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ROFL.

Yeah, except "emo" isn't "artsy and creative" like you probably think it is. Maybe I'm wrong but the overwhelming majority of emo kids I know just sit by themselves, whine about life and try and write poetry that resembles a dictionary throwing up words on to a piece of paper. Hell, most of them don't have anything to be sad about. They just want to be "different" because they're attention ****** and end up being different in the sense that they're like every other "non-conformist." Oh, and then there's Twilight...literary garbage. /waits to get flamed by someone with the user name "x0TwilightxLuvr0x"

OMG Twilight is the roxorzzzz!!!! ... Just kidding, but I agree. Most kids classified as "emo" sit in corners and belittle themselves into thinking they want to die, but are way too scared to go through with it. Before people attack me, I did say MOST.

Agreed with HookEm completely. Being "emo" isn't anything to be proud of these days, not after the vampire-crazed, Hot Topic-whoring pre-teens got through with the word. They all wear skinny jeans, chop off their own hair and dye it black with hot pink stripes, get nose rings and lip rings, and write horribly mangled "poetry" about how they want to die because Mommy and Daddy won't let them go out with their boyfriends/girlfriends whom they met two weeks ago and "love" desperately (when really, Mommy and Daddy know that the boyfriend is 24 and has a history of sexual abuse, and the girlfriend is 12 years old with a ***** complex). Oh noes! My cell phone got taken away because I got caught smoking pot after school! Oh noes! Imma go scratch my wrist with a metal ruler, cry, and listen to depressing music to let out my unbelievable pain! And no one will ever understand what I'm going through, no matter how hard THEIR lives may be, because I'm so special and unable to be understood! I'm gonna ******* DIEEEEEE without my boyfriend because he hasn't called me in two hours!!! Middle- and high-school "emo" kids make me SICK. Their lives are perfectly wonderful compared to some, and yet they bitch and moan and cry about it because they want some attention. I cut myself for nearly a year after my boyfriend committed suicide. He passed out while on the phone with me, slipped into an OD-induced coma, and died five days later. I thought he'd simply fallen asleep, until the next day when I called him back and his father said he was in the ICU, hooked up to a ventilator, and was not going to live much longer. My father beat me for 17 of my 21 years of life. I was raised to think that I was a worthless pile of shit, that if I got something wrong or didn't do something perfectly I was too stupid to every do it correctly the second time around. My ex-boyfriend game me the herpes simplex virus, and it's eating away at my immune system. Menstrual periods are EXTREMELY painful and sex is almost unbearable. And I'm too poor to afford the medication that would control the outbreaks. My immune system, compromised as it already is, still has to deal with acid reflux disease and a hiatal hernia which could cause me to bleed into my stomach and cause life-threatening problems. And YET, I still don't go around calling myself "emo" BECAUSE I know that putting any sort of idiotic label on myself would just make people either tease me or feel sorry for me. Labels belong on soup cans, not on people. Let's try to keep it that way.

Your first paragraph is describing ALL teenagers now, actually. 99% of the teenagers I know are "in love" after 2.5 seconds, because he/she is the ONE and I know nothing when I tell them they are wrong. Then when they are dumped for being overly-dramatic and irritating the soul of their partner, they come crying to me and I'm always a dick and say "I told you so." There's really no pounding sense, metaphorically, into these kids, no matter how many times they fall "in love" or whatever. I've never seen so many kids go around, in short sleeves, with cuts on their arms, and be all "Yeah I did that." Hello Attention *****! Have fun in therapy, while your therapists thinks you're a fuckmunch.

Myfriend_youfail, I really think you should be on support group message boards talking about your problems, not airing out all your dirty laundry and picking fights with other commenters on this one. It really seems like you have a lot of issues to work through and you're not going to find much support here. Just name calling.

I don't think you realize, mystomachurts that I don't CARE that you're a cocksucker or a troll. ;) My past no longs shames me nor traumatizes me, so anything you have to say on the matter really doesn't do anything for me either positively or negatively. So if I wish to use my experiences to back up my argument against attention-whoring teens and pre-teens, I will do so. Now don't you have basic addition homework to be doing or a relative's dick to be sucking? Or will you be a wonderful multitasker and deep throat your daddy WHILE figuring out what 2 plus 2 equals?

And just because I feel like being a bit of a troll myself... Correction. Your posts do do something for me. They make me have multiple successive orgasms whilst vomiting out kittens and lightsabers. Thanks for that. :D

I find it funny how most punk and/or emo kids think that they are so "different" but they all look alike. LOL!

You brought those issues up for a reason..and stuff that traumatic doesn't just go away without intense counseling. Its not hard to see when someone is reaching out. Thats my area of work, thats why I'm being serious of all of a sudden. I just hope next time you are bored on the computer maybe the idea comes to mind to maybe check out a support group website and get into one of the topics that relates to you. It beats getting mad at people like me on here.

a) 'Emo' is 'Emotive Hardcore' or 'Emocore', which is a type of music. It does not mean 'to be emotional'. b) If you 'show emotion', that does not make you 'emo' (as it is now more widely defined). I don't know how the name of a genre of music escalated to this whole Hot-Topic-slit-my-wrists-for-attention bullshit. It's not cool to be depressed. Black clothes an' a hair straightener won't fix your problems. That's what therapists an' prescription drugs are for. c) On a lighter note, in French, the verb 'emovoir' means something along the lines of "to be depressed/upset". There isn't really an English word for it, if you try to directly translate it. I find it hilarious.

Let's see, I had intensive therapy for almost an entire year, including grief counseling. My illness I deal with as I and my doctor see fit. I've DEALT with my issues and feel comfortable discussing them and using them to uphold my opinion. Maybe you didn't get that the first time I said it or maybe you just have poor literacy skills, so I'm going to be nice and repeat myself. IT NO LONGER TRAUMATIZES ME. Not only have I had help overcoming my issues, I'm a very strong person who overcomes issues relatively quickly. So before you whip out your Psychology 101 book that your college gave you two weeks ago and try to analyze the minutiae of my life, consider that everyone deals with difficulties differently. Also consider that as I've stated before, I don't give a rat's ass nor a flying **** nor a flying **** ON a rat's ass what your opinion of me or my mental state is. Because you're just somefuck on Teh Big Bad Interwebz. So how about you take your big, bad, ever-wise self and go piss in someone else's cornflakes, yes? Maybe you'll find someone who actually enjoys the taste of cliched tripe.

In any case, this FML is now pretty boring, so I'm going to go post on some other threads that continue to hold my interest. Feel free to thumb through Freud's outdated books and psycho-analyze me all you want. I won't be checking back to give a **** about your assumptions. See you around the website, gastric distress. ;)

I know exactly what the technical, social, musical, and middle and high school definitions of emo are. I also think it's up to the individual to determine what said definiton best applies to them, if any of them at all. I'm on a bit of a war path to get people to realize it isn't a bad or pathetic thing, granted there are kids who pass through their teenage years and adopt the ways of a music subculture such as this and tend to exaggerate or perpetuate the stereotypes that we tend to cringe at. Being depressed is not cool, but having the courage to be up front and honest about it is, there should be no shame in having a chemical imbalance in the brain. I choose to label my self "emo" because for one, the people where i live see it more as saying, "hey, i'm an emotional person, i don't hide" and two because i'm a life long sufferer of depression and i don't believe in stigmatizing things that people don't choose for themselves and i do it as a form of active awarness. Yes, I wear skinny jeans, dye my hair black and cut it at odd angles, yes, I shop at Hot Topic and yes, I like Twilight. Is that all that i am? definalty not, most of those things i did way before i was even aware that it was a fad or that there was a word being used to describe it. So not all emo people are the same, and it can be a positive thing when people start to understand that things can be interpreted in more than one way other than just what society has used to pigeon hole people into their neat little boxes.

i. love. you. i tip my hat to you

Well you'll still be in my prayers. I don't care how rude you try to be.

So which one are you? A, B, or C :)

Well, first off, after finding out that the OP is only 13, this has to really suck for her. Just because, yeah it can and might help if she told someone but in some cases it can also not help. The reason why I say that is because in my elementary school, I got bullied and tried to tell the teacher. But all she told me was, "I'll talk to them." And that was it. Even though she did talk to them, I ended up getting bullied more because of that. Also, I agree about the whole "emo" thing. How now it's quite stupid and in some cases it is people just being attention ******. But I was once "emo." But I didn't exactly cut, but I was just depressed. I wore black, and my hair is naturally black. And to myfriend_youfail, I can understand your hard past and experience. But don't you think you're being a big...over dramatic in response to the other people on here? I mean, just reading what you wrote seems like you have very bad anger problems. And yet the other person wasn't cussing you out or trying to tell you what to do.