as a teenager about 397 years ago
Does the "G" in G-Dog stand for Gandolf or something? 😂 😂
That's kinda mean being teased for skin color and your name. Talk about shitty schoolmates. Mine thought it was fit to dislike and bully me because I was in foster care and since my own parents can't even love me why should they? Kids are so freaking mean. It made me turn to books too, they don't talk back. Reading lots as an adult has been proven to help prevent against brain degenerative diseases.
It was 1975 and a small rural town in Australia so I guess the small-mindedness was to be expected. I was born there, 4th generation on my mum's side and proudly Australian, but it didn't seem to matter to those kids. My dad, despite being a citizen, was an immigrant and I was brownish.
Kids can be cruel as you know based on your own story and it's never going to change. I know people who were teased for being tall, freckled with red hair, short, fat, thin, smart, dumb...Kids are cruel. We can't control them but we can ourselves which is what you have done, and I also.
My books never judged me though, same with you. I read a lot and enjoy it for many reasons.
Thanks for commenting.
yeah 1975 and rural, that doesn't sound like an open minded setting right there! Well...I teased the gingers...that's the only lower class than foster kid.
So true.
I still read the odd book here and there, now it's mostly online but I still read a lot. I like educational or perspective stuff, not so much fiction so only peer reviewed papers and stuff, get a bigger understanding of things.
Gingers have ever been in the firing line. I knew a kid that had a sho of red hair...We called him Bluey...Because he had red hair. An Australian thing.