What Phase Did You Go Through That Was Pure Cringe? (r/AskReddit)

what phase did you go through that makes you cringe had a pocketwatch phase where I would carry a pocket watch on a chain at pretty much all times at about 17 - 18 I wasn't dressing up fancy or going for some Victorian gentlemen look I still dressed like a lazy high schooler with t-shirt and crap gains I just liked the cheap pocket watches that I'd bought from some local market the waffle shuffle phase I would put a pillow on my face and pretend to be a creature called a waffle shuffle I also kept saying waffle shuffle like some sort of Pokemon then it evolved to other things truffle shuffles jacquard shuffles mattress shuffles seat belt shuffles it was a pretty embarrassing phase fold guy here 67 when the Beatles came to America in 1964 I was a big fan my mom had an old shower cap and I found some black yarn so with some scissors and Elmer's glue I made myself a Beatles wig that I wore around the house and even to the local market wish I had some pictures italian-american here my Guido phase in high school this was the early 90s thing Goodfellas not Jersey Shore gold chains Camaros acting tough my favorite flick you was go jet air shine box hopefully you've been able to few jet about it in junior high I used to draw stuff on my arms with a pen that I thought looked baddest like skulls and fire and swords and crap said I was going to get full sleeves when I turned 18 now I am a 29 year old with zero tattoos when I was in elementary school maybe third or fourth grade my older sister was really into Hilary Duff so of course she played it constantly in every car ride we took apparently the music grew on me and I knew every word of some of the songs or at least I thought I did so my friends and I would play this role-playing game well he would create characters for ourselves with special powers and fought imaginary monsters around the playground and of course I picked Hilary Duff as my character with the power to sing enemies to sleep I am a male I distinctly remember when it was my turn to attack a monster so I somehow thought it would be a good idea to sing an entire Hilary Duff song I also remember my friends trying to stop me several times but I insisted that I had to sing the whole thing so that it actually fell asleep yeah my friends stopped playing that game after that freak me dude I used to hate going to thrift shops with my mother when I was a teenager I would wear a blonde wig and sunglasses and make her call me Maria not my real name looking back my mother was just trying to support three kids on my dad's salary and thrift shops allowed her to buy me main brand albeit used clothing that otherwise we wouldn't have been able to afford what a dong I was and for the record I love thrift shops now I had a mullet I will just go over here and cry and shame now without mentioning the pedo stache I did the whole emo phase in middle and high school the thing was I wasn't able to acquire the resources that my other emo friends had I wasn't able to dye my hair and my hair type didn't work with those straight and fringe styles I barely had access to cosmetics so I couldn't often paint my nails or wear eyeliner when I did I look like an idiot basically I like to refer to that time of my life as kroger brand emo I looked emo but not enough to be legit yeah that was me wanted the looks so bad but my mum banned me from dyeing my hair or getting piercings and if I wanted trip pants I had to save up and buy them myself and man those things were expensive there was a brief period of time where my best friend and I dressed like we were in the matrix I remember going all dressed in black to target of all the places thinking we looked sOooo cool hey what's going on it's yard boy and we're playing mini craft today I used to dream of doing YouTube videos sort of died by the time I got decent computer hardware thankfully I was tucked my shirts into my jeans as tight as I possibly could and had a weird obsession with bicycles and MTN Dew you kinda sound like Napoleon Dynamite I had an I'm too edgy to hang out with the normal people phase I shiver at the memory of it freaking normies when I first joined the Army in 2006 I went through this ridiculous phase where I would use overly motivated army phrases in casual conversation with my friends and family who were never in the military I talked down to them and acted as if I was the biggest hero just for joining the military and being a medic this was before I even went anywhere all I had done at that point was gradual basic and medic training by the time I came home from Iraq that attitude was completely gone and I felt nothing but shame and apathy in the mid 2000s I was a scar kid dressed in a suit wore a fedora suspenders check aboard everything to call my fashion cues from my older scar bands like the English Beat and The Specials skank to songs that weren't even scar at HS dances there were a few others in my HS that like scar music but didn't take it as far as me OMFG rms zero zero zero random mu Rollins is all of my usernames have some variation of X XS p0r K xx I love anime and page zero CKY and biting things w even though it is super cringe I do kind of miss the internet from five plus years back it was so innocent and naive just like I was at the time crap like invader zim and our aw r XD means I love you in dinosaur is stuff that I'll miss purely because it reminds me of my younger years but that might just be my nostalgia holds up spork ho God I am so going to regret posting this and I genuinely hope nobody from middle high school happens to see this and connect the dots but I went through a phase from sixth grade to ninth where I was obsessed with Gaara from Naruto when I say obsessed I mean obsessed I walked around school wearing a sand village headband around my neck I dyed my hair bright red and wore super thick eyeliner I covered my bedroom with crappy screen caps of Gaara from the anime and manga printed on regular printer paper and stuck all over my wall even my ceiling I wrote horrible Naruto fanfiction for my literature assignments I started calling myself a garrotted because I saw someone on the Internet called themselves that and I thought it was sOooo cool exclamation point 11 yes a garroted I legitimately self-identified as that my best friend and I had created a horrible god-awful running fanfiction roleplay where I was married to Gaara and she was married to Spectre eight escaped and we all lived in a beach house that wasn't even on a beach we wrote this fanfiction together in class in a notebook we passed back and forth I was so determined to be known as the girl obsessed with Gaara that sometimes if my teachers asked me a question I would just reply with Gaara WTF I obviously never thought any of this was real but I have no idea what possessed me to be that way I even prayed at night for Gaara not to end up marrying Matsui because it would break my heart hug I'm done remembering now that was an awful time I am such a smart nerd face I would consider others inferior to my smartness and paste Wikipedia articles when talking about physics online Sheldon Cooper was my hombre I was the model RI embarrassment kid obviously even then I knew I was kind of stupid so I outgrew the phase in two years I am happy that I did not find Korra then if you were a true Varys mutt you must have worked quantum into conversations as much as you could when I was in middle school I confused being obnoxious with being funny I think that's everyone in middle school I used to have crushes on random boys and would literally follow them around like a sick puppy without saying a word and I'd openly stare at them and write poetry about them in my notebook unfriend them on myspace without having ever spoken to them I was a straight-up stalker with no concept of boundaries and I also complained about how no guys ever wanted to date nice girls like me they just wanted to date BS I was a total female neck bird leg bird ftfy wearing gloves all the time for no reason going to see some friends in summer gloves school day gloves swimming gloves after a while I upgraded to fingerless gloves I have no idea what I was thinking 12 - 14 year old me was an idiot when I was in college I spent a couple of months mesmerized by matches I would light one and watch it burn down and if someone came by I'd say in my best documentary voice something like since time began man has been fascinated by fire glad I got through that phase without actually becoming a pyro college yikes when I was a teenager I wore metal rulers like a fashion accessory the bigger the better this was made all the more ridiculous by the fact that one I'm quite short - I like to wear the longest rulers I could find eighteen inches was the standard for me and it nearly hit the ground and three I thought the coolest way to fasten them to my pants was with padlocks which I invariably lost the keys to all combinations if they were combination most of my teen years were spent with Genco jeans that all had the belt loops cut off as a result so cool tearaway pants people constantly coming up to you of school and ripping your pants open it's all fun and games until you forget to wear shorts underneath I thought Naruto was really cool when I was in middle school no matter how much I drink I can't forget the times I ran with my arms backward I tried it a couple times no lie it feels faster one time someone caught me doing it so I threw in some airplane sounds but they knew I was a raging chola Brown lip liner with clear gloss slicked down hair in the front and then crinkled the length huge gold hoops that said Princess in the center crap that's enough I don't want to remember anymore well at least you didn't shave your eyebrows and pencil them in like the Cholas at my school we are buffay's but taken to the next level friends and I would print out binders full of explicit anime fan fiction and art and carry it to class with us then we look at it together in class we were 15 - 16 so in retrospect in addition to being weird we could have gotten in serious trouble carrying explicit materials around at school yet you're lucky to not have got in court a kid in ninth grade got caught watching H on his laptop in the middle of class his reputation had suffered enough before that point I went through a phase that I was a great Explorer and a survival expert went wandering some time with a plan to build a tree house and liver during the night I ate some poisonous berries and ended up bedridden in a hospital for a week the purple berries taste like burning young Lea buffay's in middle school that included running down hallways with my arms extending back screaming Sugoi whenever something mildly good happened wearing extremely bright and cheesy anime t-shirts stuffing a stuffed tentacle in my pants and moaning incoherently can you elaborate on that last one I truly believed for three years that I was going to Hogwarts someday I even asked the mailman every day and looked at the sky for owls I was already 10 3 nurse went through a nagged phase that lasted maybe a month and a half went to Facebook and announced that I was a juggle at I cringe to this day I was heavily influenced by movies like The Matrix The Crow and played I thought I needed to dress in all black and rock a badass trench coat when I was 12 and fat and after Columbine this is Golden Lal I can only imagine the looks I used to think I was going to be the next great American writer I wrote a novel length book where the main character obviously me slept with every hot girl in the school I let my best friend read it and he passed it to one of the girls he was friends with it got passed around a lot possibly to teachers I'm not sure how many people read before I got it back years later people were still quoting it at least you wrote something during a period of unemployment I convinced myself I was going to be a writer instead of looking for a real job except I never actually wrote anything seventh grade head banger phase death-metal shirts blasting slayer in my bedroom fun times 11th grade crappy phase there was this girl that I had a crush on and I thought she would like me if I had a cleaner look didn't work I began listening to blink-182 and buying clothes from PacSun and A&F this phase lasted until i was about 19 or so long after the crush ended honestly those were some of the best times of my life somewhere in there during my preppies I started listening to rap which kicked off a brief gangster phase this was the late nineties early 2000s and Eminem was huge luckily I never bleached my hair calm down a bit until I hit my mid-twenties went from out of nowhere I went through a country phase probably tied with the gangster phases my most cringeworthy I really don't know where it came from only lasted about a year I used to wear a fedora in-phase bleached tips so all the boy bands doing it and thought yeah I ll death look just as good I didn't you should never put bleach directly on your dong being an edgy metalhead camo pants tucked into leather boots wearing the most extreme shirt I could find before online ordering was the norm and blasting crappy death metal a bit too loud I still listen to some metal but I'm not edgy anymore being rude and ungrateful to my parents it was a crappy rebellious phase that made me look like an entitled pose my parents rule and gave me a wonderful life I had no reason to be ungrateful but mom I made my mental illness my identity looking back it was to protect myself kind of like Fatima if I say I'm crazy they can't call me crazy but it was a bad idea and I totally ostracized myself by always talking about hospitals and pills also I went through her wearing a tie with tank tops or t-shirts face fat girl in her awkward stage wearing her dad's tie with a cheap tank to Thanksgiving that might have been worse and that one has photographic evidence I went through a Paris Hilton Nicole Richie phase in sixth grade I binge-watched the simple life and take notes I'd also read her book that came out around that time and take notes on that I made collages of them and put them in my locker and went around saying that's hot phone number okay well I have some family that live in Oakland CA and every summer I would go and visit but when I was in my freshman year of high school I went through my hippie phase thanks to keeping a sneak thief or T and Federation I too thought I could pop purple pills ride the yellow bus and rock my fist face all day I went all out with this crap man I bought a long ass Whitey's baggy ask jeans a mother freaking spongebob backpack cause all they're real heavy dudes wear this crap now picture this chubby Mexican kid that always wanted to simply be black walking around a small suburban town dressed up as the hippy manifestation it didn't just stop there though I actually convinced some of my friends to rock this style too and we would try to ghostwrite but always kind of chickened out and would run back in the car after three seconds crap man just the thoughts alone makes me cringe but to be honest at the same time kinda smile early in high school I was desperately trying to find myself my best friend at the time was a momen and I decided hey I want to be Mormon too didn't go over so well with my Baptist parents well my friend went on his mission and I discovered that I was just highly attracted to him and I'm incredibly gay that was fun stoner some people just aren't meant to have kids some people aren't meant to smoke herbs I just sat there on a couch eating and saying nothing of value for a good 18 months 3 stroke 10 would not recommend hey at least it was only 18 months mine was even worse than a punk-rock phase it was a punk rock poseur phase I hated the music the clothes the cigarettes I was a bull creeper who seek approval from these high school punks I knew it was BS and I was too scared to face it one of the punks Dave saw through my BS he saw me persist to watching me critically as I followed him in the crew around for two years even after I stopped hanging out and found other friends real friends this time he still regarded me as the most pathetic person he'd ever met in his life he intimidated me because he knew what I knew that I was pathetic and desperate I own those stupid decisions I made and I'm not proud of them I had a ranks T teen phase unfortunately my parents wouldn't let me go into the angry store a topic so I couldn't buy the black spiky things I wanted safety pins were also banned being a crafty young lady I decided to use paper clips to decorate my clothing I also made ugly paper clips necklaces and chained things it wasn't cute it wasn't angsty it looked like I got into a fight with office supplies and lost aged 12-14 law 1 so random exclamation point 1 - unicorns and rainbows were my everything and called myself a chaotic ooh because I watched sword art online I don't even want to think about it he got to the point where I was getting unicorn themed birthday presents you have been visited by the dojo accounts and comment account balance to get a balanced and positive personal economy if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 19min 3sec (1143 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 17 2019