Remeber "that kid" at your school who was constantly/mercilessly bullied? What happened to him/her? What's that person's life like as an adult?

That would be me. I was born 3 months prematurely, and thus i've always been a step behind everyone else; physically and mentally. Like, not in the sense that i was stupid, i have a slightly above average IQ and my grades were OK, but my behaviour and social skill were always a year or two behind until I was in my late teens, so i would frequently do or say childish shit for my age.

I'm also super tiny in comparison to everyone else and i've either been scrawny or chubby in random intervals.

Due to my social awkwardness, tendency to gush over my interests, naivite and weak built, I basically became a giant target for bullies; mostly the emotional kind though, they rarely got physical and when they did, they usually got in trouble. But the way they mocked and made fun of me was absolutely unbearable.

Some gems from them include: Making fun of me for being sad that my pet rabbit died by saying that rabbits are tasty, calling me a brand of margarine because of a failed science experiment in class, saying a certain video game is shit... even when i literally haven't touched it in years... etc.

Most of their mockeries followed me up to trade school/age 18. And after years and years of them repeating the same few phrases and mockeries, it became clear that they made fun of my mental abilities, as if I was a blubbering baby in a teenage or adult body! That alone made me FURIOUS after a while! Like, the way they said it was so condescending, i'd honestly be less offended if they just straight up called me a r*tard.

I still tense up when certain words are spoken in my vicinity because they were used in these phrases...

Either way im now 21, am an office clerk in a 3-year training/apprenticeship currently in year 2, am in a new environment without any of these people or their mockery phrases that irked me for such a long time and im a hobbying comic artist on the side... so, life is good now.

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