This relates to the name calling thread

[janelle]

Since we are talking about name calling cause of our looks---black, white, Chinese, Jews, etc.

We all have features or something others will pick on. Growing up what did you have to put up with cause of your looks or culture?

I had red hair so I was called red by some and I definitely felt some teachers did not like me just because I had red hair. Seems red haired people are pigeonholed as trouble in some circles. I also have freckles so that didn't make it any easier. Some think brat as soon as they see a red haired, freckled kid. NOT FAIR.

I also had a black person ask why my arms looked like they do with all the freckles. I didn't know what to say except, That is the way God made me. LOL

In some ways it is good since we get a sense of what it feels like for others to put up with it.

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[freeby4me]

My nickname was shorty. Oh and dynamite. I was a little package with a big attitude (and made sure everyone knew it LOL) but I never really let it bother me.
Now when they'd rest their arm on my head, i'd tell them I was gonna knaw their ankles off. That I didnt like LOL

[Kyla Kym]

I got picked on for being chubby when I was younger.. I lost all my weight when I was in Jr. High then they went back to picking on me for having big boobs.

I always felt like I was cursed because I had big breast. Even the girls would call me names about my boobs. They called me Dolly until her movie 9 to 5 came out...then I was known as 9 to 5. Once guy use to call me B.B. short for big boobs.......

A big chest wasn't as popular back in the 70's & 80's like it is now, and the funny thing is, I was just a C cup back then, now I'm a D and I feel like I'm about average since everyone and their mom's have big boobs now........

my Senior year I got 4th runner up to Miss DHS, most beautiful and best figure in the school annual year book. Which was a big deal at our school. It was a full color page layouts....I guess that was when I realized that maybe it wasn't so bad after all having these gawd awful huge boobs.

[justme23]

I have red hair too and one of the worst things I've ever been called is red frog... I never felt like red heads were in a 'bad group' though. Anyways, I'm 30 now and I would still like to walk up to and slug the guy who started that name. It was weird. I moved away from the school he was at in 5th grade I think... then all of a sudden he showed up in High School. He tried the name thing again but for some reason it didn't stick that time, so he dropped it.

That's just one of the names I've been called... I honestly don't remember a lot of them specifically... but I do remember the beat you like a redheaded step child crap and the red on the head like a noodle on a poodle bs. It wasn't funny then and it's not funny now... but ppl still do it.

The only ppl who still call me red now is one uncle and one cousin. They are in a constant state of needing to be better than everyone else so I just let them think they are keeping me down. They're the ones that look like idiots more times than not.

[Adra]

I was a fat little girl, and I was called fatso a lot. The rhyme fatso fatso 2 by 4 can't get through the kitchen door was said a couple of times. I can still remember the children that was the worst. Douglas was one and Deborough, those were the worst two. But there were others.

Even a parent told me one time that I was so fat I ought to lose weight just cause I had to carry it around. I was too young to know what she meant.

[tammy77]

I started going through puberty when I was 8 and probably starting getting acne around that time.I had it bad and nothing seemed to work to clear it up.I went to a private school til the 4th grade and was made fun of there.In the 5th grade I started going to public school.I thought oh good nobody will know me maybe things will be different.Boy was I wrong.The name calling started probably from day 1.You name it I was called it.Then people started telling me how ugly I was and how I would never get a boyfriend and nobody would ever like me.I had zero self esteem.I thought I would never get a boyfriend.Got my first boyfriend when I was 13.There is more to the story but dont want to get into all that.
Also I remember there was this girl when I was in 5th grade who said I stuffed my bra.I mean really I was only an A cup.I went home crying to my older brother.He told me the next time she says it just tell her"you want to see that I dont".Well the next day she said the same thing and I told her what my brother said.After that she never said it to me.

[hblueeyes]

Growing up my family always made fun of my having a big nose. I just dont see it. Not one person in my life, other than my family ever said anything about my nose being big. I think it fits my face but I could be wrong.

Me

[delSol]

I had lazy eyes - I got ragged on all the time

"hey stupid, - I'm over here - what are you looking at" ugh, I hated it! Like i was retarded or something - people were afraid of me, it was like i had 4 heads

I had surgery in my teens but you never forget how awful kids can be

I rarely look people in the eye to this day, when I get tired or drink my eyes still go a little "off" and I've had people call me on it - what are they thinking? like I can control it? Oh yeah, I woke up this morning and thought "I think today I will have my eyes wander all over my face"

[tracey74]

hey blue eyes my mom and grandma got made of for having a big nose so my grandma used to say well when god was handing out noses I thought he said roses so I told him I wanted a big one. and delsol my sister had a lazy eye when she was a kid and had to wear a patch . I got made fun of for different things. from not having Jordache jeans(they used to say my mom shopped at goodwill ) to being called fat or pregnant after being put on prednisone at 12 for my asthma and being on it for so long I gained like 30 lbs so I was like 135-140. also had bad allegies back then but didnt know it so i thought they were colds so I missed a lot of school one boy used to call me yearly cold and when I came back to school after gaining the weight he said I was pregnant with his baby(heck I didnt even like boys then)I dont remember being called ugly but they also use to make fun of my mom and call her names to my face.made school for me a living hell I hated it. now when I get compliments I tend not to believe them due to all the put downs I got as a kid

[pepperpot]

Kids can be such little bastards! Where the heck do they learn this stuff?

[Mom2Shaun]

That's horrible! I really feel for what you all had to go thru while growing up! Kids can be so mean.