Did you hate being a teenager or did you like it?

I wasn't allowed out of the house until I escaped/was kicked out.

My parents were building a company, and were never home. Eighty hour work weeks were average. My parents are flashy people for appearances, which served them. Big house, big cars, everything. I was known as "that guy," by people who didn't know me. People were unkind, and I would make a friend, they would drop me off at the imposing facade of the 'rents and I would never see them again. Money can't buy you friends. If I lived there with my parents, I lived a monastic life, and I had to be home by sunset/ or ten later on, which really put a kink in the whole teenage fun thing. I was nocturnal to avoid my step-dad's mercurial quaint mountain town upbringing/outbursts. I was terribly depressed without knowing anything about mental health or social graces. I had one approved friend, I unfortunately continually imposed on, through no familial support.
I was not only a mooch, but a mooch from a "rich" family. They were sweet, but they were hypocritical. I didn't go to traditional school, so I went to school one hour a day, for a subject, then went home to study. I conducted experiments, I read everything I could, my parents have a great big library full of material. I received a reasonable education, but it hasn't served me yet, other than the way people will treat one if they are "proper." I have deep problems with public education.

When I escaped/was kicked out, I had a blast. There was a trade-off though. For every bit of social exaltation, there was a detraction. I easily got involved in the wrong crowd by virtue of cheap rent. My artist girlfriend who I adored, became borderline/misdiagnosed bipolar, and a terrible meth fiend, and finally an actual whore. I don't have a vice other than smoking weed, and the occasional psychedelic diagnostic check, so I found the whole thing terrifying. I had to get away. After the dudes stalking me, because who knows what she was up to, and the car chases, defending myself from drug-addicts, it was time to GO.

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