For a certain handful of individuals, middle school was not only characterized by your painful awkwardness- but also by the fact that you wanted to be known as a scene kid. You changed your style, you listened to a very select few bands, and nobody else understood you. Here are the signs that you were one of those kids who joined the black parade.

1. You would enter Hot Topic every time you went to the mall.

2. And sometimes bought band t-shirts for bands you didn't even listen to just because they looked cool.

3. A G to an F# on the piano made you instantly stop in your tracks and get the feels (and it still does).

4. You owned at least one overly studded, dramatically colored accessory.

5. Your wildest dream was to pierce as many surfaces on your face as possible.

6. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" was a cool song because you weren't allowed to swear yet and it made you feel edgy.

7. Eyeliner was your best friend.

8. You spent your days daydreaming about tattoo ideas (which you're thankful you weren't old enough to get because...yikes).

9. You based your opinion of a song based on how unnecessary the song title was.

(Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off? I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me? Nobody has time for this...)

10. You slipped the word "rawr" into text or AIM conversations on the regular.

11. Practicing how to tease your hair in the mirror became a hobby.

12. Regardless of the temperature outside, you wore skinny jeans (and owned them in every embarrassing color you could find).

13. You felt like your mom was ruining your life when she wouldn't allow you to dye your hair neon green.

14. So you bought faux hair, temporary dye, and en extreme number of hair bows to make up for it.

15. All of your notebooks were covered in doodles with diamonds, gloomy bear, and band logos.

16. Audrey Kitching was your #goals.

17. There was no point in owning a pair of Converse if they weren't customized and worn in.

18. Your social media was filled with embarrassing material such as overly edited Picnik photos, plenty of song lyrics, and overly dramatic bios.

19. "You just don't understand" was your catch phrase.

20. If a magazine cover had one of your favorite bands, you bought it so you could cut out their photos and tape them to your wall.

21. You first crush was on Alex Evans.

22. You cried when My Chemical Romance called it quits.

23. And you're currently hyperventilating because... 9/23/16.