Were you allowed to go out a lot as a teen?

[Appiplyer]

Do my parent allow me? yes they are the only rule was to get back home before dinner

Do i use it? Heck no i'll be in the living room playing whatever game i could play at those moment. So as long as my friends doesn't call me to play then i will stay at my house day and night '>'

 

[extermist]

I was unsupervised as a teenager, no parents and my family moved to a different city leaving me alone.
But I didn't go out frequently until my college days, that's when I did whatever.

 

[Zerpina]

From the time I was about 15... hell not even that yet... Jez and I rarely, if ever, stayed home outside of work or school. We didn't get into "much" trouble, but Bro more or less told me "Hey, keep out of trouble, go to school, and don't end up in jail because I'm not bailing your ass out."

And he 110% meant that.

Yeah, Jez, as I have stated before, was my partner in crime. We got into much more "mischief" to put it nicely, than girls our age should have, but it was fairly safe at the time, and where we lived was also fairly crime free. No kidnappings that I recall hearing about growing up, and such. That didn't mean we didn't get into some shenanigans we shouldn't have, but we more or less hung out at old, rundown buildings because it was "cool" and strange... And places we rightly should not have been, that I really can't go into here.

We used fake IDs to buy alcohol and Cig's. Jez smoked, I didn't. Now, I to this day think it's gross, but yeah, I probably should have been in juvenile detention or jail fifty times over for the things I got into during my teenage years.

Mind you, I'm leaving a lot, and I do mean a lot of context out here. There is more, but again, I can't put it into text, as it would tell things I’d rather keep to myself and leave it in the past

Honestly, it was just luck. I have a lot of stories I could tell, and I probably would get put in reader mode for telling them. But I digress. Yes, I was allowed.

 

[Appiplyer]

I was unsupervised as a teenager, no parents and my family moved to a different city leaving me alone.
But I didn't go out frequently until my college days, that's when I did whatever.

Same i barely went outside pre College but now i go to the cinema anime convention, or even some community offline meeting '>'

 

[extermist]

Same i barely went outside pre College but now i go to the cinema anime convention, or even some community offline meeting '>'

Enjoy your time and live your best life.
If you ever have fears or doubts that stop you from persuing some goal, always remember.
No one lives forever and time will eventually run out for everyone.
Always shoot your best shot and stand up to your fears.

 

[TheReal_TomokoKuroki]

I went out so much as a kid. Several times a day I'd ask my mom and dad if I could leave the house. Go to a friend's, go to the park, walk the main roads, explore places I've never been. Walk miles and miles and miles without supervision, my phone on DND so I didn't have to hear a goddamn call or text.

It was lovely. Irresponsible, sure. But when you're a kid, that's how you are. I was better off for it. I had/have immense anger issues, and walking was/is the one thing that settles me down.

 

[KamakoKamako's icon]

I had a curfew of 9pm 'til I was about 14, unless I was staying round a friend's house. By that time I was using my phone pretty regularly, and soon afterwards I was let loose to pull all-nighters, and me and my mates would go wherever our feet took us. So many nights spent simply walking, talking and laughing, haze clinging to our jackets. I wouldn't trade them for anything. I was usually out 3-4 evenings of a week.

 

[Blueskunky Blueskunky]

I am a teen.
I will update this when I'm 18, I promise

 

[rugal]

my parent did let me be out as mutch as i wanted as long i did not get into trouble
and they did not mind if i did come home late

 

[daido]

I guess that the wonderful thing about time and distance is that they allow you to put everything in perspective.

My older sister was never allowed to go out to party, despite being VERY popular and travelling everywhere with a huge group (something our parents were always drilling into us — "safety in numbers" and all that jazz).

(But of course she snuck out like the badass she was).

I always found that very odd, because, well, I was the exact opposite and got an equally flipped treatment.

I had always been very sedentary, but that got into overdrive once puberty hit — I could remain as motionless as furniture and only speak in monosyllables for days if need be. It drove our folks crazy.

As expected, my dad didn't take too kindly to this "vampire act" and started ambushing me whenever I would be returning from school (my one non-escapable "outing") — he'd allow only the bare minimum of bathroom breaks, hand me a water bottle, and tell me, in no uncertain terms, that I would not be allowed back "until moonlight or hypothermia".

At the time, I thought it was an extreme violation of my freedom and boundaries, but I eventually got used to it because I was blessed with living in a very walkable area full of great sights to experience.

Considering the fact that I now work outdoors all day AND am as happy as can be doing it, you can say that I have long started seeing the value in such "tough love" tactics.

But he could never get me into night clubs — that was my last stand and the hill I chose to die on.

What was your experience?

I guess I was never really stopped from going out by my parents, but my area growing up was so un-walkable and with nothing to do that there wasn’t much out there. Gaming was a good way to explore concepts and get to know myself in a way, although I wonder how I might have been different if I could have just gone outside and done stuff.

Eventually moved to the big city and lived it up for a long while, constantly going out and meeting people, dating pretty frequently, but I find myself a bit tired of it all now. Still glad to have stuff to do around me occasionally, but mostly I just wanna kick back with a game these days.

 

[X y b e r - S k u ll]

My parents were quite protective of me when I was younger since admittedly; we did use to live in a shitty area with a lot of bad people, gang activity etc. so most of the time if I was going somewhere, it was a family outing. When I was like 10 they allowed me to ride my bike to the local park on my own since one of my favourite things as a kid was riding my bike and doing laps around the park. They made sure it was drilled into my head that I don't go anywhere else but the park, don't talk to strangers, ride home as soon as there's any potential trouble and all that kinda stuff. I did that so many times, and honestly there was only 1 time I had any sort of trouble where a couple older boys tried to take my bike so I had to bail and ride home.

When I was about 15 my parents decided to let me loose, so to speak, since I had a phone and they trusted that I could handle myself. Truth be told though; I was never really interested in going out much lol. I was so heavily invested in video games, anime/manga etc. That I'd rarely leave my house, or my room even, and I had all my friends on Skype anyway so we could talk outside of school. The only times I'd really go out during those school years was to hang out at a friends place or go to the cinema or something with them. There were a few times when I was 17 and me and my best friend would just randomly pull all-nighters, just walking around the town, getting on trains to go into the city, the best one being when we snuck into an all-night movie marathon in the city. It started at about 9PM and didn't end until 8AM the next morning, and I didn't get home until about 11 that same morning, where I pretty much passed out as soon as my head hit the pillow since I'd literally been up for 24 hours lol.

 

[FarJyyUir]

If it wasn't practice, then no.
Folks wanted to enjoy a night out, i was babysitting.
Have friends over, no.

Am the eldest among my siblings, Far(85), 'Brenda'(89), 'Angel'(90), 'Greg'(91), I was basically free labor.

Brenda & Greg were heavily watched with a loose leash, the 'darlings' so to speak.

 

[Zerpina]

To be fair,.... bro knew I would have snuck out anyway, so he figured it was easier to just let me. He knew I could watch out for myself, and usually in real life, I have a pretty good sense of "Yeah, no, that's a psycho killer" or "That's okay person" You know that gut feeling thing.

Also, when in doubt, find the biggest, meanest looking biker you can. And, didn't hurt that I kept mace and a Taser on my person as well.. and still do

 

[Sanomoe]

I was! It started mostly when I use to be more friends with a cousin, where I remember we went to some of his friend's house that was in a cul-de-sac area, and we even explored a hidden soccer place after walking some trail in a nearby woods.

Around the 7th grade, when I was around 13, was the point I get friends with interests in common in school. For many days, I used to go to their house on afternoons. Sometimes it was for the sake of doing homework, but also we gotta to play many games, especially with consoles I didn't have (at the time, I had a SNES and a PSOne). One of my friends had a Dreamcast and 3 controllers, and we used to have a lot of fun playing Power Stone 2, Heavy Metal Geomatrix and Soul Calibur together. He even lent his DC with me for a few days, a experience I don't forget up to this day. And another one had a PS2, where we used to play games like the DBZ Budokai series, Inu-Yasha Feudal Combat, Saint Seiya Sanctuary and I used to watch them play The Punisher and do those torture methods for fun lmao. Around my last years at school, teachers were doing strikes, and some days we ended up leaving early due that, which meant going to their house!
I also went to anime conventions as well.


And consider that I was timid and usually introverted. Doing all this meant a lot. I still miss those times, because I don't have contact with those guys anymore, and it's kinda solitary feeling like you're like the only one with the same interests like you always used to do. But no worries, no use crying over the spilled milk! I have faith this may change eventually

 

[TinRattler]

I lived 80kms from the nearest town so I'd just go hang out at the river fishing and swimming

 

[Ikagura]

No, I was also told to come back home as soon as possible after I'm done with school during day.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I lived 80kms from the nearest town so I'd just go hang out at the river fishing and swimming

Interesting!

Fishing was one of the many times my dad forced me to do... but I enjoyed it.

 

[Skellerick]

Enough to have a good time with friends