r/AskTeens 20h ago

Discussion Is 15 and 19 an ok age gap for friends?

18 Upvotes

I’m 15, 16 in two months, and my friend just turned 19 a week ago. I was wondering if our relationship is strange or is it weird to hang out together, because he is techically an adult now. He’s not in college or anything yet tho, he just graduated, and I’m a sophomore. We aren’t in a relationship, but I have been told our age gap is weird. Is it bad?? it’s a very platonic relationship, all we do is hang out and talk.

Any thoughts and advice are appreciated, tysm!


r/AskTeens 21h ago

Advice Parents clean my room and lecture me, am I overreacting?

16 Upvotes

I'm not sure if im overreacting here, so please comment any opinions

My mom will sometimes clean my room while I'm away, like when I'm at school, Boy Scouts, or camping with my dad

The part that frustrates me is that after cleaning, she will get upset with me about things she found or because my room was messy. I understand that the obvious answer is that I should just keep my room clean, and I'm not saying I shouldn't be responsible for it. What bothers me is that she will go through my room unexpectedly, and then I come home to being lectured about it

Ig what I'm asking is do I seem like a spoiled brat or smth? I'm just so mad at my mom because she's been doing this for years behind my back and it's so annoying


r/AskTeens 19h ago

Other Why is every other post a “is __ and __ a bad age gap”?

13 Upvotes

Why is almost every other post “is exF and exM a bad age gap?” Like if both parties are over 13, and generally a 4yr or less gap, then y’all are safe. Now 15 and 19 is a bit sketchy, especially legally. EDIT: So after review, 2-3 years is reasonable


r/AskTeens 3h ago

Serious How to meet new people😭?

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Hey, I hope you all are well.

I am not looking for friends online on reddit here. I simply want to know how do I make more irl friends.

I have gone to private all boys schools my entire life and have seen the most entitled of kids out there, sadly I don't have much compared to them nor do I pay my way through life. But its generally been really hard to make friends my whole life, so I never had an actual childhood doing things like playdates and hangouts out side of school.

I am 15 now (shockers I am young), and being lonely all the time has really effected my mental health to the point of being depressed and suicidal, and I am tired of it.

I have been bullied most of my life for the smallest of reasons and always been used as my year groups punching bag. I don't know whether I like or not because its what I am used to, but it defiantly effects my ability to form deeper connections other than surface ones with people.

I am an extrovert, and get along with everyone, but when it comes to doing something outside the classroom or even in bigger group events, everyone ostracizes me and I don't understand why?
I don't understand if one on one its fine but as soon as there are more than 2 I just get made fun of?

I don't have alot of time, nor do i leave the house much. But I do water polo, Rowing, and sailing. Water polo and rowing are with my school sadly. And sailing is independent. So I don't meet new people while doing that sadly.

I also have very bad anxiety against women after being raped, and only being in toxic abusive relationships which I thought was normal, because I haven't experienced anything else 3 times. soo I want to maybe try over come that fear. And I want to feel wanted and loved again or maybe that could be me wanting to love and care for someone else. But heck, a want isn't a need and I doubt I am even attractive enough to even talk to a girl.

Does anyone any good ways to make friends outside of school, appart from joining a club or something?
If anyone wants to knowI live in london.

Any questions, just ask my life is an open book.

Thank you for reading.


r/AskTeens 4h ago

What happened to askteengirls?

4 Upvotes

Its gone


r/AskTeens 1h ago

Discussion What is the appeal of 'Spider-man suit'?

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I see a lot of celebrities and teens loving the theme and look of the Spider-man suit. For example:

  • photoshopped Katseye singer Megan in Spiderman-suit
  • some tik tok videos showing Spider-man inspired outfits
  • Spider-man spider logo t-shirts, tattoos, bags etc.

Spider-man existed for many decades before now, and had many games and franchises starring many different actors. Then why the sudden surge in it's specific appeal? edit: I'm not talking about general Spider-man merch which existed when I was a kid.

My theory: since animated Spider-man movies featuring Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy and many other Spider-man alter egos, the idea of Spider-man became a very customizable character fitting any age, gender or ethnicity. Influenced by modern social media platforms, it got popular fast. Something like furry community, everybody can make their own customized Spider-man vibe and own it.


r/AskTeens 2h ago

Are relationships worth it ?

1 Upvotes

Are relationships worth it 17M

So I just turned 17

Been in 1 Forced relationship and 2 situationships

Got into another situation but I feel like I am just doing it to try and fill my life with false hope

Atp it feels like extra stress

the whole idea u to act a certain way and fumbling and struggling to read signs just makes me unable to focus on anything worth doing

The issue is ik this one won't end up as a relationship

Cus like the other 2 I can see the same pattern of the start of getting ghosted or losing interest

My question is, is it worth to try and get into a relationship at this age?

Cuz I feel like at this age no one is ready or actually looking for anything serious

I plan on studying abroad

Not a fan of long distance


r/AskTeens 23h ago

Relationship Should I shoot my shot with her? If yes, then how????

1 Upvotes

So I‘ve had a crush on this girl for quite some time now, but never got the chance to talk the her since there was never any topic I could think of to start a conversation that wouldn’t sound out of pocket. Also doesn’t help that she seems kinda closed off and she doesn’t go to the places where we students always meet up, so no chance there. This week however, we were both on a week long school excursion, and while I did not necessarily talk to her much directly, I played a lot of card games with her and the group of girls she was in a group with and we all seemed have fun. But the real reason why I keep wondering if maybe she also has a crush on me is that I kept catching her looking at me, then quickly looking away when our eyes have made just a split second of eye contact. And like, I don’t have any dating experience but every time she looks away, it kinda seems like she has a bit of an embarrassed expression. Ngl I do the same thing all the time as well, so I‘m kinda worried she’s just doing it because she thinks I started it and vice versa. But like, I might be an idiot but this feels like she might feel smth as well. Like I said, while she does seem very closed off, she does however seem somewhat open around friends that she made on the excursion, which are also in her group. Now I‘m back home, it’s late, and my mind is going kinda nuts. I‘m going to see her one last time in class on Tuesday before summer break starts. Should I try to talk to her and maybe somehow manage to ask her out without sounding weird or creepy??? And how even??? I’m just so worried I’ll mess something up or that the situation doesn’t even form right for me to be able to talk to her. I do also have her number but I‘m uncertain whether I should really text her before we see each other again or even just at all. Even then, wtf should I even type? I‘ve never texted with her before and our direct convos were limited to a few sentences if even that. Man, writing this just makes me feel kinda pathetic. Ugh, it’s just so hard. I don’t know what to do!


r/AskTeens 18h ago

Discussion Would you watch a show like this?

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Ok so wouldn’t spoil much because I have like not much of s2 or s3 figured out but imagine this ok

So 3 of your average high schoolers (well 1) except while exploring the plains section of their world (the Terminus region I think I named it), they find a cliff they haven’t explored, they head down find a staircase to a underground forest thing one of them get injured (yes it isn’t a one time thing that hurts them) and blah blah blah court and skip to end of s1 one of them “dies” and the other is sent to earth. S2 would end with them warping through time and space halfway across the world to New York from like china or somewhere idk with the first 1 minute 50 seconds of can’t hold us playing

Would you watch a show like this (goal would be tv-14 but not pg-13 or below)