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According to my mother I was a rather happy kid and smiled to everyone before getting into school. She taught us reading, writing, drawing and some numbers befo
by Gualdrapo 3y ago
According to my mother I was a rather happy kid and smiled to everyone before getting into school. She taught us reading, writing, drawing and some numbers before getting into it.
They promoted me to the following grade after 15 days because as soon as the teacher asked something I already knew the answer. But in the following two years something happened and I changed completely.
The thing is that I can't recall almost anything previous to that point. My mother signed me to music lessons in hopes to revert my shyness and stuff but little changed.
Until in a conversation with an aunt my sister made me remember - I was seriously bullied in those first couple years of school, apparently because of being "smart" and my accent. Like there was some kids that hitted me so hard sometimes I couldn't even sleep because of the pain in my legs. The dance teacher bullied me too, screaming things at my ear and ashaming me in front of the whole class because I sucked at dancing (and I got an absurd abversion to it, in fact never learned to dance). Even the principal made fun of my mother because she asked them to do something about it but apparently rubbed it as something without importance so my mother took matter in her own hands, but that's another story.
Even at university I had to endure some bullying too because I grew to be kind of awkward and introvert and shy. But I just didn't remembered why I am like that - for all those years I thought that I was born like that - still feels like it's too late to do changes but at least I can understand myself.