What embarrassing things did you do as a teenager?

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I'm just interested in what embarrassing things you done as a teenager due to social immaturity or lack of self-awareness? Share your stories.

Not drug or alcohol related though, I'm talking more about social behaviours that were caused by being behind your peers socially.

When I was in 7th grade, some guys kept annoying me. They said some really mean things and I got so mad that I punched one of the guys and twisted the arm of another guy. I ended up getting detention (not suspended) for doing that.

Looking back, I think it was really immature of me in terms of the way I handled it. Also I was very sensitive back then as well. I should've just ignored those guys

Sometimes, truly.....what's needed for these bullies is a good butt-kicking from their victims.

What embarrassing things did you do as a teenager?

Something I'm not going to do in this thread - overshare

In 8th grade, I went to school wearing (American) football shoulder pads. I thought I would look "stronger."

I was the only girl with hairy legs and didn't seem to know it's a taboo for girls to have unshaved legs until one of the girls snickered at me - in my last ever phys ed class as well. It would have been more helpful if they had snickered about it a few years earlier. I probably looked like a gypsy in every phys ed class from the ages of 13 to 16.

I used to pull my hair out in class. I went through a phase of disliking loose hairs so I'd pick my hair to get rid of any loose hairs, and it became a habit.

I also used to brush the dandruff out of my hair in class with my hands, and be amused by the shower of dandruff that fell into my lap. I don't know what the other kids thought.

When I was 15 I started to act like a rebel sort of, and became less shy and wimpy. In other words, I became more cool.....but blew it by being s**t scared of the bells. The only noise I was ever afraid of at school was the bells, it was sort of a sound sensory issue coupled with a phobia, and I'd stare for ages at my watch to make sure I knew exactly when the bell was going to ring, then when there was 1 minute til the bell I would put my fingers in my ears. I knew it was weird to do that (no lack of self-awareness there) but I had no other choice. I've always hated loud sudden noises even if I know they're coming. My nerves would make my arms spazz out when the noise occured, which was physically unpleasant but was embarrassing too. So being afraid of bells kind of ruined my reputation.

My cousin used to lecture me and tell me I was embarrassing myself. One time when I was 14 a group of kids from her class came over to us in the park and said that one of the boys wanted sex with me (it was a common thing teenagers said and weren't to be taken seriously). I didn't really know these kids and I didn't know how to react. I was grossed out and tried to look like I was above them by folding my arms stubbornly and looking away. My cousin pulled me away and gave me a long lecture on what I "should" have done instead. What I "should" have done was laugh and go along with it. Now I know but then I didn't. Stupid oaf I was.

Another time when I was 14 I was having a bit of an argument with my mum, and a loud motorcycle roared past. It made my rage worse and I let out a cry like a toddler. My mum stepped back and glared at me and said "God, you're so embarrassing!"

I felt under pressure when I was a teenager, more in the early teenage years. I felt under pressure to act all grown up in public and enjoy clothes shopping (something I love now but didn't like back then). One Sunday my mum asked me and my little cousin to come shopping with her and I didn't want to. When she asked why, I said "because I always have to act like a normal teenage girl!" She then asked, "well why would you want to act like a mental person for?" But that wasn't what I meant. I just wasn't into fashion stores like other teenage girls were and I felt like I had to be. My little cousin was half my age and so was still allowed to be a little kid, while I had to be grown up, even though I wasn't a grown-up yet.

I know the teenage years are awkward for everybody but it's even more pressurising when you're on the spectrum and have ADHD.

When my facial hair started to grow I only shaved the front of my face, I don't remember if I was afraid to shave my neck, but I suspect I wasn't, I probably just didn't understand that I should shave off all of it.

In 8th grade, some of the least unfriendy girls in my class instructed me how to swing my arms while walking, up until then I didn't move my arms at all. Even today I have to think about it actively.

I had a huge number of identical T-shirts with some ad print. Wearing those started a rumour that I never changed shirts even though I did.
I also got the nickname Burton, since the ad was for the scaffolding company Burton.

/Mats

Chasing a student (likely another ND) who said offensively funny things at me in a blind rage, to a point he jumped off the second floor window onto the roof.

And landed where the principal was passing by.
This was at earlier years of high school.
And technically it's one of the worst things I did.



Other embarrassing moments were mostly positive.

The best one was at my last year of high school.

I was late at a class where all graduating students come together.
Snuck behind the teacher while discussing something. Teacher didn't noticed but all the students did.
Students decided not to snitch.

Basically clowned around for a good minute and the students laughed, before rushing myself to find a seat as soon as the teacher turned.

The whole classroom applauded, with the teacher turned back confused.



All the worst of embarrassing experiences I have in my life so far...
Is nothing compared to the damn loud and disgusting sneezing -- drawing attention and countless commentary anywhere I went whenever it happened.

It spanned throughout my childhood, to teenage years, to adulthood. All involuntary, it hurt and messed with my head.
I wish it ended in high school. Or if it can end at all.

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I went through an "autistic phase" when I was 14, where I showed typical autism traits that were out of character for me as an individual on the spectrum. I done things like getting obsessed with a particular group of girls that I for some reason really wanted to become friends with and I followed them around the school. That was something I would have known better not to do when I was half that age, but at the time I just didn't seem to know what I was doing. I only done these autistic things when I was 14, then I went back to my usual self again. So I don't know what went on there. Temporary psychosis maybe.

Stupid kid I was.

Embarrassing things

1. I ate out of the garbage at my first job at 16 at a restaurant
2. In jr high I jumped in the halls all the time -9th grade
3. I danced at a restaurant during a field trip after consuming lots of sugar -9th grade
4. My friends and I ran away from our case manager at a school dance one time . She was mad because she drove all that way to see us- 9th grade
5. I would dance to pop music during art class in jr high -9th grade
6. I got smart with my English teacher one time and ended up sitting out of class- 9th grade

Some goof head boys would steal my boots and put them up high in the stair well so I couldn’t reach them. I also flirted with a guy I sort of had a crush on and he didn’t let me down easy by slowly shaking his head and walking away. These are just some warm hearted embarrassing moments. I was a huge dork geek and still am. Actually for some reason I have an assortment of mortifyingly embarrassing painful soul sucking memories of embarrassment stored in my head. Why is it I can remember these moments in high school so well like it was yesterday but out here in the real world it’s all been a blur. Strange.

In High School in USA I once approached a girl, asking something about chemistry, I don't remember but I think it was a term I didn't know in English. She said something like I only know the chemistry of LOVE.
I had no idea that she was flirting, so I just dismissed her as a stupid.
I did a lot of those kinds of things back then.

/Mats