Teenage angst

[SauvignonBlanche]

DD (13) announced last night that she was sick of trying to keep up with the other girls by being fashionable and thinks she wants to be an Emo .
I was going to bed so think I just said "that's nice dear" but will chat to her again tonight.
What can I do to help when I'm not really sure what she's on about?

Ahh....
Just listen to her, methinks. Sounds like she's unhappy & that's reason enough to invite her to talk about it.

She's been unhappy at school for a while, girls being bitchy.
Is an Emo what used to be a Goth?

Not quite, Emo is "emotional" and they go around thinking the world is unbearably full of pain, whereas Goths...I think they're a bit more complicated and their sub-culture actually has some culturally significant aspects to it.

But from the outside they seem to be the same - all attention-seeking or trying to self-identify in the end

I think I understand it a bit better now after reading this.
She's having a hard time of it at the moment.

can anything be done about the bullying? Is the school bothered?

poor kid. What goes around does come around, but not for a while. (I remember all the bullies in my school, all thick as pig shit and it all went very quiet at GCSE time...)