CindyH: Liz Admits She Was ‘Unique’

And one reader was brave enough to share the other side of the story. Liz from Coeur d’Alene said she was a Ruthie. “I probably didn’t look that odd but I was, shall we say, ‘unique.’ ” A difficult family situation contributed to her struggles, and Liz didn’t handle being picked on very well. “Whatever I did egged them on,” she said. Even her father’s fatal illness prompted cruelty. “One kid actually asked me if I was so weird because my father was in the hospital dying of cancer. Which was especially unpleasant as no one felt it would be appropriate to inform me of this piece of information. I went home and pried it out of my very reluctant mother after this incident”/ Cindy Hval , SR Voices. More here .

Question: Were you ever picked on by school mates as a child? What was that experience like?