Your Teenage Years...Rebelious?

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So,I was talking to a friend,when we were talking of how rebelious we could get in the past years. Our teenage years well yeaaa...all rebelious.So as we aqua's are rebelious,did you ever have conflicts with your family?

I personally did have a lot of problems , I hated my whole family , I loved breaking the rules and I remember I used to sneak out soo many times, I was many times late at home,and even nowdays I am mad at my family for not giving me the freedom we all aqua's want. Keep the animal caged but one day it will break the prison bars and scratch your f'ing eyes out. So yea...with this I did have a few problems.I understood the fact that parents can be worried,but in my middle teenage years,staying out only ti'll 6pm was a lil way too strict for me,I hated to be thought of as a 5 year old.

So,my question is,were other aqua's also like this? Cause whenever I read thought the posts I see that aqua's were curious as a child,as a teenage smart or stuff like that but I was wondering...it's a fact that aqua's LOVE freedom , but I rarely see posts where aqua's tell us about the time(teenage years or maybe even childhood) when freedom wasn't fully availible...so,how was it?What did you do?How did you react?And in the end are you still mad at your parents for being strict or did you forget everything?
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haha i had a similar talk with my boyfriends roomate who is a aqua male. he also had rebellious teenage years haha.I was so rebellious and a hard time with family (abuse etc) because of that it lead to me being bad..real bad...then i end up getting kicked out of school during 11th grade. And at that point i turned around..haha. SAME with the aqua roommate, he also had a similar situation minus the abusive family. but he had a lot of drugs,drinking, selling, end up getting kicked out of high school, and then turned things around...ended up graduating masters at usc...and now working successfully making music videos.

Most of my family members have aqaus and they're life were horrific during mid teens to 20's. but after 25 things are so good for us! 😛
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Ha! Rebellious was and STILL IS my middle name!

If you ASKED me to do something, I would in a heartbeat, BUT if you TOLD me to do something, I'd either not do it at all or I'd purposely make you wait until I was in the mood!

If you told me to go left, I'd purposely go right just for the hell of it!
If you asked me what color the sky was, I'd give you any color other than blue just to be an azshole!

I loved being the 1 who thought/stepped outside of the box. I liked sticking out & being the "oddball/unique one." I always tried to take things a little step further than necessary just for the hell of getting a rise out of people!

It's VERY hard to fence an Aqua in! We don't like authority or being told what to do, especially if it clashes with what we really like to do. We'll only do what you say if we have a high level of respect for you. BUT, if we sense that you're just trying to boss us around b/c you're just taking advantage of your role as a "parent" or authority, we'll purposely show you that even WE don't take orders from anyone!

Even as a child, I didn't see my parents as 2 older & wiser people who could tell me what to do. Hell, I felt that I had good enough sense in certain situations; I felt that we were all equals, so it was hard for them to enforce the whole parent-child thing. I wanted my parents to talk to me/treat me like an adult even when I was much younger/teenager. I couldn't stand someone using their "title" or authority over me just for the sake of controlling me; doing so would most def. bring out the rebellion in me!
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haha, wow, it seems like we are all rebels.All air signs 🙂

@candi3bb : I'm sorry that you had an abusive family 😢 , and I was kinda like your other aqua friend cause I also started drinking early.

I remember that around 12 years old I did occasionally drink beer,at 13 also not too much but still drank,at that time I only drank coffee,not alcohol,at 14 it was BOOM,I remember that after my 14th b-day I started drinking more and more,In only a few months I was like addicted to alcohol and cigarettes,in 15 I kept my total wreck self but I developed a curiosity for drugs,which I actually did try out by 16-17 years old. Didn't get addicted to drugs luckily . 🙂

So,yea...my parents also hated me ,sensed I was different,have heard rumors of me and all this stuff...but hey,I'm human,it was my health,my decision,I had the right to ruin my own kidneys/lungs 🙂 .
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haha , HappyCap , I'm don't know if this is an aqua thing but self destruction was always what I did.Childhood : eating disorder,teenage years : alcohol,smoking,bulimia , late teenage years : occasional drugs,eating disorder(no more bulimia) and alcohol,smoking. 😛 Always self destructive,always will be. I wonder if do other aqua's also have this self destructive trait or is it just me being psycho...😛
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I never really rebelled against my parents too much, but to this day if I know someone wants something from me and hints at it rather than comes out and asks for it...they're not getting it.

If someone is seeking attention, you can bet I'll be looking the other way.

If there are a group of people doing one thing, I'll be sure to be doing the opposite. (This past weekend I was walking through Central Park in NYC and there were a group of people hanging around that Imagine mosaic practically singing Kum Ba Ya. All I could think about was starting a mosh pit.)

Oddly enough though, I LOVE marching bands and dance groups because they all move together. I find that to be such a huge contradiction. I guess I like the idea of physical conformity, but not mental or emotional.
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Your Teenage Years...Rebelious?

Not towards my family or anything like that. I used to rebel against things like the latest trends or the latest scene. I've always had my own style . I never became a goth or an emo or anything like that. I didn't follow the crowd like that.

So as we aqua's are rebelious,did you ever have conflicts with your family?

Not really. My parents always gave me freedom and trust. Which looking back makes me appreciate them even more because they understood me. There were of course boundaries but I didn't need to be told. My parents were cool and quite laid back actually - I was raised to respect others and to be sensible. I had loads of fun in my teenage years, my parents allowed me that so I hope that I can be the same when/if I have children of my own. I never actually needed to rebel or sneak out - my parents were cool with it, I was a teenager after all!
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so...since no one is posting on here and I'll post something...

🙂

My teenage years were kinda hard , I had a big hatred towards my family , which lasts even ti'll nowdays. I tried anything to be away from them as fast as possible...
From the high school years,i went to a boarding school(i think that's how they call it in english..not sure tbh) , so from the age of 15 I saw my parents maybe only on weekends from them,during summer i wasn't home,then from when i had the right to live alone i immedeatly went away to stay in for rent. I still am happy nowdays that a few years now I escaped from my parents,and eventually I've lost contact with them... so now that it's christmas coming up , I am celebrating only with friends at the club or something,getting a Christmas tree for myself and that's it....

so,how are you aqua's nowdays with your parents in case you had a rebelious past with them,always conflicts,etc?
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in second grade i jumped on a girls back when my friend was fighting her. that wasnt good, but funny to remember lol!

in middle school i just skipped classes alot, and was accused of smoking weed in the school bathroom, which wasnt true. drugs are and never will be apart of me, i never had an interest in drinking after one time of trying to drink a beer. i threw it all up 10 seconds later.

in highschool i was arested at the mall for being dumb stealing crap. that was the dumbest thing I ever did. also in highschool i was wild with ppl that i liked and knew how to have fun but super quiet with ppl i didnt know or didnt really care to know. i never really fit in, in highschool though. i was never really interested in anything the girls were talking about and the guys where for the most part unattractive. Although the guys were cool at times, they could be female than the females. i didnt rebel against my mom but she wasnt happy about my grades. i managed to graduate on time by the grace of god! and moms money for after school night classes.

i would have done a couple things so different but for the most part i wasnt the worst kid ever.
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I'm actually living the moment of being a teenager now lol.
TBH, I'm not the rebellious types, though I do like to know why are teens my age are always that way. I feel like I'm the most unique person in school lol because maybe cause' I don't find any REAL friends who share the same interests as I do. Well, I actually do have some friends but NO BESTIES AT ALL. Just good friends and acquaintainces. It's hard to find a true friend at this age lol. I'm starting to figure out everything that's happening to me by myself. SOrry, I'm just rambling am I. I'll just stop here for now lol.
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My teenage years mostly consisted of practice, work and volunteering. Was way too occupied to rebel against my parents. I think I outgrew that phase when I was 12. There were more pressing matters that needed more attention. Plus they gave me a long leash to work with and didn't care what I did as long as I was happy and stayed out of trouble. Although I did get into a lot of fights when I had significant amounts of downtime.
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Posted by BeatrixBecks
So,I was talking to a friend,when we were talking of how rebelious we could get in the past years. Our teenage years well yeaaa...all rebelious.So as we aqua's are rebelious,did you ever have conflicts with your family?

I personally did have a lot of problems , I hated my whole family , I loved breaking the rules and I remember I used to sneak out soo many times, I was many times late at home,and even nowdays I am mad at my family for not giving me the freedom we all aqua's want. Keep the animal caged but one day it will break the prison bars and scratch your f'ing eyes out. So yea...with this I did have a few problems.I understood the fact that parents can be worried,but in my middle teenage years,staying out only ti'll 6pm was a lil way too strict for me,I hated to be thought of as a 5 year old.

So,my question is,were other aqua's also like this? Cause whenever I read thought the posts I see that aqua's were curious as a child,as a teenage smart or stuff like that but I was wondering...it's a fact that aqua's LOVE freedom , but I rarely see posts where aqua's tell us about the time(teenage years or maybe even childhood) when freedom wasn't fully availible...so,how was it?What did you do?How did you react?And in the end are you still mad at your parents for being strict or did you forget everything?



i was the same way during my teenage years. i hated my family too and was def the "black sheep" in the fam. i constantly got kicked out and ran away a couple times. my mom's a cap and was too controlling and really strict and wanted me to stay home all day, everyday. so i had no choice but to not listen lol
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i forgot to answer the last part, but in the end me and my mom r coo now. i still think she's the biggest bitch i've ever met lol but she definitely cooled down right after high school. she was real crazy and was the main reason i rebelled, but i think once i became an adult she knew i could really disappear out of her life and maybe that's what made her stop. honestly, i dont know. i dont want to get into too many details, but i had a talk with her too telling her she couldn't treat me like how she does. and everything eventually became coo n i finally got my freedom. before, it was like i was getting my freedom which was forbidden. and then after, it felt like im getting my freedom and now its allowed. sounds weird, but do u know wut i mean?

no one has ever made me cry so much or hurt me so bad in my life than my mom has. and its weird b/c its like everythings forgotten. it was the darkest and worst part in my life and i thought id never forgive and forget, but i guess as ive gotten older i learned to do that. especially b/c shes my mom and she seen that she has changed. if she dint then for sure we'd b estranged forever lol. but luckily she did a 180 and everythings all good.

w/ every down story is a hidden blessing n i feel like yeah, my childhood experience was crappy, but it made me the person who i am today. if i had the cookie-cutter, tv-sitcom family like i once wanted before, i wouldnt b the open-minded, strong-willed, and humble person i am today 🙂