Top 10 Worst Things About Being a Teenager

Adults love screaming "Come on! It's your last years being young!" right in your face while you actively spiral over a collapsing GPA. They genuinely expect you to romanticize this cursed era. Meanwhile, your brain is basically a soup of pure anxiety and you just want to survive the daily gauntlet of peer judgment without totally glitching out.

Your reality feels way closer to a broken survival game than some flawless coming-of-age movie. Read through this absolute nightmare fuel of a list to validate exactly why growing up is officially a scam.

The Top Ten

  1. Not being accepted into a college

  2. Experiencing break-ups

  3. Failing a class

    There goes your chance of going to Stanford.

  4. Having parents homeschool you or bring you to a private school

    Nah. I don't want to go to a private school with stricter rules, paying, uniforms, and few electives. And my dad threatened to homeschool me once. Heck no.

  5. Taking SAT finals

    It's too stressful for everyone.

  6. Being bullied

    It makes going to school a misery.

  7. Not having friends

    If you don't have any friends, you won't survive.

  8. Having a cell phone break

  9. Being single

    That's how I feel. All the other 15-year-olds I know and everyone in my family has had a girlfriend or a boyfriend at 15 in their life, and I'm the odd one out. It sucks because I feel ready as well.

    Although a girl liked me in 8th grade, I friend-zoned her, which I shouldn't have done. Now, I never see that same girl anymore. I do have a female friend, but I feel like she might have a boyfriend already because she talks to a male friend on the phone every night.

    I can't think of a single other 15-year-old I know that can relate because they all are or were in a relationship. I really hope I can be in a relationship before I turn 16 next October.

  10. Getting acne

    Pimples bury your face in a whole bunch of oil, dirt, and red stuff. Do you like any of those things? You look horrible with them!

    11. The Newcomers
  11. ?

    Being expected to act like an adult yet getting treated like a child

    This is so annoying! You're old enough to do things like know what you want to do for the next 50 years of your life and "help out" parents. You get judged for liking things you're "too old for". But you're too young for things like making your own decisions, having privacy and space, keeping secrets, and being in love.

    Well it's definitely not adulthood.

  12. ?

    Having no freedom

    13. The Contenders

  13. Going through puberty

    Puberty is confusing. A bunch of stuff starts happening, and it confuses the heck out of me!

    Female puberty feels like a curse. If God exists, he should've made me a boy.

  14. Having people say your behavior is bad because you are a teenager

  15. Having your face turn ugly

    This is my case. So sad, but it's true. At least I had a happy childhood with a normal face. But now I have to content myself with the monster I am now.

  16. Starting to experience life

  17. Having people try to stereotype you

  18. Being generalized by people

  19. Experiencing more consistent depression

  20. Being bothered by everything

  21. Finding it more difficult to express yourself

  22. Rebelling against your parents

  23. Experiencing bipolarity hitting you harder

  24. Experiencing social anxiety

  25. Doing homework

  26. Still not being allowed to swear

  27. Seeming like a bad copy of an adult

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