Ask a Teenager!

fusion · Post by **fusion** » 2006-09-27 09:25pm

Yoda seems to be sightly anti-social/shy like a friend I know, it is typically seems to a mental development period.
After I got my friend to socialize a bit more he was starting to open out, I would say give time trying to socialize a bit more. You should be able to break out of your shell.
PS:The friend is Second Sun

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2006-09-28 01:04am

Yoda wrote:I am about as far away from the average stereotypical teenager as it is possible to be.

Every teenager says that. Teenagers are obsessed with their individuality, which is why they generally detest the idea of school uniforms. They have to "express themselves" ... constantly.

In terms of emotional expression I am very similar to a Vulcan. I have no friends, and not because no-one wants to be friends with me, but because I don't want any. My worst subject is Drama, with that in the 80's (everything else is near 100).

Wow, you must be the only teenager who thinks he's smarter than everyone else and is too afraid to socialize. Congratulations on breaking the mold.

I'm the smartest person in the entire school (at least judged by other students, people who are impressed by my ability to multiply 600x20 in my head). I am a stereotypical nerd (or at least close to) yet I am never picked on in any way.

That's a mark of their stupidity and poor mathematical skills, not your intelligence. It's nothing to beam with pride about.

My fellow students seem to revere me due to the intelligence gap between them and myself.

Despite Drama being my worst subject, I act on an everyday basis. This is due to the fact that I attend a Roman Catholic school despite being an Atheist. Good acting skills are necessary to convince religion teachers the brainwashing is working.

If you want an analysis of the 12-14 year old mind, I'm the guy to ask (I'm very observant).

This is the best part. Don't you get it? High school "coming of age" movies revel in this "No one knows the real me" shit, not to mention the "I'm hoodwinking and outsmarting everyone" shit too. It's so stereotypical that it's in bad movies. What the hell makes you think it's atypical, or that no one else in your school acts differently from how they actually feel?

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-09-28 01:31am

You know, I wanted to post mean things about crass, narcissitic teenager attitudes, but it appears that has been done. Well done, everyone.

*I* have a question, however. Do teenagers know that we know? Do they *honestly* think their brash/arrogant/risktaking/emo attitudes sucessfully mask their insecurity and fear? Do they really think they are that special? How can this be, surrounded by hundreds of other teenagers every day? Especially ones who claim to be 'observant', but can't see that they're almost the definition of a carbon-copy mtv teenager?

Xess · Post by **Xess** » 2006-09-28 01:51am

I used to think I was an atypical teenager, then I looked back and realized I was perfectly typical. I'm still getting used to not being a teen, so far some success and a hell of a lot of me still being an idiot, only now I realize it.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2006-09-28 09:49pm

*I* have a question, however. Do teenagers know that we know? Do they *honestly* think their brash/arrogant/risktaking/emo attitudes sucessfully mask their insecurity and fear? Do they really think they are that special? How can this be, surrounded by hundreds of other teenagers every day? Especially ones who claim to be 'observant', but can't see that they're almost the definition of a carbon-copy mtv teenager?

The smart ones get that they're not at all original. I fit pretty neatly into most stereotypes of the 'indie kid'- I'm somewhat scoially conscious, but not enough to inconveneince myself (buying non sweatshop t-shirts for example, will only happen if it's conveneint for me), and I have a healthy sense of irony about my musical and clothing tastes. I get that while I try to be 'original', my clothing and appearence are more about projecting a message to other teens who buy into the same prepackaged culture as myself about my musical tastes and social viewpoints as opposed to trying to fool them.

I don't understand people who think they know everything already in first year of university- if you aren't here to learn and acknowldge that you don't really know anything, why are you here?

SWPIGWANG · Post by **SWPIGWANG** » 2006-09-29 01:32am

*I* have a question, however. Do teenagers know that we know? Do they *honestly* think their brash/arrogant/risktaking/emo attitudes sucessfully mask their insecurity and fear? Do they really think they are that special? How can this be, surrounded by hundreds of other teenagers every day? Especially ones who claim to be 'observant', but can't see that they're almost the definition of a carbon-copy mtv teenager?

Its simple enough. Teenagers often only understands themselves and can not really compare with other people, leading to the mistaken idea that they are different, special or observant. This is a self evident answer when other people are viewed as little more than complex machinery characterized by superifical behaviour.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2006-09-29 03:15am

not to mention high school is just the wrong time to feed you all that Rand and Neizvhe. Your feeling individualist and existentialist enough without giving you some fucked up broken moralitys to dissassociate to,.

On the other hand things that you really do have right. you honestly need to leave home ASAP, even if it's just to go to college.