I don't feel I was bullied like I've seen and heard about (tv, movies, talk shows, etc.), but my friends put me down a lot, and I don't know, but I think it did a lot of damage to my self esteem. I've been overweight since I was in or around 6th grade and had a hard time buying clothes. My friends would call me fat or slow and probably being kids, but I feel it really damaged me more than I thought. In middle school I was the funny guy and in High School I went gothic so people would be afraid of me and not talk to me, that made HS easier.

Today I'm still overweight, with terrible self-esteem, but as of this year I've really been hitting the gym hard and I know my body change is going to be really slow, but I feel that the damage has been done, I try not to look in the mirror, I hate buying clothes, I just don't like me and I feel it reflects back to being a kid and being picked on about being fat, so I do feel it has a lasting impression.