I'm a bit better now, but the worst stage was the last two years of secondary school (14-16). I was really shy and quiet, and had a strange phobia of girls. I'm still quieter than most, but most of the awkwardness is gone now.
When Was Your "Awkaward Stage"?
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pretty sure I was an awkward and odd child and now i'm just an awkward and still probably odd adult, never really went away
I have this really...odd period. 6th and 7th grade was perfectly fine for me. I had friends and I did decent and school and that's all I really could ask for. I didn't care much about girlfriends or sex at that point in time. 8th Grade to 10th grade however is when I had my "awkward stage." I was home schooled through most of that time, but physically, mentally and socially I knew it was my awkward stage. I'm now coming to this point where I'm getting some confidence in myself, but I could be better. So I'm coming out of that awkward stage, I would say. My Acne's died down, medication helps, I've been putting myself through physical work-outs to bulk myself up a bit, and I have pretty good grades in school. Now all I need is to get to college and get friends. And not move.
The first four years of secondary school. I spent the last year of that trying to undo that damage. Still haven't quite succeeded, and it's amazing how condescending people can be when they have firmly fixed in their mind that they're better than you.
Now I'm in A level college though, and I'm just awesome. I've just decided to use the predisposed skills stemming from my sociopathy to get by.
One thing was that I lost my virginity really young to someone who didn't go to our school. I think that just made a lot of things worse.
Now I'm in A level college though, and I'm just awesome. I've just decided to use the predisposed skills stemming from my sociopathy to get by.
Actually, this sums me up pretty well. I was actually diagnosed with clinical depression, but that had other contributing factors. I've gotten by beginning to end without medication though, so I see that as a point of pride.Jonluw said:
One thing was that I lost my virginity really young to someone who didn't go to our school. I think that just made a lot of things worse.
Age 12-16 were probably my "awkward stage" years. The effects of puberty and being bullied sent me into berserk rages where it would take three people to pull me off of someone. This resulted in me getting bullied by people who wanted to see how much it would take to send me into a rage. The intensified bullying and the fact that I was ashamed of being a berserker caused me to go into a deppression.
Thankfully by sixteen I'd gotten big enough and strong enough that most of the idiots that bullied me before were so intimidated by me that they left me alone. I'm still a berserker but I least now I can control most of my rages, all but the really bad ones but one of those hasn't happened in years.
Thankfully by sixteen I'd gotten big enough and strong enough that most of the idiots that bullied me before were so intimidated by me that they left me alone. I'm still a berserker but I least now I can control most of my rages, all but the really bad ones but one of those hasn't happened in years.
I thnk im just getting into my awkward stage things have just seemed a lot different lately.
Anybody got some advice that I could make use of ?
Anybody got some advice that I could make use of ?
First, I would like to say that the captcha is an ass. Yes, I know my awkward phase "goes to eleven." There's no need to remind me.
Mine started when I was 10, in 6th grade, and it has continued to today, 10 years later. I was bullied pretty badly in middle school and I was paranoid in high school even after it stopped. I'm just now almost out of my awkward phase, and I still haven't even been on a date. I've improved a lot in my first two years of college, and now I'm only a bit weird instead of full-blown awkward.
Mine started when I was 10, in 6th grade, and it has continued to today, 10 years later. I was bullied pretty badly in middle school and I was paranoid in high school even after it stopped. I'm just now almost out of my awkward phase, and I still haven't even been on a date. I've improved a lot in my first two years of college, and now I'm only a bit weird instead of full-blown awkward.
I?m currently going through it, as I?m a depressed 16-year-old with numerous problems in my life that make me feel as if I have no control over anything that happens around me.
Worst thing is that I don?t have any hope it?s going to get better. I?m on the verge of adulthood (you know what I mean) and I still feel so immature and unprepared for further independence. I hear stories about other people and get worried that I?m going to be crippled by the same worries as them, like a barrage of bullets waiting to embed themselves deeper into my heart until finally killing me after a long battle with PAIN. [/lol, emo rant end]
Worst thing is that I don?t have any hope it?s going to get better. I?m on the verge of adulthood (you know what I mean) and I still feel so immature and unprepared for further independence. I hear stories about other people and get worried that I?m going to be crippled by the same worries as them, like a barrage of bullets waiting to embed themselves deeper into my heart until finally killing me after a long battle with PAIN. [/lol, emo rant end]
around 11-13 i was 1. a little ***** and 2. not able to take a joke but as i moved into the end of year 8 and went into my gcse's in year 9 i completely changed my personality to general people, seriously some people from my primary school i met while in year 9 didn't realize who i was for about 30 minutes. (i had my hood up and was with other people.)
The first two years of high school. Moved to a new town and school where I didn't know anyone, dressed weird, wouldn't talk to anyone. Had my first crush and was extremely creepy/awkward about it.
Yeaaaah high school was not the greatest for me.
Yeaaaah high school was not the greatest for me.
All of middle school & at least freshman year of high school.
I was just kind of a tool. To everyone. I had friends and I got along with people, but in the end I just was either too willing to talk about something for hours and hours, going nowhere- or I would just be too sarcastically mean towards people. Not everyone was laughing, though.
Sophomore year and later on was when I just stopped taking myself so seriously. Didn't care about a lot of things that were 'totally important' before. Learned to chill out and enjoy myself, make better and more friends with people who actually seemed to enjoy being around me, for once. Was finally starting to get better at balancing school needs and social/friend needs. While in the past either too focused on one, or keeping friends at arm's length, being too "different" or "cool" for most people to understand me.
Met people in their 30s who never really grew out of the phase I was in back then, though.
I was just kind of a tool. To everyone. I had friends and I got along with people, but in the end I just was either too willing to talk about something for hours and hours, going nowhere- or I would just be too sarcastically mean towards people. Not everyone was laughing, though.
Sophomore year and later on was when I just stopped taking myself so seriously. Didn't care about a lot of things that were 'totally important' before. Learned to chill out and enjoy myself, make better and more friends with people who actually seemed to enjoy being around me, for once. Was finally starting to get better at balancing school needs and social/friend needs. While in the past either too focused on one, or keeping friends at arm's length, being too "different" or "cool" for most people to understand me.
Met people in their 30s who never really grew out of the phase I was in back then, though.
Mine was starting in 6th grade or so, when I stopped being cute and got the winning combination of a terrible perm, braces, bad acne, and a comically lanky figure almost overnight! That lasted until about 9th grade. I also spent most of my time taping drawings of flying multicolored dolphins to my wall to make up for my lack of friends. It sort of evened itself out by 10th grade, minus the friends bit.
Though I have to say, I consider the biggest embarrassing period of my life my early teens and early 20s.
Though I have to say, I consider the biggest embarrassing period of my life my early teens and early 20s.
From high school till now really. And I don't think it will change much.
I had a small group of friends at school, but even then I didn't really socialize or 'mingle' much.
But I've just accepted that I'll always be awkward in certain situations.
I had a small group of friends at school, but even then I didn't really socialize or 'mingle' much.
But I've just accepted that I'll always be awkward in certain situations.
If you would count secretly dating your sister's lifelong best friend as an awkward stage I guess you could say I'm in one hehe.
My proper awkward stage was probably when I was 11-13 years old. I was basically a geek and had only a nerd for a friend... Then I signed up spontaneously for the school production of Grease, was cast as a lead and went on to form a band with the other lead guys. That pretty much made me an instant cool kid so I carried that swagger with me to this day...
Now my inner geek only manifests itself in this particular part of the interwebs.
My proper awkward stage was probably when I was 11-13 years old. I was basically a geek and had only a nerd for a friend... Then I signed up spontaneously for the school production of Grease, was cast as a lead and went on to form a band with the other lead guys. That pretty much made me an instant cool kid so I carried that swagger with me to this day...
Now my inner geek only manifests itself in this particular part of the interwebs.
Ninja'd xDVault101 said:
Pretty much from Birth until present. I'm not awkward around anybody I've ever had a conversation with for more than 5 minutes, but I hate having the attention of multiple people that I don't know well, so I become a bumbling fool.
