The awkward years

Bow ties and blue dreadlocks, padded bras and bullying: who'd be a teenager? Ten grown-ups, all doing just fine now, remember the agonies of adolescenceStephen MerchantI was a teenage geek. I don't mean the 19th-century definition when a geek was "a carnival performer whose act involved biting the heads off helpless creatures". (A sort of Victorian version of Simon Cowell, but with more humanity.