when i thought weed and booze were a lifestyle

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Did someone say dance class? 15 years ago I participated in an Ice Age themed competition

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Thought I was cool as heck. Looking back at this, I'm just Asian Tom(MySpace).

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Unintentionally brought back the heavy-hairspray hairstyles of the 80’s while trying to cope with my receding hairline during my senior year in high school

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My outfit during a snowfall in May 2004

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Was at my friends house in middle school. We needed refreshments but his parents didn’t wanna drive anywhere. We walked 40 minutes each way to get 6 Mountain Dews. It was the first time ever that my cargo shorts actually came in handy.

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When I was a little boy in the mid-90s I used to dress like this and ask people to call me Garth

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1989 2nd Grade my mom gave me a giant perm and I look like a middle aged southern church lady 🤣

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My mom wouldn’t let me get a more drastic mullet

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I was in an early 2000's transitional phase between awkward and total embarrassment.

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2005, heading to a high school band concert

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I was 16 years old in 1987.

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I was that girl

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On this backpacking trip, a passing hiker asked me which Boy Scout troop I was in. GIRL SCOUT TROOP 1630, YOU HAG BITCH!

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I didn't even play guitar

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The coolest kid in the world in 1979 was my cousin. He's the one on the right. I'm the one in brown...

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My original 3rd grade school photo (left). Mom demanded a retake (right) with the instructions SMILE! Show some TEETH! Note which one got framed, and the caption on the envelope.

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My boyfriend rawring hard in the 8th grade.

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Me and my twin sister at sophomore formal, you can guess which one is me

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I heard you were looking for us. Whitest Family Ever Challenge

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When you ruin beautiful family moments by just existing...

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In my mind they were the real deal. Check the bowl cut...

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I found another one 🤣 when I was even younger. Sent to the first gf I had 🤣🤣 I'm already regretting posting this ☠️

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I Swear to the Great Mushroom God I wore this to Prom Senior Year.

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Going to meet my futures wife's extended family for the first time so I better wear my best Insane Clown Posse hockey jersey. This was Christmas 2007 and I still own that jersey.

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We had some Goth yearbook pictures. How about a Black Metal Senior graduation picture? I have no regrets whatsoever.

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I looked like an awkward step child desperately trying to fit into the family dynamic

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90s Disney World Trip with essential camera with strap....

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Age 14, 2008. I thought I was so retro and cool.

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This was edited for me at a theme park in 2004. I genuinely couldn't understand why everyone was laughing.

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My husband and I circa 2004. Particularly enjoying the dog collar and the weird baby hold going on.

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Well, here it is. I was happy as a clam, despite my poodle haired mother, vampire stoned brother, and Randy Marsh not wanting to take this pic father. We all laugh at this these days.

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This was a classic look for me in 98

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My fake ID attempt. Circa 1985. Fake name too. I think I wanted to be Italian.

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Y’all were being handsy while I was being respectful.

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First day of school, Freshman Class 2010. I get nauseous everytime I'm reminded.

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I lived in a folk punk house. I rarely wore sleeves. 2008ish.

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My girlfriend was a little obsessed with the Amanda Show in third grade

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Fashion, have you heard of it?

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Relax bitch

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For my 10th Cake Day, I present my 6th grade self. My husband says my hair looks like the Mutt Cutts van from Dumb and Dumber.

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My middle school held a “dress badly” day. While the blunder was intentional, I got the date wrong. 2006

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Me at peak goth phase

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Circa 2005, 12 old me thought this was what looked cool. Mom was mad when she found out I used up her eyeliner to make that goatee

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Class of 89. Every stoner cliche in one shot, teen 'stache included.

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Photo of my brother and I on our grandma’s favorite mug. 1998

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First day back to school 2008. I was an ugly child but I felt trendy for once in this outfit

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The year was around 2005. The hit song Grillz by Nelly could be heard pouring out of every radio. I thought and still think I am hilarious for this school photo.

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Lonnnnnng before cell phones, we made appointments at the mall to take these pics

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Me at 15 (2013), when I thought it was cool to shave my eyebrows off. Also, those braces are fake 🤦‍♀️

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Found my high school ID this morning.

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I wanted the laser background, but my mom liked the stars better

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Been fried since 2010

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Me on Facebook in 10th grade

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I’m the one in the white tux jacket and plastic gas station sunglasses before prom in 2002

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extended family was not happy about my dad’s Christmas card with me ages ago

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When I ran for 5th grade class president

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Me, circa 1991. My mom let me get the laser background. I am so proud of this pic!

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I grew up in a small midwest town, my mom convinced me to take urban hip-hop dance classes.

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Just found this picture of me from when I was 14 what are these necklaces 😭😭

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I wasn't the most popular kid in high school

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This was around ‘86, and the last time I let my sister do my hair.

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My husband’s high school goth/emo/photoshop phase is an untapped goldmine of blunderyears. Dear goodness.

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I was asked to bring in something important to me for my school pictures and in the spring of 04 the only thing I cared about was Pokemon. I wanted people to know it was Pokemon so badly that I put the older bulkier blue cartridge in my Gameboy so people could see it in the pic

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Me (15 F) looking like a 12 year old boy in front of Old Faithful. It was a month long family trip across the USA and I did not want to be there. I was so angry to go on this trip that I left my glasses at home so I couldn’t see anything.

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Hiya here’s me and my partner when I was 16 and he was 14

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Circa 2010. No it was no Halloween. I was going to the airport. Yes the iron man triangle lit up 😵‍💫

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Age 17, took this unironically thinking my hair looked amazing

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My family was extremely religious. I wanted to go to public school. They did not want me to go to public school. This is how they dressed me for photo day. The flowers were a decoration from our shelf that my mom insisted I use. Everyone else in the yearbook is wearing t-shirts and they are propless

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5th Grade School Photo

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It's the summer of '97 and I'm about to become a freshman.... gotta frost those tips on my killer bowl cut \_(ツ)_/

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1998 first day of vocational school. Forced to wear ugly scrubs. The lunchbox was my purse.

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I wanted to be a child actor so mom took me to Sears for some dope headshots

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Class of ‘07 represent

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My family photo. My older sister refused to wear denim, so you can imagine the arguments just moments before the photo.

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My mom asked me to go through her old laptop for pictures. This is what I wore to a Taylor Swift concert in 2011.

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It's 2004, I'm 10 and we're on a mad family holiday in cambodia. Here I am at angkor thom soaking up the rich historical scenery.

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Pre School Concert Posing

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This is how I showed to to university. I wanted to make a statement. Apparently that statement was cross the street with your kids when I come walking down the sidewalks oh muggles...

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1979, got my rifle and helmet and some shag carpet to crawl through

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my mom in 2003 vs 2023 🖤

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my friends & i rocking our zoot suits during the swing craze in the 90s

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I have no idea what in the Yankovic-Fieri hell is going on with me here. Circa 2000.

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Yearbook photos with puppies? No thanks, I'll bring my subwoofers...

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Here’s me at 12, going to see Good Charlotte and Eve 6 with my dad. I thought I looked very badass.

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I was so proud when I made the yearbook. When I got home and showed my mom she said I would regret that later in life.

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Bieber hair, double Hollister shirt, always some kind of leather necklace. Circa 2010

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My saucy parents in the early 90’s

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I took the wallet chain thing to the extreme! Flashing Xmas lights on it for the holidays.

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That time I change my GameStop name tag to the name of an Inuyasha character

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Mom said I looked handsome

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My mom started dating a DJ, I would wear this shirt on days I knew I’d see him. I grew up to be an EDM fan, go figure.

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Good ol' facebook reminding me of how cringey I was in highschool. Hot pink fishnets stuffed with grass

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So I thought it'd be cool for my aunt to take a picture of me while wearing the fake eyeballs from my magic kit...

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Was I 13 or 30? (1995)

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My 2004 highschool graduation photo, proudly displayed at my parent's house. Mum straightened my hair for me

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I’m sure my mom paid at least $15 for this

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I pioneered mob wife aesthetic at 13.

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15-16 years ago I thought having an afro would make me unique. It only made it incredibly easy to make fun of me. Enjoy.

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1995, age 10. I loved that dress and turtleneck combo and wore it everywhere. My mom cut my hair with a Flowbee at home.

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In highschool, my friend and I didn't go to parties. We mimed wherever we wouldn't be kicked out. We were not very good at all, but it sure was fun.

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I was SO proud of this costume

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I was made to reign over this sub.

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Was told to post here. As soon as there was hair on my face I went for this look. I didn't realize it was a mistake until 2019.

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1996 HS Yearbook Picture

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I thought I was so0o cool

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I was a bit.. extreme... And yes, I wore this daily, no matter what. I was 15.

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My wife (right) throwing gang signs with her lil homie (2003)

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2003, thought I was a faery

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After the discovery of Nu metal and hearing ‘One step closer’ for the first time

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as cringe as the photo is, the biggest blunder here is that freshly turned 18 Yr old me just moved all the way to London to live with a complete stranger I'd only ever spoken to online. this is my everything is fine face.

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I worked as a dancing fish outside of an aquarium store for a little bit as a teenager. I thought it was the coolest job ever.

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Kings Island, OH in 1984. While 14-year old me liked cutoffs at the time, today I am enraged my parents allowed me to leave the house like this.

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8th grade me thought I was the shit, went like this to a Christian concert event.

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I wanted to live in an anime so bad

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They early 90's were not kind to my family.

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Okay okay so I just posted last night, but I found this today in a cute boys folder at my parents' house and I just...couldn't resist. 11 years old, 2003

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1995 - im on the left. someone should have been fined for letting me walk around like that.

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I don't even know what happened in 6th Grade

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My cousin's preschool photo

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This got 47 likes on Facebook and I felt very quirky (2012)

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14 year old me going out in NYC wearing a Beatles shirt and posing where Lennon got shot hoping to meet his ghost and unexpectedly run into Paul McCartney or Yoko Ono

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In my mid-late teens I watched too many old gangster movies went though a suit, vest, tie, fedora.... and ponytail.

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4th grade 1991, laser background, big wire frame glasses and Ministry shirt. Doesn't get much more early 90s than this.

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my mom had to go to walmart after she picked me up from a convention

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1) I'm in the back. 2) I'm female. 3) That's my fish she's holding. 4) This picture was hung up in the front of our elementary school for an entire week.

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Freshly home from my first anime convention, where I did not shower the entire weekend and spent every dollar I had on that hat and the DVDs> I wore that cheap hat til it basically melted.

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My mom says the school asked students to bring something they cared about. While other students brought basketballs or books, I brought Charmander.

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‘How did you know I was gay?’ said the posing seven year old boy in make up, a perm, and black sequinned jellicle cats dance costume.

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My friends and I all agreed to wear a plaid skirt with jeans for picture day. I was the only one who did. Fashion cowards, I tell ya!

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I got grounded for uploading this picture of myself to MySpace in 2007. I was 14, overweight and new to cigarettes.

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When I was 16, this was my MySpace profile picture. I had edited it in paint.

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Layers upon layers of teenage angst.

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17 years old in 2009. I think I looked pretty damn good.

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My senior pic makes me cringe so good.

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1998ish I gathered enough pop can tabs and my grandfather helped make a shirt out of them

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It's not a phase mom!- thank God it was a phase

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My mom insisted I show off my braces. I think she was hoping for better results.

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I was a radish at my dance recital ...

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Middle School me (2009) at a Jeffree Star and BOTDF concert. I’m the one with the pink headband. I had no business being there at the age of 13

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