Eighteen.


When did you turn eighteen, and what was your life like at that age?

I turned Eighteen in 2004. I had a lot of emotional problems such as social anxiety (which caused me to be nervous in public, especially around attractive women.) I had a crush on a girl from my school but it was painful because I didn't know how to talk to her.

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I had a job, a car, a pretty girlfriend ( who turned into a jerk lol) and some good friends
Houseparties were fairly frequent, lots of local bodegas still sold booze to underage guys and rock was all over the radio
Good times!

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I'm wondering if we are roughly the same age, because this is exactly what I'd say.

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46 here

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43, so close enough!

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1981: I had a big fro going. All gone now. It doesn't bother me.
Played a lot of sports. Made the University hockey team first year but we did kind of suck.
I was girlfriend free until age 19.

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I'm a few years older than you.

My life was utterly shit. Despite having done well at school I had to leave due to an illness, and thus my education was curtailed and I was not attending college at 18 as I had planned to.

Fortunately I did enrol in a good college a few years later and graduate with a good degree, but 18 was not a good time for me.

Also, I still suffer from Anxiety Disorder and OCD, although the latter is not as severe as it once was.

I don't really have social anxiety as such. I don't get visibly nervous in public and as long as I believe I have something to say, I don't have a problem speaking to people, including attractive women, but I still have very low self-esteem and so I don't tend to ask women out that often.

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2005. My brother was in college, so my parents let me invite my best friend on a Caribbean cruise with us. Drinking age was 18 on most of the islands, so you can imagine what a week we had. Lots of stories...

I didn't do very well in school, not due to lack of intelligence, I just didn't take things very seriously. I basically did the bare minimum to get by. I was good at doing things last minute, though, such as writing an entire research paper in one night.

I'm all of a sudden feeling old haha.

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'Feeling Old...'
My buddy twinA killed me the other day when he mentioned Kingpin was 23 years old!!
Hell's Bells, seems like a couple of years ago:/

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Wow. I remember watching that movie and my friend and I cracking up at the sex scene between Roy and the landlord. I'm kind of surprised it only got a PG 13 rating.

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It was a really gross scene

Really funny movie though, saw it at the theater with a bunch of friends

Good stuff

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1979. Absolute chaos.

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Sorry to hear that
Laura
You made it and your'e tough as nails!
You are priceless😙

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Chaos isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially at 18!

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First Love when I was 17. Ecstasy. Couldn't stand her by the time I was Eighteen. But I thought we were friendly and broke up in a mutually respectful way, no drama. Found out years later that this nice girl talked all sorts of shit about me behind my back at the time we were dating. Weird. Eye-opening. "everyone else knew."

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