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What were you made fun of for at school?

213 replies

OneUmberJoker · 07/09/2025 14:00

My big nose

OP posts:
InfoSecInTheCity · 07/09/2025 15:24

I was fat from the last year of primary and then for all of the rest of my school life, every year new bullies took their position as the person who made my life hell and made me hate everything about myself.

IzzyHandsIsMySpiritAnimal · 07/09/2025 15:26

Big nose
Wearing glasses
Having 'old' parents
Dress sense
Music taste
Choice of friends
Being vegetarian
Being supportive of gay friends
Not being religious
Not bring racist
Being short
Living in the area we did

IzzyHandsIsMySpiritAnimal · 07/09/2025 15:26

Big nose
Wearing glasses
Having 'old' parents
Dress sense
Music taste
Choice of friends
Being vegetarian
Being supportive of gay friends
Not being religious
Not bring racist
Being short
Living in the area we did

Oganesson118 · 07/09/2025 15:26

Fancying a teacher (I didn’t but I enjoyed his subject so of course I had to fancy him right 🤷‍♀️)
My hair (if only GHDs had been a thing)
Being shy

SirChenjins · 07/09/2025 15:27

For being too quiet, too geeky, too clever. The early years of secondary school were not kind, thanks to a few dicks in my year. I'll never understand why some kids are so bothered by the test results other pupils get - or what they get out of picking on kids who aren't bothering them in the slightest.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 07/09/2025 15:27

Small boobs, greasy hair, awful shoes.

Thortour · 07/09/2025 15:28

Having a salad in my packed lunch and my house having books.

101Alsatians · 07/09/2025 15:29

Onefortheroad25 · 07/09/2025 15:15

Same! Still very conscious of my height because of it.

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Would never be allowed today,but yes still vividly remember the Art teacher dragging me down the line and walking past at least 80 other girls without looking twice.

Ex H is not a 'tall' man at all I'd say,but my eldest is easily 5ft 10 at 13. Life is funny!

WingBingo · 07/09/2025 15:29

Being tall & slim. Something I love these days.

My surname.

Being poor (we had a TV you put money in and it ran out when ‘friends’ were at my house).

beelegal · 07/09/2025 15:29

SerafinasGoose · 07/09/2025 14:06

Being a swot. Being intelligent. Being tall (I wore flat shoes and stooped). Being flat-chested.

More seriously, being pregnant at thirteen, a rumour which swept the whole school, being mocked even by teachers who drew obscene chalk images of me on the blackboard and told me not to go into labour in their lesson. It sounds unbelievable, doesn't it? But I assure you, it's true. It's also a measure of my home life that I felt unable to say anything to my parents (awful father), but in hindsight I wish I'd told my mother.

Of course I wasn't pregnant. I was a naive, thirteen-year-old virgin. I bunked off after a while and barely attended for my last two years. I then went to university at 25, came out with a 1st Hons, MA with distinction and a PhD. It felt like the best revenge.

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This is horrific.

DiscoBob · 07/09/2025 15:29

Just my general way of being I think.

I remember a year 6 classmate laughing and loudly declaring to everyone 'Disco has a hairy fanny!' I wasn't embarrassed though. I was quite proud of my early onset bush! 😂

Myoldbear · 07/09/2025 15:29

Dyeing my hair.

I was called 'Sheep Dip' for weeks because I dyed it the day before a geography lesson about sheep in New Zealand,

My hair turned out the same colour as the photo of a used sheep dip in our text book.

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 07/09/2025 15:29

Big nose, inability to do maths, having 'nerdy' friends, walking everywhere, parents not having a car, liking horses... my entire life basically was bullying territory.

PeonyBulb · 07/09/2025 15:30

My name

MantelpieceClutter · 07/09/2025 15:36

Having a dead parent. Really made coping with the loss much easier🙄

MrsPringledusts · 07/09/2025 15:36

Being fat and talking "posh". in truth it was just puppy fat, and by the time I went to secondary school it was pretty much gone. I talked "posh" because we'd moved up north from near London, so I had a different accent to the rest. I hated it up here, and only wanted to go home, but dad's job was here, so we were stuck!

elQuintoConyo · 07/09/2025 15:37

Glasses. Tiny. Shy and introverted. Spotty. Awkward. Not god at sport, or singing, or science, or dancing, or being fashionable. Having the wrong type of earrings. Living on a military camp.

The weirdest one: my dad was in the wrong force! RAF, apparently the worst.

Twatbiscuits.

elQuintoConyo · 07/09/2025 15:38

MantelpieceClutter that's shocking. I send (((hugs)))

Arrivist · 07/09/2025 15:40

Having a foreign mum.
Smelling of garlic.
not having a tv.

Nothankyov · 07/09/2025 15:41

Being foreign

pinkpanther84 · 07/09/2025 15:43

Being hard working and studious, my teeth and being too skinny - this was in secondary

SerafinasGoose · 07/09/2025 15:44

MrsEmmelinePankhurst · 07/09/2025 15:22

This was in the 1980s. Like OP I was also taunted about my big nose. Not just at school - at uni too.

Being Jewish. (I’m not but some of my grandparents are). Assumptions were made because of my nose 🤦‍♀️ I still struggle to type that out actually. The anti-Semitism there is so awful on many levels.

Being adopted - they called me “secondhand.”

And for generally being a bit different and just not really fitting in. Turns out I’m autistic.

That's just utterly cruel. I'm so sorry.

Thissickbeat · 07/09/2025 15:44

Hairy legs and arms.
Crap clothes.
Being a bit quiet and easy target.

I never made a success of anything. No revenge story.

urghhh47 · 07/09/2025 15:45

My house (big compared to my peers but definitely not exceptional) and my accent...I moved 150miles and had long A's I changed to short A's but still got called "posh" etc I was also bright and reasonably hard working and got picked on for that too.

taxguru · 07/09/2025 15:45

InfoSecInTheCity · 07/09/2025 15:24

I was fat from the last year of primary and then for all of the rest of my school life, every year new bullies took their position as the person who made my life hell and made me hate everything about myself.

Same here. Horrendous bullying due to being fat. I started secondary school as a straight A* pupil and left with no qualifications at 16. It wasn't just verbal bullying, but also physical assault and theft/damage to my property such as school bags and coat, etc., gym kit put down the toilet etc. By around aged 15, I just gave up and wouldn't engage with lessons at all as I'd be stressed about how I'd be bullied at the next break, then I just stopped going in and truanting for the worst lessons where I was forced to sit with or work in groups with the worst bullies! Wrecked my self confidence which is something I've never been able to repair. Happiest day of my life was officially leaving that hell hole comp.