When Was Your "Awkaward Stage"?

[Shock and Awe]

We've all had a part of our life in which nothing really worked out well; commonly referred to as "The Awkward Stage". So ladies and gentlemen, when was yours? How bad was it? Did it seem awkward at the time?

Mine was pretty much all of Middle School. It was then when I pretty much transitioned from child mindset to my current one(I think its adult, but I may be wrong). I had few friends, few real hobbies and I was in both a mental and physical transition, so it was very awkward as I look back on it. It didn't seem so much at the time, but looking back its obvious. I really broke out of it my Freshman year in highschool when I was able to get into some new stuff like JROTC and that helped me make a lot of new friends, many of whom are now among my best. People complain a lot about High School, but for me Middle School was the low point.

 

[Rose and Thorn]

Valentines day of 2011, so last year. It was when my long time lover left me for someone else. After three years of playing the roll of a lover, I changed myself to become more comfortable and happy in my own skin. I lost most of my friends, including my best friend that didn't belong in my life anymore and only made me unhappy and I then became a different person.

I wouldn't call it the awkward stage, but it was kind of awkward as the early days before I became less and less self-concious of myself, coming out was pretty awkward. I think I had to dislike people to become who I am now. Most of the people I had in my life = shit.

In some ways I am still going through the stage, but I am MUCH more happy now. As I finally understand myself more.

 

[Terminate421]

Middle School; I wasn't Black, I never had sex, I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't talk much, I was assumed to be gay for no reason, I was bullied alot, and I never had drugs.

Middle School and that stage did not mix for me.

 

[NegaWiki]

Middle School; I wasn't Black, I never had sex, I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't talk much, I was assumed to be gay for no reason, I was bullied alot, and I never had drugs.

Middle School and that stage did not mix for me.

I'm so serious, I was about to post this except replace girlfriend with boyfriend.
OT: I always knew middle school would be awkward for me, mostly because I moved to the small town around the time most kids truly develop social skills. I was different, I had a much darker sense of humor and my family was well off. Did not fit in at all.
I transferred to a different high school and now I have friends.
Turns out those gay assumptions were only half right.

 

[Vault101]

I'll let you know when its over.....

 

[geK0]

I'm still pretty awkward, but my worst period was the last two years of high school.

 

[Crazy]

The first time I wet the bed was pretty awkward, but other than that I really didn't have an awkward stage.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

High School. I discovered videogames in primary school and the real world stopped being interesting in comparison. I reached highschool where you need lots of interaction to do well socially but I didn't. I never found the work difficult either so I generally had a lot of time to myself. I branched out more in the last two years and had a better time of it, really got better during university.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

I'll go with Middle School. I was a generally thought of as a weird kid and a nerd (fairly innocent too). Didn't really change until the end of 8th grade.

When I got into high school I was still quiet, but no one was openly hostile to me save one or two people, and I became generally able to hold a conversation with just about anyone.

 

[DaKiller]

I'm sorry, "was"?

I was not aware that my awkward stage had ended, GROUP HUG

 

[smearyllama]

I've sorta been going through that for awhile. I've finally sort of figured out what's wrong with me, and I'm trying to fix it, but it's weird.
I'm introverted by nature, but I've been trying to be an extrovert for awhile to fit in, and it's been a strange and awkward experience. Now I'm working things out one by one.

 

[Dags90]

It probably peaked between 13-15. I wasn't ever the most graceful person, and I've always been skinny, but growing about 6 inches in two years exacerbated both greatly. I also had blue hair when I was 14...

 

[Johnny Impact]

Um.

I'm 35 and still awkward.

You refer to it as a phase. Do you mean to tell me this shit was supposed to go away at some point?

 

[Shock and Awe]

Um.

I'm 35 and still awkward.

You refer to it as a phase. Do you mean to tell me this shit was supposed to go away at some point?

Well....maybe the most awkward parts?

 

[sextus the crazy]

Middle school for me was probably the most awkward. Was learning how to cope with school work where results were expected; having ADHD made it a *****.

Also, 3rd grade, because I was the only kid in the class with a girlfriend and I got taunted for that (stupid kids don't know shit).

 

[DANEgerous]

Life, Intently on many levels. I honestly like being kind of awkward normal is generally just boring.

If i had to pick a time it would be 6th grade, I have an disability called dysgraphia and thus people have attempted to put me in special ed classes my whole life from 6th grade on because until about 2002 or so the vast majority of your work had to be hand written.

But anyway let get to why my 6th grade year was by far the worst, I had a teacher **** go from door to door trying to humiliate me with how poor my writing was the other teaches found this interruption absurd and a few week later my mom came to get me for a doctor's appointment of some form and i was reading aloud in this class as I say "the light shown from a beacon" to get corrected something so idiotic no word exists for it to "the light shown from a bacon"... yeah a bacon. My mom interjects as to why this was done and gets the reply that we do it because bacon is a more common word, this pissed her off and has her call my dad who comes home from work and yells at the principal who calls the incident both by saying and spelling horried a non-word that should be horrid. This year was full of times like this like telling me to spell babies as babbiys but i have blocked many out.

 

[Launcelot111]

Middle school for sure. My school tended to have everyone conform to a super preppy standard, while I lacked both interest in anything preppy and the social awareness to be accomodating or polite about it. I thus ended up being super awkward with everyone in my grade because I didn't quite fit while my friends understood where things were heading and pretty much left me behind. I figured out what was what in high school and everything was peachy then, but every social cue that was went over my head in middle school.

 

[Starik20X6]

High school, years 7-10. Came about because it was apparently uncool to like me, which led to very little socialisation, which in turn led to me being very socially awkward and quiet. Not good times. It's all good now though!