Draw My Life - My High School Journey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ย. 2022
- Despite how smooth and polished Dan, Caroline, and Sam make me look on camera with their producing and editing, I promise you I am an awkward weirdo and it was even worse when I was in high school. Oh man was I a dork. Today I pulled together another Draw My Life to tell some of my most cringe and awkward moments from high school in Staten Island that I'm still embarassed about. Getting mono from my first kisses, being jumped walking down the street with my friend Alex, getting cheated on by my first girlfriend, huge fights with my dad... it was rough back then. Hopefully my stories will make your own awkward high school experiences a little easier to swallow. We all go through it as teenagers, I'm certainly no exception. Let me know your worst high school stories down below and we can all heal together!
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Let’s just appreciate Doctor Mike for having the courage to openly speak about his embarrassing moments.
Ok dont read my name.....
I totally agree. If this animation is 100% true, then I think its hugely courageous. However, I gotta admit that the "chameleon" part makes me question motivations here. But it doesn't matter. "Motivations" are mostly my own hang up . Go get em, Dr. Mike. Looking forward to your bout. Keep it poppin.
@@TheBigBoy_1357 yes, Dr. Mike is swimming in pune....... but that's kinda why I hate him. *(Some guys get all the luck...)
I love how honest he is
you guys praise people for anything. hes making content and of course hes going to get a good response. Please stfu
We need you to bring your dad one day to your channel and tell his story. His struggles of coming to USA and his med school journey for the second time. His relationship with family and even Roxy ❤
Yes we need to hear his side and also hear any extra embarrassing stories.
I believe his dad passed away.
@@beatrizs527 i think it was his mom that passed away
@@camel6848 Oh that’s right I remember the beautiful Mother’s Day tribute. You’re right!
Imagine his dad, Mike and Roxy all together telling stories! Gonna be so cool
He’s really good at diffusing high-stress situations like with the bus bullies, the guy with the gun, and with saving his friend from getting robbed by those two guys. Definitely a desirable skill in the medical field too.
That was his brother
Yeah I also don't panic in these situations cause I don't know why. I think it's inbuilt in me so I relate to him
Tell him to put that on his resume…
@@gentletop8910 do you want a cookie?
@@crazysnakes1237 👍
The Fact He Blended In With His Literal Bullies And Protected Other Students is amazing.
Meanwhile Sophie realizes she made the worst mistake of her life 🤦♀️
yea, that's it💔😉😆
Lol
I don't feel bad for her at all
She is probably with a banker rn
she lost a good 1 fr fr
Doctor Mike literally has the best personality. He definitely sounded like someone so cool to hang out with in high school... Thanks for all you do and your willingness to share your moments with us,.
Whoa,. So you knew him in highschool? That's cool.
He probably wasn't
Honestly it’s kind of therapeutic to think about your embarrassing moments and cringe your way through. You realize they were just part of growing up
I like your dad. My dad was also strict with us about our grades and going out. Never, ever were we allowed to sleep over. But his ways helped raised three kids in a very tough neighborhood in the Bronx, kept us out any serious trouble and got all three of us through college.
I just started 10th grade and I'm feeling so down because I have no friends but you talking about how you were in high school and seeing you now is so inspiring thank you
Find others that you notice might not have any friends then make friends with them. Then you’d have a friend and that lonely person also would have a friend. That’s basically what my group of friends did we just found people who maybe didn’t fit in to any of the groups so we were just kinda the misfit group but we all stuck up for each other through high school
Look for things that you can relate to about others and start talking to them about those things. You may end up developing some friendships that way, or at least improve your interpersonal skills in the process. High school is difficult for everyone, but I hope that you will make some friends soon because it makes the entire experience more palatable. 💗
@@byuftbl that is the same thing that happened to my friends and I. We didn’t fit into the other groups, so we all became close friends overtime.
I love how honest he is! Getting street cred on the bus to avoid bullying is so wholesome. Love the man you’ve become! 👏🏽
yeah he is really honest but he is highly talkative too, i liked his that🤣🤣😂 because i barely see when medical professinals are such like chatter box......
I didn’t realize you were a doctor Mike fan Khalilahd! I love all your book content.
7:00 Guy: "Empty your pockets!"
Me, a girl: "Jokes on you I have none"
fr tho
Hearing that, it’s no surprise he became such an excellent doctor. He’s always been empathetic, smart, and selfless.💚
When you started being a doctor, have you ever thought of; “Being in highschool is way better than what I am currently in right now” ?
Ok dont read my name.....
High school was hell for me. Digging ditches would be better than the psychiatric abuse HS put me through
@@maenad1231 really sorry for you bro :( high school was lit for me personally but i can completely understand how it can be like hell for others
@@GlorifiedGremlin definitely, but I didn’t miss the part where if you didn’t socialize properly you’re stuck with people who pick on you everyday and you can’t choose to leave
I love the “Draw My Life” style videos and I’m glad you did another! Thank you for sharing this type of stuff with us!
The way I avoided a lot of embarrassing situations in high school was to be the quiet kid everyone knew but didn't talk to.
I did the same! On one hand it saved me from having to deal with the drama of immature highschoolers, but on the other hand I later did end up dealing with the drama of an immature 26-year-old who I probably would have known to avoid if I'd dealt with that sort of stuff in high school. 6 one, half a dozen another.
Yeah that’s how I am now and my parents hate it but I also just don’t really want to talk to anyone
Me
Hello Alora, how are you doing today
That's me! Not invisible but not popular either.
I love these videos where you share your past with us (no matter how embarrassing 😂) Also, the animations are AMAZING!
I want to know about Alex as every time Mike refers to him it’s as his best friend/brother. Seems significant.
Transparency, I like. Everyone’s high school experience is unique and you’ve shared yours. I was the quiet, study hard finish first type that stayed away from cliques. If there’s anything to be learned as a teen and young adult, it is to always be yourself. The popular crowd isn’t always the nicest, honest, or most virtuous or moral. And often times, you aren’t missing out on much by not being a part of the popular crowd. But that’s me, being an introvert, and being adverse to any sort of crowd thought or groupthink. Glad you found your way, and you still aren’t chasing behind the “popular kids”. Often times they don’t like people who aren’t truly one of them, and they hate the fake people who beg to be accepted by them, even though they like the praise and attention.
Your desire to help people and reach out to them and be a real friend almost cost you, but your heart was in the right place. Now you help people on a much larger scale through TH-cam and as a doctor. So your good personality traits only became more of who you are, and the fame and money haven’t made you a narc. Excellent glow up doc.
I agreed with everything except "narc"
But I'm 13 yrs out of high school had no clue people still thought that lol
The only the I can say is h.s doesn't end because u can see all the different characters irl
The suck ups, airheads, know it all's, oblivious, bullies, lol
So I've learned to just accept people and navigate the different personalities or avoid
I'm glad your best friend was so close you called him a brother. It's really hard moving to a new country and trying to find your way through it, so I'm glad you guys had eachother :)
Really loved this video. His ingenuity in how he tells his embarrassing stories in such a heartful manner is really impressive.
I just graduated highschool and there are tons of embarrassing moments I can’t even count them or even remember some of it.😂
Same 😂
Ok dont read my name.....
I can relate I just graduated as well and there’s a bunch of stuff my brain won’t ever let me forget
give it a few years and you'll forget most of them. I know there were times I thought were super embarrassing from school but going towards 20 years afterwards I am having trouble remembering more than like two.
Same. You never forget them 😭
Props to whoever put together "You're tearing me apart Sophie"
I think most parents wont let their kid spend the night at their boyfriends or girlfriends house, probably mostly worried about teen pregnancy
Nah tbh I feel like most parents (except mine) don't even care anymore. They let their kids come home at whatever time they want and im lowkey jealous
@@ThiccZuccy no lol I don’t know a single person with parents like that.(thas just me tho)
I think that parents don’t want to be the ones that let their kids sleep over with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Like everyone’s gotta know that’s not the determining factor, but allowing that may be seen as a parent fully allowing that to happen, which they don’t want to do
@@ThiccZuccy this aint disney channel parents dont do that at all
@@kiroto7429 Where I live yes. Ik a lot of ppl with parents like that. I live in Rhode island and even my best friends parents are like that. They really dc
Can we just appreciate the animations for a sec! They're amazing!
I'm 16 and I currently am in my last year of high school! Hearing him talk, reminds me that I'm also the nerdy, awkward and studious girl.
I just relate with the moments he had in high school so much!
I really appreciate the fact that Dr. Mike is so comfortable speaking about his high school embarrassing moments!!
And, I adore that Dr. Mike crushes misinformation so well that I'm the first person to watch his videos!
I'm so proud to see Dr. Mike open up about high school, especially when they can be really bad. 🙂
Do most people's parents let them sleep over at their bf/gf's house in high school? I feel like that's a cultural thing because my Black parents also absolutely wouldn't have allowed that either lol. My guy friends weren't even allowed in my bedroom with the door open let alone someone sleeping over! Your dad was not weird for that haha.
I don´t agree. Everyone I knew was allowed to, but not me.
@@leiciKeksfan yeah think it's just a protective thing not necessarily cultural considering SSSniperWolf wasn't allowed to go to other's houses either
It depends on the family. My mom and dad has always told me it's okay, and even gave me condoms O.o
@@d3l_nev you're US Citizen it cause wouldn't happen anywhere else but I'm ready to be surprised
@@kaiser9109 In most Europe country's it's the same, for example Germany
as an eastern european / middle eastern i totally get ur dad being like that ahahaha its amazing how different cultures and experiences are in growing up in different places of the "civilized world"
The whole Sophie thing I kinda relate to. I had a girl I kinda liked in high school named savannah, but since she was my first crush, I didn’t really know that’s what was happening, so I literally didn’t believe it for a while. The classes I shared with her were my favorite, and I always enjoyed the class outings where she was part of it too (the class was this thing called life skills where they would go on little outings in the community to difernt worksites or other various places), but I never admitted or even considered that I kinda liked her. There was a few instances during one or two of the outings where I found a flower or heart-shaped stone on the ground, and I almost considered giving it to her, but didn’t have the courage to do it with the other classmates around, so I didn’t, and I later on in life, after she graduated, I kinda regretted those missed opportunities. But still, so I kinda liked Savannah throughout my junior and senior year of high school, and then one day, on onna the outings, we were in the class van, and she mentioned that she had a boyfriend named Alan, and then she never seemed to mention him again (that I remember). So at that point I kinda stopped pursuing her, but my crush on her didn’t entirely fade though for whatever reason. Then after she graduated and later in that year, in like late November or something, the class decided to do a “thanksgiving event”, where they convoyed the students from my main class to it as well, and then they took the class to Haggens to get stuff for it, and then at the end as we headed back to class, the teacher asked if I wanted her to invite Savannah to it as well. Ofc I said I did, so they did, and then when the event day came, (it was a half day)l I arrived late because I had had an appointment earlier that day, but when I got there, i went to my main class and waited for life skills class to start, and once it did, I went down there and I was already kinda excited. Once I got down there, the teacher said that Savannah would be here in about an hour, so I wait, and then while the clsss starts watching A Vharlie Brown Thabksvibing, into the classroom comes Savannah. I smile, I get really happy and excited, and I turn around and head over (along with the rest of the class) to greet her. We exchanged greetings and stuff, and then she decided to give out hugs to the class. And who did she hug first? Me. I mean, it probly didn’t mean anything, but it was kinda nice. She had a big puffy white coat on and everything, it was nice.
Aww man that's such a wholesome story, thanks for sharing😁
Good for you man.
I don't know, you can't be too awkward if you are able to fit with everyone and even talk your way out of situations like that. What a good dude though to use that to protect others, and even encourage people to stay in school.
I was a little confused when he was talking about how ubiquitous knives and guns were in his high school, then he reminded us he was in Staten Island and it all made sense
@@GlorifiedGremlin Aha. No. It's an American thing to have weapons in High School. Literally nowhere else has that problem nearly as much.
@@GlorifiedGremlin If you think weapons are seen with a stigma in the US you have been watching news channels and not actually talking to anyone. The overwhelming majority of Americans are still ignorant to the point where they don't see how weapon restrictions will help with school shootings.
@@brothersandsistersofvalhalla my dad grew up in Jersey and regularly took payments from gang members in his high school to keep weapons in his locker since theirs got checked often!
Yeah lmao Staten island is a warzone.
I saw many of my teenage students not liking themselves very much, but this amount of hatred towards one's younger self is remarkable.
Thank you for sharing some of your life's experience.
I also remember trying to go in between a couple outraged boys in middle school who were about to fight each other. Guided them to go in seperate directions. I would try to do good in that sense to keep peace at times, when I potentially could have actually gotten hurt instead.
Doctor mike
“I was that kinda silly nerdy guy”
Carry’s on “Beep-whoop”
😂😂
Yikes I was so on edge nervous for highschool Mike at points! It's also crazy weird how much my husband was you in HS. Nerdy, wanting so badly to be cool and accepted, but heart of gold underneath.
Thank you for being so vulnerable, doctor Mike. Teenage years are tough on us all!
You were being a genuine good human being. It is sad that people think we have to win people over instead of learning and finding common interest to be friends. You obviously fought through the diversity and have saved lives and now try your best to educate us on youtube! You are appreciated! 💖
I appreciate how he didn’t cut out major details of his story.
Your dad was super strict. But maybe that's also how you were able to learn how to be truly disciplined and studious. So despite him not allowing you things that should have been allowed, in the end everything turned out just fine. You're now a famous doctor :)
Hello Dear, how are you doing?
LOL. I was thinking that wow, his parents weren't strict at all.
I’m trying to process a very sudden and unexpected breakup, and this helped me feel so much better. Thank you! 😊
Thanks for communicating to us in a human level.
You are truly amazing.
8:30 That feeling of hanging up on your parent for the first time and truly claiming independence is so scary!
God bless for siblings because no matter what I can always say that my siblings were my best friends growing up. It was so sweet listening to you say "my brother/best friend."
I can totally relate to the rollerblade thing. When I was in middle school, I used to ride my bike on the street a girl I liked lived on and do all manner of stunts, hoping she'd see.
I love how the animator references doctor mike’s spiky hair form when he was younger
What a nerd. 😄❤️😂
One of the best videos yet.
Well yes, if someone doesn't get into trouble in teenage then what are you doing with your life. A certain amount of problems, risks must be faced by adolescents to discover their strengths & weaknesses which helps in later life. Also it gives us so many new experiences. I noticed throughout this journey you have a good presence of mind & equanimity. Keep it up ❤
You were a very singular, good hearted and brave kid
i love this! your last draw my life was so good, and this was really good too! it’s amazing how much you have progressed. thank you so much for being comfortable with talking about very embarrassing topics such as this story! as a student in somewhere in Britain, it is SOO weird for me to see people not being in detention or being severely punished if you are not in class.
Mike, you have such a warm heart. And yes, as a Scorpio myself, my friends also tell me that I can be "chameleonic". So interesting to learn about your life! 😊
Hello Olga, how are you doing today
I’m so glad you have a healthy view of yourself from back then, I have two polar opposite’s from my time in high school between my first two years and last two years and I’m not sure if I’d be around right now if it weren’t for the last two because the first two were so bad that I was beginning give up on life but thankfully my circumstances changed and as a result so did I in the process and I’m much better for it now!
I grew up in south Georgia, in the 80's. In Elementary school, boys were allowed to carry knives if the blade was 3" or shorter! Funny how things were so different back then!
Doctor Mike, thank you for speaking up on these moments!! It must have been hard so we appreciate you so much :) 💕💕
I remember going to the wrong class for a week and mom confronting asking me why I was absent for a week and I was so confused lol. I did that twice once freshman year and senior year
Mike's personality is everything. He's such a sweetheart 🥰
Dang. Dr Mike, you deserve every good thing that comes to you. Thank you for sharing so vulnerably
Dr. Mike is like a breath of fresh air when he said his father is like super strict and particular because usually the Asian community especially Indian diaspora (from my experiences) were always going on really hard on their children to do well academically. I guess, every parent no matter where from worries for the better life of their offspring. 😊
PS - Never hang up on your parents' call. 😂
I had a similar experience to what you had with your dad on the phone. I was at my boyfriend's house, my mom was out of town and my mom's partner at the time said I couldn't sleep over. I wasn't really rebellious either, so I knew I had to go home at some point. We ended up falling asleep and I woke up at like 2 am....oh no, gotta go home! Tried to go home, the power steering belt on my car blew (car was older than me). I pulled over on the side of the road, was helped by two older guys (rural farm Town, was dumb and naive to accept help from two strange men at 2 in the morning...thank God they were genuine!). Ended up having to call my moms partner to say that I tried to come home, car broke down, didn't want to cause worry. It was a lot of drama that could have been avoided if I was just allowed to stay over. Just sayin. 😆
loved this video!! i'm genuinely so impressed by how you always manage to keep your content entertaining and fresh, keep up the good work :)
I just love these draw my life stories of you growing up.oh boy was I awkward back in high school and so quiet as well (still am to a degree) and definitely was more comfortable in the nerdy group too lol.this was fun to watch, thanks for sharing 🤗
Let’s all appreciate how he has the courage to talk about his most embarrassing moments
Love the storytelling. Nice and straight to the point 💯
Doctor Mike, thank you for these awesome videos!! Because of you, I’m want to become a physical therapist! I never even considered going into the medical field before finding your channel.
Your dad was on point. No sleepovers with the opposite sex was NORMAL PARENTING. Not good to let teens of the opposite sex have overnight anything. He shouldn't have yielded with the "can't sleep, but come home" part because in the south, bruh, you'd be toast for trying it. Parents down here don't play that.
The fact that he was like “okay so I’ll sleep like three hours and then go to my home so my father would thought that I didn’t” 🤣 priceless! XD
He was always very smart and brave, wow! 🥰✨
Thanks for sharing, Dr Mike! This video made my day & got me thinking of all the silly/wacky things I got myself into, back in the day, too! 🤯😲😅😂
Have a wonderful week!😊
Thank you for Your courage to share these stories you are truly inspirational and hilarious 😂
Why am I so excited to see a video about embarrassing moments when I've already had enough to last me 2 lifetimes
fr though, im excited to see this
We have always seen Dr.Mike love his dad so much that knowing that they dint talk to each other for a while seems unacceptable. 😅
I found the last bit funny but a bit too relatable, I used to be like that with my dad. I didn’t dare hang up on him, argue or anything like that until I grew a spine one day and shouted back.
Love the honesty and authenticity 💗
was so tired & drained from school today but leave it to dr. mike to put a smile on my face 😩❤️❤️
What!?! You're gonna leave this on a cliff hanger!?!? 😲 haha Well played man! Can't wait for a possible continuation!
I had such a good laugh and cringed so much. 😂 I mostly cringed because it brought back so many memories of my dumb stubborn teen years. 😭 And, kudos Dr. Mike for staying true to yourself! Es la única manera.
Actually really appreciate this honesty lol and the vulnerability to tell these kinds of embarrassing stories. It’s nice to know we all had geeky pasts and awkward periods but look you could become dr Mike! Lol ☺️
Another awesome vid. Looking forward to seeing the next one! I’d also love to see a collab with you and @Izzy Kornblau about living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and how to ensure we get the best care. I live in the UK and had to battle until I was 38 to get taken seriously and was diagnosed with the hypermobile variant. Still struggle to get taken seriously by the older doctors within the NHS who think it’s just about being overly flexible, and ignoring the impact on the GI system, urogynaecological system, blood vessels, etc… I know Izzy lives with EDS and helps spread awareness and is also training as a genetic counsellor, so would love to hear how you both think things could be improved in general and help her raise awareness too 😊
Honestly though, I feel like teenagers not sleeping over at your girlfriend/boyfriend’s house isn’t that abnormal of a rule.
Omg this is amazing. This is the story of someone who has benefited from lots of therapy and self-growth. 😄✨
Hi dr. Mike, thanks for sharing it was fun to hear your school experiences.
I'm interested in your med school experiences! Would love a draw my life digging into your experience there! Thanks mike
Love these stories Mike. It sounds like you were really 'on top: of things at such a young age, making a lot of situations your responsibility like on the school bus, making sure people went to class etc by reaching back into your brain, find what' personality' was needed and what the other people would respond to and change the outcome that way. It's an amazing skill, Mike, a skill not a lot of people have. I can imagine it does have its downsides too, being that good at playing so many roles. We got to see a little bit of how Mike became the Mike we all love today.
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Hello Anne, how are you doing today
Hey Doctor Mike. Great video. In the next video could you potentially do a mail time segment. Love those so much. Ciao
Love these new animations!
The story with your dad brought me to tears. I'm glad it ended there... Could've been an opening of a door to a very big and bad change in your relationship in the future. And honestly I thought he was right 😂
This video came in perfect timing. When I awoke this morning, I reflected on who I was when I was in high school. Sadly, it wasn't a good experience. I was very depressed, anxious, and secluded. I see how you've grown so much since then, and I can say that I have, too. I don't know exactly what the message is in this, but I will meditate on it as I go about my day. And, I had my bad hair phases in high school, too. 😂
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This is so great as a person attending with these stories-
It's so funny!!!
*and the hair* ✋️💀
Embarrassing Dr Mike teenager moments, I'm here for it 🤣
High school... A tough time
I graduated high school a couple months ago
When I was in high school, you were my idol, I looked up to you. But now that I couldn't make it to med school, your videos just bring back bad thoughts.
Hell yeah!! Dr. Mike video for high school after I’ve already graduated
Dr. Mike genuinely sounded like the most fun guy to hang out with in school.
Your stories are awesome. And Sophie, you done screwed up on this one girl.
Thank you for sharing this openly to us
When he said Staten Island I freaked. I used to live there for 7 years.
Dr.Mike's cartoon seems to be more like Dr.Mike than he himself 🤣
Hard to relive this, no doubt. Had his dad been kinder to him, Mike probably wouldn't have felt the need to buy people's friendship.
Thanks for sharing your awkward moments in high school. 😁 Hell, if not for distance and a six year age difference, we probably would've been friends, because I was a huge dork. I was a tall, nerdy tomboy with poofy hair and a sensitive disposition. I should have been a ready target for bullies, except for two things: One, I snapped in junior high and beat the snot out of one of my bullies, and that story got carried over to high school, and two, I was the smart kid who wouldn't try very hard to hide her answers on tests if the price was right.
I am soo happy you made this man
if you check his videos at the beginning of him starting his channel he used to be very serious knowledge-oriented type a guy, now he looks like he's having fun making those videos along with the knowledge , cute 😊 keep going and good luck 👏🏻
Dr Mike your content never fails to disappoint me! Keep up the great work, you are the reason I want to be a doctor in the future 😀
Dr Mike is so sweet . Feels like such a 90’s kids story. The frankness and innosence is on point
Oh my 😍 I love the art work in the wall. It's super cool.