A few years ago, when I turned 20 and I was officially not a teenager anymore, I told my mom that I still felt like I was 13 years old. She looked me deep in my eyes, and at the age of 54 said, "Me too." Fear struck my heart immediately and it hit me: Deep down, no matter how old we are, we'll always feel like a stupid teenager—one who's afraid that our body odor is offensive, constantly finding hair in new and weird places, and still afraid to talk to a crush. As much as we try to hide that horrible, horrible awkward teenager inside of us, it's always there, with its puberty-ridden voice that squeaks out, at the most inopportune of times, "Remember me?"
That's probably why we secretly relate so much to Tina Belcher of Bob's Burgers. Take your Clueless Cher, take your Dawson from the Creek, take your My So-Called Life Angela—there is no character who captures being a teenager quite like Tina. Unfortunately. Here's why the 13-year-old teenage girl is exactly like the teenager you try to hide away forever.
Written by Hope Schreiber (@HopeSchreiber)