Poll: Have You Ever Gone Through The "Emo" Stage?

[SnakeF]

I was never really an Emo, i just had general teenage angst and I still do on occasion. Unlike a lot of my friends (a lot of whom are pathetic poser Emos) I don't try to cut myself or anything, becasuse that is incredibly dumb, I don't think hurting myself would help with depression, It'll probably just make it worse.

On another note: has anyone ever noticed that most Emos are pretty well off, I mean, alot of them can afford really expensive clothes. I'm probably worse off than most Emos.

 

[shwnbob]

I didn't talk for a whole year. Does that count?

 

[spuddyt]

*snip*

While I never complain about it to others or cut myself, I frequently have bouts of what I would describe as irrational depression (though i've certainly never been diagnosed and I think it is comparatively mild if it is worthy of diagnosis at all) where I feel that the whole world is just so damn pointless. Then I kick myself and remind myself that if it is pointless I may as well enjoy myself

 

[Jursa]

The closest I ever got to getting to Emo was listening to hard rock and still do... However the whole be a little ***** phase didn't really interest me.

 

[bluekeyrequired]

im 15 now, and i went through a major emo phase since i was 11, im sorta out of it now, but...

 

[Steeveeo]

I complain whenever I feel necessary, but mainly about other people, not my life.

But when life did get me down, I never cut myself. I feel that bloodletting like that is just plain moronic, where is the motivation? You're feeling sad, so you decide to feel better by tearing your arms open? I don't get it...

 

[cobra_ky]

man i thought this was going to be about music, but instead it just depressed me

 

[Computer-Noob]

Uh, it's not really a phase.

This.

Also, all of the "emos" I know were listening to rap a year or two before and wearing their pants down to their knees. Then they decided to wear tight pants, have shitty hair styles, and listen to music that is almost as bad. They also have NOTHING to be depressed or sad about, unless they're just total wimps. (Which most of them are)

I wouldn't care if you were actually beat up about something in your life that inclined you to become emo, as counter-productive as that would be, but the people who I know are just posers. And its pretty funny to watch.

 

[dontworryaboutit]

Your definition of emo is pretty bizarre. It sounds a lot like depression.

 

[Ben Jamin]

I don't think i was ever really emo. Have been real sad but never
emo.

 

[WelshWizard]

Reading the OP: the "Emo phase" as you call it, seems like a cultural phenomenon rather than a natural, ubiquitously occuring stage that all 'teens' go through. I live in Ireland and I have only ever heard of emos on the internet. I imagine it's because people here aren't so self-absorbed and attention seeking that they cut themselves just to prove how miserable they are. I mean seriously, GROW THE FUCK UP; it all seems very childish to me.

 

[Lord Krunk]

I was seriously depressed as a kid, and it was only when I turned 12 that I got over myself.

I didn't have the best of childhoods, mostly because I was a complete asshole in my earlier years. It's made me understand why emos are emos, and for that I have no respect for them.

 

[Dr. UBAR]

It is the hardest thing to live down..... It was just so fail. I can NOT believe I used to think acting like a whiny ***** was cool. *shudder* bad times.

 

[black lincon]

No, I was the person who kept telling them to cut their damn hair.

Spoiler: This picture explains a lot

Darkside, sometimes I just love you.

And for me no, me and my friends tend to be happy to be living, I can't stand people who are constantly depressed.

 

[Triple G]

I use to spend alot of time with what could be classified as the "popular" group in early high school, and sooner or later almost all of the members went through the "emo" stage. To specify emo stage, this is when almost everything seems horrible and you feel the need to complain almost constantly about how horrible your life is, usually to get attention from those around you. Alot of people choose the cut themselves during this stage, as it was (and perhaps still is) the fad of the time. Talking with an old friend of mine, he finds himself in a weird position in which he carved the word "HATE" into his forearm, and it is now scarred there regardless of the fact he doesn't cut himself and is a rather positive guy. Several of my other friends, and myself included, have smaller scars on different places of our bodies from where we use to cut, and we all regret doing it and feel like tards for having such scars.

The question I'm asking is how many people have gone through this "emo" stage, and have you done something horrible during that time that you regret amazingly to this day?

I never was an emo. I always thought this is some kind of weakness if you have to dress like a ******, listen to whining music and cry & whine al the time.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

What, you mean puberty? Yes, I think everyone here has experienced puberty. Please don't call it the 'emo stage'.

 

[Redlac]

Have I been an Emo? No, never. We didn't have them back in my day. I went though a phase where I was a miserable git, but that was because my parents were divorcing. I didn't need or want any attention mind, I was too busy dealing with the aforementioned mess that is divorce.

So uh.. I clicked 'no.'

 

[Biek]

Yes, back when I thought Linkin Park was good.

 

[Kinguendo]

No, I was the person who kept telling them to cut their damn hair.

Spoiler: This picture explains a lot

I am not an emo and dont care for the whole cutting thing but what the fuck gives you the right to tell people what to be? And more specifically what length their hair should be? Seiously, didnt you learn anything from Columbine? If someone feels rejected and alone (regardless of wether they actually are) then you DONT push them until they break because then they are going to kill people, people like you.
Also, your avatar annoyed me too.

Jeez chill the hell out. You don't even know where I'm coming from when I say that. Come to my town and see how they take Emo to the extreme, over little things, mainly about their parents not letting them use the car, not letting them have this or that.

And does my Avatar annoy you because I don't recognize Obama as the one? Deal with it.

Yeah, thats an "emo" anywhere. So you still dont have the right!
Also, no. Its because you clearly think that Obama is going to plummet America onto socialism and by doing so destroy America... this at the very least, people who think that often have much more extreme views of Obama.

 

[Kinguendo]

No, I was the person who kept telling them to cut their damn hair.

Spoiler: This picture explains a lot

I am not an emo and dont care for the whole cutting thing but what the fuck gives you the right to tell people what to be? And more specifically what length their hair should be? Seiously, didnt you learn anything from Columbine? If someone feels rejected and alone (regardless of wether they actually are) then you DONT push them until they break because then they are going to kill people, people like you.
Also, your avatar annoyed me too.

It annoys me how incorrect you are.
The columbine killers were not social outcasts. They had a pretty big circle of friends who accepted them. They may not have been popular with everyone but they were by no means the school outcasts. They were both psychocotic (although it has been speculated one was the dominated with abandonment issues). this meant that they don't see the world the same.

The reason they did the school shooting and attempted bombing was to put fear into the world and get a place in history. The attack was against the world, not the school, and they are not remembered as terrorists but psychopaths, something I am pleased about.

If you live in fear of school shootings then well done, they win.

So you have selective reading, huh? Well then I shall have to quote myself "If someone feels rejected and alone (regardless of wether they actually are)", and thats all I need to say... in fact I didnt even have to type this as my point was already in the last comment.