This is super weird probably, but I was like the loser type of kid that didn't get bullied that much, because I was too pathetic to bother with. Like, it happened, but getting bullied in a big way isn't part of how I remember things.
I just always felt like a loser, and that people didn't like me. In hindsight I took school a little serious, and teasing way more serious, so I kind of get it now.
Anyway. We're in gym class one day playing some game. It's 5th grade. The game involved getting little foam balls into a basket, or some shit, I have no idea.
This girl, Sarah, puts one of the balls in the top of her pants, and says to her friend "Look! I have a hernia!"
I had NO idea what that meant, but they laughed like fools and I knew it couldn't be good.
A few weeks later I had a physical. You'll NEVER guess what I had.
I dropped my pants. "Does it hurt when you lift things?" No. "Well that's interesting because you have a hernia."
I burst out crying to the bewilderment of the doctor and then my mom who got called in shortly thereafter because I was going ballistic.
I never told them why I was so upset. I thought the kids at school would have even more ammo against me now.
Worst moment of my public school life. I was so humiliated.
I missed two weeks of school and nobody event said a word about it. Yeah.