READING MY TEENAGE DIARIES.

[@InsertLiteraryPunHere]

I was a huge fake in my diaries because I thought I would die and they would be published (a la Anne Frank) and I didn't want people to know how horrible I really was

[@faatimahfarhad1523]

OMG please do a videooooo 💘💘💘

[@liddybee1078]

I kept a diary for about a month when I was 11. Every entry starts with "dear diary, today was ok" and then it's just a long description of what I ate that day.

[@13thswimmer]

"I was sad today but at least I looked pretty"- A quote from my 11 y/o self's diary that tbh could still be relevant today

[@leenanorms]

PIANO PRACTICE IS WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING MOST EVENINGS NOW.

[@leenanorms]

BIT OF A SLASH DAY.

[@gabbym.9252]

justkissmyfrog I legitimately had a bit of a cackle at that 😂

[@nukemz]

Oh my god Leena I loved this please make this a series

[@HanaM249x]

AGREED!

[@PopcornEmma]

why is your teenage self so entertaining? mine was mostly just a bit depressing tbh but i didn't keep that many diaries when i was younger. sadly i did have a video blog at 13/14 though. that was a mistake.

[@PopcornEmma]

oh god i just searched them up..... i'd quote them but what isaid wasn't even interesting but that fashion.... oh dear

[@georgilosophy]

One of the funniest things from my old diaries is (context, I was 11) the day Michael Jackson died I've just written the date and simply 'the day the music died'

[@o.steinman3855]

Please continue, I need to hear 29 diaries worth of this pure gold lol

[@kierachippendale2856]

A genuine quote from my 12-year old self writing in a pink polka dot journal with stickers of David Tennant as Doctor Who on the cover: "Just been to the HOTTEST party of the year, all of the girls were wearing shorty shorts and I had my long khaki trousers on because I didn't want to be a sheep. Georgina had forgotten to shave her armpits so everybody cringed hard."

[@miawestrap8687]

I'm losing my mind at the insanely specific rules to getting through summer camp

[@gemminycricket7597]

I wish I kept diaries when I was younger. I have the worst memory and now can't think back on the past with much, if any, clarity. And I have nothing written or recorded to remind me. It's a shame.

[@joe4490]

There is (or used to be) a show on radio 4 where famous people would read their teenage diaries. (It was probably called 'My Teenage Diary'). You should listen to it - a lot of it is on youtube. Particularly the episode with Robert Webb, which is one of the best half-hours of radio I've ever heard.

[@TheLonelyFawn]

My teenage diary starts and ends with the line "Dad wants me to write a diary about this holiday but I'm not doing it because it's boring." 😂😂😂

[@angelaparker6511]

You can write everything in your diary anytime if you want to

[@lemonmiranda4233]

No. 26 is actually the notebook I'm using for a diary right now, age 16. I don't know how to feel.

[@veer49]

I never really kept a diary, but I did write about what happened and how unfair everything was when I got angry. I think I still have about 5 pages of angry text in a drawer somewhere from times I felt misunderstood, angry and underappreciated. I still do the same thing now because it helps me calm down and look at what happened from a different perspective.

[@amritos]

I have that PEAS ON EARTH diary too! Except I never wrote in it until recently when I started to use it for trip planning. I unfortunately threw out my diaries in a fit of embarrassment when I finished high school and now I regret it lol

[@lucyrutherford]

You diaries sound just like Angus Things and Full Frontal Snogging :') Also omg I have so much stuff about Monarch of the Glen in my childhood diaries as well as Doc Martin, As Time Goes By and classic Aussie drama Seachange.

[@leenanorms]

Which is weird because I definitely didn't read that till later! I guess it's just spot on at capturing teenage voices! MOTG was a big concern for me. YOu can buy it on BBC store now!

[@lucyrutherford]

We have a channel in Australia called Gem which shows all the classic British shows and it repeats it all the time!

[@HeyRowanEllis]

OMG FUCKING DONA NOBIS PACEM IM CRYING THAT FUCKING SONG XD We did it for a school singing competition and got 98/100 because "we pronounced the Latin wrong". Still bitter.

[@HeyRowanEllis]

Also I had many of the same diaries as you, including the rad pink and purple paisley one, we're v. kool

[@leenanorms]

WELL THERE'S OUR COLLAB SORTED

[@HeyRowanEllis]

justkissmyfrog my diaries were like 0.01% diary and 99.9999% terrible stories and books i never finished, like a true english lit grad innit

[@SuperSamStuff]

So what would it take to fund a full reenactment with these? I also request Jon plays the younger version of you

[@leenanorms]

'and I said' [camera pans in] 'FRANCE' [horns whilst Jon does a triple bitch click] Vulva can play my various love interests.

[@ClaireLouiseUtube]

I wish I kept mine would have been great to reflect. I love it alll

[@trashbagtv8192]

26 was also my diary book when I was about 17-18 and I thought I was super cool and deep because I started every entry with a quote

[@mayray1998]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS

[@EleanorThomas]

I never successfully got more than a week into a diary when I was young - obviously had commitment issues... This made me realise I'm 100% going to look back at the diary I'm keeping at the moment and cringe at in the future...

[@Hipsterzistrr]

so angry at myself for destroying all my diaries when i was a teen; would be so much fun to read them now

[@victoria6975]

Please do more of this!!! You have the most entertaining diaries. The part where you talked about puberty could relate to anyone dealing with that haha.

[@itsdaneesaur]

omg you were such a fun and sassy child/teenager! I don't think I've kept my old diaries, but I just remember this one diary where I just really wanted to start a new one but I still had a couple of pages left, so then I ripped out the remaining few, but wrote into the book like "omg somebody tore out a page, WHO DID THIS???" .... I lied to my own diary ...

[@RitaaLeci]

DO MORE DO MORE DO MORE YOUNG LEENA IS HILARIOYS

[@heatherhattle4893]

this video prompted me to go back and look at the journal I've been keeping sporadically since 2012. I found an entry where I describe my day on which I went to see Les Miserables. I said I thought Hugh Jackman deserved an Oscar for his performance. I then go on to give a critic of the movie in depth. I was 15.

[@Ekraser]

You are so lucky to have had such a proactive young self, I'd love to be able to read back my cringey thoughts. Dying to hear more!! Xx

[@saraiden9934]

God I love hearing people's old diary entires, one of my favourite things is the Mortified podcast which is dedicated to people reading theirs... hilarious!!! always makes me want to dig out my old journals that are locked up in the basement somewhere. My life was super boring as a teenager so I have no idea how I managed to fill so many journals...But then everything feels a lot more important when you're younger lol

[@JasonTheGhost]

Omw, PLEASE do more of these! They're excellent! It's made me want to go read some of my old diaries now :D Will report back if I find anything super cringe! Stay awesome

[@FreeTheDonbas]

You should make this into a series, with so many journals.

[@suziejmm]

Hahaha oh I loved this Leena - I also have an embarrassingly lage diary selection (I'm 21 and have written a diary nearly every day since I was about 7 years old), and was also OBSESSED with periods when I was around 12/ 13, it seems. I genuinely recorded the date that everyone in my class at school started their period (I went to a girls' school), including loads of period anecdotes from friends - I started at 14 so seemed convinced that it was just never gonna happen for me haha, but it is hilarious and so so cringe to read back now

[@SinisterNight96]

I absolutely LOVE that you used to be Christian, People on KZbin seem to rarely have had this (happy, protestant modern christian) upbringing that i experienced, but i love your references to it, the bible quotes in different colour felt tip pen, its such a memory jolt, really brings back the camps and youth services, the singing with eyes closed and hands in the air as you silently ignore the few people in the room who have inevitably broken down in tears, all after a hard day of seminars, swimming and team sports...oh those were the days.

[@elizabethbarnard5137]

I really liked this! I'm going to have a look through my old diaries now (I have fifteen, and I'm still writing them). I was never articulate enough to write what I was actually feeling though (if it was complex), and I'm still not.

[@myrmidryad]

I usually don't care about people's teen diaries, but these were great. Your dramatic timing really is on point.

[@faerybookish3898]

This made me wish that I kept up with my diaries when I was younger and held onto them.

[@IndestructibleSheep]

This is so funny! It makes me want to find my teenage diaries, but I wrote a lot of them in a secret language that my friends and I made up. Too much effort! Please do more of these videos!

[@hollie.t]

I hope there will be more of these videos :'-) Gutted that I got rid of my old teenage diaries now!!

[@courtneysmith9764]

in an old diary there is a poem i wrote about my English tutor who I had a MASSIVE crush on when I was about 14 and it goes on to explain how I was sure we were soulmates because we both really liked Shakespeare's much ado about nothing..... :D

[@leenanorms]

If that's true I have A LOT of prospective husbands to call up! :'D

[@ThisNarrowboatAdventure]

I enjoyed this. i never wrote a diary though! make more please

[@puffmaggie]

oh my god, if i was 12 and read this I would find it so funny and aspire to be this cool! i used to read a youngsters book series called Alice and this reminded me of that. you were such a good writer at such a young age! and boy did you have a lot of diaries. i never kept diaries because in 2003/2004 when i was about 13 i discovered the world of blogging - proceeded to teach myself HTML so i could make "templates" and glittery gifs and my posts were about the weirdest things like lindsay lohan and hilary duff hahahah. kinda sad i don't have access to a lot of them anymore. (also Skillet is awesome, haven't heard anything by them in a while, thanks for reminding me!)

[@BigLuminousPanda]

such a funny video and great to know there is a wealth of material to read from. Makes me wish I had kept a diary myself so that I could read back and see just how angsty I was.

[@SazBerry]

This video was fantastic, so much drama as a little twelvie xD I wish i kept all mine, but i think one of the most embarrassing things i remember writing in one is about a boy i had a crush on - like a *major* crush - and my sister found the diary. Oh, the shame!

[@Sophie-fx3tq]

Ahahah these are some of my favourite kind of videos :') ps. you look so gorgeous and radiant with ginger hair ^-^

[@Sophie-fx3tq]

pps. "we put on a little glitter and went to church"

[@leenanorms]

HONESTLY if I ever make merch, that is what I want to be on it.

[@tomchandler5907]

That first diary entry was written about 8 months before I was born

[@o.steinman3855]

Around a year before I was born. It's weird to think that Leena had lived over 11 years of life before either of us even existed 0_0

[@leenanorms]

you didn't miss much don't worry!

[@gemmaward3094]

"Parents... they don't even know me" I proper snorted laughing at that ahahha Leena this was hilarious

[@SavidgeReads]

This really tickled me. I now feel both sad and slight pleased my mum binned all mine in a move/fury after I had left home. Sheep eyes. That joy 🤢 Summer camp years and rules sounded a blast 😂 Oh Monarch of the Glen. I was addicted. Lol.

[@micaela_c]

No way! Ive seen Skillet a bunch of times! They're great! Also hilarious video Leena! I've been enjoying your recent videos so much lately! :) Would definitely love to see more diary videos in the future!!

[@leenanorms]

hahah coming up

[@nhopec]

I loved this, Leena! i was an idiot who tossed all my diaries because I thought they were horrible and now I cannot laugh at my 12 year-old self.

[@loz_nz]

omg more of this please. I was never very consistent at keeping diaries but I'd love to find them now. Mostly very cringey I think.

[@CuppaTeaAndASitDown]

I remember finding one of my old diaries and I'd written in one of those colour change marble gel pens (I was like so cool) but I could barely read it back! I remember making a lock for a diary too.

[@daviedarling]

this makes me feel better about how dramatic i was in my diaries as a 12 year old

[@thepowerofcheesecake]

i had a diary from when i was 10 and like three years later i decided i should comment on everything i wrote and honestly the parts i put in when i was 13 are cringier than the 10yo stuff.

[@martharose9579]

YES I AM ABSOLUTELY HERE FOR THIS!

[@EefjeSavelkoul]

It is so strange to read your old writing! I remember being a teenager and thinking that I was writing down all these deep thoughts but whenever I find some of them it's just about liking boys who won't like me back. Where are all my musings about the meaning of life? I felt like I was soooo deep back then, when in fact that just made me a quintessential teenager. :)

[@ruthfisher3210]

i just used to try and be really pretentious and write things like... "i am at one with nature."

[@thisoneiskym]

Tiny Leena is so adorable! I would love to see more of these.

[@hollydoesreading]

I bloody LOVE this video so much, KZbinrs rarely make me laugh out loud but mY GOD LEENA I'm roaring!!!

[@hollydoesreading]

In Monarch of the Glen, HECTOR DIES! Oh man I'm crying here......

[@the.social.fabric]

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH YOU MAJESTIC HUMAN BEING

[@royaevereadsbooks]

Best video I've ever seen 😂😂 please do more of these. Makes me wish SO BADLY that I hadn't thrown all mine out

[@leenanorms]

everyone seems to have chucked them out, am I the only hoarder ?!!

[@marta_sanders]

This was just fantastic! I was seriously obsessed about having my diary discovered by my parents or something (as if they care lol) and used to write a lot of entries with warnings in them in case anyone who wasn't me read those. Also because it was the time of sms I used to write in such fashion (without vowels basically) so no one could understand the writing fully. A decade after (!), not even I can decipher what's in most of those pages :) (I also copied some of the texts I got from boys I liked, but I think I destroyed them time after that, I was very dramatic).

[@faatimahfarhad1523]

LOVED THISSS, please do more of these, we need more of Teenage Kathyyyy ❤❤

[@EmmieLouDraws]

I love how many journals you had- I have 50 old ones ..... Oopes

[@endangeringamy]

Thanks for enduring that for our entertainment 😂I can't decide if I'm happy or not that I threw out all my teenage diaries!

[@Rebekahb127]

This was beautiful and I need more of it in my life. My old diaries are missing and I so wish I could go back and read it.

[@LaCentauresse]

I found the part about puberty really moving

[@EleanorThomas]

Also I would lobe to hear more about your view on region if its something you're comfortable talking about!

[@gayleprovan8289]

don't have any of my teenage diaries, part of me wishes I did and the other 90% is very glad I don't!

[@Applepopess]

This is brilliant! More please!

[@taylaleonardis6951]

Yes, we definitely need more of these!

[@404-equivalent4]

These were great Leena! I'd read them all if they were published. I loved 'a bit of a slash day'. ;D Also pretending you got period when you didn't have it yet was definitely a thing, I still remember all the drama around it. Do you still keep a diary? I never kept a diary as a teenager but now I'm really enjoying it. :)

[@katmandoo5381]

I've had a bit of a slash day and this has made me cackle like mental. I want more!!! MORE!!! x

[@ttjnaaa]

This was awesome! I loved the last bit the most, so graphic.

[@theuncommonviewer]

This is glorious. Tell johnbehere to do one!

[@katefirth-odonnell5847]

plEASE make this a series

[@jenvcampbell]

This was fucking magnificent x

[@leenanorms]

Sorry you didn't get to meet 12 year old Leena - although maybe 15 year old Jen might have hated her. x

[@jenvcampbell]

Fifteen year old Jen was a girl guide, doing piano and netball, trying to be head girl (that was never going to happen considering that shit was a popularity contest (or at least was at my school)), was writing a georgia-nicholson-rip-off novel, was in love with a girl in her ballet glass, stuck pictures of Lindsay Lohan all over her school planner and sometimes wore blue lipstick in her bedroom. Just because. Yeah.

[@leenanorms]

I would have sat in your room trying on blue lipstick with you and writing bad poetry next to you with a really big felt pen x

[@starry_eyed_girl]

You could so write these (Louise Renninson esque) they're hilarious especially the period truths

[@xntwxrld]

AW I FEEL THE JOURNAL ADDICTION SO HARD also I feel like we would have been friends as kids. also you write better at thirteen that I do at twenty. but please never use comic sans in a video without a tw ever again

[@leenanorms]

I think I was scared of being erased by history. OMG maybe that's why I do youtube. BRB going away for life crisis. Bahaha Somic Cans do what I want. (yes we probs would have been friends as kids, better l8 than never)

[@nomesontour]

I loved this, please make more of these videos!

[@laurajs]

Genuinely laughing out loud here! 😂 Loved the caravan saga and dramatic Monarch of the Glenn moment!

[@lydiaholland7137]

this. was. incredible! more please

[@lynseymacmakeup]

Laughed out loud so many times watching this, it was brilliant. I feel like if I was to look out my teenage diaries I would find a lot of similarly dramatic content 😂 I'm also pretty sure I had the pencil case from the range that pink diary towards the end came from (the one that you said you'd buy today, which I'm in total agreement with)! x

[@kierajw]

I can't even tell you how badly I needed this video ooooh my god

[@booksfortea]

I need you to do more of these videos, this one was so great!

[@voteforfran]

I used to have a rock farm when I was younger, and I wrote daily entries about tending them, including how many 'babies' they had and which ones had 'died.' For shame.

[@MichelleLElman]

Just released my teenage diary video today as well. I feel like that the universe is aligning or just random AF coincidence. Probably the latter.

[@JeansThoughts]

Monarch of the Glen

[@emilyrhodes7200]

If you could make this a series that would be fab :)

[@zozzy9664]

this was fun! i'd love to hear your texts with that boy

[@heidiroberts4821]

MORE LEENA TEENAGE DIARY PLEASE

[@blane1814]

I love how most of ur diary’s are small

[@rachelporter1231]

I used to write all my favourite texts from boys word for word too. When you could only save like 10 texts in your phone so one would be bumped out if you got a better one.

[@girlpower148]

according to my diaries i was using the f work at about 9 years old

[@georgiewhite7228]

"POVERTY PHASE" I choked.

[@indiasinkwell4492]

I love you. This is gold. But then I haven't slept for a few days so it might be influencing me a little.

[@michellethalakottur9218]

That moment when you realize that there is another human in the world who also has more diaries than their age. 😎 Thanks Leena. I couldn't stop laughing.

[@maiseywick3045]

oh i love this video and your personaility! :)

[@Eellia]

Amazing! Hope there's more to come!