12. Mis-handled, teach.
When I was a kid a classmate called me a b—–d. I told the teacher he called me a bad name. She said “no he didn’t because it’s true.” That’s the moment I realized I was different and not having a dad wasn’t normal.
13. “What I’ve seen”
I served as an Infantry Marine and am very proud of my service. My family is from South Asia and I am a pretty brown dude, but just like any one of y’all, I consider myself a proud American and when I came home after my time in the service was up, someone at my community college called me a terrorist.
I didn’t think some words would ever shake me after having gone through so much, but man, that stuck with me. At that moment, I didn’t even have a response, just this intense anger and frustration In my head and all I could think of was “I wish you could see what I’ve seen”.
14. Freddy
I was working in a haunted house to help raise money for an organization that dug wells in 3rd world countries without clean drinking water. I had put on about 40 pounds after a 6 month depression where the only people I talked to were the pizza delivery drivers.
Anyways, I got assigned to be Freddy Kreuger. It was a great time, until a drunk group came through and this one guy comes up to me and grabs my stomach with both hands and said “wow, Freddy you’ve become a real fatty”.
Luckily, one of the managers heard this and kicked the group out. But, I’ll admit it, I teared up. Really emotional time in my life, and I was doing something good, and this douche pissed all over it.
15. Nice my ASS!
Nicest girl in high school, and I mean nicest, she was known for being utterly amazing and nice and I truly liked her as a person, she said to me one day in ceramics class “You are truly the ugliest person I’ve ever seen.”
I thought she was joking, but she wasn’t, she continued to reassure me that she wasn’t joking and she was being serious, that physically, I was the ugliest person she had ever seen in her life. It took a few years to rebuild my self esteem and confidence after that one.
16. “And they all laughed”
I was walking down the street when I passed a group of guys around my age. As I passed them I heard one of them say “she’s not bad from the back”, then another said “yeah, but she’s ugly from the front!” and they all laughed.
Even though they were complete strangers, it hurt a lot. I don’t really have much self-confidence anyway, and it made me hate myself even more. I’ll admit, I cried over that a few times.
