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I will go back to school in august and I am going to high school for the first time. Kind of nervous about it and ugh, I want to get it over with. Can you guys give me some "high school experience" stories or tips or something? I think I am really gonna hate it. Is it as big of a deal as it is on tv and stuff, cause I always hear how high school was like a crazy time...
Anyway, any advice?
Thanks, "hsh8tr",
Think about it this way,what you are thinking everyone else that will attend high school with you is thinking the same exact thing. High School and anything you do in life is what you make of it.
And the definition that TV shows and movies use for Cool Kids is made up by movies and TV shows. The true definition of Cool kids are really defined by the people YOU like the most.
I have been out of high school since 1973 but kids are kids no matter when they were born.
I really hate the TV shows and movies that make one group cool and the others have to try and beg to get into that group.
Yes there are cliques but that is for everything in life.
I'm a 14 year old girl and I'm overweight so I'm on a diet (a healthy one with exercise and all that) but I heard that staying up late can cause you to gain weight. Is this true? My eating habits don't change because I stay up late and I don't binge eat at night or anything. I go to bed at 3-5 AM but still get a full 8-10 hours (I'm on summer vacation and I don't have a job, I can sleep for as long as I want). So could this be affecting my weight loss?
I am very thin and always was and I dont need that much sleep, I think this is pure nonsense. I think people who are going to gain weight or are overweight/fat/obese use any excuse as to why they are overweight.
It is the same thing as these studies who say certain things can prolong ones life. How do they know this. We only go around once so there is no way to prove this. A person would have to come back from the dead and do things differently to see if they would live longer.
I didn't know how else to title my question, but what I mean is that my granddad, who is very hard of hearing, says insulting things about people not knowing that they can hear him. Since he can't hear well, he doesn't realize how loud he's being, but he's usually speaking at a normal voice volume.
We are caucasian and I don't think of myself as being racist. I don't think my granddad dislikes people of other races either, but he doesn't seem to think very highly of them. However, he definitely IS prejudice against homosexuals and I bite my nails every time one's around him because I'm worried about what he'll say to them.
Once a couple months ago, he, my mom, and I were eating lunch out after having taken him to the doctor. Our waiter was African American and a little goofy, but he was very sweet and a great waiter. Apparently earlier while I was in the waiting room at the doctor's, my mom and granddad were being seen by an African American homosexual male nurse. At lunch, just as our waiter was walking off, my granddad said, "Well, this must be my day for (gay slur) black guys." He said it where the guy could hear him, but although I was embarrassed, I'm glad he said black guys and not a certain racial slur that he uses a lot.
Not too long ago, my mom took him to the eye doctor and there were apparently a lot of other elderly people in the waiting room. My granddad is almost 82 and makes a lot of old jokes about himself. At the eye doctor's office, he leaned over in my mom's ear and said about the other people in the waiting room, "These people are all older than I am." At which time every one turned and stared at them.
He means for these things to be jokes and I think it hurts his feelings if you don't laugh, but I know he can be insulting and even hurtful at times. I know the obvious thing to do is just to tell him, but I don't think it'll help. He can't hear well enough to know how loud he is. What should I do?
You NEED TO have him evaulated. Hard of hearing has nothing to do with what he is saying. This does seem like he is showing signs of early dementia. Also at a certain age the elderly can change personality wise. He might just be mimicking what his parents said and not realize it.
Talk to your mom about this and try to come up with a solution about him.
Okay, I am a 15 year old girl, I am somewhere around 5ft 6" tall and I weigh 120-130 pounds.
When I was in my mothers womb, I was very active, and ended up making a huge knot in my umbilical cord and wasn't getting enough nourishment.
And when I was born(by C-section) the umbilical cord was rapped around my neck and I was choking myself on it and almost died.
Because of this(My mom also told me that I have a low fat cell count), I have always been skinny. When I was younger, people would come up to my Mother asking if I ate enough. I was wearing clothes for years before I out grew them. My mom would let me eat milk shakes for breakfast everyday to try and get me to gain weight. (I also had bad stomach aches a few times a day from the ages of around 8 or 9 until a few years ago, we still don't know what caused them.)
But other than this, I was like any other normal child. I was extremely active(I mean, I would run laps for fun active, now I'm lazy...), liked to play outside, and though I was a picky eater, I ate normally too.
As I got older I remained thin, but in middle school I started eating a lot more(I mean, A LOT of food. I'd eat more than my older sister and her friend combined)and gained some weight, but I am still thin.
Recently(I will be a Junior after summer), I got a spacer in my mouth so I take longer to eat, and I also haven't been able to eat as much. But I do eat more than enough to be healthy(three meals a day and snacks in between, most high calorie junk food). I'll occasionally skip meals, but unintentionally because I'm not home much and I forget because I snack a lot.
I care little to nothing about my weight and do not think I'm fat, I don't look at calories and even eat junk food most of the time. As stated above.
But for the last few weeks, my friend who's been with me almost constantly has been calling me anorexic. And not just as a joke, or something like that. She actually thinks I am. She tells me almost everyday. It's really starting to bug me.
I've explained to her I'm not, but she says that I don't eat enough and I'm too thin. When I'm actually bigger than I used to be. I know I eat enough(most days at least) and I love food...
I don't know, basically what I'm asking is, how can I get my friend to stop thinking I'm anorexic? And can having a low fat cell count be the cause of me being so skinny? And any other comments you can give would be great.
Thank you
Ignore your friends. If you are 5'6" and weigh between 120 -130 then you are fine. If you wrote that you are 5'6" and weigh 90 to 100 pounds then you would be in trouble.
Your friend might be jealous that you are naturally thin and is taunting you about it. And if you were Anorexic you would not eat at all.
I would tell her to mind her own business. You just have a fast metabolism plain and simple.
And as I said if you were Anorexic you would not be eating junk food, you would be starving yourself and you would weigh much less than you do.