were You a very rebellious or wild teen?
Yeah and no. I mean, it depends. At the time I didn’t really see myself that way because I considered myself pretty normal. Like, I didn’t do drugs, I didn’t drink, I don’t know, I wasn’t causing those kinds of problems. I didn’t skip classes or lie to my parents or things like that, which to me seemed more like the behaviour of someone more rebellious.
But now if I’m self-critical and look back on it with an adult perspective… wow. I think my mum in particular had a lot of patience with me because I was really unbearable. I had a lot of bottled-up anger and a lot of outbursts, and I was always very argumentative, and on top of that I refused everything. I’ve always had an issue with being forced to do things, and the problem is that sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do because that’s just life. And I refused anything I didn’t personally agree with, and I didn’t care if people tried to drag me into it, I just wouldn’t do it. And I was a huge pain in the ass. I wasn’t easy to deal with.
And my dad was always more like a mate than an authority figure, so he gave me a lot of freedom, which seems cool when you’re a kid, but then you think about it as an adult WOMAN and you’re like… oof.
