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<p>Being teased for a long period of time at such a young age is able to emotionally traumatize some people. It’s probably the young age part that makes such an impact on them. If they went through the same teasing at age forty, they probably wouldn’t care.</p>
<p>TA, why are you so obsessive about people teasing you in HS? Believe me, i kind of get how you feel since i think i’m too sensitive for my own good, I sort of have low self-esteem and I remember insults and teasing forever and get so insecure about them. But I have plenty of friends and a boyfriend; I tease them and they tease me, we laugh at each other and have fun. If you obsess over these things it’s unhealthy. </p>
<p>Pmvd, assuming you’re going back to college next year, hopefully you won’t have class with these people. For the next month, either ignore them, or learn to assert yourself. If they’re genuinally being jackasses, tell them to F off or make sure they get the message somehow. If they’re just teasing, laugh and go along with it.</p>
<p>What Platts says is true…a lot of my insecurities are about my body image and teasing from when I was like 11-16, but now i’m older I hardly care. you learn to be more comfortable with yourself as you get older and more mature.</p>
<p>^ That makes sense. If the same things happened to me again, I would see how immature it is and deal with it much better. I would care so less that I would just ignore it because looking back it was all so stupid…
Nobody from my past really looked down on me since the summer before college, but the sight of them makes me nervous. It’s kinda lame now that I think about it. :/</p>
<p>people tease me more on the internet than everywhere else combine…and yet I continue to use it.</p>
<p>I love you PMVD.</p>
<p>never teased in high school because i never came out as a lesbian. now in college, i’m suddenly very interesting and people love to ask me about it hahaha</p>
<p>I was teased in middle school mostly because I was the new kid; it got better once I entered high school and absolutely never happened in college.</p>
<p>I think people subconsciously pick up on someone’s self confidence level. The people that tend to be teased are those that rarely stand up for themselves and portray themselves as confident individuals.</p>
<p>I suppose kids are teased more in high school and younger grades because social awkwardness is easy to pick out. Socially awkward people are always easy to tease, even in the working world. I guess the best way to avoid it is to have basic social stills and don’t make an open fool of yourself.</p>
<p>Well, I got teased a lot in HS. But I lost 60 pounds and now everyone is nice as can be, because people are shallow like that.</p>
<p>But thats okay, because now I never make fun of people for things like that. </p>
<p>But don’t pay attention to people who make fun of you - they have their own insecurities and are trying to feel better about them.</p>
<p>people didn’t like me in elementary school, but it was alright because i cared more about math than people anyway
by high school, everyone thought i was a genius and therefore cool</p>
<p>^ the story of my life</p>
<p>I was made fun of almost every day from about 7th to 11th grade. Its not something thats easy to get over. Some people deal with it better than others. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been right now but still have depression issues that link back to jr. high/high school and I’m sure will never go away.</p>
<p>Not many people get over traumatic events very easily. Though it may not seem it because it isn’t rape or abuse, but being made fun of takes a huge emotional toll on some people and is a traumatic event for them when its happening every day.</p>
<p>I mean I probably saw my peers more than I did my family during the week. When the group you’re constantly around degrades you, it can easily make you depressed among a variety of other things.</p>
<p>people get teased like this in college? O_O
really?
never seen it around here… mostly if you don’t like somebody you never have to see them again LOL.</p>
<p>and stargazerlilies, of course people still hold grudges about stuff that happenend in high school if they were constantly teased every day for 4 years. It hurts and it lasts for a long time if you hear every day that you are worthless I would imagine.
I did get teased in middle school for a bit but fit in fine at high school because people at my high school got alot more mature after middle school… We didn’t have giant divisions like preps, goths, etc and everybody just got along I think o_O. but yeah my friend got her hair cut on the bus once, i got gum in my hair, my old friend threatened to kill another girl in a letter and got expelled, etc long story. But it was mostly my friend that got teased and I was only teased because I was friends with her. oh well, never really saw her afterwards and went back to hanging out with my old friends because I was a shallow 7th grader after the gum in the hair incident.</p>
<p>Oh my God you read my mind … but its ok today as I know that no one is perfect, that my Faith tells me that I am loved regardless of what other people think, and say! Today people can say whatever they want to and of course it can and does effect me but there is a difference - I know that I am Loved no matter what happens … so I am relatively happy and people can get upset, call me names if they like and I am quite content in my own self knowing that everything is going to be ok because I am loved and I try to keep my focus on the prize … I have kept this communication basically general in discussion as I don’t want to cause a problem in another sector but I hope that this helps and that you are able to know that all is well … </p>
<p>Any decision that you make that gets you through the day is a good decision and have a good day and stay focused on what is important for you to do …</p>