All through Jr and High School, I was called names, treated cruelly and bullied for no reason really. I was overweight teen, and did not hang out with other males and most of my friends were females, thus, the guys made fun of me more than the girls, yet not one or the other really ever took the time to get to know me.

In my Junior High parent teacher party I was voted the 'most likely to embarrass his mother' and looking back think that was not really a very kind or positive category to have voted on.

Also, I recall vividly that I was and still am ADHD and my school locker was full of papers and clutter and we were not allowed to have locks on our lockers and I recall days would pass and a foul smell would come from my locker, I had no clue what? I sorted and cleaned and in the very bottom, under all the clutter was a piece of raw beef liver placed under all the clutter, with no air conditioning in the school, and being warm maggots were on it and I recall no one really standing around laughing....that was over 20 years ago and still the memory and those names still remain in my mind from time to time.

I worked as a Nursing Assistant in my early twenty's prior to becoming disabled, and that was some time ago, only had my run in with the bully's at work also. Do not give up Nursing, my personal belief is that there are so many not taking up nursing as an art or passion, rather for being able to do the bookwork, and paycheck. Many nurses now days do not even want to even touch the patients and even get grossed out when discussing bowel movements, or urine, these are I believe paycheck nurses who do not truly have a desire to help and care for people, only those who simply want to make a career out of what was once an art.