I never showed it but a few of the guys really freaked me out when I was younger. They were mean or did creepy things. When I and a lot of the other girls in our class started to get boobs but didn’t realize a bunch of the guys made a ranking for “best tits” even though we were like 12. I hated sitting near them after that bc it was like the guys I grew up with who were supposed to be my friends didn’t see me as an actual person.

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If I didn’t wanna sit next to a guy as a kid it’s because they genuinely were an asshole

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If I didn’t want to sit next to a guy it’s because he creeped me out so much, or he had friends who would creep me out and just sit there and laugh with them. You were either a creep or friends with one

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girl perspective: i was always a super well behaved kid and teachers would intentionally put me next to the kids (usually boys) who always misbehaved and would bully/purposely annoy and distract me because the teachers hoped my good behavior would rub off on them and that i’d keep them accountable, which should’ve been the teachers job. it genuinely happened so many times my parents got involved and i was no longer allowed to be placed in classes with certain kids

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you probably had cooties

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I remember watching a show with a bullying episode and realizing that I was bullied. Childhood is truly an experience

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Cause some of them were mean and didn’t know how to keep their hands to themselves. I was always the agreeable girl student who never fussed, so I always got stuck sitting next the boy who wouldn’t stop talking, touching and poking me. It later developed into a serious problem of me never advocating for myself. I realized that I shouldn’t have been the buffer for disruptive male behavior.

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When I first came to the US in 5th grade everyone always complained that I smelled (teacher literally bought me deodorant), had dandruff, was annoying, and that my clothes were gay (we were poor and they were donated clothes, some pink and sparkly), but over time I learned hygiene, human decency, and developed my own interests. It’s unfortunate that it’s a semi-shared experience with immigrants who don’t know the way of America and have to learn as they go since their parents don’t know either.

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When I was a freshman in high school aa few dudes made a March madness bracket of all the girls they would hookup with and shared the bracket so you could make your own rankings..

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bc preteen boys are absolutely insufferable to preteen girls???

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some yall are loud and don’t take no for an answer, no, i don’t want to give you my paper stop trying to fcking take it!

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it honestly might have had nothing to do with you. could be that she had personal stuff going on at home and just couldnt handle any other changes, could be that she was having a hard day and didnt want to move away from her friends, maybe another guy had just said something gross to her, etc.. or, as others pointed out, maybe you or your friends were creepy. i remember a guy in middle school saying he'd never seen me w/ my shoulders relaxed, and i thought "yeah, its bc of you"

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Cuz you were ugly

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cause some people just needed to get bullied

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