Bullying In Middle School

Bullying Although being bullied in elementary/middle school can lead to many negative things, it can also impact me in a positive way. When I was in elementary school I was bullied a lot because I was chunky, tall, had thick/ busy eyebrows, and had puffy natural hair. From being known as the ugly fat girl with huge bushy eyebrows and puffy hair lowered my self-esteem and confidence a lot. I started to do thing to myself so my classmates can accept me. One day I took it upon myself to try to arch my eyebrows with a razor. That resulted in me shaving one of my eyebrows completely off. I had to go to school for about a month with just one eyebrow. I stopped eating a lot because I hated being called fat I thought every time I eat something I will just gain more and more weight. From being called power puff because of my large puffy natural hair caused me to hate my natural hair as I got older. I soon started to hate my height because I was the tallest girl in my class. Since I was being bullied each day in school it went to the point where I would go home crying each day. I went to middle school with low self-esteem and confidence. …show more content…
Since I was younger I always wanted to be a cheerleader at the middle school I went to. I was one out of three 6th graders that was on the cheerleading team. I begged my parents for a relaxer in my hair so it will not be puffy anymore. My cheerleading teammates helped me to gain some confidence in myself because I was voted co-captain my first year of cheering. Even though I lost a lot of weight over the summer and there were many people taller than me it felt as if nothing changed. I started to become known as the ugly busy eye-brow girl again. After I finally got a relaxer in my hair I begged for a bang in the front of my hair so it will cover my eyebrows and eventually I got my eye brows arched by a