"Youth Subcultures?" Topic

Were you ever (even casually) part of a Youth Subculture in your day (or currently?)

In my 50 years I've variously identified myself as or hung with:

-Mod
-Rude Boy
-Skinhead (no…not a racist one)
-Punk
-Early Hip Hop culture.

And yes…ive got the (sometimes) embarrassing pictures to document each phase.

Skate punk.

Metalhead and Stoner, even though I didn't do drugs, people will judge a book by its cover.

Theater Kid.

First Wave D&D Geek.

Rocker

Geek. Still am.

Friendless nerd?

Ditto here.

Nope

D and D nerd
Theatre nerd
Punk
Rude Boy
Hardcore Punk
Dad

High school ROTC.

Folksinger

Is high-functioning sociopath a youth subculture?

Art school punk
Noise
Indie comics nerd

I was in the Punk/New Wave/Ska scene when I was young, like from my late teens to … well, I never stopped liking the music and I still usually wear my hair very short, and I did go to the Blondie-Devo show a couple of years ago.

My wardrobe has expanded beyond white shirts and skinny black ties (and black shirts and skinny white ties, for that matter).

I was a science-fiction / comics / gaming geek before that was thing. By the time it became a thing, I was just a middle-aged guy with a hobby.

I was an art student punk, ROTC cadet, and a gaming nerd in New Orleans. Too straight for the weird crowd and too weird for the straights.

Geek 1st class

I'm pretty sure there are some ex-goths ("death rockers" in my day) here that are holding out!

I was part of that strange miasma surrounding punk, post-punk, hardcore, and extreme metal.

This was from middle school in the late 70s until the early 90s.

Now I'm sort of an "otaku" – an old otaku – but I indulge in anime, manga, and following alt-idol groups to distract me.

Computer nerd
D&D geek

Is high-functioning sociopath a youth subculture?

I always thought that was the youth main culture.

I'm still looking for the Wizard's key.

"Sub-culture" sums up a lot of young people--and no few adults.

Me? Wargame geek. Not PRG, please. There was no such thing as fantasy gaming until my college years, and no such thing as D&D before grad school.

Uesugi: I love goth music, but never identified or dressed like one (too busy skating). But I definitely liked dating goths (I married one too).

My husband was a SkinHead and belonged to the A-Town Posse.

Early he was Straight Edge. He brags that he saw Minor Threat at WALLYS in south Bethlehem, PA in October of 1981.

Punk
D&D nerd

Punk, skinhead, crust punk, wierd post punk/goth crossover then a productive member of society from around 1987 onwards.

Nerd, Fat Nerd.

Didn't fit in with any of the usual cliques,as described by Edie McClurg in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

As a sea cadet at 13, then naval reserve, pretty straight laced.

We had "jocks", "preppies", "New Wavers" and stoners/druggies when I was in high school – all distinct, each with their own place on the quad.

There were musicians or band geeks too – several of whom are at least nationally famous and have made a nice living in their field.

ROTC US ARMY …

@Pizzagrenadier, re: marrying a Goth, so did I !
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