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As we grow and develop, our perspectives and opinions tend to change, often making us view some things completely differently than we used to; and that applies to everything, from favorite pasta to reading books, and beyond.

One common thing that people tend to view differently as children is people themselves. When you’re a kid, a 20-something-year-old might seem like they know what they’re doing, when you’re a teen, a 35-year-old might look old, and when you’re a freshman in high school, seniors might appear to be so much cooler than they often are.

Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community discussed views similar to the latter, after one user asked them what was something that seems cool in the eyes of most high schoolers but is actually cringe. Fellow redditors came up with many answers, including “high schoolers” themselves, so scroll down to find them and see what other things people have grown out of or into as they closed the awkward chapter of the high school years.

#1

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Driving like an idiot/ having a loud car.

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#2

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Discussing sex loudly with the purpose of having random strangers hear it as if that somehow is a sign of maturity.

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#3

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Vaping.

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#4

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Being rude to teachers. Every person who I know who was rebellious in school cringes hard when they think about the s**t they said to teachers.

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#5

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Being loud and obnoxious everywhere they go. Like dude no one thinks you’re or your friends are cool over there yelling penis and moaning cause you think it’s funny.

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#6

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Calling Millenials/any older generation cringe. They're also going to get old and seem cringe to the kids one day. It's the cycle of life.

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#7

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool "It's just a prank bro" no, you're being an a*****e.

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#8

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Worrying what other people think. The concept of “cool” in the first place.

My brother and I (in our early 30s) were watching a group of teenagers trying so hard to put on this cool, unemotional facade at Disneyland while everyone else around them just enjoyed themselves and we were laughing to ourselves that teenagers are so afraid of displaying emotion or passion and nobody else cares. But we all went through it, and we all reach the realization that it’s more fun to just enjoy ourselves.

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#9

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Blasting loud music in busses and public places.

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#10

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool That one like, tikok haircut that guys get where they have like, no hair on the sides and then too much hair on top. No shade it's just douchey.

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30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Teens who think they know about anything in this world. I know it's a phase we all went through but it's very cringe listening to a kid lecture you on stuff theve never stopped to think about or arnt even capible of thinking about.

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#13

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool I wouldn’t say that this applies to the majority, but it does apply to a pretty decent amount at my school: saying slurs and barking at people they find weird (they really think it’s peak comedy).

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#14

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Hickeys or so I've been told.

I actually have no issue with them just so long as they're hidden.

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30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Pretending to have some type of disorder, like that makes them special. Like some how everyone has multiple personalities now, one of the rarest disorders of it's kind and everyone and their cousin suffers from it.

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Corvus
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

People with actual disorders don't "enjoy" them in the slightest. I know a guy with genuine OCD and I've seen how it could mess up his life at times.

Charlotte Watters
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have ADHD (I'm 33) and it is HORRIBLE. I would not wish it on anyone. It is not fun, it is not funny, it's ruined relationships, it's hard to function, short-term memory problems, difficulty managing time, the list goes on. Fortunately I am on medication but meds only do so much.

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Cursed Girl
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes absolutely, i'm autistic and it ain't "cute" or "quirky"

Clown fish
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep it can be life crushing with panic and confusion at the world. I get people thinking my child is trying to be naughty when they cry because they get so overwhelmed they don't know what to do anymore

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kath morgan
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is a lot of weird self diagnosing and misinformation about health going on on ticktock. “I never knew I had X until I found d this informative account!” No, you just found someone who told you what you wanted to hear and validated you. You did not find researched information about X.

Isa's left eye
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not the teens' fault when they're being fed misinformation by grown a*s adults. (sometimes they don't genuinely believe they have the disorder(s) they claim to and in those cases, they are obviously at fault)

Sami-Jo Ross
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I blame TikTok and Instagram for this. Girls acting like it's trendy to pretend to have a disorder. "OMG Starbucks is closed, I'm so depressed" you're not depressed Lindsay, you're just a twat.

Steve Hall
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The idea that everyone needs therapy. Lots of people just need a firm slap up side their head.

SkippityBoppityBoo
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've agoraphobia, panic attacks and PTSD. I've been clinically diagnosed after everything that's happened to me over my life and especially the last few years. I work with my doctors and specialists but... It's people who self diagnose and say laughingly that they've PTSD after, like, losing their keys that get to me. You don't know what true PTSD is like. It's horrific.

gilded panda
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They personalities thing is how it’s like there’s a extrovert me and a introvert me, guess which one I like more

Ms.GB
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My friends mother actually did have DID. Drew Pensky (Dr. Drew) used to be her psychologist. I remember calling her house once and her mom answered the phone but she sounded like a little girl.

Lori
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One common trend I've seen with the current teens is they think emotions should be medicated. A symptom is not a diagnosis. ADHD is very rare, but according to tiktok every person in the world is ADHD. You can have symptoms without having the disorder/diagnosis.

MushroomHead22
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

like... like.... like.... that's another one of those things that teenagers do that is annoying.

Lee Banks
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My cousin is autistic. For real. Thankfully his mom is patient, kind, and a board certified mphnp, and worked really hard to teach him how to recognize facial expressions and body language. He's still not great at it, but he functions. I want to slap the silly out of every twenty year old I meet that's 'undiagnosed autistic' using it as an excuse to be self centered. There are so many of them.

DrBronxx
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is a hard one to figure out, though. I don't doubt that some people fake these sorts of things, but isn't it possible that, as advancements take place in the field, there are also more diagnoses than there used to be because the disorders are...easier to diagnose? It's a muddled grey area that can leave people skeptical of those who actually have disorders.

Mr. D
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually i blame family therapists/parents. Apparently autism is a "spectrum" because EVERYONE literally has it today. SO many scientific sounding names to excuse the kid for being non-disciplined, spoiled, and entitled. If we give bad behavior a title we can then prescribe a medication and use it as an excuse for hen they get into legal trouble.

Kristal
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8 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is so far from true. You know pain is a spectrum, right? Yeah, lots of people have pain but not everyone and people in pain don't all have the same type of pain. That's what Autism is or anything that is in a spectrum because people are not identicle. Just like how prescriptions for pain meds are given at different doses for different body and pain type, treatment for autism is the same way; not everyone needs medication, some do, it depends where they are on the spectrum.

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#16

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Doing things to gain other peoples approval..

Seriously, when you grow up and stop giving a f**k about other peoples opinions, life is so much better.

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#17

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Telling people how mature you are.

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#18

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Making fun of people. Like you're not funny, you're annoying and childish.

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#19

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Gossip at someone else’s expense.

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#20

Older you get the more you realize the one truly cool thing is the air conditioner.

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#21

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Being d***s to the teacher who just tries to do his\her job.

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#22

Filming instead of helping.

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#23

Being 'edgy' and 'offensive' just for the sake of it.


Yeah, we get it. You think that mocking dead people or posting racist/sexist stuff on social media makes you a tough edgelord not to be f****d with. No, it just makes you look like a complete tryhard.

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#24

“I’m not like other girls”.

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#25

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Saying 'hashtag' in a spoken sentence, and not ironically.

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#26

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool The lifestyle of being "young and reckless".

Having an addiction to d***s is not cool.
Being in codependent relationships is not cool.
Having sex in bathroom stalls and on a couch stored behind the theater stage is not cool.
Its just gross.
Skipping class is not cool.
I don't even know why people skipped classes at my high school. There was literally nothing to do but loiter in a bathroom.

Just enjoy your time not paying bills and be as self-centered for as long as you can.

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#27

Calling themselves an Alpha male or Redpill and Calling random people npcs.

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#28

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Bullying. For example, that thing where they comment "oh" on peoples posts and then claim to "just be saying oh." Everyone knows it's not innocent, it's done with the purpose of making the poster feel insecure or dumb. Just things that can be played off as small, but that they know will have a bigger impact.

Does anyone know what Im talking about? I really dont know how to explain this.

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#29

Calling things 'cringe'.

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#30

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Binge drinking. It's fairly prevalent and accepted within a lot of social circles when you’re in your 20s. You know, those nights out with your buddies when you pre-game, go to the bar and order a few rounds of shots, and let the night take you where the alcohol fuel leads. This feels progressively out of place as you move into your 30s and beyond.

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#31

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Using mature language to sound smart. Anyone can string together a bunch of big words, doesn’t make you intelligent.

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#32

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Sleep deprivation. I loved pulling all nighters as a teen and young adult. Now, they just give me migraines and make the entire subsequent day hell.

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#33

Bragging about how much weed you smoke or how much you drink.

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#34

Flipping off the camera when you get your picture taken.

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#35

Disrespecting other people for no reason.

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#36

The cringe culture. Just do whatever the f**k you want who cares.

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#37

Adults who hang out with them.

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#38

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Being popular for the wrong reasons. As soon as you graduate that s**t starts over. Better not to rely on being popular and prepare.

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#39

Using slang terms like “the fuzz” with reference to police or “bread” for money. Also, wearing bell-bottomed trousers and beads. (Note, I’ve been away from the high school scene for a while, so take this with a grain of salt, as it may be somewhat dated).

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#40

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Bailing on plans last minute. If you don’t want to do something, just say so.

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#41

Talking back to teachers and laughing in their faces, bullying others, smoking and drinking and then bragging about it. Acting "alter" when they are just following the trend and not really belong there.

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#42

Moaning in the middle of the class.

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#43

Starting fights for no reason (at least in my school anyways).

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#44

TikTok b******t.

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#45

30 People Share Cringe Things High Schoolers Do While Thinking It's Cool Could say quite a few, but the best is probably - Not caring.

Being genuine even to the point of seeming uncool is an amazing personality trait in adulthood that some don’t get back until they are parents.

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#46

Putting people down

You best stop doing that s**t real quick cause it won;t score you points in college.

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#47

Crying on TikTok, or any kind of dancing on TikTok to something completely inappropriate, like a funeral or someone in a hospital bed fighting for their life.

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#48

Insult humor as the primary way of interacting with your friends.

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#49

Most high schoolers.

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#50

The concept of "cool".

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#51

Civics with loud mufflers.

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#52

Pretty much the whole persona they play to fit in.

You'll eventually grow out of it. The question is just when.

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#53

Guys who "get around" with lots of girls.

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#54

Yelling “Let’s gooooooooooooooooo!”.

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#55

Sleeping eight people to a hotel room to save money.

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#56

Dating older guys.

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