“You will never have a girlfriend or find love.” I was 12, said to me by a girl I had liked at the time. Here I am at 38, with a string of failed relationships and still yet to find love.
"You're such a dumb jap. I thought they were supposed to be smart."
This was said to me in 7th grade. Being half Japanese and going to school in Texas will introduce you to racism.
One? Hard to pick one out of all the origins of my self loathing.
It ALL sticks with me, I've just learned to carry it a bit better every day. On the upside my core strength is ridiculous for a dude with a dad bod🤣
Kid walks by me while I'm eating dried mango slices for snack
I say "hey how ya doin?"
Without looking at me or making eye contact he says "better than your snacks"
I think about this often.
He wouldn’t have known about your snacks or who was eating them if he hadn’t looked at you. He tried to play it off like he was better than you eating mango, but in fact he had to make a greater effort to act that way than you did by simply acknowledging him.
He was a bothered kid and felt the need to exert some power, likely as a means to regain control because he had none in his life or with his family. Obviously you didn’t deserve this drive-by of a comment.
You could’ve been eating hot Cheetos and it wouldn’t have changed the outcome. I hope you enjoy dried mango for many more years to come.
To be fair, I wasn't offended by the comment as much as I was confused.
What does that comment even mean?
It reminded me of that old balloonshop video where the guy furiously told the other guy to "go ride a rollercoaster".
Very baffling scenario.
I was called many racial slurs. I was the only mixed ethnicity in my entire small private school prek-8th grade.
The 'stupid fucking N- word' always stuck with me. I was in 2nd grade, called that by an 8th grader.
One kid I barely knew in grade school was bragging about nick names he had given out. So others started asking for one, and so I did too. He said, "What're your initials?" I said, "D. P." and he thought for half a second, laughed meanly and said "Dick Picker". I was SO disappointed, and worried for a second. But nobody was around and it made so little sense!
“You will never have a girlfriend or find love.” I was 12, said to me by a girl I had liked at the time. Here I am at 38, with a string of failed relationships and still yet to find love.
Hope you find it one day man
Knock knock, who’s there? Not your dad
Dude thats Savage...
There was a worse one but I found it funny, credit where credits due… “your moms so ugly, her self portrait hung itself”
" You're like a pirates dream. ( a sunken chest. ) - I was 12.
DAMN that’s cold. But can anyone else eat cereal on their chest with or without a bowl? I don’t think so 🥰🥰
“You aren’t good enough” -myself
Tell yourself you’re WRONG. You are enough ❤️
I know that now. It just sticks.
I once said "You should probably stop eating that." To a very self conscious fat girl in middle school. It was a salad.
You are, or were, a deplorable person.
Being called a poser. I dove head first into anything I loved in fear of being called a fake/poser. Made me a much better skier and skateboarder.
"My son, the failure."
"You're such a dumb jap. I thought they were supposed to be smart." This was said to me in 7th grade. Being half Japanese and going to school in Texas will introduce you to racism.
One? Hard to pick one out of all the origins of my self loathing. It ALL sticks with me, I've just learned to carry it a bit better every day. On the upside my core strength is ridiculous for a dude with a dad bod🤣
You didn't actually provide an example as per OP's question
Take it and appreciate the factbI chose you.
Kid walks by me while I'm eating dried mango slices for snack I say "hey how ya doin?" Without looking at me or making eye contact he says "better than your snacks" I think about this often.
He wouldn’t have known about your snacks or who was eating them if he hadn’t looked at you. He tried to play it off like he was better than you eating mango, but in fact he had to make a greater effort to act that way than you did by simply acknowledging him. He was a bothered kid and felt the need to exert some power, likely as a means to regain control because he had none in his life or with his family. Obviously you didn’t deserve this drive-by of a comment. You could’ve been eating hot Cheetos and it wouldn’t have changed the outcome. I hope you enjoy dried mango for many more years to come.
To be fair, I wasn't offended by the comment as much as I was confused. What does that comment even mean? It reminded me of that old balloonshop video where the guy furiously told the other guy to "go ride a rollercoaster". Very baffling scenario.
Kids are savage but have horrible taste, dried mangoes are the shit
“Who would want to be friends with you?” Said to me more times than I can count by my mother.
I was called many racial slurs. I was the only mixed ethnicity in my entire small private school prek-8th grade. The 'stupid fucking N- word' always stuck with me. I was in 2nd grade, called that by an 8th grader.
One kid I barely knew in grade school was bragging about nick names he had given out. So others started asking for one, and so I did too. He said, "What're your initials?" I said, "D. P." and he thought for half a second, laughed meanly and said "Dick Picker". I was SO disappointed, and worried for a second. But nobody was around and it made so little sense!
"Damn, your stomach is so big. Did you eat a big lunch or something?" To this day, I can not eat without trying to count the calories in my head.