To ask how you would have reacted to lockdown if it had occurred when you were a teen <can be lighthearted>

[EdithPeston]

I would have danced the fandango if my O level exams had been cancelled!
No proms back then but wouldn't have been bothered if the leavers party was cancelled because it wasn't much different to the weekly disco I went to back then (anyone else remember discos?). Last day of school wasn't A Thing.

I wouldn't have been allowed to stay in bed til afternoon because mum would have kicked me out of the house for part of the day. No doubt i would have gone to the phone box to ring my friend Karen and arrange to meet on the bus where we would travel to nowhere and back, pretending we were sisters if anyone asked why we weren't socially distancing.

Back home, mum wouldn't have put up with any moping around - she'd find me jobs to do if I dared say I was bored. I'd watch Brookside or listen to tapes on my cassette recorder or type articles about my miserable existence on my Olivetti typewriter.

How would your lockdown have been?

[HerRoyalNotness]

We would have been forced labour, gardening, stripping wallpaper, painting, walking the dog, making the meals etc. Get out of the house! If both parents were off work we’d have gone to the second home for sure. Much better, very isolated, days on the beach, fishing, seafood gathering and firewood chopping.

[Holothane]

I’d have lived in my bedroom after chores or ironing, I was a loner no friends at home wasn’t encouraged all school friends so lived in my bedroom.

[Titsywoo]

I would have hated it. The summers in my teen years were lots of fun - smoking, drinking, snogging boys, hanging out in parks with my friends. I didn't get on with my parents at all as a teenager and needed my escape. My DD on the other hand has been fine although she misses school. She's very awkward and doesn't have many friends so even when this is all over I doubt she'll be going out more.

[safariboot]

I'd have got on as best I could. I'd have vanished from the internet, we didn't have it at home, and I'd probably have been stroppy demanding the single telly in the house for my Playstation.

In an exam year, I'd have been really pissed off if I missed exams and got given second-best grades instead.

[ParkheadParadise]

I would have been at home with dd.
I don't think I could have coped with lockdown. We used to spend hours and hours in the park.

[TheRoyallingStones]

I spent most of my teens online anyway so would have been quite happy really!

Me and my sister might’ve ended up killing each other though. But I would’ve still been able to go to my dads to get away from her.

And when lockdown eased I would’ve had friends locally to go see.

[Zisforstripyoss]

I would have loved it and rarely left my room when I was a young teen. Sixth form would have been more of a wrench not to go to the pub, but I wouldn't have minded being at home really.

[Oneisall]

Thankfully largely fine. At all ages I would have listened to music, chatted all evening on MSN (but only after 6pm and would have had to have come off when parents needed to phone someone!), begged my parents to top my phone up more so I could text more often, and probably read a lot too. In sixth form I would have missed going to the pub, boys, and socialising with friends. But I probably would have done school work without much fuss. I reckon my school would have largely left us to get on with it by telling us to work through our textbooks and, from time to time, email us the odd essay title or task.

I do think I would have secretly really enjoyed spending more time with my parents - although, of course, I wouldn't ever have admitted that.

[Saracen]

Young teen still at school: would have been over the moon. I hated school SO much. Being free of it would have far outweighed the downsides.

Older teen having left school: end of the world to be separated from my friends with no idea when I could get back to uni, which I loved. I remember that a month or two was forever when I was that age.