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Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.

I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.

While I wouldn't wish being teased on anyone, I think it eventually leads to a kind of solidarity in adult life. The few people I know who weren't picked on in school are people I find I can't relate to on much more than a surface level. There's a sensitivity that comes with feeling like an outsider at some point in your life.

I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.