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[–]Anniesworld 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Basically a copy paste of my response in the highschool thread

I was in school from 09-2012, at the time in my school people still though it was cool to make fun of something by saying that's so gay.I was quiet and shy so I really didn't date or make my gayness known to anyone. Being shy probably made me more of a target for people to bully me. You know the kind of bulling where you can hear people whisper dike and lesbian but not to your face.That happened a lot in highschool and college, I usually tried to ignore it ,but I stood up for myself a few times. I really hated that people used "that's so gay " and told one of my coworkers how offensive I found it since I was gay. He was actually a very polite mormon guy and he felt bad that he was saying something hurtful so nonchalantly. Another time where things got physical was in culinary class, I used to wear plaid shirts in school and I heard some guys making fun of me in the back. I was in the middle of chopping vegetables when the jock guy if the group came up behind me and grabbed my hips to pretend he was humping me for a laugh. I turned around and showed him the knife between us and said "are you serious I'm holding a knife". He never tried anything again and I actually made some friends with the guys who were laughing at his jokes. High school was an awkward time for me but I really became more of myself during college and at work.