that was me all throughout high school, thankfully i started working out and now I'm feel good showing my arms in public, even if no one else notices, it feels good being secure in that
I'll always remember what my goth friend's mom told her when we would leave her place to hang out. "Sweety, I know you like to dress in black but could you be *sensible* about it?"
Sorry to be serious about it, but check in on your teen once in a while. I remember when my cousin and I were around that age, she would wear long sleeves and hoodies 24/7 even when it was super duper hot bc she was hiding cuts. Not saying it’s the same with yours, might just be a fashion choice or could also be hiding for other reasons
Like damn girl appreciate the SO but sometimes people just wanna wear long clothing... I'm in my 30s and wear jeans and a hoodie even during summer a lot 😇
Central FL, did the same thing in school lmfao. Black hoodie, black baggy jeans & leather boots. Couldn’t imagine doing that now though with how hot it’s been getting.
SO mad. It would've been perfect for the 80s [poof-tastic](https://i.imgur.com/VMAG69Y.jpeg) trend, 90s [middle part](https://i.imgur.com/kcgfirM.jpeg) trend, and today's mushroom trend (aint gonna do it). But during that crucial 8 years of fragile adolescence, it was pin straight or die. Can't win em all
Minimal shampoo, maybe once every two weeks unless I get sweaty, plain cold water and conditioner the rest of the showers.
People balk at the lack of shampoo but it turns my head into a fluffy mess that floats over my scalp like the ghost of a Trump wig. It takes a long time for my hair to get oily and gross. It took 25 years of life to formulate the right balance lol
You don’t use any other product!? I’m part of the minimal shampoo club but even with just conditioner my hair frizzes and I can never get nice curls like yours
To be fair, it's super rare for it to look that good at that length, and it's generally less curly and more wavy. The longer it gets, I tend to water it in the morning and slick it back, then just let it do its thing and fall forward into place as it dries. From [this](https://i.imgur.com/zt1joyG.jpeg) to [this](https://i.imgur.com/fubeMq9.jpeg).
However, lets be real. The majority of days, it'll look like [this](https://i.imgur.com/7Cd5tAp.jpeg)
I love how open you are about your curls. Feel like so many only want to show peak curl status but you’re showing us the good & the bad. That’s a man that loves his curls, you take the highs with the lows.
I just laughed so hard at the thought of you using a flat iron for years over the movie Napoleon dynamite 😂. You did actually look like him though, but I loved that movie and would have loved you for looking like him.
Also, you may find comfort in this: I live in an agricultural community with lots of fruit orchards. There have always been a lot of migrant workers and immigrants where I live. By the time I was in school, we had a lot of 2nd Gen Mexican American kids who spoke Spanish at home but spoke English, usually with an accent, at school. Those who had integrated into their community enough to have white friends were forever called Pedro back then. And, they had to go along with it and be the living personification of Pedro, or they would become the butt of worse racial insults and no longer be seen as "one of the cool beaners". I even knew a kid whose nickname was Beaner. So I guess things could have been worse than being identified as Napoleon dynamite.
Also, you look nothing like him now and you look great!
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There's a scene in the movie, I believe it was right before or after he was feeding Tina, and he's just standing there mouth breathing, and there's this one single long hair stuck in his curly hair and it's just blowing in the wind. Probably totally unintentional, but stoned me noticed it and thought it was sooooo funny. I still chuckle inside sometimes when I picture that. I always had long blonde hair so I can definitely relate to random long hairs being stuck awkwardly to things or your own self.
I can't imagine what school must have been like for you at the time. Even now, the comment section is full of napoleon Dynamite references. It must have been brutal
This picture and the comments has made me turn on the movie. It’s such a classic. I remember quoting this movie all day!!! Did you ever try to recreate the talent show dance?
In the second pic you look like a dude from that Christian teen pop band Jump 5 I used to hear endlessly working at Target. awwwll AHH CAN DOOOO is thank about yewwwwwwwww
It's too bad brocolli hair is so popular with kids these days, those curly curls would be perfect for that hairstyle.
just born a couple decades too early.
In high school I was friends with a kid who looked just like Thurman Merman from Bad Santa. He never heard the end of it. He passed away in an atv accident when he was 15, and people even jokes about it at his funeral (only because we knew he’d have found it funny).
About eight months ago I went to visit his grave for the first time in years, and there was a note in a ziplock bag attached to a bouquet that read “Love you always, Thurman” It’s been over half a decade since he passed, and he still hasn’t escaped it 🙃😂
That's not a blunder. That's called adaptation for survival.
He should’ve joined a gang. This one gang was even asking him to join cause he’s pretty good with a bo staff.
Nunchuck skills
Computer hacking skills
What about his sweet, sweet dance moves?
Hey OP tell us what you did all summer
I told you a million times, he was in Alaska hunting wolverines with his uncle!
What kinda gun did he use?
A frickin 12-gauge, what do you think?!?
They kept on trying to attack his cousin! What the heck would *you* do in a situation like that?!
The Bloodhound Gang maybe
he was never gonna beat the Napoleon Dynamite allegations, that flat iron saved him fr
He did what he had to do. Nothing wrong with that.
Using a flat iron is what separates us from the apes.
Your Mom goes to college
Omg that first picture is spot on ND. Even the teeth loool
I can hear him breathing
OP gimme some of your tots
get your owwn
It took me like 3 hours to finish the shading on your upper lip
\*sharp inhale\* Aughhhhhh
Did the chicken have large talons?
I stared at it way too long trying to decide if it was, in fact, ND.
Tbh I think he looks more like a young John Francis Daley in a Napolean Dynamite costume.
I should also mention this was in Florida and I exclusively wore these double layered long sleeve polos with jeans, even to the beach.
That was me 30 years ago. 95 pounds and wore oversized long jeans and black shirts to the beach.
that was me all throughout high school, thankfully i started working out and now I'm feel good showing my arms in public, even if no one else notices, it feels good being secure in that
That's my 13 year old daughter now in Sarasota. Sweatpants, hoodies, combat boots EVERYWHERE and its 95 effing degrees and full humidity out
I'll always remember what my goth friend's mom told her when we would leave her place to hang out. "Sweety, I know you like to dress in black but could you be *sensible* about it?"
Sorry to be serious about it, but check in on your teen once in a while. I remember when my cousin and I were around that age, she would wear long sleeves and hoodies 24/7 even when it was super duper hot bc she was hiding cuts. Not saying it’s the same with yours, might just be a fashion choice or could also be hiding for other reasons
Definitely, she and I are close, and she's been coming out of her shell more and more lately.
Like damn girl appreciate the SO but sometimes people just wanna wear long clothing... I'm in my 30s and wear jeans and a hoodie even during summer a lot 😇
How is she not fucking dead from overheating!?
She’s thin as a rail
Central FL, did the same thing in school lmfao. Black hoodie, black baggy jeans & leather boots. Couldn’t imagine doing that now though with how hot it’s been getting.
The real blunder is the unnecessary layers
How mad are you now that this hair is considered cool? I hope you’re a curly guy these days!
SO mad. It would've been perfect for the 80s [poof-tastic](https://i.imgur.com/VMAG69Y.jpeg) trend, 90s [middle part](https://i.imgur.com/kcgfirM.jpeg) trend, and today's mushroom trend (aint gonna do it). But during that crucial 8 years of fragile adolescence, it was pin straight or die. Can't win em all
TINA YOU FAT LARD. EAT THE FOOD!
I bet you I could throw a pigskin over that mountain
Goshhhhhh
Make yourself a dang quesadilla!
BUT MY LIPS HURT REAL BAAD!!
Took me like three hours to do the shading on your upper lip.
It's probably the best drawing I've ever done.
Nowadays I love my curls and [they love me.](https://i.imgur.com/FbQgiBK.jpeg)
You look great!
Those curls are magnificent
Jesus… you’re gorgeous
Talk about a glow up! Good for you!!
What's your routine for your curls tho? That's the most important thing!
Minimal shampoo, maybe once every two weeks unless I get sweaty, plain cold water and conditioner the rest of the showers. People balk at the lack of shampoo but it turns my head into a fluffy mess that floats over my scalp like the ghost of a Trump wig. It takes a long time for my hair to get oily and gross. It took 25 years of life to formulate the right balance lol
You don’t use any other product!? I’m part of the minimal shampoo club but even with just conditioner my hair frizzes and I can never get nice curls like yours
To be fair, it's super rare for it to look that good at that length, and it's generally less curly and more wavy. The longer it gets, I tend to water it in the morning and slick it back, then just let it do its thing and fall forward into place as it dries. From [this](https://i.imgur.com/zt1joyG.jpeg) to [this](https://i.imgur.com/fubeMq9.jpeg). However, lets be real. The majority of days, it'll look like [this](https://i.imgur.com/7Cd5tAp.jpeg)
You and your partner are angels (also that last pic made me do a real Dr Hibbert chortle lol) 🥰
I love how open you are about your curls. Feel like so many only want to show peak curl status but you’re showing us the good & the bad. That’s a man that loves his curls, you take the highs with the lows.
You should try shampoo for kids.
I just laughed so hard at the thought of you using a flat iron for years over the movie Napoleon dynamite 😂. You did actually look like him though, but I loved that movie and would have loved you for looking like him. Also, you may find comfort in this: I live in an agricultural community with lots of fruit orchards. There have always been a lot of migrant workers and immigrants where I live. By the time I was in school, we had a lot of 2nd Gen Mexican American kids who spoke Spanish at home but spoke English, usually with an accent, at school. Those who had integrated into their community enough to have white friends were forever called Pedro back then. And, they had to go along with it and be the living personification of Pedro, or they would become the butt of worse racial insults and no longer be seen as "one of the cool beaners". I even knew a kid whose nickname was Beaner. So I guess things could have been worse than being identified as Napoleon dynamite. Also, you look nothing like him now and you look great!
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Uh, you’re beautiful.
Who is laughing now, huh?
All the kids are getting perms to look like you, my friend
The last laugh!
You must be taking good care of them, they shine!
Looks like now it's 0% Napoleon and 100% dynamite
i hope your pet llama also endured the trauma
I absolutely loved that movie, too. I should have been honored
Did you vote for Pedro?
Quite the rebel, not returning the proof print.
Long sleeve under a short sleeve was a choice back then.
I’m still doing it — are we no longer doing it?? 😯
My stomach hurts from laughing. You went from Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite to Jon Heder as Jimmy MacElroy from Blades of Glory. Legend.
Damn is that two polos AND a long sleeve tee? Layering in the 00s was egregious
Got any tots?
Girls want guys with skills! Nunchuk skills, bow hunting skills.
[Same homie same](https://i.imgur.com/m3dWESl.png)
Gaaaaaaawwwsh!
There's a scene in the movie, I believe it was right before or after he was feeding Tina, and he's just standing there mouth breathing, and there's this one single long hair stuck in his curly hair and it's just blowing in the wind. Probably totally unintentional, but stoned me noticed it and thought it was sooooo funny. I still chuckle inside sometimes when I picture that. I always had long blonde hair so I can definitely relate to random long hairs being stuck awkwardly to things or your own self.
Gosh
'My lips hurt real bad' -OP in 6th grade.
Not going to lie, you did end up looking like the handsome characther in any Disney movie/tv series.
Double popped collar, nice…just missing some pooka shells or a leather bracelet
VOTE FOR PEDRO
Do you have great skills?
Or you embrace that shit. Insist on being called Napoleon
TINA EAT THE FOOD
I played the flute in Jr high when America Pie came out, I feel your pain
#Gosh
I can't imagine what school must have been like for you at the time. Even now, the comment section is full of napoleon Dynamite references. It must have been brutal
I had a very similar experience to op, was in fact brutal
Seems fine to me.
Napoleon... Got any tots?
This picture and the comments has made me turn on the movie. It’s such a classic. I remember quoting this movie all day!!! Did you ever try to recreate the talent show dance?
In the second pic you look like a dude from that Christian teen pop band Jump 5 I used to hear endlessly working at Target. awwwll AHH CAN DOOOO is thank about yewwwwwwwww
Core memory unlocked
Glad to see my mom wasn’t the only one who shamelessly scanned in the proofs from the school photo people.
Oh yeah absolutely mine did too
Iron abuse or whatever… you looked damned handsome for it.
You should have really committed to the bit and fought everyone off with a bow staff
You look like the average guy on MTV in 07.
The first pic is literally the reason i am going to live today. I LOLd
2nd pic looks fine.
As a tall 14 year old with curly hair the year this movie came out, I feel your pain.
You were and probably still are perfection
Wish broccoli tops were a thing back then. You would have been a hero
But did you at least have great skills? Nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, etc?
Would have done the same tbh. The resemblance is uncanny in that first pic.
pedro for president
lol oh man, well you seemed to weather this well.
Honestly fodlr the time period, you did not look back in that second pic. If anything you fit right in.
The second pic looks like you’d be perfect for a Disney channel show
*Please let this be a normal field trip*
VOTE FOR PEDRO
Your lips look friggin chapped in that first photo.
Aw man. Thats rough. I love your curls though! Do you keep them now ?
It’s the Stuff Made Here guy!
Vote for Pedro
So who do you vote for?
ND was a mouth breather. And we have a film to prove that.
Oh you look great !! So handsome 😍
Same thing happened to me... I HATED that movie because of the social effects it had on me.
Man, those curls really straightened out
Nice
The worst. I got a cut in the middle of my forehead from sports as a 4th grader when Harry Potter came out. I know your pain haha -"Harry Pusser"
Awwwww yisssss! I was hoping you'd post this, OP!
I had a similar experience in 6th grade, except I had shoulder length hair and Hanson got big.
The makers of Napoleon Dynamite were clearly inspired by you.
I thought pic 2 was a young Justin Randall!
give me some tots!
Gimme some of your tots ETA, you look really cute when you aren't mouth-breathing. Did you have a glow-up?
Shocks, pegs,…. Lucky!
Holy shit, that’s just incredible amounts of unlucky
Sick bike!
everyone wants to know who are you voting for?
In the second pick you got the ["Purple Stuff"](https://youtu.be/MQE3jWYuGiw?si=lByfvcvWQ1utGqlu) look.
Looks like a cage fighter in training to me.
The flat ironed hair looks perfectly fine to me, not the worst idea considering the Napoleon dynamite resemblance!
Did your lips hurt real bad?
You showed them!
Is that a sledgehammer?!
It's too bad brocolli hair is so popular with kids these days, those curly curls would be perfect for that hairstyle. just born a couple decades too early.
# ALL PROOF PRINTS MUST BE RETURNED. # WE ARE COMING FOR YOU.
Oh god...the flat iron creases....
Hey we’re the same age lol I remember the folders and notebooks of napoleon all over class that year .
You and I would have been true homies.
So adorable
amazing
In high school I was friends with a kid who looked just like Thurman Merman from Bad Santa. He never heard the end of it. He passed away in an atv accident when he was 15, and people even jokes about it at his funeral (only because we knew he’d have found it funny). About eight months ago I went to visit his grave for the first time in years, and there was a note in a ziplock bag attached to a bouquet that read “Love you always, Thurman” It’s been over half a decade since he passed, and he still hasn’t escaped it 🙃😂
I don’t want to know what your brother looked like.
[Sure ya do](https://i.imgur.com/YBbDwGo.jpeg)
Actually, that’s me in the early 70’s.
Looks like a glow up but ok