Goths

[Homicidalheathen]

Someone said to me last night, you know.....most goths were outcasts in High school.

Well, I was an outcast.....but we didn't have goths back then. In fact, I was horrible at being a punk considering I did hit the disco on Friday nights and danced to the Bee Gees.

So, my question is.....were you an 'outcast' in H.S. and did your leanings toward any counter culture movement start way back then?

[The_Dark]

Sorta... I was a punk back then. Mohawk and safety pins everywhere.... but honestly... no, I wasn't an outcast.

[phee]

Me and Odims kind of cast ourselves off... not out

[Brenda Starrr]

I was an outcast, but I think it was more because I was poor.

[JaneDead]

i was never an outcast. i was more like the kid who would talk to anyone. i pretty much liked anyone so if you were nice to me, i liked you/talked to you no matter who you were.

i was never in a group. you could never label me. never popular, never preppy, never goth, not a "jock"- whatever a girl jock would be, all i can think of is crotch but that's just not right.... not a band geek, not a nerd, not a burn out. i had friends in all "groups" but i was never in a "group" myself.

if anything i was a little invisible because i don't like to draw attention to myself and i think when you are in a group you draw attention, good or bad. and i don't like either.

[Shade Everdark]

I wasn't really a goth, I don't think, in high school (someone who listened to Sisters of Mercy and didn't know what goth was? Who'd a thunk?), but yeah...complete outcast.

[Guest Megalicious]

Was I an outcast? No I don't believe so, I had many friends in many different groups. Band dorks, punks, emo's, gangsters, tree hugging hippies, rockabillies (though back in my day we called them rebels) ... I owe that to my diversit and love for all kinds of music really. I was a punk though, from head to toe. I was really angry all the time while growing up, I had just been liberated from my parental unit, I loved and still love to this day most punk music. It just seem to be the best fit for me. I found happiness in going to the Showcase in Riverside every saturday and getting shitfaced, causing trouble, and getting in fights. At that age, at that time in my life its what came natural and felt right ... so I did it =)

[BillyDeath]

hell ya it sucked a bunch of rich spoiled brats in birmingham

[phee]

hell ya it sucked a bunch of rich spoiled brats in birmingham

What sucked them and how do I find it?

[LuluVox]

I wasn't really a goth, I don't think, in high school (someone who listened to Sisters of Mercy and didn't know what goth was?  Who'd a thunk?), but yeah...complete outcast.

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What Shade said. Except...I did know what "goth" was, but at that time it was undergoing this gross sort of metamorphosis, changing from what I vaguely understood of it as it was going on around me as a little kid into what it had started to become by the time I hit high school (think ex-cheerleaders in Marilyn Manson T-shirts). So, while I wore black, had burgundy-black hair, and wore my Joy Division, Siouxsie & the Banshees, and Cure shirts proudly underneath my long wool coat and above my skirts and combat boots, I did not take kindly to being called a goth.

Still don't, actually. I'm just Amanda.

[Head Wreck]

have never considered myself goth. but yeah.

goth/hippoe/phreak thats me in comprehensive

[Blackmail]

The best times to make fun of goths is at city club with zhukov.

[Brenda Starrr]

goth/hippoe/phreak 

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You're a Hippoe?

[Msterbeau]

I was outcast for no reason. I figured that I may as well have an excuse so I became a punk. :-)

[Lilith]

ha ha ha Yeah i was os an outcast..... BAnd geek and chubby with no sense of style due to lack of cash for those nice ripped up jeans...... I do think part of my style now is due to being an outcast... either that or the over whelming at home feeling i felt the first time i stepped in city..... every one was so diffrerent, creative, themselves etc........

and i am still an outcast on many levels it just doesn't matter like it did back then.

[JaneDead]

The best times to make fun of goths is at city club with zhukov.

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the only thing funnier than zhukov is zhukov and ted.

[Draco1958]

I was an outcast. Wasn't cool enough for anyone including old friends to talk to. Once I started putting on weight, I wasn't wanted around. kids I grew up with thru elementary school decided I was cool enough for them. They spent alot of time tormenting me. Surprised I made it this far between their trying to embarrass me, assault me and teachers turning a blind eye to all of it. The start of my self esteem downfall.

[kellygrrrrrl]

I outed myself.

Mostly to avoid getting hurt.

We were always moving around, so it was hard to maintain friends, and then find new ones.

I went through phases in school as far as stero-types. They came and went as I found appropriate to my everchanging mode, mood, taste in music, trends, fashion changes, and what I could creatively put together as my own....

I was never outlandsih or a rebel or anything like that....ok that was a lie.

[BillyDeath]

Kelly, believe it or not, I can totally relate with you. I am not saying this just to impress you.

[AstralCrux]

All I have to say is Athiest + Catholic School Girl= VERY BAD IDEA.

[Homicidalheathen]

I would love it if you could share a pic of yourself at this time in your life if ya have one!

Sorta... I was a punk back then. Mohawk and safety pins everywhere.... but honestly... no, I wasn't an outcast.

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[honeymustard02]

I was in the middle. I hung out with a lot of different people but never really fit into one spot or group. It was fun but also annoying to not have a place.

[Blackmail]

In my highschool, back then they were called "squids". Did they call them "squids" anywhere else or was that just at my school?

The Squids liked me because I wore Cure and Depeche Mode shirts. The Squids (goths) weren't really outcast either, most people seemed to get along.

[kellygrrrrrl]

They were called Squids at my school too!

[phee]

They were called Squids at my school too!

Wow mine too!

Pretty much (if you can picture this) I had knee high boots, wore lots of silver jewelry over dark clothing and t-shirts, trenchcoat almost always... and long purple hair down to the middle of my back...