Keep Calm and End This Meme

[unmowngrass]

"Urgh, Katie's germs! Injection!"cried my classmates, after, for example, something as innocuous as bumping into me, when they'd wipe their arm with the other hand, wipe it on someone else, and slap their arm, meaning basically, no backsies (because they were now 'protected' from it). The one who had been swiped would repeat the process and it

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[solstice_singer]

You're right. Kids can be incredibly cruel. I'm really sorry you had to endure that.

[unmowngrass]

Thank you.

[kagomeshuko]

Kids are so cruel. I had cooties. And the girls would always try to give me "boy cooties."

I remember standing in line in the lunch room and these girls thought it was so funny to act like they were telling a knock-knock joke:

Girl: Knock-knock
Me: Who's there?
Girl: Dese Nuts!

Then she'd run away laughing and making fun of me. I never understood it and I still don't understand it. I just know it hurt lots.

[unmowngrass]

Sorry to hear that :-(

It's probably a US(?)/UK thing... what are cooties? what is the cooties thing?

[kagomeshuko]

Thanks. I was bullied my entire time in school, really. The only time I can't think of it too horribly from K-12 is in 12th grade and there were still some mean people.

Anyway, Cooties is a fictional disease. It's kind of like you have in your piece about having "Katie germs." If a girl touched a boy or even stood near him (so, yeah, just having to stand in line or pass by a boy in a room was a terrible thing), she could get "boy cooties."

[unmowngrass]

Thanks for sharing that. I got slightly confused when you took ownership of having had them ;-) (I had cooties vs. they said I had cooties.)

Sorry to hear that :/

[kickthehobbit]

You both look so happy, and yes, your hair is lovely. :D

[unmowngrass]

Awww, thank you! <3 <3

I've known that chick for 10 years online, it was such a privilege to meet her!

[elizalavelle]

Kids suck. I've apparently repressed a lot of my bullying from junior high. My mom holds it as one of her biggest regrets that she didn't put me into a different school because I apparently came home crying most days. I don't remember that at all. I remember some incidents but clearly not everything.

I also remember the one girl who was the school's pariah and I hope she's doing okay now because she was a really sweet person and I'm not sure why she ended up being the one everyone avoided.

Your hair is lovely! I love your curls!

[unmowngrass]

Oh, sorry to hear that. :-(

:/

Thank you!

[tonithegreat]

I like your "Keep calm and end the bullying" take on the prompt!

[unmowngrass]

Thank you! :D