Discrimination From Other Teens For Being Yourself

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I was wondering if anyone here has been discriminated/bullied/harrassed by other teens because:

* Of the way you look

* The way you dress

* What kind of music you listen to

* What kind of people you hang out with(or the people that you DON'T hang out with)

* Your hobbies and interests

* Your orientation or gender idenity(if you're bi,gay/les,transgendered,or androgynous)

* If you have a physical disability

* IF YOU HAVE AS(or another problem)

* Or anything else that wasn't mentioned above


Keep in mind,that I have HFA and Bipolar Disorder. I had anger problems,speaking problems,stimmed alot,and I prefered to be alone as a kid. I wasn't that attractive when I was that young,either.

People would make fun of me,spread rumors about me,physically hit me and shove me around,call me names,and leave me out of thier games. I can remember in fifth grade when a teacher told me I could not play with the other kids for the rest of the year.

What happened was,I was playing with a soccer ball and the other kids came and took it away from me and started to taunt me and one of them hit me in the head with it. I got extremely angry at the girl who had thrown the ball at me,so I hit her in the face--nearly breaking her nose--and I shoved her down and she skent her knee.

The kids told the teacher that I had bullied them,and the teacher told me I couldn't play with them anymore.

I would get in trouble alot in elementary school,and when my mother would tell the teachers to do something about it,they said they wouldn't because "I brought it on myself for being strange" or some s**t like that.

Around seventh grade,I started to get pretty and my body began to mature into a woman. That's when people started to say that I was a slut and some of the older boys began asking for sexual favors. I was sexually harrassed atleast twice a week.

The physical bullying stopped...the gossiping grew worse.

I came out,when I was 15--saying that I was bi(I did not tell anyone my true orientation which is "lesbian" until later)--and alot of girls said that I had flirted with them and asked them out,and some boys said that I was just doing that for attention,others said they wanted to see me "f*ck another lesbo".

They also said that I was a "satan-worshiping gothic",because I liked to wear black and dramatic eye-liner alot. Heh,anything that they think doesn't fit into "jock,prep,or redneck" is evil to them.


Okay,well,I guess that's all really.

-SpaceCase

I hear the preppy kids talk s**t about me all the time. One of the girls saw me digging out of the garbage can and she immediately told her friend, who told all her other friends.

I'm not harassed because I'm too afraid to be honest about myself in public. I'm just another straight NT a***hole to everyone else. I usually end up second-guessing my every move throughout the day.

No, I don’t have that problem anymore. I’m actually popular at school! However, just two years ago I was running into some of those problems constantly. (I’ve moved since then.)

Sorry, but I'm curious...why were you digging out of the garbage?

I don't know all of the exact reasons why people make fun of me, scowl, etc. Though I do know a few things they think about me:
-"annoying"
-"stupid"
-"child molester/pedophile" (because my gf is 3 years younger than me)

I have gotten bullied my whole life. Here is a list of the reasons.

*1/4 Jewish
*I have Native American eyes (I'm very proud of theses)
*I dress unfashionably, but a year later and I would have been considered cutting edge.
*I am a nature girl/tree-hugger(not literally)
*I'm poor(In reality I'm actually privileged middle class)
*I play football like a guy(in other words, I'm good at it)
*I'm different(AS)
*I'm smart
*I'm stupid(not true)

NT can be fools (That dose not mean that they all are.)

I was looking for the cough syrup I threw away.

-Odd appearance

-Odd voice

-Smart

-Socially crap

-Slow to react at times

-Odd responses

-Downright weird

Here are reasons why I have been bullied in the near and distant past (from their point of view):

*I’m short
*I’m crazy
*I’m a psycho
*I’m a ret*d
*I’m insane
*I’m creepy
*I’m an alien (that’d be cool if I were though)
*I dress weirdly (I have been voted best dressed since)
*I’m one of them
*I like cats (stupidest reason ever to get bullied )
*I don’t like SpongeBob SquarePants
*I watch baby shows
*I’m gay (I’m 100% straight)
*I kill animals (I would never hurt an animal!)

In fact, there’s this one thing that’s been dragging on since fourth grade that I heard again over the weekend. It’s been eight years, people! Stop it already! In fact, I used to hear it so much to the point where I was getting too paranoid to go anywhere and every time I heard it, it felt like I was having a heart attack. It really was that bad.

People ask me this question (about 80% of questions anyone ever asks me)

"Why are you so quiet?"

My reply:

"I don't know"

I do know, but if I told them I had AS would they even care, let alone know what it is?

"I don't know"?! That's my first reaction answer! I go "I don't know... [insert answer which shows I do know here]"

I've been laughed at and made fun of a lot. Some of them were and are my faults (I used to be VERY violent the three first years of elementary school, and I'm very bad-tempered) but some were just ridicoulous reasons. I'll list the ridicoulous reasons:

* Reading physics books.
* "You have HUUUUGE breasts!!"
* I have my own opinions... most of them not being "mainstream".
* Having weird gestures while talking (aka my hand-shaking stim)
* Walking in a "weird" manner (I can't keep my balance if I walk any other way)
* Wearing stuff backwards/inside out (I'm not really attentive)
* Being an atheist (someone has told me I'm actually mentally ret*d pretending to be smart because I'm an atheist. Personally, I think an act like that would be easier to put up the other way around ).
* Having no interest in boyfriends and other crap like that.
* Sensitivity to sounds (people like to shout around my ears)
* Playing really dangerous practical jokes on me (like throwing things in my face and pushing me off stairs and other heights) with the reason "Aw, you have no sense of humour!" just because I don't like practical jokes

Only one person has given me a compliment after talking to me about how I'm like. She said that I'm an "interesting creature"... that was pretty nice of her.

Everyone at that school hates me because I'm not a s**thead hedonist like them. So, I get made fun of and attacked a lot. This in turn makes me yell at people and retreat from classes, which makes even more people start to hate me. It's what's referred to as a "vicious cycle."

You're going to get bullied.

Kids don't know any better, and the human mind seems hard-wired to be confused about things that aren't 'normal.' These kid's parents were just like they are, so they aren't taught to react to their confusion with anything but ridicule. They are not taught wisdom or acceptance, tolerance, or kindness.

Kids bully other kids, it's a fact of life.

In fourth grade, I was made fun of once for my boob size, but it didn't at all bother me and it turns out that kid had a crush on me and was just trying to get my attention. Since then, no teasing whatsoever for me.

You had boobs in fourth grade?