# The Teenage Angst Thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 9, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024 "2002-11-09T15:17:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kamelion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kamelion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamelion)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/1 "2002-11-09T15:17:43Z")
Everything about being a teenager sucks. I’m not good at ANYTHING. I have no talent whatsoever. I’m sooooooooooooooo ugly. I’m way too skinny and my hair is just bad. And my teeth too; I look like a lifelong smoker even though I do brush and have never had a cavity. I have tiny arms; I don’t have a real muscle anywhere on my body and that sucks. Don’t get me STARTED on the skin. My skin hates me and it doesn’t want me to be attractive ever. Adults just don’t like me and they all want to see me fail. In fact nobody likes me with good reason. I’m so boring and I’ll never be cool and I just plain suck. I will never have a girlfriend because even if one expressed interest I have no idea how to keep her from being completely repulsed by everythinga about me. Bizarrely enough, typing all that kind of made me feel good. Anybody else want to let out their puberty blues? Now I hate myself again. I bet nobody replies or if they do they laugh at me. ---
**Author:** ![Kamelion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kamelion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamelion)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/2 "2002-11-09T15:19:23Z")
Nobody’s replied yet. This thread was a stupid idea. I hate me. ---
**Author:** ![Eidolon909](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@Eidolon909](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eidolon909)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/3 "2002-11-09T15:33:35Z")
Enjoy it while it lasts. Its only downhill from here. ---
**Author:** ![Kwyjibo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@Kwyjibo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kwyjibo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/4 "2002-11-09T15:45:47Z")
Eidolon, thou are a prick. 😉 Kam, life can suck, but it isn’t as bad as you think. You never know what the future holds. And believe me, when time passes, you will look back on this and wonder what all the noise was about. Trust me. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/5 "2002-11-09T16:53:31Z")
From reading your post, I can deduce one thing… You’re a normal teenager…🙂 Don’t let it get you down, you have plenty of time to find your niche in life. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/6 "2002-11-09T18:16:28Z")
Probably the most important thing you can do is keep up your grades, because that will help you later when things start turning around. They will turn around: even your skin will come to like you. [ul]😉 [sup]Time heals all wounds.[/sup][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/7 "2002-11-09T18:21:12Z")
First, girls are attracted to guys’ looks. Women are attracted to the person inside, by and large. Second, take a look in the gay section of a porn store (well, don’t, considering you’re a teen:)) – you’ll find that an inordinate number of gay men are attracted to skinny teenage boys. That may not do a heck of a lot to bolster your ego – but what they find attractive, I’ll guarantee a lot of normal women will too. And **that** ought to make you feel good. Besides which, not knowing a whole lot about you beyond your self-description in the OP, I can point out one very positive thing about you– You think enough of other people to use capitalization, punctuation, and breaking your thoughts into paragraphs, so that they can read it more easily. That may sound like small potatoes – but it says a lot of positives about who you are just by itself. Take heart – I was a skinny runt with severe acne at 16, hypersensitive about myself, my looks, my unpopularity. I got over it. I learned not to judge people by their outsides, simply because I detested **them** doing it to me. And, strangely enough, there are a lot of people who care a lot about me – and more than a few who love me. Hang in there – the same thing will happen to you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/8 "2002-11-09T18:24:59Z")
I _whine_ too much. I try to fit in at the Board, but I have such a small post count all the Cool Kids just overlook me. Especially the ones I idolize, like UncleBeer and Fenris and Czarcasm and Esprix and Scott Evil and all them. No one will ever like me here. I just wanted to put what I gathered my generation felt about all this Zero ToleranceTM stuff. But Fenris called me a snot. No one will ever like me here. Life is like, tough, and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/9 "2002-11-09T20:13:02Z")
Am I the only teenager in the world who ISN’T angsty? Seriously, I’m 167, and I’m completely satisfied with my looks, my hair, and I have little acne. I don’t care if the cool kids like me (which is ironic, as most of them do), and I, in general, am happy with myself. Although, it seems I’m not too mature to gloat. ---
**Author:** ![airdisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e19adc/32.png) [@airdisc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/airdisc)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/10 "2002-11-09T20:14:53Z")
Ack! “167” should be “16”. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/11 "2002-11-09T20:17:26Z")
No **airdisc** you aren’t. I’m 17, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/12 "2002-11-09T20:20:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kamelion \* > \*\*I’m so boring and I’ll never be cool and I just plain suck. > \*\* Why do you want to try to be cool? Why not try to be yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/13 "2002-11-09T20:35:57Z")
Cool’s overrated, and teenagerhood is temporary. Although it appears that acne never goes away. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/14 "2002-11-09T22:49:01Z")
No, the acne has to go away. It must. I have something like two remaining pimples and I was hoping they’d go away some time in the next two years (because, y’know, by then I wouldn’t be a teenager, but a 20 year old) so I could start wondering when the acne scars would go away. ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/15 "2002-11-09T23:23:45Z")
I have survived until now, my senior year of high school, with the knowledge that nothing (socially) I do has any bearing on the future. Once you graduate, it all goes out the window. I don’t worry about my popularity, because I don’t have any to worry about. I’m geek to the extreme, but it doesn’t matter to me, because I have fun. You need to start enjoying yourself, and you can’t do that until you’re comfortable with yourself. Do things, no matter how dorky, that make you feel good. Everyone is good at something, so have some fun discovering your talent. 4 years can seem like a lifetime, find something to distract yourself with. ---
**Author:** ![Amazingrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@Amazingrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazingrace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/16 "2002-11-09T23:23:45Z")
I have survived until now, my senior year of high school, with the knowledge that nothing (socially) I do has any bearing on the future. Once you graduate, it all goes out the window. I don’t worry about my popularity, because I don’t have any to worry about. I’m geek to the extreme, but it doesn’t matter to me, because I have fun. You need to start enjoying yourself, and you can’t do that until you’re comfortable with yourself. Do things, no matter how dorky, that make you feel good. Everyone is good at something, so have some fun discovering your talent. 4 years can seem like a lifetime, find something to distract yourself with. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/17 "2002-11-10T00:29:41Z")
Kamelion, life isn’t as bad as you think it is… right now being a teenager is difficult. I’m 19, and I still have traces of the feelings you’re going through now, and I’m in college. It’ll go away with time; things will change, and if you work hard in school and also remember to have fun along the way, you’ll do fine. I always was one to look for the skinny guys as dating material; I do admit to looking at the muscuar guys too, but I don’t really have a preference for them at all. All females are different, and you never know when there’s someone who’s just pining away at the thought of being _your_ girlfriend. As for the whiteness of teeth thing, shit happens. Next time you go to a dentist, ask his/her opinion of how white your teeth are on the scale of whiteness and then reconsider your opinion if he/she tells you that your teeth are normal colour. A lot of people out there bleach their teeth and it looks awfully fake to be staring at a blindingly white smile. On to acne: I’m a female; I don’t think I’ll ever get a big break from acne until I’m 30 or older… and besides, not all girls rule out bad skin from their dating schema. My fiance has acne scars and still breaks out often, but he has never had any problems with women… well, other than the fact that they _still_ won’t leave him alone even though he’s engaged, but that’s just another situation altogether. Lastly, the hair situation: I’m more attracted/interested by guys who have “odd” looking hair and aren’t all that concerned that it looks “different” or “weird” compared to the norm. Don’t worry about what other people think of you, because right now there are a lot more shallow people in your age group currently than will be when you’re my age or older… just accept who you are and make sure you find at least one person who accepts you for who you are. It’ll make you happier in the long run than doing everything you can to change yourself in order to fit in. -indigo- ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/18 "2002-11-10T02:43:47Z")
Just remember: _“These are the happiest days of your life”_ (Sorry, been wanting to lay that piece of crap on some kid for years, and you just kinda sauntered right into it… 😉 ) ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/19 "2002-11-10T03:50:01Z")
Yes, but will I ever be on Fenris’ good side ever? ---
**Author:** ![Ooner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c67d28/32.png) [@Ooner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ooner)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024/20 "2002-11-10T03:55:18Z")
It’s different when you’re not in high school anymore. I’ll never pretend that it’s better than you think it is any you’re just being negative, because your life may actually really really suck right now… BUT give it a couple years and you have no idea how things can turn around without you having to change a thing about yourself. It’s really nice knowing that good things are probably just around the corner. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-teenage-angst-thread/136024.md?page=2)