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(1,554 posts)So painfully shy I couldn't eat lunch around the other kids, would pee myself rather than raise my hand to go to the restroom, & own tranqualizers by second grade to stop the every morning vomiting in total terror of going to school.
Luckily for me ( I guess ) being a girl I was not singled out like the boys were for bullying. I guess I somehow succeeded in making myself fairly invisible.
My younger brother did not fair as well.
When I grew up and had children, I moved to a rural area with a small school system. The classes were small and they had the same friends from primary school thru high school. I think that helped. Both boys had many friends and had their niche'.
I worry about my little nephew. He's really really bright but "different".