Hear hear. No one gets it like lgbtqia+. Being forced to go every weekday into a completely hostile and potentially dangerous environment sticks with a person.
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Oh sure. Y’all were treated abominably too. In my day we had special ed class (don’t know if that’s a thing still) and people placed there were treated cruelly. Bullies just look around for whom to attack
In my local school district, most learning disabled students are mainstreamed into regular classes. Only the extremely disturbed kids are in a separate class, now. (By "extremely disturbed" I am remembering a lad who smeared his feces on the walls.)
Ah. This was the dark ages, late 80’s. They lumped in everyone. Anywhere on spectrum, kids with severe disorders that required restrained in wheelchairs, one had epilepsy. Kids were just awful to them. They would literally move kids with slight behavioral issues there and imo worsened conditions.
Yep. I grew up in an urban area and my dad moved us to the sticks. My “crime” was that I dressed like a normal kid and they all wore overalls and boots. Like a demented “Footloose”. So I became the sissy. Through the years I was shoved, spit on, hit, then sophomore year sexually assaulted by 3.
My suburb was bad, but it wasn't that bad. Problem was, we were all ex-New Yorkers or ex-North Jersey urban kids who identified as tough guys, and we took it out on each other. I wasn't exactly a pacifist, and fought back the only way I could, with zingers -- which did win me some allies.
It’s funny, like you said, for guys, that’s the go-to insult for any outsider. It went on for awhile and finally I did start physically fighting back and kind of held my own. Then they called my dad in and he got mad he had to take off work, so I got beat at home. After that I couldn’t fight back
I got by with a very sharp wit and an even sharper tongue, I am emotionally intelligent and always was, so used that to my advantage and totally humiliated anyone trying to bully me . I also had the ability to make people laugh
I went to a four year high school with 220 people. Wit, emotional intelligence, was wasted on these farm kids. We were surrounded by farms and nearest large urban area was 200 miles away. I’m glad you were able to put people in their place, but these kids were too stupid to recognize insults
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Not knowing then what that was, my answer was, "No, what are you, an idiot?"
It took until 7th grade before one of those kids was punished for assaulting me.
Teachers couldn't reach me, and, being part of "The Greatest Generation," they could do no wrong, so I, the child, had to be at fault.