This question is for the Ladies ! I would like to know (if I may ask that is) what it was like growing up?

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This question is for the Ladies ! I would like to know (if I may ask that is) what it was like growing up as a young girl to adult-hood?

Answer 1

I know why you asked, dear friend. Believe me, you missed NOTHING good, from my viewpoint. Constant sexual harassment...bra-strap snapping,boys telling you where they want you to put your big lips, etc. If you were unlucky enough to have "developed early" all you had to do was have big breasts to be tormented to death, called names you did not deserve, everyone thought you were sexual LONG before you even thought about it. Horrors. Be grateful the Universe did not choose you for that. Hugs.

Answer 2

Well my father was going to school to be a surgeon, so we moved around alot. I was severely abused by my alcoholic mother, I found safety from that at my grandma house, I spent alot of time on the farm with her picking cherries, weeding the garden, milking cows, and enjoying the summer sunshine, in between cramps, and razor bumps from shaving, Acne, and glasses that were as thick as pop bottle bottoms, I managed to become an artist and was in talented and gifted art classes, a competitive swimmer, a gymnast, soccer player, a soft ball player, weightlifter, book reader, and a loner because I was teased so bad about my glasses and Italian nose, boy would I like to show some people what I look like now, HA! There is a whole lot more about myself,but I think this is pretty long winded and I don't want to bore you with trivial stuff:)

Answer 3

It started to suck when I got into junior high. I had red hair and everyone made fun of that. I had a really bad self image. We were not rich so my clothes were ugly and I wore payless shoes. When I got to high school it was better but thats when I got into the drugs and partying. Right before my senior year in high school we moved about 20 miles away to a new city and it sucked even worse. I didn't know anyone and ditched school all the time. I ended up getting pregnant at 17 and finishing school 2 years after I should have graduated. Now I'm 25, married, and have my own place. I wish I wouldn't have cared about what other people thought of me when I was in high school.

Answer 4

It was sort of hard for me and I was scared as I always felt dirty because old men would stair at me as I walked down the street. Some would even make nasty gestures and pull there private out on me. I felt guilty for having a nice body and confident walk so in my adulthood I gained some 25 extra lbs. thinking this would fen off the men but it never did. Telling my mother what these men would say and do was of no help either, as she would tell me it was my fault what they were saying and doing. She made me feel bad about my body so I covered up as much as I could. I wouldn't go back to those days if someone offered me millions!

Answer 5

Some great moments with my mother and father (I had young parents who divorced when i was 5). I got to spend some terrific time on the boat with my dad. And my mother is an incredible woman. but some bad times as well. I was abused by someone in my family and when i tried to say something years later, nobody believed me or even listened. Which did not help in my teens with the self-esteem, shame, self-hatred issues. I started using heavy drugs. and went through some hellish times. I wouldn't go back either but i have learned no accept it and make it my own. Especially, I learned to be able to look at pictures of me as a child. Until recently, I couldn't stand the little girl I was seeing. and now, thanks to someone who really helped, I am totally cool with little me.

Answer 6

Being a PK, it was rather difficult. It was like living in a fish bowl. Everyone watching, making sure we lived the life we're expected... Being put in the position of "role model" from childhood.

We moved quite often as well, so I didn't have any solid female friendships, my closest friends were, and still are, my brothers. Most of the summers were spent with my brothers and male cousins at grandparents (so grew up with boys)...

The highlight of my life was when I travelled to youth rallys; leadership seminars; Vacation Bible School camps; etc., in which I formed one close female friend. She was in attendance at all the same seminars. Participants were from Canada and US. She is from the US and I'm still in touch with her, through the internet, although we rarely see each other now. :-)

Other than that, I believe it was quite a grand childhood to womanhood transition, aside from the usual "growing pains".
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Answer 7

I wanted out of my house so badly. I didn't get along with my mother. I had a boyfriend all throughout high school and my life revolved around him. My parents thought he was great and let me start dating him when I was 14. They probably shouldn't have let me get so serious with a boy, or I wouldn't have gotten married so young. I was very quiet, had a small circle of friends, very insecure about my weight, although I was actually quite small. I didn't know a thing about myself back then, and I didn't think I needed to know about myself... I just wanted to get out into the world and out from other my parent's thumb.

Answer 8

It was hell. I didn't have a Mom and the female figures in my life were of no help at all to understanding what I was going thru. I had my first baby at 17 and grew up quick and self taught. I would not go back.

Answer 9

Confusing-- all the body changes and emotional changes with no real guide to tell you what's around the corner. You can learn about the body in school, but when things actually start to change and "happen", its a completely different thing.

Answer 10

i've got never dyed my hair blonde, it does not even look authentic on me. i assume it quite works for some...yet not for many imo. why carry out a little do it? nicely possibly they provide the impact of being as much as beyonce, Mary J Blige, Eve and so forth.. lol in my opinion this is not my fashionable look yet to each their own!