name to Musashi, get a sword and roam the countryside looking for challenging sword fights at this point.
Jude Bennett 4 years ago
You need to use your imagination a bit more. You choose it, make it work. This Is The Way.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
You could actually teach English in Japan and get very well paid for it.
Geordie Insomniac 4 years ago
At least they have learned another language and the culture, too!
#20
I... had a Jedi braid when I was younger
Jeremy Van Portfliet 4 years ago
I can one be up you. I was a kid in the 80s... I'm old. I had both a mullet and a rats tail.
Vic 404 4 years ago
A bunch of my friends had it too. Have curly hair (what's left of it still is) and was jealous. The 80's was too late for a blonde afro.
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KnownAsJetty 4 years ago (edited)
if i everr get a jedi braid my mom said she would chop it off while i sleep
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
Not a thing wrong with that! I am proud that I saw STAR WARS the first showing in May of 1977---and saw it 5 more times that weekend. The lines it produced have never been duplicated!
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
We call that a rats tail, and it's normally on the roughest kids in the school.
#21
Ugh. My tramp stamp. Thought it made me look so hot and flirty. Now I'm a professor and always have to wear high waisted pants so none of my students ever see it.
AzKhaleesi 4 years ago
Meh, get it covered, I have one too but I'm not ashamed of it because it's still a part of who I was. no biggie.
Valley Girl 4 years ago
YOU may have a tramp stamp. I just have waist wings. Let me have this, ok?
Jods 4 years ago
My 40th birthday. At work summing up how I’d never done anything remotely naughty, never taken any drugs, blah, blah. One colleague said she was going to get another tattoo so I went too and got one of a little black cat. I love it and I have no regrets about getting it. The same colleague got me some cannabis resin or it could have been an OXO cube for all I knew. She told me what to do with it but all I ended up doing was setting the smoke alarm off. It went in the bin.
Oliver Aeternus 4 years ago
A friend of mine was into the punk band Rancid, has RANCID across her lower back in huge script 🤔
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago (edited)
Tatt removal is really expensive. A friend had to have some removed...and after I warned her before they were done that she might be sorry...
Elaine Mattingly 4 years ago
Tatts are expensive and a person needs to think about it carefully and NO I never want to remove mine.
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I became extremely religious in my late teen years. Planned on being a missionary to FARC in Colombia kind of extreme. My mother tried to tell me that I might feel differently in the future and to be careful. I screamed that, if anything, I wanted to be MORE extreme.
I run a liquor store now and she is kind enough not to rub my face in it. I think she’s mostly glad I’m not trying to convert godless drug-lord revolutionaries while dodging AK-47 fire.
Avery S Alberico 4 years ago
Glad you initially had the courage to do that, I don't think many people are willing to take the leap
#23
There was a time in my younger days when i was obsessed with death. I wanted to be a hitman. I had convinced myself that i was gonna be an assassin. That lasted a few months
Bettie-Jean Neal 4 years ago
I used too think that because I have Asperger's that I'd make a great hit-woman since I'm completely detached from other people and don't relate. I get it.
will.u.b.mine 4 years ago
...no comment can be provided at this very time...*looks down awkwardly*
Kennedy Johnson 4 years ago
Wow, that’s very interesting. We’re you interested in killing people just to do it. Or for good?
KALEB KELLY 4 years ago
I wasn´t really obsessed with death, I just played to much assassins creed, and I still do.
KALEB KELLY 4 years ago
I wasn´t really obsessed with death, I just played way to much assassins creed.
#24
I went through a weird phase as a child where I almost exclusively watched The Weather Channel for a couple of years. This was back in the early 2000s, when there was no entertainment programming, just repeating news segments and "Local on the 8s," the latter of which I got really excited for. I was also obsessed with watching this stupid slideshow on the local access channel and memorizing the lunch menus for every school in the district.
My mom would get angry at me for doing this. She even took me to see a child psychiatrist, who decided there was nothing wrong with me-- I was just strange. But really, I was absolutely obsessed with PowerPoint. I made all sorts of presentations in my free time, and I was convinced I would become a professional PowerPoint maker, which no one at the time told me wasn't a thing.
It turned out to be a phase because being forced to use PowerPoint today makes me groan... I'd rather spend hours editing a video or writing an essay, especially if that PowerPoint presentation requires an accompanying speech.
I find this phase to be regrettable because I missed a lot of great children's shows of the time, like Lizzie McGuire and As Told By Ginger. I just wanted to watch the most mundane, unmemorable things on TV.
WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago
Now that's interesting. A very unique thing to get obsessed with. It does sound like you're drawn to hyper-organization and explaining things - maybe that's something to go off of?
#25
I thought I was asexual cause I'd never liked anyone before and so I told my mom I wanted to grow up and live alone and never find love because people only made you feel worse once they left. Evidently it's worth it and I'm not asexual
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
Well I am asexual lol. not aromantic though, i still want to get married someday
Adey Jaffa 4 years ago
...when your teen tells you they do not define their gender the same way us 'boomers' do. Thinking it's all new and the 60s never happened.
WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago
There's absolutely no harm in figuring out your sexuality and changing your mind about it once you gain more experience / become more informed.
Abby Ryder 4 years ago
Better than evolving from heterosexual to asexual...which is sort of where I'm at sadly
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
Kinda how we function. I feel atypical today, but yesterday I was a give it to me now!.
#26
I used to button the top buttons of polo shirts
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
Another thing I didn't know I was supposed to have learned and/or have an opinion on. I feel tricked, them putting buttons you're not supposed to touch.
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Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago (edited)
Kept your front getting cold! Helped to insulate your upper body!
#27
I got really obsessed with being a Christian - buying all the Christianity books, Christian music (like Christian hardcore/ska/pop punk). I joined a methodist church and even got baptised and went to all their mission trips and such.
I'm Jewish lol but I got to go to NYC so _(ツ)_/
Melissa Vellis 4 years ago
I went through this stage. Was very close minded and horribly judgemental as most are. I still have the Christian faith, but I don't align myself with any of the multinational money making churches nor force my beliefs down anyone else's throats. Religion is a choice and who are we to say WE are right and other religions are wrong? Should be a set of rules to live peacefully and respectful of all people from all walks of life.
Mysterious Panda 4 years ago
"I am the way, the truth and the life no one comes through the Father except THROUGH ME."
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There are plenty of Christian Jews. I mean, the first 12 apostles were all Jewish and they even debated whether non-Jews could join their sect.
Dave P 4 years ago
And in 90CE they officially broke off from Judaism and made a full cut. You cannot be both anymore. There are some people who practice a hyrbid created in the 1960's by evangelical missionaries as a stepping stone to converting Jews called "Messianic Judaism", but most of their members are not Jewish. A study found that 80% of their "rabbis" were not Jewish, but had fabricated Jewish ancestries, fictional backstories, and and pretended to be Jewish. But all were trained in Missionary schools
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sylvanticx 4 years ago
wait so are you Jewish or Christian? You can't be both (I'm gonna get downvoted a ton for this)
Soggy Crumpet 4 years ago
You can be of Jewish culture and/or descent and be a Christian.
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Sea cucumber (They/them) 2 years ago
I got to go to London because of my evangelical Christian phase. Hate that I went there to try to convert people, but glad I got to see the city as I likely won't have the chance to go there again.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
I admire someone who will try another religion, it gives your chosen once strength
#28
Thought I was gay. Turned out I wasn't.
H Edwards 4 years ago
My best friend at school was gay, and I was the only person who knew. So when we hung out, they showed me loads of gay movies etc (not porn, just gay). For a while there I thought I might be at least bi. And I have had a few same-sex encounters, but I am essentially straight. These days, I think it's not worth it to worry over labels. Sexuality is a vast and complicated spectrum, not a series of tiny boxes.
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Sanne H. 4 years ago
There is this semi-autobiographic French movie, “Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table!” about a guy who thinks he’s gay; his personal interests (music, dancing, art) are different from his brothers and his toxic mother - who simply assumes he is gay - treats him more like a daughter. Guillaume just goes with the flow until he meets this girl with which he immediately falls in love with. Fascinating movie about how open-minded people can be prejudiced too.
Demon Child 4 years ago
It's ok :) nobody says you have to know what your sexuality by a certain time. What are they gonna do, change it?
WhatEvenIsLife 4 years ago
Totally okay. (Some) People act like questioning your sexuality and being "wrong" about it is a huge deal, but it's really not. It's a simple personal, human thing we all go through. As long as you find your truth eventually, no harm no foul.
#29
Sad part is we still have phases as we age. Hit 40 and I had my first "I'm going to get cancer and die" phase. Little later it was "I'm going to have a heart attack and die phase". I've had friends all seem to go through something similar, that realization of our own mortality.
Plus people my age get wanderlust and chase tail or buy a new sportscar (did neither thankfully).
Linda Cowley, auntriarch 4 years ago
No need to worry, just eat your greens, keep dancing, and give not a toss what people think
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Thorfin Wolfsbane 4 years ago
43. Bought an electric guitar and some backing tracks for Metallica songs so I can play along in my living room and pretend I'm in the band
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
AHHHH! I'm 43 as well, with the Metallica backing tracks to play along with. Except I play bass. For what it's worth, there are a lot of backing tracks available on youtube. So what songs do you like playing?
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
My parents told me I'd be dead by 20 of a nuclear war so I was forced to have my midlife crisis when I was 12. Got a new bicycle. Didn't hit on younger girls though thank goodness.
Toasty 4 years ago
I'm 37 and my mortality is often on my mind in the late hours of the evening. I keep telling myself of all the lifestyle changes I'm going to start implementing. The next morning I wake up and do the same routine.
Misstaken138 4 years ago
Oh God.... I'm so glad I'm not alone. I seriously thought I was the only one who did that.
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Now this i can relate to, as a f42 i have had more phases in the last 12 yrs that i ever had in my younger days.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
I understand this affects more the male than the female, Mid Life Crisis
D. Pitbull 4 years ago
Yeah... hit 40 - said "geezum *$&($%& I've hit 40..." - didn't tell anyone (who didn't already know my b'day), because I frankly don't look 40 - then watched in mild horror, hurt, and amusement at how differently people treated me when they discovered my age (hint: not nicely.)
Kristal 4 years ago
How does that work? Usually I'm not treated nicely or taken seriously until I tell my age. Granted, I'm not 40 (I'm 33) but I'm commonly mistaken as early 20's.
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Being a tattooer. Regrettable because of those poor people who have my awful doodles on their bodies.
La Petite Morte 4 years ago
Every good tattoo artist has to do an apprenticeship, which includes the janky tat phase. That's why they're usually free or really really cheap, the person getting inked knows that you're a practice session for them and the quality might not be great.
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
I'm old fashioned with getting a tatt. But I saw someone with it all over them I also don't really care, nice tatts man.
Sea cucumber (They/them) 2 years ago
It would be cool to be a tattooer but I'm awful at art so it's best if I don't...
Lynn Morello 4 years ago
I have always loved tattoos. I was always too scared to get any as I was scared of needles. At 60, I decided to finally get a Tattoo. I didn't get it until I was 61, scared of needles again. Now I have one 10 inches high and 9 inches wide, an Owl and a Pentagram Dreamcatcher. In colour, I love it, It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would.
#31
I went to a car show once as a teen, and the only newer car there was some chick's PT cruiser. It was hot glittery pink, and at the time I was obsessed. I insisted that one day I would have a hot pink car, with pink seats, pink dash, pink carpets, etc. I was pretty heavily goth at the time, so my parents just rolled their eyes.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 4 years ago
I wouldn't say 'no' to a yellow Porsche at 42 now.
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2WheelTravlr 4 years ago (edited)
I wanted a pink trans-am with a horse on the hood instead of that stupid bird. I used to draw what I thought was the most awesome '80s stylized horse on every pee chee and Trapper Keeper I owned from 6th grade to high school. Never got the Trans Am and thankfully never owned a pink car, but I can still draw that horse.
François Carré 4 years ago
But you invented Glittery Pink Goth style, which is quite an achievement in itself.
La Petite Morte 4 years ago
I'm still heavily into goth and my dream car would be a 1950's convertible in chartreuse with glow in the dark paint, a fog machine so smoke rolls out when I open the door, a chromed Elmo doll head for a hood ornament, and a horn that is Godzilla's roar. There's more that goes into it, but I've spent decades dreaming about and mentally refining my perfect gothmobile. Plus, you can be goth and love pink.
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago (edited)
I still want a DeLorean...1983 Peugeot engine automatic. I have come close to buying one twice, but needed a pick-up truck too. Can't haul much hay in the DMC LOL. Haven't given up yet!
Arctic Fox Lover 4 years ago
I used to think I was gonna get a bright pink car (and for some reason I imagined a beatle, even tho I had absolutely no car knowledge) with some "pretty" designs on top of it. Also, pink fuzzy dice were a necessity.
MandaPanda 4 years ago
There is a pink car in my town. I assume there is only one with this color and that it's the same person. Dunno why, but I kinda want to meet them. Tell them I like their car lol
#32
Oh god, acting. After years of theater starting in elementary through college, I thought that was it. Loved being on stage. My (Korean) mom would try and bribe me with fast food and other contraband instead of heading out to classes and auditions.
Now I work in IT but still take classes here and there. So, compromise
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
You are never too old to keep striving to do what you want. You'll find it! So many part-time favorite activities and turn into a paying position. It may be part-time, but you will be doing what you love.
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
Not supportive much. My son started drama n loving it, so opposite to me, very happy he's loving it.
Lana Jig-maker 4 years ago
...wow pretty close to my story. though i had to stop because i'm bad at it, and now work in tech support lol
#33
oh my god I thought I was a redneck (18f). only wore camo, adopted a southern accent, tried trading in my brand new infiniti for a dirt bike... not a good chapter of my life
bxttery_bxby 4 years ago
As a girl who lives in the South and is surrounded by rednecks, please don't adopt our ways. They don't look good here I promise. Everyone always getting drunk and waving around guns and having like, 70 flags plastered to their ridiculous trucks...
Nope IWont 4 years ago
Unfortunately, there's rednecks everywhere. I grew up in the south and thought I'd escape them by moving to southern California. Imagine my horror when I encountered dip packing, camo sporting, racists from San Diego. These ones are so much worse, in my opinion, because they had to actively pursue the lifestyle rather than just being born in to it.
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Mewton’s Third Paw 4 years ago
It’s a fashion and a state of mind, neither of which Trump really had. He’s a rich New Yorker through and through, he’s just a gross piece of shït.
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#34
There was a time when I believed that I wanted to enter seminary and study for the priesthood.
Mom said, "It's a passing fancy. You lead an intensely secular life and are only flirting with the idea because you enjoy time spent at church playing your organ as a lay person."
She was right, but I wouldn't admit it at the moment. By my junior year in high school, the notion had passed.
WildHoneyPie 4 years ago
My Dad was actually in the seminary studying for the priesthood when he had to go home for a few weeks due to a mysterious illness. Walked into an ice cream store where my mom was working and that was it no more priesthood! They married when she was 17 and he was 23, they had 9 kids (I'm the 9th). My Dad always said his first sight of my Mom was her upside down in an ice cream barrel scooping ice cream (she was really short lol). Guess he liked the view.
#35
Wanting colored contacts. My vision was fine, but I wanted purple eyes. I still think it would be cool, but I'm not going out of my way for that.
Tacocat 4 years ago (edited)
purple eyes are the coolest. If my prescription allowed for coloured contacts, I'd totally get them. Alas, I have glasses. Compromise, though, the sides glow in the dark.
Louise Stange-Wahl 4 years ago
Takes care of your vision! I found out 4 years ago I have AMD and have to have shots in my eyes every 8 weeks to keep the sight I have! Thank goodness the technology is here today to help halt and heal the damage...30 years ago, my Mom got it and went mostly blind.
Demongrrrrl 4 years ago
I had a friend who wanted to dye the whites of her eyes yellow. This would have involved putting iodine drops in her eyes, which would have been incredibly painful. Fortunately she realized that this would not be appropriate for a college mathematics professor. Also, not worth the pain and probable damage to her eyes.
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago
I want really really light brown eyes, mine are really dark, are there colored contacts that color? (also i need fully white contacts so i can be really creepy all the time and make people uncomfortable)
#36
Dancing to one direction and thinking I'd be in the background of their music video lmao. I actually said that this is going to be my career.
JuJu 4 years ago
You should have seen the fans when Robbie left Take That! There was an emergency hotline in quite a few European countries...
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#37
new kids on the block. was a lifestyle.
InfectedVoice 4 years ago
I will happily admit to buying hanging tough on vinyl when it came out, I liked a bit of pop music when I was a kid, I wouldn't tell my other metal friends though then, I would now.
The_tattered_hippie 4 years ago
I had a Joe Barbie doll.... he slept in my bed with me 🤣 No shame.
Marvin HeartofGold 4 years ago
There was one year my dad had to go to every store that sold toys in the bi-state area to find all 5 NKOTB dolls for me for Christmas. He managed to find all of them, that was one of the greatest Christmases of my preteen life, and he was definitely my hero for doing that.
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Clearly sunny 4 years ago
Yeah. Was acting like the best bitches on the block with our roller blades
#38
I never got to experience anything like that as a kid. I suppose the closest thing was back when I got into paintball. I was obsessed. Turns out it was just a 3 year phase since the entire paintball community sort of died off all around the same time.
La Petite Morte 4 years ago
You can find paintball groups and grounds all over the US still. It never went away.
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#39
Wanted to be a wrestler, would put on shows on my trampoline and had a magazine too, never made it to mania
Clearly sunny 4 years ago
Kids will be kids. I once sat on the back fence chewing a gun leaf pretending to be a koala!!.
#40
Anime, emo stuff (mcr and the like). I still am mildly into them but nowhere near the levels I used to be. As much as I hate my emo phase, I don’t think I would be who I am now without it. Same goes for anime. (For the record I still love mcr. They’re a great band! I just don’t use them as a substitute for a personality anymore)
Linda McGuigan 4 years ago
I am still a goth I dress in all black I am also married with 3 daughters not one of them is a goth neither is my husband I am the only one so the people in my little town just think I am eccentric I am 48 years old. )0(
bxttery_bxby 4 years ago
I still listen to MCR. Although, I'm only 15 so maybe it'll pass or something.
#41
My anime phase. I don’t really watch a lot of anime now but I wouldn’t mind watching it from time to time. Especially when I was 13/14 and went through a whole phase of watching this one show and becoming dark because this character was only into dark things and wore the color black all the time. I also remember thinking how super hot he was. Now I don’t ever want to remember this time at all
Katelyn 4 years ago
Mmhm a bunch of people I know are really into it but tbh I find it annoying
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Elisabeth Wright 4 years ago
I never got into anime. But now, as a parent, I have no choice but to live it because my 12 year old daughter is literally obsessed with it lol. However, I don't think it's a bad thing because she's becoming an artist. Her drawings are incredible and she's been teaching herself Japanese in order to be able to watch the non English episodes because that's the level of obsessed we are at lol. So I see this as a win! The thing I do find difficult, however, is all the totally-out-there names of the characters. I'm lost in seconds when she's telling me about it.
JustAnotherPersonOnBoredPanda 4 years ago
I don't blame you at all. It's a nice getaway from the real world.
ADHORTATOR 4 years ago
my daughter had this phase too...an now, she is becoming a 3D animator :-)
What do you think ?
SirPatTheCat 4 years ago
Honestly I say don't get too upset about 'embarrassing' phases. It's normal for kids to experiment with their identities and it was probably a lot of fun at the time, so cut your younger self some slack :)
Kari Panda 4 years ago
Agreed. These things were part of us - we enjoyed it, and as long as no one was harmed, there’s nothing wrong with it. Besides, we can’t and we shouldn‘t be the same person from birth to death.
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ScarlettofHydraIsland 4 years ago
Oh! Can I join? I went through my nerd/never got past third grade in sixth grade (aka dressed in brightly colored shirts with animals on them and weird looking pants). In seventh and eighth grade, I went through my goth/emo stage where I wore all black (and black makeup in eighth grade) and refused to listen to anything but Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and Five Seconds of Summer. Then I went through my suburban white girl phase in ninth grade where I dressed almost exclusively in skinny jeans, converse, and short, tight tops I wasn’t even comfortable in. Now I’m comfortable in my more urban style.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I had a turquoise-hair-and-punk-music phase. I REGRET NOTHING. Except getting caught with dyed hair, b/c I wasn't allowed. My mom sighed the "mom sigh" and said it'd grow out. My dad was gonna shave me bald. Lucky for me, my sister was in her "flirt with cops" phase and got brought home...
Cecilia 4 years ago
Same, but ultraviolet dyed hair, got in huge trouble for dying my hair, but still completely worth it
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The Demon 4 years ago
Someone needs to hear. I went through a "chocolate is disgusting" phase. No Chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, M&Ms, Brownies, no choclate. I got over it and love choclate. When I look back, I sometimes wonder if that was even me... :>
Tacocat 4 years ago
Ha! I went through a phase/not a phase, too! I was the quiet nerdy girl. Never was too interested in the trends (still am not), and did all the stuff no one really wanted to do (SCA, fundraisers, french, long division FOR FUN, etc). But, in the end it wasnt a phase! I'm still the introverted geek I was, and I am quite proud. XD Another phase that never phased out was Taylor Swift. She's still my favorite artist. Pretty sure the only phase I outgrew was trying to keep up the trends at age 8. Just took too much effort (and money)...
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago (edited)
I went through a phase where I thought I would be a singer when I got older. I idolized myself, I thought I sounded so good. Truth is, I suck at singing. I enjoy it still, I sing all the time, but singing in front of anyone is a big nope from me now. I also went through a phase where I wanted to be a bartender really bad. Not anymore.
Arlo_CL 4 years ago
Man, I had my share of embarrassing phases, but thankfully this was all before Twitter and Instagram. I can safely cringe in my mind and know that no one will know how weird I was except my parents 🤣
Miss Cris 4 years ago
They may have that album that they love to show to your friends, giving lots of explanations and details...
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Sarah Runyon 4 years ago
Use to shave my head ( because I always had short hair and was going to be called names anyway in high school so why not go for broke). And then I would let my friends draw whatever they wanted with sharpies on my scalp. Went home with a Celtics symbol one day and was in therapy the next. Glad no one drew a penis or wrote F***. Good times.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Lol. A friend of mine user to doodle in my neck and arms in class when we were bored. I went around for a while with a barcode on my neck. My mum didnt find it amusing xD
Load More Replies... Seabeast 4 years ago
This is just a part of growing up, trying new things. If that experimentation gets suppressed by heavy-handed parents, they either don't have the courage to explore new things as adults or they go to the other extreme and flit from one thing to another for the rest of their lives after becoming adults.
Dest 4 years ago (edited)
I am in a 'phase' now. A goth, but it's just that I wear black. I rarely dress up in the proper style. Idk if this will last, but I sure hope it does. It just became a part of my identity. Been like this for 4 years already. Ps. Black is difficult to stain. Pps. It's also hard to find that one black shirt when you got a full black wardrobe
Birgit M 4 years ago
Haha, yes, that one black shirt! The contents of my wardrobe have been all black for more than 20 years now and I don‘t think I‘ll ever grow out of this „phase“. I started wearing black because I liked bands like The Cure and The Sisters of Mercy and I found that the dark alternative scene consists of peaceful and tolerant people. I love it! And I also love the different styles in clothes. I don‘t wear make up and my clothes are mostly quite simple and unpretentious but there was never anyone to tell me that I‘m not goth enough. Do as you like!
Load More Replies... SirPatTheCat 4 years ago
Honestly I say don't get too upset about 'embarrassing' phases. It's normal for kids to experiment with their identities and it was probably a lot of fun at the time, so cut your younger self some slack :)
Kari Panda 4 years ago
Agreed. These things were part of us - we enjoyed it, and as long as no one was harmed, there’s nothing wrong with it. Besides, we can’t and we shouldn‘t be the same person from birth to death.
Load More Replies... ScarlettofHydraIsland 4 years ago
Oh! Can I join? I went through my nerd/never got past third grade in sixth grade (aka dressed in brightly colored shirts with animals on them and weird looking pants). In seventh and eighth grade, I went through my goth/emo stage where I wore all black (and black makeup in eighth grade) and refused to listen to anything but Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and Five Seconds of Summer. Then I went through my suburban white girl phase in ninth grade where I dressed almost exclusively in skinny jeans, converse, and short, tight tops I wasn’t even comfortable in. Now I’m comfortable in my more urban style.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
I had a turquoise-hair-and-punk-music phase. I REGRET NOTHING. Except getting caught with dyed hair, b/c I wasn't allowed. My mom sighed the "mom sigh" and said it'd grow out. My dad was gonna shave me bald. Lucky for me, my sister was in her "flirt with cops" phase and got brought home...
Cecilia 4 years ago
Same, but ultraviolet dyed hair, got in huge trouble for dying my hair, but still completely worth it
Load More Replies... The Demon 4 years ago
Someone needs to hear. I went through a "chocolate is disgusting" phase. No Chocolate chip cookies, ice cream, M&Ms, Brownies, no choclate. I got over it and love choclate. When I look back, I sometimes wonder if that was even me... :>
Tacocat 4 years ago
Ha! I went through a phase/not a phase, too! I was the quiet nerdy girl. Never was too interested in the trends (still am not), and did all the stuff no one really wanted to do (SCA, fundraisers, french, long division FOR FUN, etc). But, in the end it wasnt a phase! I'm still the introverted geek I was, and I am quite proud. XD Another phase that never phased out was Taylor Swift. She's still my favorite artist. Pretty sure the only phase I outgrew was trying to keep up the trends at age 8. Just took too much effort (and money)...
HooowlAtTheMoon 4 years ago (edited)
I went through a phase where I thought I would be a singer when I got older. I idolized myself, I thought I sounded so good. Truth is, I suck at singing. I enjoy it still, I sing all the time, but singing in front of anyone is a big nope from me now. I also went through a phase where I wanted to be a bartender really bad. Not anymore.
Arlo_CL 4 years ago
Man, I had my share of embarrassing phases, but thankfully this was all before Twitter and Instagram. I can safely cringe in my mind and know that no one will know how weird I was except my parents 🤣
Miss Cris 4 years ago
They may have that album that they love to show to your friends, giving lots of explanations and details...
Load More Replies... Sarah Runyon 4 years ago
Use to shave my head ( because I always had short hair and was going to be called names anyway in high school so why not go for broke). And then I would let my friends draw whatever they wanted with sharpies on my scalp. Went home with a Celtics symbol one day and was in therapy the next. Glad no one drew a penis or wrote F***. Good times.
Ozacoter 4 years ago
Lol. A friend of mine user to doodle in my neck and arms in class when we were bored. I went around for a while with a barcode on my neck. My mum didnt find it amusing xD
Load More Replies... Seabeast 4 years ago
This is just a part of growing up, trying new things. If that experimentation gets suppressed by heavy-handed parents, they either don't have the courage to explore new things as adults or they go to the other extreme and flit from one thing to another for the rest of their lives after becoming adults.
Dest 4 years ago (edited)
I am in a 'phase' now. A goth, but it's just that I wear black. I rarely dress up in the proper style. Idk if this will last, but I sure hope it does. It just became a part of my identity. Been like this for 4 years already. Ps. Black is difficult to stain. Pps. It's also hard to find that one black shirt when you got a full black wardrobe
Birgit M 4 years ago
Haha, yes, that one black shirt! The contents of my wardrobe have been all black for more than 20 years now and I don‘t think I‘ll ever grow out of this „phase“. I started wearing black because I liked bands like The Cure and The Sisters of Mercy and I found that the dark alternative scene consists of peaceful and tolerant people. I love it! And I also love the different styles in clothes. I don‘t wear make up and my clothes are mostly quite simple and unpretentious but there was never anyone to tell me that I‘m not goth enough. Do as you like!
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