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How I Persevered Through Bulling

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How I Persevered through Bulling When my son was ten years old, he asked me if I had ever been bullied before, or if I’d ever bullied anyone. I told him no! Not me! He said mom, Nana told me that you were bullied, and you bullied people before too. I wondered if I should tell him the truth, in that moment. That yes when I was your age and younger I was bullied and yes I’d bullied others to. The thought that I could jeopardize my son and I relationship scared me. I could see it dwindling. The actions from my past might make my son look at me differently.

TO GO BACK:

Life at 623 Teach St. In Hampton Va, At the tender age of five, my mother and I had to move into my grandmother’s house because my mother and father were separating. It was the first time
I felt pain in my heart and knew that it wasn’t a good feeling. After going through the separation issues
With my mom and dad, I had to deal with cousins that lived at my grandmother’s house, whom bullied
Me every chance they got: when we would come over for family functions. There were times when they
Didn’t bully me. But was an often occurance when we would visit my grandmother’s house.

I was bullied because of the color of my skin, my eyes, my cheek bones, my long flowing
Dark brown hair and my height. There were always gestures of why do you look so different? I had no
Answer, I didn’t know what to say. I questioned myself. After all I was lighter than my sibling and my
Cousins, my eyes are shaped

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