When you were 12 years old

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<p>What do you remember of yourself during that time?</p>

<p>I guess my store of that time was The Limited Too, hehe
I was obessed with glitter. Glitter school supplies, glitter body gel, glitter shoes...
hanson :o
Being a nerd
Not having a lot of friends.
Really big hair
BUTTERFLY clips, ah memories
Those pants with the stripes on the sides. I couldn't afford the Addias ones everyone else wore
Not really making friends with guys though everyone else started dating and breaking up in the same week
Art geek, I was very creative then. Looking forward into a career in art.
Bop magazine
Parents always arguing. Got a divorce not long later.
Posing as a skater girl
Roxy
Mall trips with my mom. AH! She wouldn't let me get anything and I despised her so much at the time.
Wide leg jeans
etc...</p>

<p>your turn</p>

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<p>Obsessed with video games.
Very dorky.
Very quiet.</p>

<p>Still very dorky and quiet today. ;)</p>

3

<p>I was really fat.</p>

4

<p>furby
swings, tag and hopscotch during recess
a bit of a tomboy</p>

5

<p>Pokemon cards
Fading DBZ/SailorMoon interests
Dyed hair - blonde streaks on black :eek:
Loved Lewis, Sachar, and Dahl
LEI/Mudd Jeans
Skechers Boots
Butterfly Clips
Love of Running "Fastest Girl"
Rebellious band nerd
Obsession with drawing...</p>

<p>I was very quiet and sometimes bold. 6th grade was my tipping point to overcoming my shyness and introversion.</p>

6

<p>Loved Pokemon, watched the cartoon and played the games all the time but thought the card game was stupid.</p>

7

<p>Butterfly clips...pokemon...social failures...joining the "gifted circle" (bah, a lot of good that did me)</p>

<p>the Redwall series. </p>

<p>I'm still a bit chubby. >_<</p>

8

<p>Mmm... Went to Austria for Mozart's 200th anniversary of his death. Maybe I should go again this year, it's the 250th of his birth...</p>

<p>/loved Innsbruck and Salzburg</p>

9

<p>i miss being 12...im 19 now, more responcibility and choices, i wanna be younger then i am now again lol</p>

10

<p>Same here, same here, I hate being 18, I just freaking hate it. Nothing good about it at all. Its so damn stupid how they only give you 18 years to be a kid and the rest of your life is spent as a miserable adult. : (</p>

11

<p>I thought i was hot stuff when i was 12. Now i look at my old school pics and see short fluffy frizzy hair with big gold trimed glasses with teddy bears on the side. (i no longer sport this look by the way)</p>

12

<p>I remember people making a big deal about Korn. That really annoyed me.</p>

13

<p>I'm going to start crying if I bring back those memories.
Nostalgia...
:o</p>

14

<p>Haha, the ms (grade 7-9) dance...all of us 7th grade boys on one side of the room and you girls on the other side, terrified to talk to each other. Last call for the last dance of the afternoon. I finally got the nerve to ask a 9th grade female friend of my family to dance with me...AND SHE SAID YES !!! We did the Jerk to Martha & the Vandella's Dancing in the Street. (yes, I am THAT OLD)</p>

<p>No one could touch me for a week, because I had danced with an older woman!</p>

15

<p>that was my darkest period in life. who was i?
a thief. i hung out with this gang who stole things just for pleasure. we robbed many stores and we all shared the loot. yeh eventually i got caught and we moved and here i am.</p>

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<p>when i was 12 years old</p>

<p>i was in 7th grade. That was the beginning of 2001. Right before september 11th. I remember... vaguely. I had the same friends. I did the same thing.</p>

<p>I do not change.</p>

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<p>i was obsessed with my weight. ( i still am, though not as bad)
i was a bit of a tomboy.
i did not know how valuable my best friend was then (she's gone now).
i had approximately 217 world wars and cold wars with my brother.
i did not know about CC yet.
i thought that Stanford's an Ivy League ;)</p>

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<p>Ohhh 12... so naive!</p>

<p>Things I remember...
*pokemon
*butterfly clips
*brit pop/dance mixes/pop and Green Day (strangely enough)
*our grade 6 trip to Quebec City (including my first actual dance... on a disco cruise down the St.Laurent!)
*being very excited about jr.high (7-9 here)
*running for student council and losing
*those HUGE bellbottom jeans</p>

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<ul>
<li>I passed and wrote loads of notes, more than I have in any years following</li>
<li>I had braces</li>
<li>I won a seat in student council</li>
<li>I was the same height as my sister who was five years older than me</li>
<li>"BEST FRIENDS" ... gross</li>
<li>Drama with "best friends"</li>
<li>I had a binder full of Pokemon cards</li>
<li>Boy bands, etc., whatever was popular at the time</li>
</ul>

<p>What's disturbing is that some people my age remind me of me at 12.</p>

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<p>-I spent all my time doing taekwondo
-I was traveling the country competing every weekend
-Training 7 days a week
-Had friends that I hung out with at school but never outside of school
-I was short
-I was in the best shape of my life
-I never had to worried about my weight
-I was pretty much a tomboy
-I wore athletic clothes everywhere
-Every class was easy
-I had this horrible orthodontic contraption with 2 little steel bar things that pulled my lower jaw forward. Kinda like metal rubberbands. And I remember opening my mouth to eat a piece of cake and the metal things came out of their little slide things and scraped up my gums which hurt a lot :(
-I didn't spend massive amounts of time on CC </p>

<p>I can't really remember if I was really happy when I was 12. I was super busy and certainly winning tournaments made me happy but I remember being really stressed out at major ones and about what I ate. Now, I've had so many good and bad things happen I can't tell if my life is really better or worse. It's kinda the same on the happiness level but so extremely different.</p>