everyone should be the person they want to be without being judged.

What relationship, is any, do you see between Goths and Emos? sterio-type emos and goths may look very similar, but as far as im conserned, dark clothing is the only posible similarity… posibly music too.

Why are you an emo? i didnt really chose it… when i went into year 9 (now year 11) i become best friends with a girl whos style kept changing, when i became friends with her she was a goth, i was just a normal kid… bit of a chav, but i was very open to her style and what she liked. i went round her house alot and she was always playing heavy death metal and and hardcore music, at 1st i wasnt fond of it, but it began to grow on me, and i began to not like pop and rnb… then my style began to change and they way i spoke… i stop using general words such as ‘innit’, just silly things. then my cloths changed, i was always in skinny jeans and plimsoles… nothing mager… my hair then changed, i was blonde and dyed it dark brown, but it went black…(i didnt do it for the look) i was just bored of blonde as everyone had blonde hair. i ended up getting more into the ‘click’ the people i hung around with were all grungers, emos and skaters…. so it just kind of happened.

What is the appeal, what makes it attractive to you? its just the general style for me, the way they look, great hair, their sence of dress… and the colours… the emo i became was the bright colourful type which is very similar to a scene kid… which is what i now prefer to lable myself.

How did you get involved in it? as i said above, it just kind of happened, not somthing i chose, but in a way, the urge to be different to most of my perrs.

Lastly, please elaborate on the “other type” of emo…? as i also said, the other type is similar to a scene kid… common image linked to it would be big hair (back combed) bright cloths… often bright paterned jeans… i prefer to lable myself as a scene kid now. i dont get the same sort of stick now when somone asks what i am, i used to say i was emo and people instantly thought i was suicidle, which really bugged me. i was never suicidle, but and angry kid that had no way to express it and just wasnted to be different.
the usual things i wear consist of : skinny jeans (my fav now and my grey stripy ones) i dont like dark tops, my tops are usualy white with somone on them… although i tend to wear my black new york top (bright bubble/graff text) and converse or nike ID’s… i dont wear alot of black… the sort of emo/scene kid is genrally happy, and enjoys life, they dont want to end it.

i have one friend called shaun, he is a sterio type emo… he wears alot of black, and self harms and genrally hates his life, but to talk to, hes funny, kind and is genrally happy, so he isnt an emo that is sad 24/7.

‘emo’ is not a cult, so people stop calling it one. That poor girl was just giving the wrong impression. its not her falt or other emos. its just a style or ‘click’ like being an emo, skater, or indie. ITS JUST A STYLE! we are not all desperate to die.

i was almost suicidle when i was a ‘chav’ i self harmed, hated my life and used to sit in my room from the moment i got home to when i woke up in the morning, id cry for hours cos i hated who i was, but i had my reasons… but i was a CHAV! not an emo, any person can be depressed or suicidle, not just an emo kid. So before you call it a cult and say it should be banned, consider the facts. its just a way of being an individual and being diferent from everyone else.

thanks.x]

bc i have learned that on my own. I think ths girl was just very depressed and done with life. you can deny you have all thought bout commiting Suicide but never done it. Please dont Judge the emos bc we r actually very nice. people if you get to know us.
and iam sorry for this girl
R.I.P

I’m certainly not emo,I can’t stand the music or the clothes or anything else that goes with it,but I’m pretty sure that half the shit she believed,the emo ‘initiation’,was purely bull shit.

Rest in peace.