I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than other people, so I spent a lot of time out of school.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In fact I was slightly badly behaved at school and got in trouble. I would get a bee in my bonnet about something I thought wasn't right, and I would ape about too, to make everybody laugh. That was my way through my girls' school, because I wasn't very academic.
I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble.
School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.
Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.
I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.