ANSWERS: 31
  • Only as a child. ;-)
  • yes it does. glad high school and middle school are over. thankfully though i got along well with most people who liked me for other things more important than how i look
  • Yes, and yes.
  • Only my family and yes it does
  • it does hurt. but try to feel sorry for people that would be like that. they are missing out on the best things in life by their unkind hearts.
  • only by my sister but it was all in good fun. I feel that people who do this are jealous or just plain hateful in other aspects of their lives. lashing out in cowardly fits of anger.
  • No but I would imagine it hurts a lot . It seems a very cruel thing to do to me.
  • yes, but I found strength from that and actually grew stronger and more beautiful.
  • It most assuredly does.
  • it is very hurtful and mean.
  • Someone said that I was the rock that chased Indiana Jones. I got made fun of alot becuase I was fat. Then I decided that unless I got over myself and lost weight, I wouldn't live for another 3 years.
  • Yeah, yeah, yeah...it does... I can't tell you how many times someone's said "I'll beat your little frotch ass." to me.
  • Yeah, for the first time EVER, this past "family" Thanksgiving, for the 1st time, an uncle said to me, (1st words out of his mouth, after not seeing me for a year), "looks like someone is getting much ROUNDER", referring to my weight! No comment about anything has ever bothered me before, but THAT comment stung all the way to the bone! I have put on about 25 pounds, which I am not proud of.
  • When I was younger, people (including my parents) told me I was fat. It really made me feel bad. Now that I'm older and wiser, and have seen pictures of myself from back then, I can't figure out what they were talking about. I was a little overweight, at 150 lbs, but definitely not fat. So I wasted all those years feeling terrible about nothing! Now, I realize that people who make fun of me for ANY reason, are just trying to make me feel horrible so they can feel better about themselves. That doesn't work on me any more. My favorite putdown to use on these people now is (look confused for a second) then say "Oh, I get it. You're trying to hurt my feelings. You're gonna have to do a lot better than that. Maybe go read a library book about insults. You CAN read, can't you?" Then I just walk away with a huge smile on my face.
  • Yes, and yes. I can take it though.
  • It used to hurt, but not anymore. I've come to the conclusion that people who do that type of thing are extraordinarily insecure in who they are. I am short and fat, but I am also comfortable with who I am, so it doesnt bother me at all anymore.
  • Yes, and my hair. And it still hurts to this day.
  • When I was in school, over half a century ago, they made fun of me because of my mind "Teacher's Pet" it still hurts to this very day.
  • ... just my crooked teeth ... no one has ever made fun of my many scars, although many have mentioned noticing them ... other than that, my body is in great shape.
  • yes many times and yeah it hurts, i guess thats one of the main reasons why i isolate myself.
  • Yes, in high school (one's most vulnerable time) a guy used to call me "drumsticks" because he said my legs looked like chicken drumsticks. (I had underdeveloped calves). Thankfully, my calves developed. Now I just get called thunderthighs by my kids, lol.
  • From kindergarten to high school I've had to deal with that kind of bulls**t. Some people bounce back and others grow spiteful.
  • Oh yes... I used to weigh 300lbs. I've seen and heard it all when it came to insults. Believe it or not...it still effects the way I look at myself today. It hurts like hell..and it still hurts like hell.
  • Yes and it does. To bad because we really can help the way our body looks.
  • no but I can see how it would suck
  • Yes it hurts to be bullied
  • There's been some mean people who made fun of my different colored eyes One time when I was six I was at the Phila. Art Museum with my mom. A woman saw my eyes and screamed in my face,. I burst out crying., That upsetting experience stuck with me to this day.
  • I grew up in the 80's. Everyone picked on everyone else, sometimes brutally. People made fun of me for all sorts of reasons. But I was also stabbed, beaten until I peed blood, my nose was broken, I was choked, kicked, punched, etc. Adults told me it was important to go through all of that to grow thick skin. Now I am looking back on just how mental I have been as an adult and can't help but think that there's a good chance that a lot of my problems were fostered by that sort of bullying.
  • No but I can imagine it must be hurtful for anyone to be made fun of because of the body they are born with. People say hurtful things to others and my attitude towards people who are mean is “in one ear and out the other”. People who say hurtful things about someone else’s body should be told off and make sure they regret what they said. Tell those mean people that they would not like it if someone said something hurtful about anything that is personal to them.
  • I like how shadow said in one ear and out the other! I've been made fun of all my life for being short, or having big boobs. But also for other things like being different. But I learned fairly early in life that I didn't want to be 'normal' anyway. Normal is boring. A few times it hurt my feelings, but only if I'm emotionally invested in what that person thinks of me. Otherwise, why should I care, anyway? They probably only spent enough time getting to actually know me to form a prejudicial, judgmental opinion that's not true anyway. You know, now that I think about it, it usually bothers me when I know what they said about me is true and I don't like it. But in situations like that I either change it if I can or just learn to accept it. I'm not growing taller, and the reduction that occurred to my breast was the result of 'radiation mutilation' was extremely painful, and grotesquely disfiguring. I realized I should have been more appreciative of what I had! But at least I'm alive and cancer free! And I learned that words only hurt if you let them. As for what others think? Piss on them! I'm the one who has to live with me!!
  • You shouldn't be concerned about what other people think, unless you are posing and asking for people's opinions. Then you will know the world is more cruel as you think.

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