23 People Confess The Lamest Things They’ve Ever Done To Fit In

Oh, to be young and impressionable — having the need for everyone to like you and be your friend, to seem cooler than you really are. So much time and money wasted on silly haircuts and name-brand shoes and teeny-tiny Abercrombie and Fitch denim skirts. I look back now and wince at my puka shell necklaces, and shudder at the thought of my wall of beanie babies that I just HAD to have. Sorry, ma.

When you’re 8 years old at a new school, all you want is for the other kids to accept you. But sometimes that means doing things that are lame and sad AF. Like spending your entire allowance on a box set of Pokemon cards when you don’t even know who Pikachu is. You come into school the next day only to realize that Pokemon now SUCKS, and you’re just left sitting there with a box of broken dreams and an empty piggy bank.

Other times, the need to fit in overcomes any sense of dignity or humanity that your adolescent soul may have. You start bullying the kid who wears the funny glasses because the “cool kids” say so. Or you get pressured into smoking weed even though it makes you a paranoid freak. Anything to fit in, right?!

What’s done is done, but we will always have our memories of the sh*tty things we did to feel more “accepted.” Whatever that means.

These 23 people did some of the most cringeworthy things to fit in:


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Written by Laura McNairy

Laura is a freelance writer for TFLN. She likes to write about what she knows best — dating, sex, and being awkward, but usually in the opposite order. She is the Assistant Editor and videographer for Peach Fuzz, a sex-positive nudie magazine in ATX.