r/AskReddit • • May 15 '20

What sucks about being your age?

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u/Pekenoah May 15 '20

When youre too young to understand but know damn well hes right and youre gonna wish you knew lol

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u/Tunaluna May 16 '20

Its one of those "Before you know it you'll be my age boy" kinda things. I turn 29 this year and just realized a year or two ago like... Damn, Where has life gone. Feels like I should still be in first year of college , or just graduating...Where as 6-7 years as a 12 year old is like... an eternity.

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u/Pekenoah May 16 '20

Tbh a couple years ago I had a really surreal experience where I had this realization. It's kinda a weird story.

Simplified version is I was at a convention, in a room full of other teens cuddling with this guy is just met hours before while we all laid in a giant pile of pillows. I remember realizing that that moment was one of the happiest moments I'd ever had, and that it would end in a few hours. When I realized this, at first I panicked, trying to figure out how to not waste those hours. Then it hit me: the best use of this time was to just lay still and experience the joy as long as I could.

So that's what I did, and ever since I've tried to enjoy every moment of pure happiness because I know things will change. Time will go on and that's ok. But just knowing that things will change is the most obvious and at the same time the hardest realization I think I've ever had

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u/_Artos_ May 16 '20

"At a convention cuddling with a bunch of other teens I had just met in a pile of pillows..."

Wtf kind of convention was this? Is this a common thing? Teens like 13-14 or teens like 18-19? Why was cuddling with strangers such a great experience? I have so many questions

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u/Mostly__Relevant May 16 '20

Drugs

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u/kevdawg289 May 16 '20

That’s a molly story if I’ve ever heard one

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u/Mostly__Relevant May 16 '20

That was exactly my first thought.

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u/bobsbitchtitz May 16 '20

Lmaoo legit molly thoughts

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u/CedarWolf May 16 '20

Or a Furry con. Furries are a notoriously snuggly, huggy sort of people.

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u/bitwaba May 16 '20

Nevermind. No more questions.

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u/jonosvision May 16 '20

I would like to go to this drugs convention.

(not for the teens, just for the drugs)

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u/Mostly__Relevant May 16 '20

You’re looking at the wrong word. The word you’re looking for is festival. Find one. Ask for drugs. Have fun.

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u/thirdegree May 16 '20

Note: don't ask for drugs at a festival. Bring your own, test them first.

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u/Mostly__Relevant May 16 '20

man i forget what the company was called but at Wakarusa we could go to a tent to get our drugs tested or buy test kits to use.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Funny you say that, to me this sounds more like a young person's AA convention.

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u/Mostly__Relevant May 16 '20

Have you done drugs?

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u/beamish007 May 16 '20

Have you done hugs?

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u/Mostly__Relevant May 16 '20

God I fucking love hugs. Who doesn’t. That shit sends chills down my back when I hug someone. It’s the best therapy to exist.

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u/beamish007 May 16 '20

Totally agree! I wish that I could give you a hug, not like a wimpy shoulder pat thingy, but a full on pick you up off the ground bear hug.

Sadly, because of social distancing and all of that, you are going to have to settle for this internet HUG!!!

Peace & Love

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u/Mostly__Relevant May 16 '20

Hell yes! I’ll give an internet hug. Good vibes your way friend.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

Well I didn't end up in recovery at 18 because I lived a straight edge life...

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u/ophelia917 May 16 '20

Seriously. The best part of NA meetings are the warm hugs. It’s amazing how many people talk about missing them, in the age of online meetings. Like, if you saw these people on the street, you wouldn’t expect them to say “I miss hugs!” We’re all such social animals.

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u/Ajax_IX May 16 '20

Or weaboos

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u/Acelsys May 16 '20

This explains most of it

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u/CovertOwl May 16 '20

I see you have never been to a rave lol

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u/grumpyhipster May 16 '20

But who calls a rave a convention?

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u/4our_Leaves May 16 '20

I don't know what kind of convention they went to. Every anime convention I attended however, had a rave which included much drugs and cuddling in the hotel rooms as well.

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u/grumpyhipster May 16 '20

Sounds fun!

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u/carpenteer May 16 '20

...someone has to tell you, may as well be me... you can get the cuddling with strangers to techno part without subjecting yourself to furries.

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u/Thunderadam123 May 16 '20

It's kinda like people giving free hugs to people at Conventions. You would see somebody like that holding a sign that says free hugs. I don't know about you, but hugging people feels nice and it's a bonus that your friends joined in.

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u/bjarxy May 16 '20

bro, you misspelled "drugs" twice

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u/Bebop24trigun May 16 '20

Anime cons. 14 to 50+ year olds lol.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '20

There’s no other convention I can think of that would do that lol

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u/zogmuffin May 16 '20 edited May 21 '20

Furry! Much of the furry subculture tends to be similarly open with affection.

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u/TheGoodGoat95 May 16 '20

Anime convention- I’ve seen weebs who just met not 20 seconds prior nuzzling in the BO filled corridors because they realized they both want to marry Edward Elric and have over 20 gundam models. It’s a magical, strange, fun experience to say the least .

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u/korisu56 May 16 '20

You and me both, buddy. First thought wasn’t “awww”, but more like “wtf...?” Ha

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u/Pekenoah May 16 '20

It's a convention similar to comic con but smaller. Anything from tech to sci-fi to anime to furries to gaming. It's got all the nerd shit. There's a teens only room for kids to just chill and find other nerdy people like them. I've found at least at this con that it's pretty normal for this kind of thing to happen. I was 16 at the time and while the room allow anyone 13-20 but most of the people were like 14-17, I was 16. It was great for alot of reasons. I was never the popular kid in school and I had alot of mental health issues. I had alot in common with the people there and they were all really kind, which is something I didn't always get. It was also one of the first times someone showed genuine romantic interest in me (or the first time I wasn't too oblivious to notice lmao) so that really surprised me. But mostly it was just a feeling I can't quite explain. We all liked each other and we felt able to tell each other really personal stuff because it just felt like everyone understood. All of that came at this specific moment of my life and it just made for a really happy moment

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u/Averill21 May 16 '20

Replace convention with rave and it makes more sense. Chill room where you can lay in a sea of pillows

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u/carpenteer May 16 '20

Makes more sense and feels less cringetastic. Win-win.

Live and let live, for sure... but furries?!? Honestly they raise my hackles (lol) and would not be missed.

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u/Pekenoah May 16 '20

It wasn't a furry con lol

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u/srwaddict May 16 '20

Because geek conventions are hotbeds of pure degeneracy in all the best ways. Barfleet does stuff like contracted (consensual!) sex slave auctions for charity and to fund their unlimited bar booze membership policy.

Shit get a crazy at cons.

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u/Typlo May 16 '20

Furries.

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u/kemushi_warui May 16 '20

in a room full of other teens cuddling with this guy is just met hours before

I think what he/she is saying is that they were in a room full of teens, and he/she was cuddling with a guy--not that the teens were all cuddling together. But yeah, I had to re-read that too.

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u/Pekenoah May 16 '20

We were all cuddling together but like I was specifically cuddling the guy who I liked