Smells Like Teen Spirit – Being a Teenager in the 90’s

So many 90’s anniversaries going on, it felt right to re blog this 🙂

Anne-Marie Ormsby's avatarAnne-Marie Ormsby

I’m pretty sure that every decade has its own guidelines to growing up. Being a teenager in the 80’s must have been very different to being a teenager in the 90’s. But what about it was different, was it just the clothes and music? Or is every teen the same no matter what the decade.

I don’t know but i was a teenager in the 90’s. In 1990 I turned 12 and developed an obsession with Twin Peaks. It was a weird start to my teen life but it shaped me in ways I couldn’t see at the time. I was able to embrace my love of the weird. David Lynch and his strange camera angles and beautiful 50’s femme fatales were pure poetry to me and still are to this day. However its fair to say that accepting the weirdness of yourself does not signal an easy start to…

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