I got loads of flak for not having big boobs. An old pal one time, told me to ignore them in French class, because I never showed I was upset at school, ever. And it is hard being the strong one all the time.
But everyone seemed to grow up and it didn't last. If someone said something to me in registration class I would whisper to my neighbour a retort and she would laugh and they got bored.
Me and my friends had no where to go. They hung around the park with older guys and went back to their houses, but barely any of my friends did drugs at all despite this. But my parents forbade me from going to their houses and threatened me if they found out AND believe me they WQULD have found out. I stay in an old town.
So that is why I spent so much time on my sport. I became very good, but not quite hitting the mark. I seemed to spread myself to thin. If I had just concentrated on school, but I never applied myself and the teachers knew fine well.
I remember the morning I got my exam results. I told my mum as she got up and she blindly ignored me. Never asked, didn't care . I didn't tell anyone. My pals didn't do comforting each other, or get the violins out. If you didn't laugh you would cry.
When my sports career was hitting the skids, before it had barely begun, I told one girl, "you are not missing out on anything" (drinking, partying etc.) and to keep doing what she was doing.