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shortandcute · Mar 28, 2013, 12:05 PM

I'm sorry that you've been going through all that!Yes people can be pretty thoughtless--to put it mildly.
In school, I was bullied alot and picked on for being "different," being called "retard" (no offense to anyone), being humiliated by teachers in front of the class, etc. I tend to go off in another world when I'm highly stressed, which has really ticked a lot of people off. My sister and her husband were my legal guardians for a couple of years, and always said I was "spacing out" and would scream at me as if I was doing it on purpose, and of course that just made it worse. Sometimes my sister would call me, "Miss Stoneface" or accuse me of "shutting them out." One time, a few years after I had moved out, I was downtown running some errands, and I was kind of preoccupied at the time, and on the verge of "zoning out;" My brother-in-law happened to be in town and saw me walking, and he could tell I was preoccupied. So he decide he was going to act like he was going to run me down to "teach me a lesson" about "spacing out!" He got out of the car and started making fun of me and screaming at me for "spacing out"--I was so mortified!