what were you like when you were in middle school?

[ShinyYoshi]

I was on MySpace all the time. I liked Hot Topic skinny jeans, Vans, band t-shirts, and sunglasses. YouTube was another obsession I had so I know I was super annoying. I looked like a "poser" most of the time and my hair was awful. I was obsessed with screamo bands, punk music, and skater boys. Looking back at photos is very cringey for myself and I prefer not to.

 

[Cailey]

I was super weird and any photos taken at that time are super cringy.

 

[Kapriznyy]

Sixth grade: Depression set in. I was looking into different religions too, despite my classmates being very devout Christians, so whenever they saw me reading a book about another religion (it was purely curiosity since I've never been a religious person, but the stories and such are interesting to me to this day) it was a whole big thing. Definitely didn't help with the depression. I was quiet that year, which is probably a good thing since I was an awful weeaboo.

Seventh grade: I opened up much more and found my core group of friends, and spent more time with them than in the house. It was a very big difference from sixth to seventh grade purely for this reason; one year I was a total homebody, the quiet weird kid, and then all of the sudden I was outgoing and social and would find any excuse to get out of the house. Lots of "parties" (by which I mean we would all gather at someone's house, play video games, do generally stupid things and go to sleep on the floor together). I was the loud weird kid instead of the quiet one, and I had a lot more fun being open about my quirks, even though they're embarrassing to look back on.

Eighth grade: A balance between sixth and seventh. This is when my anxiety set in, because I remember one of my teachers poking fun at me for blushing whenever I was called on, and that wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. I still went out and did things with my friends while dealing with all the typical obnoxious middle school drama that tends to happen... but I got my alone time at home too. Like I said, it was a more even balance.

I'm sure there are specific memories to bolster all this but they're eluding me at the moment.

 

[dawsoncreek]

I was really quiet and shy. I always walked with my head down, staring at the ground..i remember when all the girls turned on me in the 7th grade just because "micheal" the most popular boy in our class told someone he thought I was cute...I specifically remember being in math class and having a group of girls laughing and talking about me behind my back...I think they were talking about my shoes, this kid named aaron was friends with them and he laughed too without knowing what they were talking about. he asked what was so funny and I guess they said they were talking about me, and he actually stuck up for me...that's why I never really had any close girlfriends..biyatches be actin catty for no reason...all my best friends were guys....as a matter of fact my buddy Edward was the one who told me to stop looking down at the ground when I walked...his favorite thing to tell me was "you better walk like you own this muthaf*****..yep, I had a handful of friends who made middle school bareable.

 

[cornimer]

Elementary school for me was Kindergarten-Gr. 8, so there was no middle school, but around that age...

Gr. 6: What did I do in Gr. 6? Ummm I obsessed over my crush, wrote stories about people battling ninjas in other dimensions, stressed because of increasing schoolwork amounts and dance practice, went on forums and make weird preachy posts (heck I was really preachy in general) and threads where the title was "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" and there would be some really insignificant thing inside the thread, and I was...let's just say not all right in the head. I don't know if you could call it depression but I definitely wasn't happy. Probably some version of SAD. Oh and all I wore in Gr. 6 was t-shirts and brightly coloured track pants.

Gr. 7: Still obsessed over my crush, joined choir, became happier at the beginning of the year but then had an existential crisis around Jan-Feb, worked hard in school...I don't know what my personality was like that year. I just remember everyone else started talking/joking about "family life" stuff and I was constantly in a state of ewwwwwwwww

Gr. 8: In Gr. 8 I became, for the most part, who I am today. I became happier, quieter and more religious, got my personality sorted out (XD), became more involved in my choir, finally stopped obsessing over my crush (it took 4 years lol) and was no longer annoying. I think I was pretty mature by Gr. 8

 

[himeki]

complete and utter weeaboo
you should have seen me when i was back at primary school like omfg

 

[Bassy]

A Link in the flesh. Though more passionate about my own things and kind of rampant if I didn't get what I wanted. I suppose quite straightforward and not shy at all.

I steered quite the opposite direction when I became aware of girls and sought my identity in Highschool. In that sense I found it great to be a child; I hardly worried about anything and just followed my passion.

We adults have a tendency of creating problems and obstacles that aren't actually there. Yet I think what all adults actually want is to be more childlike (not childish), but by choice this time around. Worries create gray clouds in otherwise magnificent experiences.

 

[Rasha]

I was overweight (still is), glasses, greasy hair with dandruff, looked very nerdy also dirty, so disgusting. personality was also none existent as I was very shy and silent (lame and boring) and no one would sit beside me.
kids would love to gather around me and laugh at me and tell me I'm smelly, can't blame them

 

[Knopekin]

I used to be obsessed with Pokemon, which was very uncool. I wasn't bullied badly, but I did get made fun of quite a bit, but I had some good friends, so it didn't bother me much. We were all probably quite annoying (obsessed with various video games), but because we all liked the same stuff, it was fine.

 

[reyy]

well uh
transphobic homophobic perfect christian baby
now im
a trans homosexual atheist
wow me back then would be absolutely horrified
i was fat af and i was rude af
now i'm anxious af and probably am bipolar idk
rrrrip

 

[tsantsa]

complete and utter weeaboo
you should have seen me when i was back at primary school like omfg

but evvie you still are a huge weeb

 

[Beardo]

I'm still cancer

but slightly less cancerous than last year, or the year before.

 

[crystalmilktea]

Ugly and really annoying to guys I liked. I used forums then and looking back at how I typed it looks annoying, but I don't think I actually bothered anyone ('twas a small forum and we were all friends).

 

[Javocado]

like dis

 

[Shimmer]

I was pretty shy and just wanted to fit in and have friends. I hid what I really enjoyed and forced myself to like what was popular with everyone in my school. So horrible. I'm seriously glad I'm not like that anymore.

 

[inkling]

I was a horrible person.

 

[MapleLeafKangaroos]

Well, I am in middle school, so...
I'll just say what I was like in elementary! (4th and 5th grade)
In fourth, I was really annoying... I wanted everyone to notice me, and I was really into writing fanfics.
In fifth grade, I was a huge weeb.
HUUUGEEE weeb. You should've seen me.
I was also crushing on every Hetalia character, and I was like one of those obsessed fangirls that defends their 'senpai' whenever someone mentions them.
This was two years ago.
I'm not proud.

 

[KaydeeKrunk]

I was a little emo kid, that's what it was back then at least. I wore mostly black clothes, mostly skirts and colorful non-matching knee-high socks, and chucks, always high-top chucks, usually with safety pins in my ears and every piece of clothing, holes for my thumbs in all of my gothy jackets with lace and grommets all over them... if I wore pants they were tight and I drew on them with sharpies, same with my backpack. I wore buttons from the little bin at the check-out of Hottopic, as well as NBC buttons and random band buttons. I always brushed my hair which made it this horrible frizzy afro of hair... it was not a good look man. I wore no make-up at the time either unless it was the weekends and I was going out with friends. I spent a lot of time online flirting with strange men, posting way too many gifs on myspace, you know the ones, and those little blue/yellow dudes with the hearts and white eyes, and a ton of the cliche emo pictures. I said things like smexy and would "glomp" people... those were dark dark times I swear. I had like 50 online boyfriend from every state and country... I also made a lot of fake profiles with other peoples pictures, one of them was a gay guy named Chad and I stole all the pics of "him" off this actual guys vampirefreaks profile, which I also frequented... is that site still there? I'm going to have to check it out! I used to join so many groups on there... oh god, and I would RP on Neopets... dark times I swear.

 

[Acruoxil]

middle school was so ****ing fun, i loved it. i was really awesome back then too. loads of friends and everything

 

[CommanderLeahShepard]

I'm from the UK so I assume middle school is the first few years of secondary school? I'll just go through the years of my school.

Primary school (reception-year 6): I was pretty lame. Our primary was very small as it was the village school, so I only had a very small group of friends. It was fun but I was still little then. I really liked anime and would read lots of manga from the library. I never got in trouble though.
Year 7: I was an embarrassing emo wannabe. I don't know why, but I was very awkward, I did have a small group of friends though. I loved YouTube and had an unhealthy obsession with it. I had started liking anime in primary school, but during year 7 I was leaning off that sort of thing to be a bit 'cooler' I guess. (Ugh) Me, my brother and a friend (who now is a druggie) would make videos and mini films. I remember it being really fun, but now I look back on them it was super embarrassing. I wasn't to bothered about grades or anything at this point.
Year 8: The start of the 'ultra featus' years. I would try and fit in with the 'cooler kids', by wearing make up (which I could barely put on) and listening to pretty crap mainstream music. Oh dear god.
Year 9: My featus years were starting to wrap up and I started to get back into nerdy things like anime and video games. I was a lot happier and I started to focus more on my grades. We were picking our 'options' for GCSEs and school was getting better. By this point I'd formed the solid friend group that I would be in for the rest of school.
Year 10: My yandere crush year. Firstly I was hanging out with more good friends and even hanging at the library after school with two. We would talk about anime and such which was really fun... But I'll get back to that later. I also had a big crush (I had this crush before but it was definitely bigger now) on the boy who sat next to me in computing and we would talk about video games and TV shows and stuff but I would keep quiet about my feelings because I was sure he would have thought I was a loser.
Year 11: The library crew fell apart. Me and my friend (who is actually on this forum) found out our other friend was a massive liar and had lied to us for years. She was making up boyfriends and family/friends so we stopped talking to her (even though she stalked us sometimes). At the start of the year I also managed (unbelievably) to get the boy in my computing class to become my boyfriend! (Hallelujah and I still go out with him today!) I also did very well in my GCSEs and got into a prestigious college. Prom was pretty cool too. I had defienly changed from when I first started school, I was still nerdy and into anime, but I feel like I became a better person than the embarrassing loser at the start.
6th form: Me now