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01-15-2005, 09:54 PM

ed

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Registered: 01-15-2005
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Re: research study on moving (Re: SherBear)

[QUOTE] Hello i'm Ed a fellow brat and sure can relate to moving around to dif places as a brat..Yes it was kind of hard making friends at first but as a brat you overcome. So after time it was easy, and yes i had to have a couple of fights to establish myself not as a bully to to stand up for yourself and after that you were ok.. If you won thats fine and even if you lost a fight the other kid respected you for standing up and became good friends...sometimes you did not even have to fight... and of course as the new kid they wanted all the latest news from the states fashions what the kids wore , the latest records and when our household goods arrived the kids were all over going through my records. and i would take them to the teen club know then as the AYA and play them, the best time to arrive at a new place was the summer before school stated. and of course there were new kids after me.....I cherished those days as a brat.... ed
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One thing I did was I kept friends weather they were good or bad because at least I knew how they were. If I went around picking and choosing who the best was by the time I found them it was time to move on. Even though i was very outgoing and always had a lot of friends my closest ones were always the ones that were most likely to steal my boyfriends or talk about me behind my back and almost always did.
Same with teachers. If I had a nasty one it didn't matter because it's not like I was going to be in the school for another year. I hated where i lived when I was there but I cried on the way out because I loved it so much.
As if your teen years aren't hard enough without having to move all the time and make new ones. But i wouldn't change it for all the money in the world.
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I can relate. One of the roughest things for me was being the new kid on the block after my father moved to DC when I was 12. Its not easy being 12 and being the new kid on the block. But, you know. Looking back it sucked, but I got through it. I had to get into a couple of fights and establish myself, but once I did, it was all good. When you move around a lot, I think you get this attitude that you don't care what other people think because you know that you aren't going to deal with them for the rest of your life. It makes it difficult to start meaningful and lasting relationships sometimes, but it also allows yourself to be yourself around others a lot easier. At least thats what I found. I think other people recognize that and it makes it easier for them to be themselves around you. Because of that, I think its pretty easy for brats to discern real people from "real" people, if you know what I mean. A good trait, I think.
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