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I'm kind of traumatized because I use to get bullied a whole lot during my childhood days, when i was in school from elementary through highschool, several different kids would tease me about how I had bad breath, and they thought I was a slow retarded kid because i didn't say much in school. I never had confidence in talking because i use to stutter when I talk. The thing is, back when i was a kid, i use to see education as punishment instead of a reward, like you know when kids would act up in class the teacher would make them do work, that's what made me not be interested in remembering most school work, but back then i didn't see how much school work would benefit a kid.

I also use to be a bunching bag, like most of the time if a kid wanted to fight me, I wouldn't fight them back because i didn't like attention being drawn towards me, plus I didn't want to get suspend from school and have to explain to my parents the situation. I just didn't want my folks to be worried thinking my school environment was bad. Some kids would also poke fun at me for staying in the house all day and not coming out, the thing is I grew up in a bad neighborhood, t which the neighbors me and my folks use to friends with, my parents thought the neighbors kids was a bad influence on me, because those kids use to stay getting in trouble. i was naive about a lot of stuff, like most of the kids in my small town was street kids, they're parents just let them do anything they want to do, with no home training, which is the reason they gave the teachers a hard time.

Should I feel embarrassed that I had such bad breath and that I had a speech impediment? of course now these days people no longer complain about my bad hygienic breath.

Also the reason why I choose to be single because with me still living in the same small town that i was raised in, I don't want attention being drawn towards me, like kids knowing me from back in the day would be shock to see me of all people having a girlfriend.