What is average teenage life like?

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I don't even know if this is a matter of AS/NT even. I just wonder what life is generally like for most teenagers, around what age typical expiriences tend to happen, what matters most to young people, what relationships/friendships/family is like, etc.

I just wonder. What do you think? What kind of books, television shows, etc do you think are most realistic? I understand that people come from different walks of life, but what is truly normal, average, or typical?

What's your life like?

Hm. Good question. For me it revolves around several aspects...

1: More social, physical and financial possibility and responsibility.
2: The shaping of one's own ethics, morals and bias.
3: The search for love and all it can encompass.
4: Social life. With which I mean a LOT of things. From finding like-minded friends to helping crying people, to going out and having fun<- That is what most old people think of when they see current teens.

Most teenagers are completely different from me! Here's a comparison of a avarage day (and the representation of a "normal" teenager is made up from conversations between fellow students in my school, ages 15-16, so it's fairly accurate).

Me: go to school, do work in lessons, talk to my tiny group of two other people, spend lunch in a computer room trying to avoid socialising as much as possible (something I do for the whole day really). When I get home I go on my computers, work on programming, and other such things.

At weekends, I stay in and do pretty much the same as after school generally.

"Normal" teenager: go to school, find people to talk to, generally "have a laugh", and do social rituals that seriously confuse me, mess around in classes, do more messing around at break and lunch. After school they'll meet with groups of friends and 'hang out', then maybe go to some sort of party that night.

The after school things go for weekends too.

A "normal" teenager's life is not one I would like to participate in. If you're a girl most of the conversation is about school gossip and what your boyfriend's like/who you want your next boyfriend to be. If you're a boy there might be less gossip, I don't know, but it'll be just as much about girlfriends. GRRRR. It's really irritating. I'm glad I don't go to school.

I dont know what the average teen life is like much, my teen life was isolated and far from average. It consists of going to school, doing hw, swim practice, watching TV and surfing the internet on the weekend.

You're asking the wrong people. How are we supposed to know?

My own school life consists of arriving there as soon as the bell goes to avoid having to talk to my classmates before class, going through lessons, sitting with my two friends at the back of the oval at recess listening to them talk to each other, sometimes joining in if it's to do with one of my interests or if not I read a book, more lessons, lunchtime which I usually spend doing the same thing that I do at recess or at the library, even more lessons. Then I get to go home, I proceed to gather the three white bread rolls with poppy seeds that my mother buys each day and enter the outdoor room of my house where I will read for approximately an hour. Then it's the computer for the rest of the night.

An average teenagers life seems to consist of arriving to school early to talk with friends, or late because of sleeping in, they then go to lessons and spend the entire lesson talking, at recess they talk and/or play sports, they have more lessons, more sports, more lessons. They then all go home in a pack and talk all night, they also smoke and drink.

I need to stop with the run-on sentences...

The real question here is: what in the world is an "average" teenager?

Partying, shopping, hanging out with friend, just chilling out.

well mine is differant to everybody elses... mine: computer, school, being shunned by everybody else, and talking to my few freinds.
everybody else: getting drunk, `going out` with each other, going to partys, and shunning me.