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In reply to the discussion: Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood, Study Finds [View all]burnsei sensei
(1,820 posts)I've kept no ties with my high school graduating class.
My sexuality, conduct, speech, dress, thinking, body language, manner of walk, everything about me was subject to ridicule.
My peers had made their judgment, I was stupid and would never be anything else.
I was graceless and would never no one moment's favor in the eyes of God or man.
I had small ways of resisting.
I never told them the truth about anything.
I never looked them in the eyes (because I was legally blind and unwilling to rehabilitate).
To rehabilitate and to be honest with myself and others took much time. And trusting was and still is difficult.
I am still legally blind.
I am still asexual.
I live far from where I grew up.
I have no intention of ever, ever going back.
If it gets better, it does so because you can get away.