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Iwantabloodypizza · 26/01/2023 09:43

BellatrixLestrangesHeatedCurlers · 26/01/2023 09:36

Bloody hell @Iwantabloodypizza - you were failed comprehensively. Doesn't matter if you weren't "a nice person," you were a child crying out for help. I so, so hope your life is happier now.

Nah, life carried on just as shit. Sometimes there isn’t a happy ending and that’s okay - that’s just just life sometimes and some of us have awful ones despite trying to help ourselves and make things better.

There was nothing wrong with me. they were just trying to make excuses so they could all sweep it under the carpet and not have to deal with bullying. So it’s easier to blame the victim and say it’s their fault because they aren’t a nice person or that there is something wrong with them. I was just surrounded by arseholes.

justsobloodytired · 26/01/2023 09:47

I was 8 years old and I was a bereaved and confused little girl trying to get used to life without my mum who had just died.

roarfeckingroarr · 26/01/2023 09:48

I was 6. It was the last year I was truly happy, because it was the year before my mum died.

roarfeckingroarr · 26/01/2023 09:51

@justsobloodytired ❤️ solidarity. I don't think they knew how to help bereaved children very well in the 90s. My lovely dad tried his very best but I should have had therapy and been encouraged to talk more.

MarshaBradyo · 26/01/2023 09:53

In 1994 I was in last year at university. It was the year I studied in US with an exchange scholarship,

Great fun and gave me appetite to live in a big city. Which was London in the end as easier to stay than NYC.

TakemedowntoPotatoCity · 26/01/2023 09:56

First half of the year, I was finishing off a gap year as an au pair and then in the summer, doing Trek America in California. In September, I started uni and would meet the friends I still consider my besties nearly 30 years later.
Fashion - I had a red satin flared mini skirt and silver block heeled sandals. Satin was everywhere thanks to Pulp Fiction.

MademoiselleTrunchbull · 26/01/2023 09:56

I remember being on holiday in America and hearing that Kurt Cobain had died.

Iwantabloodypizza · 26/01/2023 09:59

@justsobloodytired @roarfeckingroarr my mum died when I was 12. She died on Friday afternoon, I was expected to go back to school on monday morning and carry on as if nothing happened.

I even got a detention for not doing Friday nights homework. I was sat in a hospice watching her die for christ’s sake, sorry if maths homework slipped my mind! Not that I had the balls to say that, I just said sorry.

The funeral was the following friday afternoon - I had to stand up in front of the whole class when the teacher demanded to know why I was going home early that day and missing half her lesson - everyone laughed at me when I said it was for my mums funeral and the teacher had the nerve to say “well, you’ll need to catch up on what you miss or you’ll get another detention, you already had one this week” without missing a beat.

I can only hope that things would be different these days x

Phos · 26/01/2023 10:03

I was 8. I enjoyed spending time with my 16 year old cousins who very happily allowed me to tag along with them to the roller disco and to hang around in the town centre of an evening with their school mates as long as I didn't tell anyone about them smoking. I think I was seen as a sort of pet or something. I can't imagine 16 year olds today enjoying having an 8 year old in tow.

The music was amazing in the 90s too.

KillingLoneliness · 26/01/2023 10:07

Whatever 4 year old do so I guess I was in reception!

Ellaskitchensimple · 26/01/2023 10:12

Love to all those who were having such an awful time back then xx

justsobloodytired · 26/01/2023 10:21

roarfeckingroarr · 26/01/2023 09:51

@justsobloodytired ❤️ solidarity. I don't think they knew how to help bereaved children very well in the 90s. My lovely dad tried his very best but I should have had therapy and been encouraged to talk more.

@roarfeckingroarr

Absolutely, my Dad did his best too but i didn't get any professional help either and her loss has haunted me my whole life.

Sending love to you 💖

xogossipgirlxo · 26/01/2023 10:22

I was brand new 1 year old

Squirrelsnut · 26/01/2023 10:26

Graduated from Leeds and moved home for a short while. Had loads of fun, very few responsibilities, easy job, old enough to do what I liked. Great times.

ginslinger · 26/01/2023 10:30

I was 37 and maintain it was my best age. I had reached a great point in my career, married to a great man, had a house I loved and still had loads of years ahead of me. I felt I was old enough to be taken seriously and young enough to still have the world at my feet. And I did

Mrsjayy · 26/01/2023 10:34

Itwasanotherlifewasntit · 25/01/2023 22:08

Just watching it on tv.

It was my favourite year..I was 16 and having the time of my life…Brit pop, house music, clubs, boys, alcohol & cigarettes…and the rest

I miss it and me then..tiny waist, smooth skin, a bit of attitude and energy and a lust for life 😫

What were you doing in 1994?

I had a baby so it was all a bit of a blur tbh!

Chocolateyshakes · 26/01/2023 10:35

In sixth form - first year of A-Levels.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 26/01/2023 10:36

OldFan · 25/01/2023 23:02

Sneaking drinks of 20/20

@browneyes77 Strawberry?

Kiwi for me

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 26/01/2023 10:37

I was 28 and spent 1994 in Australia. The early 90s were fab for me!

PizzaNinja · 26/01/2023 10:37

I was in my first year of A levels. Not the worst time in my life, but I was clinically depressed, without knowing it, at the time.

cantba · 26/01/2023 10:54

Me too OP. Me too. I can smell it in my mind, - all those really sweet perfumes.

My dd is a similar age. Her life looks so fucking bland compared to mine then.

cantba · 26/01/2023 10:56

Iwantabloodypizza · 26/01/2023 09:59

@justsobloodytired @roarfeckingroarr my mum died when I was 12. She died on Friday afternoon, I was expected to go back to school on monday morning and carry on as if nothing happened.

I even got a detention for not doing Friday nights homework. I was sat in a hospice watching her die for christ’s sake, sorry if maths homework slipped my mind! Not that I had the balls to say that, I just said sorry.

The funeral was the following friday afternoon - I had to stand up in front of the whole class when the teacher demanded to know why I was going home early that day and missing half her lesson - everyone laughed at me when I said it was for my mums funeral and the teacher had the nerve to say “well, you’ll need to catch up on what you miss or you’ll get another detention, you already had one this week” without missing a beat.

I can only hope that things would be different these days x

What a fucking bitch. That wasn't 1994. That was a nasty old cow.

I'm so sorry you had such a terrible time.

OnMyWayToSenility · 26/01/2023 11:01

I was 23, about to buy a flat in London, good job and going out a lot!

Timesawastin · 26/01/2023 11:06

Struggling with a very difficult child being expelled at five, an autistic one, and a semi employed husband. But hey, we Boomers had it SO easy, right?

BashfulClam · 26/01/2023 11:11

I was 15 going into my exams…I miss the 90’s. I miss the girl I was.