by Powersurge » Thu May 03, 2007 2:59 am
I used to get picked on constantly at school when I was younger, and not just but the kids, but by their parents and the teachers too.
I was a oddball to say the least when I was young (mind you I still am now really, but I control it better), I was also larger that the other kids, in hight and girth, and I was labelled as slow, lazy, stupid...Well you get the idea
The thing was I was born with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Epilepsy bought on by ring chromosome 20 syndrome, but I wasn't diagnosed until 1991 when I was bout 7 (Epilepsy when I was bout 15), but these caused problems and made me, well..different.
Though finding out what was wrong with me didn't help, not much was widely know back then bout Dyslexia and Dyspraxia, and even less was know bout ring chromosome 20 syndrome, so you can imagine the teachers were not sure how to go bout helping me.
So I was never bullied due to my interests, it was just cause I was different, it was the normal type of stuff, word calling, put downs and so on.
I could never cope with stress very well, the only way I knew how was to hurt myself, normally just hitting my head against the wall, or just using my hands.
It took me a long while to figure that I could stand up to these people, I never hit anyone, just ignored them, or scared them away.
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