What were you made fun of for at school?

[OneUmberJoker]

My big nose

Everything really- and the same things which were fine when the cool kids did them.

Knowing too many words (primary school)

Bringing something to school in a Wallis carrier bag (my mum's) rather than one from, say, Tammy Girl

Having massive boobs (continuous from about age 11)

Sparrow legs

This thread makes me so worried for my kids when they start secondary next year!

The parents who wouldn't buy their daughters enough sanitary towels are awful. Was it the cost? Or just cruelty?!

Being tiny .i wish i still was 😢

Being fat
Wearing glasses
Being clever
Being crap at sports
Being an early developer (periods at 10)
Having big lips

By the time I got halfway through secondary I had got into drama groups, "found my tribe" and started styling myself like Siouxsie Sioux. I also developed a cutting line in verbal comebacks so the bullies left me be after that.

Too thin, too clever, perceived as posh (I wasn't), boring (introverted), with the odd comment about skin/glasses/clothes thrown in.

I think 'boring' is the thing that has stuck with me the most, and I still find it hard to make friends to this day.

Oh yes, and being crap at sport.

Being pale and pasty told I looked like Kate bush with my dark hair and pale skin
For having Irish parents and mocking the way I pronounced some words

My teeth

It was always assumed that because I wore glasses that I was useless at sport. I wasn't but was always last to be picked for teams.

My heart goes out to everyone on this thread - bullying is appalling.

I was given a hard time by a couple of people who used to bully my sister. My sister wasn’t a nice person as a child and got worse as she got older (nasty about people behind their backs/starting untrue rumours about people etc). A couple of her bullies bullied me just because she was my sister. One lad started mocking me in the corridor on the way to class after lunch and made a beeline for me (he liked to shoulder barge me). I stuck my foot out, sent him flying down the corridor and he landed face first on a load of school bags. He got laughed at. Never bothered me again.

Being poor
Having a single mum
Being posh
Being hippies

We weren't posh, we were very poor and mum was a bit of a hippy.

Yes I was always last to be picked for a team mate. Always.

Like a PP I still struggle to make friends today because of my past experiences. It never leaves you.

My mother was an alcoholic and my dad (an immigrant) couldn’t cope but he had a good job so sent us to a top private school where we didn’t fit in because we weren’t actually posh or British and I was ruthlessly bullied

no one really wanted to be friends as we could never have anyone round due to my mum so I never got invited to parties

I was picked on for being the child of an immigrant - at one point, I was gifted chocolate and was so pleased someone wanted to be friends but it was laxative chocolate and everyone laughed at me all day

I become an attention seeker because of it and was then told I was a liar (I was) and sent to a doctor who told me I should be more grateful because I had such a lovely family and a great school because my mum was so good a hiding her issues despite never being able to collect us from school and being drunk every day

school was torture for me - I only really came out of my shell in my late 20s

Being fat. Having big lips(which is hilarious as they’re now paying to have huge lips). Having a bum and boobs. Curly hair.

The worst thing I got bullied for is my friend dying, I was 11 and saw the whole thing. Within days people at school were saying I pushed her out of jealousy, that it should have been me that died because everyone would celebrate then and no one would miss me.

Being quiet, shy and unconfident. Didn't have a lot of bullying thankfully.

I'm from the NE

All in my teens:
Having bad acne that I eventually had to go on roaccutane for (which cleared it up brilliantly but had an effect on my mental health)
Being a goth- my only friend was an older punk guy. He recently passed away and I was devastated 😔
Not liking rave or rap music and instead liking indie and rock

Things didn't get much better at college unfortunately- even my new goth/alternative "friends" said some shit stuff behind my back (including saying that the goth/punk clothes i wore made me look like a prostitute!), although I did finally have a couple of lads interested in me and a few more later admitted to secretly liking me. I was actually a secret indie kid, but they were the only "friends" I could find. Plus, I wasn't arsed about sex, yet the other girls all seemed obsessed with it!

Things got better and I "glowed up" at uni

Recently moved to Liverpool (and i'm now very indie, although i do still love heavier stuff). The lovely compliments I get have been quite a culture shock! I've since been told many years later that it was mostly down to jealousy, but I just can't see it!

Acne

Being swotty. Being posh but ironically also being poor. Having the wrong uniform, the wrong bag, the wrong sports kit, the wrong shoes. Being bad at games. Being clumsy. Being shy. Being uncool. Being forgetful. Being shortsighted. Having blonde hair. Having freckles.

I hated school. Luckily I had an interest outside school that I loved and made great friends there. School was just somewhere I had to endure until I could leave. I truanted a lot.

Absolutely everything. Having Nicks trainers instead of Nikes. For my Dad after an prospectus leg. For being poor.

Being ginger. Fucking pricks. I was very lucky and it stopped when I left primary school. However it has affected my whole life because I assume everyone hates me, I am a terrible people pleaser and I’m forever getting people trying to bully me at work as I’m nice instead of being a selfish arsehole. Some awful stories on this thread, I’m so sorry.

Being tall and spotty. Awful at the time, but my skin is great now, and being tall as an adult has been admired 99% of the time 🤷‍♀️