What were you teased for when you were young? Are you still self-conscious over that?

Question

What were you teased for when you were young? Are you still self-conscious over that?

Answer 1

I was constantly teased that I was a boy. Sure, I was a tomboy, wore shorts, but my Mother in her paranoia over paedophiles, took my sister and I to a barber and had our hair cut and shaved up the back like little boys. Father Christmas had a go at me as a result. I think prevention and measures taken at home would have sufficed. To this very day I will never cut my hair short, even when someday, it turns grey. The wounds never healed. So I may have escaped a paedophile in the eyes of my Mother, but gained a lifetime trauma.

Lark: Yeah as you can see I got over the shock. The background is a volcano and that is exactly where I feel I am. 32° and humid as h**l

Answer 2

was called Bart Simpson for a while. My hair was cut short and spikey and the kids had a field day

Answer 3

I was small-built and thin, which used to be a criminal act in conservative, Afrikaans schools in the Free State. However, living in civilization has made me a lot less conscious about it.

Answer 4

Yeah because of my fathers hairstyle he cut it so high up at the back the children call it the p**s pot stile with two dents around the ears till now I don't like short hair

It wasn't mine he cut it

Answer 5

Because of my glasses.  Those days very few children had glasses, so I was a target to be called Brilletjies, Four-eyes, Goggles etc.

And as the youngest in the family, i was always on the losing end against my older siblings.

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Answer 6

I had a few freckle when I was younger (still do) and I got teased at school a little. I hated them and used to get a little upset but know I love them. I have been complicated (nicely) on them alot since then and learnt to love them.

I am however very self-conscious about my weight which I never used to be. It must come with age... lol

Answer 7

I was teased for being an 'only child' so therefore the other kid's just assumed I was a 'spoilt' brat!!!  I wasn't though, and being an only child is a very lonely existence, then and now!!

Answer 8

I was called Oros, because of my surname and because I was a little overweight. I suppose I looked a little like the Oros man. I am short and therefore look fatter than what I really am. I was in boarding school for most of my school career. Whenever we got pudding with our meals, the boys would tell me that I shouldn't eat pudding and that I should give mine to them. It got so bad that I refused to eat infront of the other kids. I am still self-conscious about my body and eating in front of strangers.

Add: Res, glad to see your hair has got some colour again.