Oh yeeeeesssss!!! Yes! And yet again yes!!! 😌

I did, but my teen years were not ‘normal.’ I liked school well enough, and I did well enough, but it wasn’t my focus. It was just a way to pass time until I could get home to my books and my horse. I had a few excellent friends whom I still treasure, but (I realize now), they were peer group outcasts too. I didn’t then, probably because I saw what little I knew about the popular crowd from a distance. They were like walking past a full-size Barbie House. Mildly interesting, but irrelevant to my life.

College was a different story. Not about partying. I had to work a lot to afford the tuition. I did have a boyfriend and a brilliant friend who was a boy, but they were two very different people. But I earned some recognition there. I learned more about the world and felt more comfortable. The sense that I was living on a different planet than almost everybody else faded.

Yes ans no. Yes bc it’s always a time of the emerging self and exploration and everything is new. Dreams are big.

And No bc I didn’t know how to date or manage living my parents home (they had alcoholic tendencies). Maybe I had low self esteem. I think teens who have break ups even though they are young, should have help and support in coping. Maybe even grief counselling. My bf moved away to another city and it really took a toll on me at the time. I went from being in love everyday to having him completely cancelled from my life and we were just kids, there wasn’t much we could do. I wish someone had helped me.

Yes, I was very much into every experience, present, dark, quiet, soft with edges. Unfortunately I was taking some drugs and had some bad experiences, but it was part of it. I was dressed in total black and had a black hat and black smokey eyes.
Was wondering at nights, lying to my parents, and sometimes I was walking around till dawn. Falling deeply in love.
Cigarettes, cheap coffee, cheap croissants and plenty of terraces.

Sweetie, it was a little of everything; free to be ME at home and some kind of embarrassment and ridicule at school. Bullied? More verbal taunts than anything, sadly.

Later teens, after leaving school, were best. Find my identity, lived as a woman and...was accepted.

But, early teens? Bit of a split existence.

It was alright. I wouldn't want to repeat it again.

I played football throughout middle and high school, and being on a team sport is an experience that's hard to replicate in the real world. The sense of camaraderie and purpose and support you find in a locker room is incredibly rewarding

Very much so

No responsibilities
No financial worries
Enjoyment was a priority
Relationships were many
Making your own way through life, independent of others
Attaining your dreams and making them real

Not very much. I was very awkward, got bullied a lot, and didn't have satisfying friendships until the last couple of years of high school.

I loved my teen years.

My teenage years were to say the least, an emotional maelstrom with some good times mixed in with some bad ones, but my 17th year was the absolute worst of it.

Nope. We moved a lot and I was battling depression and anxiety. Spent a lot of time alone.

I never had teen years. I went from being a dumb seven year old to apprentice and by 14 was working full time while finishing school. Almost everyone romanticized their teen years but it just seemed to me like they were all just floating around looking for mischief. I had money to earn and they were mostly just a bunch of guilt trippers, weed heads, sympathy hounds and other odd and unstable pre adults that had no clue about the worth of free time and the value of a buck. Did I enjoy those years? Yes!! So much in fact that my father became enraged at my singular independence (and probably fat savings account too) blackened my face with a beat down and signed me up for the Vietnam party. Fortunately I figured out a way to dodge that issue and got back out and celebrated for a year when I turned 18 before I went back to work.

Never did achieve that f u money I was planning on but did settle down with a little wifey and had lots of whoppie and some kids.

No. Got pregnant at 15.

Like the rest of life - highs and lows. Discovered music to satisfy me for life though

Yes. They were awesome. Having a lot of good quality bands emerging at the same time really helped too.

Oh yes, best part of my life.

Yeah I had good times and awesome friends.

Nope

Most part I was in group homes

a very little bit...too much family drama...i left when was 17

Very much so.

Mostly good

Does anyone really? So much angst 🤪

Mostly

Mostly. The first two years of college when I was 18 and 19 were torture. Otherwise, my teen years were great.

Probably too much

Super weird and awkward times were my teen years. Trying to figure out who I was

For the most part, I enjoyed my later teen years.

I did. I was more of an adult in my teens.

No, I was just miserable. Nothing bad even happened, I was just neurotic, unlikeable, and bad at having fun.

Better than childhood but not great

Hated school. Was happy when with my first girlfriend.

Only the times when I was in the gym or playing sports.

Yes! I had no bills and no responsibilities.

Sure did :D - except for pimples and high school and being poor and social awkwardness and no car...

Yes and no.

Sure did

must have been a good time , cause i cant remember it

All except the 19th. I woke up in the Central Highlands most mornings to mortar and machine gun fire.

No. Let's not go there. I didn't help myself

Way too much

Not at all

No I didn't. I hated them.

Not as much as I should have

Nothing to enjoy

No it was hell

By the most part, yes

if nudity and sex are enjoyable then yes i did enjoy limitless during my teen

15-18 were fucking incredible years for me.