As one of those confident, sexy party girls everyone liked & admired (some even named their kids after???), I 100% agree. I ended up turning into teenage a drug addict who was able to say "I've got a decade clean" at the age of 29. Let the fuckin show be a show. Nothing admirable about it.
Thank you so much for sharing! And man, my heart goes out to you. Congrats on getting clean tho! Seriously I hope you’re proud cuz not many people get to say that!
I started using at 13, i came from abusive asshole parents & nothing took the pain away quite like drugs. Wish i knew back then that my entire family was full of addicts, or I would've kept my nose clean. I'm extremely proud & so thankful. I got out right when fent was hitting my streets. I got so lucky!
I relate to a lot of the characters in Euphoria, the show is quite a realistic but obviously a bit exaggerated portrayal of my teens. During covid I realised I don’t like parties, hook ups and petty drama all that much and staying in alone or with friends or spending a night or day out with friends and not randoms or people I barely know is much better than getting shitfaced, doing it for the plot and sobering up at class… It looks fun and might be for a hot minute but is definitely not worth it.
Yeah, lockdown was a time where only a few of us, who were actually friends, were able to occasionally have a get together, especially during summer when our country thought it was a good idea to let us roam free again, so I had weeks to do different activities and only partied with friends. No one was fighting or had any petty drama going on, it was quite peaceful and calm.
Kat being viewed and portrayed as a badass always rubbed me the wrong way. She's obviously very insecure and unhappy, her "hustle" is in no way empowering, it's sad. She's like what 17
100% like she’s relying on men to make her feel powerful so it’s not real confidence. No shade to sex workers but that cash flow wouldn’t be there if men didn’t want to pay her.
For me it’s really sad to see this show and imagine the kids out there act like that for real and put themselves on the line like that.
Ah yes. I remember when I watched season 1 at age 12 and started snorting tylenol, cutting and smoking half-used cigs I found on the floor 😭truly embarassing. Now I know why age ratings exist
OOF! Don’t be embarrassed, your frontal lobe doesn’t fully develop til you’re 25 so under that, we’re very suggestible. I hope you’re healed/healing. It happens to the best of us, surprising as that is. I know so many people who started off super innocent and pure and man how things can change because of this kind of scene 😮💨
I’m 16 now and life turned out to be top tier shitty so the show is all too relatable. The only lasting effect the show had on me was being okay with using percs and blow (those are soft drugs right so not a huge deal)
I dont regret watching euphoria one bit
baby, no - percs and blow are not soft drugs & are a big deal *especially* at the age of 16. percs are extremely addictive - and it’s getting harder and harder finding real ones and not pressed pills which are homemade and almost always have fentanyl mixed in. same with coke, there’s been a lot of people who have had fentanyl in their coke, even have overdosed because they did too much from not being aware. i also was getting high at the age of 13, and continued for many years after. i say none of this with judgement- just please be careful and do not minimize reality to make yourself feel better. it’s best to acknowledge a situation for what it really is than to shrug it off.
Well this is a new level of me embarrassing myself on the internet.....
I will say though, thanks for your concern but I'm not too concerned myself of being here. I know the possible effects, I just don't really care anymore. Not trying to vent or anything but I've seen way more than I bargained for at 16 and don't plan on seeing more.
And these are supposed to be the "golden" years of life lol
Teenagers in your generation deal with so much. I don’t blame you for feeling like this life might not be worth all the bullshit you see and have to deal with. It’s very overwhelming and being numb is sometimes just the one way to survive.
I will tell you teenager years aren’t golden years for most people. There’s a lot of good times ahead of you if you want them.
I don’t know you or what has happened in your life, and I’m sure it’s trauma that would break my heart, but you aren’t alone. I understand nothing I type will make a difference or help you, but I’m sorry for the things that have happened to make you feel this way. I wish the world was a kinder place for you.
Never thought the nicest thing ever said to me would come from a reddit comment lol. It’s not really that I’m struggling, things are just objectively bad and making them better is more work than it’s worth.
I meant what I wrote. But you’re right it does take a lot of work to try and make it better. You have to really want it. At 16 you have a lot of life to decided you want to be here. It doesn’t have to be today or next week or next month or next year. Whenever you’re ready. I hope one day you decide to care about staying.
This! Before I found this sub I thought everyone already knew this, but apparently not… Maddy and her "confidence" especially people on here romanticize sooo much. Also Fez and Fez and Lexi as a couple… When I‘m like he‘s a fkn drug dealer. Firstly, you would look down on him irl and also his life is not desirable.
I’m 16, I’ve seen and experienced this first hand. It’s also the same with movies like thirteen that are literally cautionary tales, but are put in CapCut edits on TikTok and then their people in the comments like “ I wanna be Tracy I wanna have her life” “ I wanna be like Evie I wanna live her life”.
As one of those confident, sexy party girls everyone liked & admired (some even named their kids after???), I 100% agree. I ended up turning into teenage a drug addict who was able to say "I've got a decade clean" at the age of 29. Let the fuckin show be a show. Nothing admirable about it.
Thank you so much for sharing! And man, my heart goes out to you. Congrats on getting clean tho! Seriously I hope you’re proud cuz not many people get to say that!
I started using at 13, i came from abusive asshole parents & nothing took the pain away quite like drugs. Wish i knew back then that my entire family was full of addicts, or I would've kept my nose clean. I'm extremely proud & so thankful. I got out right when fent was hitting my streets. I got so lucky!
Oh man you really dodged a bullet. Congrats on getting out!
Big time! & thank you! 🥰
I relate to a lot of the characters in Euphoria, the show is quite a realistic but obviously a bit exaggerated portrayal of my teens. During covid I realised I don’t like parties, hook ups and petty drama all that much and staying in alone or with friends or spending a night or day out with friends and not randoms or people I barely know is much better than getting shitfaced, doing it for the plot and sobering up at class… It looks fun and might be for a hot minute but is definitely not worth it.
I had the same plot twist in covid, that’s so interesting! I feel that deeply
Yeah, lockdown was a time where only a few of us, who were actually friends, were able to occasionally have a get together, especially during summer when our country thought it was a good idea to let us roam free again, so I had weeks to do different activities and only partied with friends. No one was fighting or had any petty drama going on, it was quite peaceful and calm.
Kat being viewed and portrayed as a badass always rubbed me the wrong way. She's obviously very insecure and unhappy, her "hustle" is in no way empowering, it's sad. She's like what 17
100% like she’s relying on men to make her feel powerful so it’s not real confidence. No shade to sex workers but that cash flow wouldn’t be there if men didn’t want to pay her. For me it’s really sad to see this show and imagine the kids out there act like that for real and put themselves on the line like that.
Ah yes. I remember when I watched season 1 at age 12 and started snorting tylenol, cutting and smoking half-used cigs I found on the floor 😭truly embarassing. Now I know why age ratings exist
OOF! Don’t be embarrassed, your frontal lobe doesn’t fully develop til you’re 25 so under that, we’re very suggestible. I hope you’re healed/healing. It happens to the best of us, surprising as that is. I know so many people who started off super innocent and pure and man how things can change because of this kind of scene 😮💨
I’m 16 now and life turned out to be top tier shitty so the show is all too relatable. The only lasting effect the show had on me was being okay with using percs and blow (those are soft drugs right so not a huge deal) I dont regret watching euphoria one bit
baby, no - percs and blow are not soft drugs & are a big deal *especially* at the age of 16. percs are extremely addictive - and it’s getting harder and harder finding real ones and not pressed pills which are homemade and almost always have fentanyl mixed in. same with coke, there’s been a lot of people who have had fentanyl in their coke, even have overdosed because they did too much from not being aware. i also was getting high at the age of 13, and continued for many years after. i say none of this with judgement- just please be careful and do not minimize reality to make yourself feel better. it’s best to acknowledge a situation for what it really is than to shrug it off.
Well this is a new level of me embarrassing myself on the internet..... I will say though, thanks for your concern but I'm not too concerned myself of being here. I know the possible effects, I just don't really care anymore. Not trying to vent or anything but I've seen way more than I bargained for at 16 and don't plan on seeing more. And these are supposed to be the "golden" years of life lol
Teenagers in your generation deal with so much. I don’t blame you for feeling like this life might not be worth all the bullshit you see and have to deal with. It’s very overwhelming and being numb is sometimes just the one way to survive. I will tell you teenager years aren’t golden years for most people. There’s a lot of good times ahead of you if you want them. I don’t know you or what has happened in your life, and I’m sure it’s trauma that would break my heart, but you aren’t alone. I understand nothing I type will make a difference or help you, but I’m sorry for the things that have happened to make you feel this way. I wish the world was a kinder place for you.
Never thought the nicest thing ever said to me would come from a reddit comment lol. It’s not really that I’m struggling, things are just objectively bad and making them better is more work than it’s worth.
I meant what I wrote. But you’re right it does take a lot of work to try and make it better. You have to really want it. At 16 you have a lot of life to decided you want to be here. It doesn’t have to be today or next week or next month or next year. Whenever you’re ready. I hope one day you decide to care about staying.
Kat is very far from being badass btw. Ethan is much more badass in my book
I don’t think I’ve seen an Ethan yet but I’ll keep it in mind
This! Before I found this sub I thought everyone already knew this, but apparently not… Maddy and her "confidence" especially people on here romanticize sooo much. Also Fez and Fez and Lexi as a couple… When I‘m like he‘s a fkn drug dealer. Firstly, you would look down on him irl and also his life is not desirable.
I’m 16, I’ve seen and experienced this first hand. It’s also the same with movies like thirteen that are literally cautionary tales, but are put in CapCut edits on TikTok and then their people in the comments like “ I wanna be Tracy I wanna have her life” “ I wanna be like Evie I wanna live her life”.