Lisa McMann Quotes

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

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

A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

Junior high and elementary school, those girls were so, so mean to me.

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

People talk about fantastic memories of childhood, but I remember children being cruel to me and wanting to come out of childhood as soon as possible because I knew adults were generally more contained in their cruelty.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

I weighed 84 pounds when I was 14. I was an easy target for the other kids.

Growing up, I was the awkward, chubby kid. I had a few close friends, but I was the first one to be bullied.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

'Middle school' is used as shorthand for a time when things change. It's a time a lot of kids feel like they don't even have one good friend.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I grew up nerdy, scrawny, playing video games, and getting picked on.

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

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.

Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.

I go to third grade, and I'm scared to death. I'm just 6 years old, and the kids are so much bigger than me.

I didn't have many friends; I was kind of bullied at school.

Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

I was bullied as a boy - lots of kids are, but hopefully most of us get on with our lives and grow up.