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What was your cringe teenage phase? (lemmy.autism.place)

submitted 4 days ago by VirusMaster3073@lemmy.autism.place to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine was probably when I relapsed towards religion at age 15-16 and joined my mom's conservative megachurch, naïvely thinking I can convince them to be less bigoted and more "christ-like" as well as accept science

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[–] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When I was 14-15 I wanted a wallet chain, but they were banned at my school. I made one of of safety pins that looped down past my knees. Somehow my linked safety pins were ok...

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Of all the things for a school to ban, why wallet chains?

[–] SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

They were considered to be a weapon.