What were you made fun of for in school?

[jameybano]

Having an overbite
Skinny
My first and maiden name were the same as a TV character

 

[Julie's Haircut]

My friends and I teased and taunted each other about various things, but I don't think I was ever a target in general by others.

 

[ronandannette]

I got off pretty easy, I guess. I grew up in a super-small community and everyone knew each other very well. My class had 11 kids in it from grades 1 to 9; the entire school had less than 100. We just weren't mean to each other; the teachers and our parents wouldn't have tolerated it.

 

[scrump]

I don't remember being teased too often, but I wore a headgear AND retainer, so I know I must have been. Maybe I blocked it out?

 

[low-key]

Different stuff, nothing really stuck. So I will bring up my wise friend back then Don Carter , and I asked Don one day (he an honest kid) I said Don do you think anyone could say I am fat ? And he said "Only if they were mad at you"

 

[L&Lfan]

I was one of the lucky ones. I was good naturedly teased but never made fun of, at least not to the point where it bothered me. But again I was closeted until age 22 and that helped, I’m sure.

This is such a sad thread. I wish I could hug some of you. Even those of you whose posts I usually do this to .

 

[disneychrista]

My clothes - my mom made a lot of the clothes I wore.

For being the new kid. I moved the summer before I started Middle School. But most/all the kids had gone to school together since Kindergarten. I was accused of being stuck up, when really I was just shy.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

For having red hair. Worst was when they'd follow me home yelling either "carrot top" or the even worse "better dead than red".

It was actually an Uncle ( not a blood relation) who called me Carrot top and I hated it!!!! First of all, I didn't have that color red, mine was a dark auburn. He was an idiot anyway.

 

[Heather07438]

My son's school has been very involved with SchoolsofCharacter.org and is doing well with the program. A side effect of building character is reducing bullying and toxic environments. It's encouraging to see these positive changes in schools. It's definitely not a small or hopeless cause.

 

[disneychrista]

Carrot top

Wouldn't someone who was a "carrot top" have GREEN hair? Tops of carrots are green.

 

[DisneyOma]

Wouldn't someone who was a "carrot top" have GREEN hair? Tops of carrots are green.

That's what I used to resort to saying after I'd had enough - more on the lines of "carrot tops are green, you stupid idiot!" (LOL, adding the stupid in front of idiot, as if there are smart idiots?)

 

[Disney_Alli]

My poofy hair (twin sister and I were known as the Poof Twins through most of elementary school) and then my high voice which is NOT actually all that high. (That one got me called chihuahua for two years)

 

[C&Jx2]

My maiden name was Foster, so I got A lot of “you’re a foster child! No one loves you!”

Also my hair. I have curly, thick hair that I didn’t learn to style until my late teens and grew up with a single dad who never learned to style it.

 

[Kitty 34]

Nothing light hearted about this thread. I was mercilessly teased in junior high and into about 11th grade. It was absolutely brutal. I was gawky, awkward, poor, and insanely intelligent. A very bad combination. You name it. It happened to me. So, sorry, there's nothing lighthearted about being "made fun of."

So have to agree with that statement!!!

I was made fun of my overbite (braces took care of that) and the fact that I was a PB.......yes even back then we had acronyms! PB meant Professor's Brat. We were automatically thought to be snobbish and too intelligent. I even had a teacher say that to my face.

Yes, nothing lighthearted about it.

to everyone who was made fun of.

 

[MIGrandma]

My maiden name is Samuels, a few kids in grade school would tease me and say Sam-mule.

 

[Jennasis]

My big glasses, being smart etc. The usual. I shudder to think that most of those insanely mean girls and butt-head guys are parents now.

 

[Meglen]

Bug eyes and big forehead.

 

[mnrose]

My big glasses, being smart etc. The usual. I shudder to think that most of those insanely mean girls and butt-head guys are parents now.

My biggest tormentor still lives in our small town on the prairie of Minnesota. I harbor this belief that maybe someday she will apologize to me for being so awful to me (we share some mutual friends on social media), but I'm not holding my breath. I still remember the awful feeling when she asked (sweet as syrup) to borrow my sweater in music class, put it on, and proceeded to laugh and carry on about how UGLY and AWFUL the sweater was, and who would wear such a thing, etc." It was one of many times I was reduced to tears. I never wore that sweater again, but it was one my mother had lovingly sourced at a garage sale....and I DID like it because of what it represented. The incredible love and resourcefulness of my mother in trying to make me "fit in" on a budget of pennies and dimes. But, that evil classmate ruined it for me.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Light hearted thread

That's sarcasm, right?

 

[AppleDumpling]

Honestly, I don’t recall anyone ever making fun of me, at least not to my face. I was smart and nerdy, with average looks, not super popular, but always had a close group of friends. My friends were mostly like me and we stuck together. I truly feel terrible for anyone who was bullied or was a bully.