Lynda Resnick Quotes

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

I was called such names as a kid. Being the smallest boy in the class with a name like Caroll. I remember going home and saying to my mom, 'What were you thinking?'

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

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.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

I was not popular. I was the kid in school that was bullied.

In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

Back when I was in elementary school, I didn't have many friends.

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

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

I was a strange kid. I never really fit in; I was never comfortable in my own skin because I was a giant kid with no athletic ability.

I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the ground in the outfield during baseball. I was that kid.

I remembered myself as an unpopular and rather sad kid.

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.

People called me sharktooth, Dracula. I got made fun of so much cause I couldn't afford braces.

Everyone knew I was home-schooled. Everyone always said I was weird, and they're kind of right. And I think people can always tell that I'm a weak link. So if you are going to bully someone, I'm an easy target.

My best friend used to make fun of me about the camps I wasn't invited to, and I used to get mad. He was just always better, always the favorite. I was always the one in the shadow that everybody was like, 'He's not good enough. Might not even make it to college.'

I remember being a kid and always feeling a little different than all my friends.