my uncles were cool i was pretty pretty and fit when i was 13 but i became super religious at 14 and quit doing sports and got fat and have had weight issues ever since .. i started walking laps in my 20's and got trim but then gained weight when i quit.. i always had attitude tho but i was shy as a kid. i'm less so now.. i was homeschooled so.. it wasn't like being in school
Idk if I was cool but everyone knew me. I hung out with the party group and would go to all the parties, jocks, rednecks, band, etc. I would say I was the fun guy at the parties lol
I'm not sure what qualifies one as being "cool" ...or not. Are teens cool because they wear designer clothes.. or had perfect makeup ..or had their hair professionally styled each month? Or are they cool because they ride their skateboard in the halls while moving from one class to the next in their day?
When I was a teenager of 14 years as I entered my first year of high school, I was branded simultaneously as both an underdog right-fighter and a hardline athletics jock-ette.
I was voted President of Student's Council that first year where became the voice representing all concerned students who only wanted to change the world. I was affectionately called a 'star athlete' by my Principal after I put my high school on the map with my gymnastics performance four years in a row. Was that my objective to obtain notoriety? No, not really. It all came naturally for me and to me it was all just a game anyway.
The question is, was I cool? Well, I never wore makeup and I never owned a skateboard. I only ever wore gymnastics shorts and tops to school each day and rode my mountain bike 3 miles each way down a gravel road from our farm to get there. I was probably the only girl in our school who never shaved her legs, though my body hair is very fine and light blonde and virtually invisible against my skin anyway... and for that reason I was able to get away with it in my social circles of both farm and big city friends.
I always had a boyfriend on the hook from the day I started high school at 14 and guys were always asking me out.. because I suppose they thought I'd be a cheap date because I was so lean and skinny and probably thought I wouldn't eat much at the Dairy Queen. They were right! I didn't eat much! One small cone and I'd be under the table passed out from the sugar! 🫣
Maybe my friends all thought I was cool because I didn't cost much to date, but none of them revealed their truth to me one way or the other, so I guess I'll really never know for sure if I was cool as a teenager or not! 🥶 🍦
I was possibly the most hated kid in my school. Someone once told me a friend told them I shot up the place when they weren’t there and they believed them. I hated and continue to hate guns.
I was a misfit. I was generally well liked but didn't fit in with any of the typical groups. My social circle was just other people who didn't fit but most people got along with. One was a stoner, one was just weird and eccentric, one was just kind of there. The bullied group was different. We were just kind of there.