Mardi Gras

[stufsocker]

If you got teased/picked on as a kid, what did the other kids call you? Does it still hurt or do you think it's silly (or maybe even funny)?

Comments

[anapnea]

I got called watermelon head once by a banana head.

[keskt]

I was made fun of for being chubby as a little kid. Not actually very much though, but somehow I was convinced I was a loser and developed a complex and let it hinder my entire life :)

[keskt]

to answer the question, no it doesnt still hurt me- it hurts me that I was fucking stupid enough to internalize it and keep me from doing things I wanted.

[hobogloves]

I got called "Ghetto Booty" from 7th grade onward. I credit that as the beginning of my bad body image.

[scribbystardust]

wth

that sounds like a compliemnt to me

[cosmologists]

They all said I had a "made up disease" in 5th grade and they "didn't want to catch it" or something because I was out of school so much because of migraines. It seemed like a really big deal at the time. Also, I ran funny.

[irrational84]

Okay, in sixth grade we had this new student come in from someplace up north. He was kind of a snooty bastard, thought he was smarter than everyone else, etc. One day, he decides to start calling me Shebubble (my last name starts with "she" and to this day I have no idea where "bubble" came from). I ignored him because at that age, it was the only thing I knew to do, but day after day, he kept on calling me Shebubble and making fun of the way I walk or my chin dimple or whatever. Eventually, it started to spread, and after a few weeks, everybody is calling me Shebubble, including my friends! Even one of my teachers used the word! It stuck with me until I got into high school and found a social circle that wasn't full of assholes.

I think it's kinda funny now, but it pissed me the fuck off when I was a kid.