Confess your teenage tantrums

A neuroscientist said yesterday that teenagers were not totally to blame for their sulkiness, because their brains are still "works in progress", and they have underdeveloped empathy. The story stirred embarrassing memories here in Guardian Towers of those awkward years and we are keen to hear your stories about teenage tantrums.

To start the ball rolling, I would like to publicly apologise to my family for being a nightmare when I was aged 14 and we were on a trip to Orlando, Florida. I desperately wanted my dad to drive me quite a distance to Tampa so I could see a concert by Queensryche, a heavy metal band I was into at the time. (Who can forget their concept album Operation Mindcrime?) Not unreasonably, he said no and I barely spoke to him for five days despite the fact he had spent hundred of pounds to take us all to Disney World. I also realised later that I had got the concert date wrong.