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I have gone from younggrandma to just yg. Now,
I am using my real name.
I don't think anyone who knows me will have trouble figuring out who that is!


I have been gone a while dealing with things in my own life. I am back now to help once again. Do not expect answers from me that just tell you what you want to hear. Life is to short for nonsense. :)
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some of my friends are really making me mad.. they say that im jealous cause my 2 best friends are hanging out and their leaving me out.. and they said that i have a big mouth and that i tell my friend everything that people tell me.. and they said im nosey.. ughh.. thanx for reading this but what should i do???? cuz my friends have been treating me really different lately cuz my 3 best friends think i like one of my other friends better then them.. please dont say to talk to them cause that doesnt work.. trust me ive tried it a million times! thanx sooo much! (link)
Maybe you should just find some new friends.
Having friends should be that much hassel.And if you can't talk to them then just forget them altogether.


14/female
A lot of people at school thinks my life is perfect. it is far from it. i wont get into too much detail and make this too long but i have a few good friends that i love but there are so many morons that get mad because i get good grades or whatever. i just wanted to know does this go away in high school? or will people still asume my life is great because i get good grades?

thank you
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It will most likely get better.
There will always be morons around though so just learn to ignore them.Hopefully they will have something better to do.


I guess this goes under this category but oh my gosh! i need HELP! Ok i am 13/f and i go out with this guy named David...well im his first girlfriend which is UNBELIEVABLE because hes SO sweet and hes not really hott but ya know! and so since im his first girlfriend his mom wants me to have dinner with them on friday...which REALLY sucks! because of ME! well i dont know if i can even go yet because i might have to go to my dads but still....i am SO SHY! like only around older people such as adults! but not people my age! see im so shy that when i talk about something thats kinda embarassing to me about my family, i get all shy and turn red...i dont know why and it makes me MAD! and its stuff thats not even that emabarssing!! anyone know what i can do to prepare or anything!?! (link)
Explain about going to dads.I don't think they will hold it against you!Probably invite for another day.

Grown ups aren't that scary! They could be nervous about meeting you too! Just be youself and everything will go alright.They will realise you are shy.Next time it will be easier.


Ok, where to start? I'm a freshman in high-school, and I totally hate high-school. I mean, its not THAT bad, but I'd prefer middle school, anyday. Last year, (in 8th grade) I had it all. Great friends, boyfriends, pretty decent grades, and everybody liked me pretty much. I was Ms. Perfect, and I was supposedly SUPER-HOT, or so everybody said. Now, I feel like crap. I'm always trying to be someone I'm not. My best friend moved away, far and we barely ever keep it contact. My other best friend, well we don't even ever hang out because I ditched her for my current best friend, and so now she had better friends, and I'm just a nobody. And my new best friend, well we've only been friends for about a year, not entirely, but the fights we get into, its unbelievable. I haven't fought like I gought with her, with my other friends for two years. I mean, she's a good friend, but gets pissed easily, I mean we're two different people, I've talked to her about it before, but ehh. I don't know what to do. Now, guys. Yeah, people still like me, but not as much. There's lots more prettier girls! And life, my social life is horrible, my parents don't let me do shit. Guys, I've had two big crushes that both liked me but things got screwed up because I was too shy. I know how people say, that if you're popular and stuff in middle school, in high school you won't be, and vice-versa. I don't know what to do about ALL of this. Please help with everyhting, get my life back o track anfd better., Thanks os much! (link)
This is just first of many changes life will throw at you so hang on! After high is college after that jobs......It never ends!

Things won't be the same,but that doesn't mean they won't be okay.You just have to start out on the bottom again.

That isn't true that if your popular in middle school you won't be in high school.Some are and some aren't.Just be yourself, make new friends and don't worry so much about your statis of popularity.You'll do fine.


i was wondering, why are there so many groups in skool? like preps, goths, punks, metalheads, populars, secondary populars, loners, gunks(a mix of punks and goths), and just "others". it all just creates mayhem, like a popular cant go out with a goth, or they will loose all their friends. i think it is so stupid. can you explain to me why people must insist on putting people in different catigories? does it really matter? (link)
I think it's stupid too.People have been doing it for years with bands and now they bring it to the schools!

No it doesn't matter.It is childish to say you can't be friends with a person because of the way they dress, the color of their skin or whatever else they care to name!

I don't know why people do this.immatue I guess.


My friend has trouble with confidence so she asked me to ask a question for her. OK her and this boy were going out but they broke up for a reason that doesn't matter anymore. Now they want to get back together but my friend's too shy. Do you have any tips for her? (link)
Why is she shy about it if she dated him before?
He is probably the same as he was then, and she didn't have problem then right? If they both want to get together she'll just have to get tough and say okay!


My cat had kittens 7 weeks ago and has just been spayed. I have kept 3 of the kittens and have been told by the vet not to let her feed the kittens as her milk has dried up.
This is prooving very difficult as she keeps calling them to be fed and they feed of her, i am concerned that her milk flow will start again.
Please can you advise me how to stop this without seperating them altogether.
Thank-you (link)
They will do this for awile.Her milk won't come back. The only way to stop them is to totally seperate them.Since that isn't always possible they will just do it for awhile.Sooner or later they will bite her a good one and she will stop.


When I'm on my piriod, my friends ask me to do something, and I always say no, becuase well, I'm embarrassed that my blood is going to leek through. So my friends get all mad at me becuase, well I don't tell them why, but I really don't want to tell them that I am on my period.. what do I do so that they won't be mad at me when I say I can't?? (link)
It depends on what it is they want you to do.
Usually being on your period is just an inconvience but shouldn't keep you from going out and having fun.If it really bothers you, just check it out now and then and change pad/tampon as needed.You'll be ok.
I know it's embarrassing for some to talk about but it's a normal function that your friends probably have to deal with to.So, let them know so they don't think you're just being a party pooper:}


i don't know what to do... i'm wicked shy round boys, but when im with my friends, i can be loud any way, my friend....in another homeroom.... sits next to tha kid i like (she doesnt like him...likes his friend) and she is good friends with him. everytime i go into her homeroom, one of my other friends follows me and is sooo loud, and i am afraid that he thinks i am like that. i know what ur all gonna say....if he doesnt like your friends then he doesnt like you..... the thing is...ii would never be like that around my loud friends crush..i know him very well thats why! so sorry its so long, please respond!!

love...
TROUBLED LOVER! (link)
If you aren't being loud he probably know you're not that way.I wouldn't let that part bother me.Talk to him and make friends with him.


well ok.. my crotch area has been really itchy during these past few days and i'm too embaressed to ask anybody why so please don't make fun of me. anyway, that area has been itchy for a while and now it stings. i wash down there so i don't know why this is happening. if anybody could please tell me why i'm going through this and if its normal and how i can cure it. thank you (link)
Are you male or female? Do you shave? That can make you itch like crazy!
If not are you sexually active? there is an std called crabs that cause itching.If it isn't from shaving go see your doctor. He/she should be able to give you something that can help you out.


okay there's this new boy in my town and one of my friends like him but she don't come to the same school as me and he's really cute. what should i do, should i go up to himand.... but i don't want to hurt my closet friend please help me!!!! (link)
You can't not be friends with someone just because she likes him.You may not even like him once you get to know him! You'll never find out unless you try.If it turns out he is just friend material...Tell him about cousin.If not have fun,You're only young once.


My cousin's family invited me to go on a cruise with them to Cancun and Cozemel. I really want to go but if my cousin and I spend at least 2 hours together, we don't get along. She will get mad at me and I will have no one to hang out with because her dad's side of the family is coming, too (I don't know them because we're not related) But this is a once in a lifetime opportunity...Should I go or no?? (link)
Yes go! If you and cousin have a fight so what! Maybe someone on the other side of family would make a cool hang out friend.You'll never know if you don't go.Go and have fun!


ok well you see i have mayjor problems because im in love with this kid who i cant be and well yeah were cool and all and he flirts but hes a ladies man you know and i love him so much and well i dont want to say anything b/c i dont know how he feels but please help me should i follow my heart and let my family and others hate me for a guy that may not even be interested and if he is what happens if we dont stay together i mean im willing to give my virginty help im in over my head please answer asap (link)
Why is it you'll be disowned?
Some guys are just flirts.It doesn't necessarilly mean anything so don't blow it out of proportion.
Do not say anything until you are absolutley sure what he means by it. That means you have to talk to him and find out.If he's that big a ladies man be prepared for him to say he meant nothing by it.


My best friend dated my ex. It was a tough thing for me to see.They are totally over and you would think everything is fine. Wrong. I still like him. At least I think I still like him. I even have a boyfriend who I love very much. But then I read a note from my ex that was about me that was to my best friend when they were together, and now I feel sad. He liked her a lot. And I feel like a bitch. I need to know what is going on! HELP ME PLEASE!!!!! (link)
You can like lots of people and you don't have to date them all! If you love current boyfriend that doesn't mean you can't talk to the old one and see whats going on with him.This note just has you confused.I would ask x the meaning behind it and see what he says.


Hey I was just wandering what you thought about this one. Sorry it might be kinda long but I really need your advice.

-Me and my boyfriend have been going out for 3 weeks exactly today. He is like really stupid and kinda weird so I dont know what I want to do. Half of me wants to dump him and the other half doesn't. I know that he really really likes me and that if I break up with him he might even cry. Today on our field trip some of his friends were like joking around and told me that he dumped me (and I knew he didnt). He was like what?!? I would never dump her. And yesterday he bought me this really cute stuffed animal (dolphin) because he knows that I love dolphins.

-Please someone help me I really need it!! (link)
He sounds like he cares a lot about you.The thing is if you don't like him you don't!
It won't necessarily ruin your friendship if you break up but it might.It's just a chance you'll have to take. At first he will be upset and maybe even mad, but once things calm down he may be your friend again.


im 15 and theres this guy (also 15) and we both like each other. At least he says he likes me. right now we're kind of in a friends with benefits position, we dont want to go out becasue he smokes and drinks and i cant deal with that. the thing is, he tells me he wants to be more and that hes trying to quit, and i tell him i wanna be more too..... but the next day he goes tells all his friends that i wanna be more than friends and he leaves himself out of it., i just dont know if i can trust him, or why he does this. any advice? (link)
If you can't accept him bad habits and all...You're better off finding someone else.
Friends with benefits is not a good thing.Just means you will put out until somebody better comes along for him.Bad idea.You get hurt and the guy has fun....some good deal isn't it? So i'd have to say no, you can't trust him, you're being used.


there are these girls..Paty and jessica. okay well paty and jessica ALWAYS get mad at me for no reason. Dude, and im on these girls basketball team and I fouled one time and i said.."oh i dont rlly care." you no just because it was my first one. and paty goes to me "WELL WHAT THE FREAK...YOU SHOULD CARE." and she wouldnt pass me the ball at all. But this one time at school, i didnt get such a good grade on my socical studies test...(if was a D) & the est was on the whole book *well the stuff we covered* and Jessica comes up to me and goes " (my name) wat did you get? & paty butts in and goes I got an A+ and Jessica goes Me to"...and then they ask me again and i said "no" and then when our teacher wasnt looking they grab my paper and started making fun of me. Please helped


SOrry its so long BUT PLEASE HELP ME *


Sincerly,
crushed/MAD

Ps: there is a ton of more stuff that they have done to make my life miserable (link)
What a pair! I don't know how you'd go about avoiding them but I'd stay away every chance you got!

These to are bullies.Do not say a thing to them when they pick on you.Totally ignore them.If they know they are bugging you they will continue. If you ignore them maybe they will move on.


i've been using this 3step acne thing called proactiv. i'm sure most of you know what it is, theres alot of infomercials on tv about it. anyway, i've been using it for about 2 weeks now and it dries up my face alot and it makes my face sting or feel numb and makes it extremely red. does anybody know how i can get rid of this? because i dunlike my newfound redness on the face. please help! thanks in advance
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Go see a doctor.Sounds like an allergic reaction of some kind.Don't use it again until you check it out.


I really want to buy a vibrator... but I don't know where to go. I am 16 years old, and do not want one shipped to me, I want to go to a store. I was wondering, do I have to go to a sex store or are there any other stores that sell them?

~Kristin (link)
There are lots of, well, I guess you'd call them sex stores that carry them. You have to at least 18 to go in these stores though.


i just got a record deal. But they want me to do all these things I dont want to do. How do i tell them i want to do some things my way without getting fired?


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Do you have an agent? I don't know a whole lot about this but I think an agent would negotiate things for you. Or, an entertainment lawyer.You have to be careful that you aren't taken advantage of, okay? Good luck with your career.




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