63 Examples Of Millennial “Pick Me” Behavior That Still Make Folks Cringe

At 17 actually believed the 27 year old that I "was so mature for my age" and "not like other girls" and that we couldn't tell anyone because "they just don't understand".... 🤦‍♀️ groomed into almost two years of an horrible relationship.

I want to shake every adult in my life who let that happen.

I was 5 feet tall drinking Burnett’s like water and doing keg stands at parties because I thought mediocre men would think I was fun and low maintenance.

I’m 38 now and I want to go back in time and carry her out of those sticky floored rooms.

Anyways, therapy is going great.

Thought being provocatively dressed would make me seem cool and not like other girls.

I tolerated their gross jokes, let them slap my bum, or grab my breasts whenever they wanted. Even went so far as to hook up with them when I didn’t want to.

They’d say how the other girls in school were prudes but I was cool because I wasn’t stuck up. If I could go back in time I’d have stayed the hell away from guys all together until college.

This is me, circa 2011 - at 21, in business casual, on the floor of someone's garage. Peep the hair pull to make sure the cleave is visible. I lost a game of beer pong (with bud light 🤮) and had to sit under the table for the next game as a "troll".
This was all an attempt to show the guy I liked how "cool and fun" I was and that I was "not like other girls" 😩
I wish I could hug her and tell her that by 35, we don't even like Men

The amount of time I sat on a dirty as couch with filthy coffee table covered in trash ans bongs and beer cans, watching a guy play video games hoping they would like me? Embarrassing.

Believed grown men in their 30s when they told me at 16/17 I was really mature for my age.

I was small and underdeveloped. I could have passed for 13/14. Freaking gross.

Sat through a guy's whole band rehearsal so his band mates would think I was chill.

Only drank whisky bc I wasn't like other girls.

Lost my virginity to basically a stranger so the boy I ACTUALLY liked would think I was more on his experience level. Turned out he hadn't had intercourse yet at all.

A line i always used around guys: "you wanna hear a joke? Women's rights"
I did other things too but that one haunts me at night as an outspoken feminist. I would make teen me cry with guilt

After I broke up with my high school boyfriend for cheating on me, we were trying to work things out and he told me that I had to prove to him that I was worthy of getting back to him. Ladies, I sat there, clown shoes on and everything, proving to this boy that I was worthy of him. He cheated on me again.

When I was 13 my older sisters would take me to screamo concerts at random bars, and somehow we’d always end up in strangers’ cars with the bass shaking the entire vehicle while I had absolutely no idea where we were going.
As a mother now myself, I’m horrified.

When I went to my first fraternity date party, I tried to match my date drink for drink at the pregame and ended up blacking out and passing out on a couch and being left there by him and everyone else when the cops came. The girl that ended up being my best friend in the whole wide world actually took my carcass home because she was afraid that something would happen to me while I was there.

I used to tell guys their favorite music was also my favorite music until I met some guy whose favorite artist was underground so when I said oh I love him I’m going to his concert! I actually had to to go. The concert was in 2 days. I met up with said guy and acted like I knew all these songs.

Fun fact. The artist is actually my favorite artist now and I’ve never seen that man again.

Definitely rushed myself into a lot of sexual activity before I was ready, in an effort to seem “grown up” and “sophisticated”. Still sometimes asking myself what are my desires vs what do I think makes me “desirable”

This isn’t really related to being a millennial, rather just being a female… but FAKING IT to boost the ego of boys/men who truly needed to humbled

When my first real boyfriend in college broke up with me, I got down on my knees and BEGGED him to take me back. My poor sweet summer child

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Slept with a lot of men because I thought it would make them like me more

hated pink because it was too girly. now i drown in it, thrive in it, will let it consume me.

I used to judge everyone in high school secretly by the brand of their jeans as they walked up the stairs in front of me. I knew all the brands , the logos and what stores they came from. I could identify every pair by the design on the back pockets or the grommet on the smaller pocket on the front . That’s how I always knew what emo guy was wearing chick jeans even if they lied and said they weren’t. I was like the NSA of Denim from 2003 to 2007.

I (then an underweight college girl) was in line at the coffee shop. Several women ahead of me ordered nonfat drinks. I ordered a breve and said, “I laugh in the face of nonfat drinks!” to the guy behind me. He unfortunately affirmed my bull by acting like I was awesome.

It was just this non-dramatic moment, but I still cringe so hard. 😫 I was insecure about not being curvy, and sometimes it made me a jerk.

Starting in middle school I had to be the loudest, “funniest”, wildest, and most whimsical girl saying the most random things just because it gave me a ton of attention. I realized only about a decade later I am NOT that kind of girl. I don’t care to be everyone’s friend and I don’t like being the center of attention. I am also not a high pitched “screaming happy things” girly. I literally just like to exist for myself now.

I changed my MSN status to very emotional and specific lyrics so that people would ask me about it and then I'd act mysterious.