People Wearing Beads

[LucyDingo]

You might want to be careful with those. As with anything, (including Candy Kids) they can have different meanings and interpretations by different people. I used to lead a Junior High youth group a few years ago, until I took time off for my own family, but you would be amazed at what the kids at the church youth group were telling me about those bracelets.

Each color of jelly bracelet had a different meaning, all with sexual tones. The green ones mean that you did "it" outside or were willing to, the blue one mean in the water, etc, etc. Of course, if you google it, you will find all sorts of meanings for the different colors.

I personally used to love jelly bracelets as a kid, and would even still wear them now, but I don't want to think that "those reasons" are the reasons I were wearing the bracelets.

I worked in an adolescent group home for a while. We didn't allow those bracelets for those exact reasons.

 

[fairycat]

Actually the funny thing about the bracelets is most people have come to find out that it was probably a hoax, and the kids that follow that trend got it from the news

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3676755/
http://www.snopes.com/risque/school/bracelet.asp

I worked with kids, and the only kids who had heard about it, where one's whose parents asked them if it was true. I think its like the razor blade in an Halloween Apple, more hype then truth.



After that all I am only going to say famograham and Bumbershoot (just cause I always dig you girl!!!) HUGE HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!

And if my Baby grows up to be like their Mom and Dad I will be thrilled, if they grow up like my Aunt I will feel I failed!

 

[pixiewings71]

I like jelly braclets, too.

I forgot to add the kid in front of Matterhorn had glow sticks on strings.

Ohhh glow sticks!!! I love those! And I'm 37! LOL

Think how many adults love to put on mouse ears.. or tigger ears..

and how many grown women love to wear princess crowns...

anyone could say the Mad Hatter hats are odd looking...

We have a traditional "birthday hat" every year, we all take turns wearing it and they have been pretty crazy at time. We even have the cake one with the lite up candles from DL. LOL And yes, I'd wear a princess crown.

Do you know people that actually wear those things in every day life?

People wear bright colors in everyday life too. LOL

I am amazed at the intolerance some people so proudly display!

I had BRIGHT green hair with black stripes once, I also had a shiny bald shaved head with just bright purple bangs. I dyed my hair black, and wore all black, and on the story goes.

Today, as a 30 year old Mother of 2...I'm as "normal" looking as they come. People are SHOCKED when I tell them how I chose to look as a teenager.
I am, and have always been, known by those who know me, as someone who is extremely compassionate, acutely empathetic, and an intensely loving person.
I have ALWAYS been accepting of all types of people.
I will say, that when I was a teenager...for someone like me, and my friends, the "mainstream" kids were often the ones to fear! They were the ones who got wasted and ganged up to beat people like me. They were the ones to fear.

I take extreme offense to people who are judgmental, bigoted, and un-accepting of others, just because they are different in any way. In fact, those are the only type of people I find myself disliking!

I fear what some people are teaching their children.

I try to teach my children to be tolerant of everyone until you know who they are inside. I myself try to do that with everyone I run across. I would never assume someone used drugs (or didn't) based on what clothes they wear or how they look.

You might want to be careful with those. As with anything, (including Candy Kids) they can have different meanings and interpretations by different people. I used to lead a Junior High youth group a few years ago, until I took time off for my own family, but you would be amazed at what the kids at the church youth group were telling me about those bracelets.

Each color of jelly bracelet had a different meaning, all with sexual tones. The green ones mean that you did "it" outside or were willing to, the blue one mean in the water, etc, etc. Of course, if you google it, you will find all sorts of meanings for the different colors.

I personally used to love jelly bracelets as a kid, and would even still wear them now, but I don't want to think that "those reasons" are the reasons I were wearing the bracelets.

I don't what's more disgusting.....the fact that these are used this way or the fact that someone might look at a 9 & 12 year old and assume they've had sex based on a bracelet they are wearing. That's just disturbing!!!

 

[wendylady36]

Oh my goodness, I can't believe the candy kids are still around! I remember they were way popular when I was middle school. All the candy kids I knew were really friendly. For the most part they were also "straight edge."

For those of you that don't know what "straight edge" means, here's a little excerpt from Wiki:

Straight Edge refers to a lifestyle that started within the hardcore punk subculture whose adherents make a lifetime commitment to refrain from drinking alcohol, using tobacco products, and using recreational drugs. Straight Edge has never had a set of 'rules' as such, and after these three agreed commitments there is considerable debate over what constitutes the lifestyle. For example whether or not the use of caffeine and prescription drugs is acceptable is a frequent discussion amongst Straight Edge followers. Some followers also choose to refrain from promiscuous sex and some choose to be vegan. It is agreed the main objective of Straight Edge is to not 'poison' the body in any way.

 

[CarrieQuiteContrary]

In Lucy's defense, I went to school with a pretty big group of ravers and a majority of them did buy in to the "raver-lifestyle" and did rec. drugs like ecstasy. I was friends with a couple of them and I am NOT meaning to come across as intolerant (one could hardly call me that!) but just because they didnt look like they did drugs, doesnt mean that they all dont.

We have a small theme park here, Wild Waves, and they would all get high and go out to the parks. They were always friendly but some of them had "happy helpers"

THIS IS NOT ME BASHING RAVERS, this is just an experience I had and wanted to share.

 

[jennifur25]

My mom saw one of these girls in the bathroom Saturday and asked her about her beads. She said they were part of an underground group of teenagers from all over and they met twice a year at Disneyland. She said the beads were friendship beads and then gave my son a Buzz Lightyear pin as a friendship pin

 

[BurnsideMommy]

I saw a few of them. Some had colored baby chain links around their pants (which seemed like a target for any mom's pushing babies by in a stroller LOL).

I saw 2 sitting on the stairs to the Suite talking to a CM who was asking about her bracelets and if she took them off every day to shower/sleep. Hehe.

I saw more rude adults down at the fireworks and the fantasmic show dressed up 'normal', and saw no rude behavior out of the ravers. Besides, whether or not they do drugs - which I don't agree with - there's plenty of 'normal' looking folks popping Rx's to enhance their life (ritalin, oxy) and because they fit in mainstream no one suspects it. So you can't judge someone by their clothes and label them as such. Yes, when I grew up almost every raver that dressed like that DID drugs, but that was who I knew and where I lived. I can't assume they're all like that just by clothes. And I'm only 26 so it's fresh in the memory.

 

[ron808]

I can't believe the narrowmindedness of some idiots calling themsleves "happy" and normal.

What a hypocrite.


Dig deeper sinner/s. lol.

What's next? No to Prop 8?
OMG.