What were you made fun of for at school?

[OneUmberJoker]

My big nose

Having a disabled younger sibling.
I got the full ‘joey deacon’ actions right in my face nearly every day at primary school (early/mid 80s)

I got suspended in what would be year 4 or 5 now, for swinging my PE bag at one particular boy who was relentless. I had to apologise to HIM!

It got a bit better at high school, I would still get called spastic/mong/cripple probably weekly still.

I’m a clinical manager now in an ambulance service trust. A few months ago I attended to a crew for scene management, the patient was being exceptionally difficult during a medical episode.
On our debrief, an early 20s NQP exclaimed that the patient was ‘spazzing out’…..

Lets just say they got a first informal warning for not upholding trust values.

And I thought we had a more tolerant society.

Nobody (my parents or teachers) did anything about my bullying. I've never been confident and have grown up thinking I'm boring and nobody is interested in what I have to say.

In primary school it was common to get a "hiding" basically being kicked and punched by a boy. I told my teacher who said to tell my mother. She said she wasn't going to go up to school and make a fuss.

For being poor and 'socially inferior'. It's been over 40 years now and those words still pop into my head a lot. Although I went on to have a good job and was mortgage free from my late 40s, I still feel inferior and struggle to make friends, feeling that I am still being judged and looked down on.

Posh accent (I am not posh)
Being fat (I was a size 14 and 5'8")
Not wearing cool enough clothes...they may have had a point there 😂

My red hair...
However Karma has made sure that all the girls that teased me now have to dye their hair, all the lads are now bald whilst my hair is still its natural red colour....

in primary school:

The head and his deputy confined me to a 2x2 square to protect me from others after keeping me confined for six months after an operation. on top of this the deputy would regularly like to keep me indoors for not getting maths questions correct, the sanction was doing more. the memory of the maths problem has stayed with me, even now. (this was Year 3 here but P4 for the Scotch)

Fast forward to secondary school:

To begin with, it was the fact i have a fear of clowns. then it escalated into trying to hit me deliberately for no reason. I had to BEG the headteacher to move me away from the bully, and whilst this solved the problem initially, on breaks, they would still get thrills of striking me with a football. in the end i collared him up a wall and told him to back off. from then on he left me well alone. (this was Year 8 and 9 here and S1/2 for the Scotch)

the next year a group of boys made it their mission to make my life hell by teasing me about my disability, then ripping apart a hoody, whilst the teacher stood and watched.

then i met someone who would tackle me to the floor, cause me to have a permanent knee injury, and really destroy my mental health to the point i had to have four rounds of counselling and be medicated for it. the irony is my secondary school is a specialist school.

there was verbal insults like the n word, them presuming my sexuality, being called out for wishing to be celibate. also my lunch was destroyed, my diet was controlled (where they could) i had to answer the phone when they dictated, all under the illusion they were a friend.

for those of you in my shoes, know there is hope in the world, wether that be faith, four legged, two legged or however else you feel appropriate x

I was bullied because my mother was (and still is) fat

She had her stomach stapled and has lost a bit of weight but not loads

Same kids all had bigger mums

I was bullied because of my clothes-second hand if i was lucky or from the market

I never owned the lastest trends as my parents stopped spending money on me from about 11/12 and all the money I did earn went on food or sanpro

Years later,I went to my dcs school sports day

I love clothes (now I can buy my own) and hadn't really put a lot of effort in but did look nice (pale blue tea dress with tiny red roses on it,skin coloured tights,red shoes and a tiny bit of make up)

I was ripped to bits by my ex bullies and their hangers on (who where wearing baby vomit,over sized tee shirts and yesterday's trackie bottoms)

I could hear their sniggering and see the pointed fingers-some people just can't let go-the same women had bullied me for my shabby,dirty and unfashionable clothes and shoes when we where kids

My surname
Being tall
Wearing glasses
Having a turned-up nose
Being fairly bright
Being shy (no wonder I was shy, I was terrified most of the time)

I was horribly bullied for years. The school did fuck all, and if I ever told the teacher someone was having a go at me, they believed the other kid who'd say "She's lying Miss, she's making it all up to get me into trouble". I became known among the teachers for being (apparently) a habitual liar. They never believed me. Even when once, some kid stuck a drawing pin in my leg, and they told the teacher I'd done it to myself on purpose, they still believed the other kid.

My teeth, I ended up being a dental nurse and marrying a dentist which is ironic. I get complimented on my teeth all the time now!

Being weird.
being fat.
being a know it all
being teachers pet
not understanding social cues
being weird.

For having big boobs. I hated it and felt so embarrassed by them. Took me years to get over that insecurity

At primary school, had a teacher who was unpleasant to me, not so much bullying. Dad used to drop me off in various american cars as his mate imported them so often got cornered and asked what dad did for a job etc, this was in the early 70's. same teacher also remarked about my uniform as it came from selfridges, relative was a buyer so got it very cheap. this male teacher was obviously bitter and envious.

My big lips. I also got accused of wearing lipstick a few times. Now I’ve had someone asking me where I get my lip filler done!

The way I walk. I'm duck footed and got told I walk like I shit myself with my feet turned out.

I've tried to correct it myself over the years. Nobody has mentioned it a an adult so hopefully it isn't too noticeable.

1. Regularly being the New Girl, so it was hard to break into friendship groups
2. My wonky teeth... so much so that I stopped talking, because then they'd stop staring in horrified fascination at my teeth. Then I got bullied for having braces
3. Being quiet... or just virtually silent
4. Having panic attacks because I couldn't do public speaking. Teachers would make me stand up in front of the class (despite me asking them not to) and wonder what was happening to make a good, quiet, studious child turn bright red, hyperventilate and run out of the classroom.
5. My hair. By the time that some girls on the bus tried to set it on fire, I'd stopped reporting the bullying, because reporting it didn't make any difference
6. My "posh" accent. I am able to pronounce the letters T and H, which was highly unusual where I went to school.
7. My name. I later changed this by Deed Poll
8. Having spots
9. Wearing glasses
10. Where I lived (a nice and affluent area)
11. Being a nerd/geek/swot
12. Being "fat" (I filled out earlier than the other girls at primary school, and have more of an athletic build)
13. Being ugly
14. Being anxious
15. Being weird (I did try to conform, but I still didn't fit in and, in any case, it didn't make me happy, so I gave up with that)
16. Being a sitting target for bullies, which attracted the rest of them like flies
17. Not having many friends, and usually hanging around with two non-white girls (races were usually fairly segregated, but we just got on better with each other)
18. Sitting with the Muslim girls at lunchtime (I am not a Muslim), because they were the only decent people on that lunch break
19. Having a dead parent. Fortunately, this didn't bother me very much, because the dead parent had been the abusive one
20. Not having any confidence in myself

It was a huge surprise to people when I refused to go to prom because of this. I swore that, with the exception of collecting my GCSE results, I'd never go back there, nor would I allow any future child of mine set foot in that school. Fortunately, I have since moved far away!

The adults who said, "Oh, you'll look back on your schooldays and realise that they were the best days of your life!" would look very surprised when I said, "What, so it gets worse?!"

To the two high school teachers who treated me like a normal person, and made time to chat to me, thank you.

My speech, how quiet I was ‘why don’t you say anything?’, and my favourite shoes, then my favourite coat. Sigh.

My height (short)
My voice (like a chipmunk apparently)
Going to church

As an adult still get teased about the top 2 but I dont go to church any more!

Just being generally different- a bit weird, a bit quiet, a bit clever/into school work/interested in homework, not interested in pop music/fashion- a bit more “alternative”. Found my group a bit more at sixth form.

My eyesight/needing glasses.

My prescription is -9. So extremely short sighted. The lenses for my glasses are so thick. Really embarrassing. And they make my eyes look small.

But then I got contact lenses and everyone fancied me.

I hate being noticed. I've experienced it for the wrong reasons (the glasses thing)

And the 'right' reasons (having people find me attractive)

And I quite often wish I was just invisible.

That’s awful. I hope you are able to wear it with pride one day. Afro hair is gorgeous and the most beautiful and versatile in my opinion.

I feel fortunate I wasn’t bullied despite being the shortest in the class, short sighted (wore glasses from age 11) scruffy and sometimes a bit smelly (as a ND kid I didn’t quite get the hang of self care and grooming until my late teens) also never had any of the branded gear others had since my mum couldn’t afford it.

Being fat

Having hairy legs - still shave said legs every day.

Saying I liked Abba. At one point it was very 'out' to like Abba, but I'm pleased that their enduring popularity has won out.
Being untrendy / having bad clothes.

Being spotted going into the city library on Saturday morning. (Dad, myself and sibling went every week).

Doing well in exams.

Primary. The colour of my skin. I’m white but had a dark complexion.

Secondary. My height (short) but it was more joking than bullying and I would laugh at myself too and still do.

(Alleged) big nose. In the days of Concord, so I was Droop Snoot
(Alledged) small breasts: The Scarlet Pimplenipple
Muscley legs: yes, I was a county level athlete

None of this bothered me or made me feel bullied, this was amongst very good friends and we were robust and blunt, but also looked out for each other.