You May Ask Myself

Have you ever thought poorly of yourself? Or felt like you don’t belong? Well, I do, a lot. That’s me the shy girl siting by herself, too afraid to speak in class. There are many reason why I feel this way. The fear of being told your question was stupid, or I said the wrong thing has kept me from speaking up in class when I want to. One of the main reasons however is being bullied throughout middle school and high school. A few times it was personal. People would shout out things in the hallway, or tell a joke about me and everyone would laugh. Life was hard for me. Whenever I said something in class I would always get ridiculed and told that I was dumb. Honestly, life sucked but, I got through it by making myself a different person. I stopped sitting by people and just stopped talking all together. I was afraid of what people would say to me so I just made myself disappear. My friends were my teachers that knew about my problems and would always let hid in their office during lunch and met them in their classrooms before school. I was the girl nobody liked and those bullies have …show more content…
This connects with symbolic interactionism which means on how face-to-face interactions shape who you are as a person said by Dalton Conley in You May Ask Yourself. Those face-to-face interactions are what make the social world around us. They influence people to make decisions, which can sometimes be not the right ones. Just like in my case, the social world around us influenced those people to bully me. The social world has showed people that if a person’s not pretty, thin, and perfect then there weird and don’t belong. Which in my case I wasn’t the thinnest person, I wasn’t that pretty and I have something wrong with my eye but does that mean that I deserve to be bullied. Those face-to face interactions I had caused by the social world made an impact on me and how I act