What are your tales of adversity and strength? U can make them up and give it to me "real talk".

Mine is when I was younger, I was called names about my height and weight, and that I was stupid. I had thought that I would never change. But it did. But now, I'm still short but I am standing tall, and I'm first with a 4.3 gpa in my class. Life can make you or break you.

Sounds a little bit like what happenend to me too. I, along with a few other girls in my grade, were sexually harassed in 7th grade on my bus going to and from school. The kid really had it out for me though because he recognized my last name and I think was hassled by my brother and other kids who were older than him. This kid was such a punk and he had a bunch of other punk kids who thought harassing people was funny. But anyway, he pretty much ruined me that year. I had no confidence and became really shy and even suicidal. I'm not sure why I let him get to me so much. But I got through it and the next year I promised myself that I would not let him get to me at all. So every time I rode the bus, I made sure I wouldn't be by him and when I got off, he would try and yell things at me, I would just roll my eyes, ignore him, and walk right off. Eventually he stopped because he knew I just didn't care anymore. Even though that experience was really tough for me, it definetly made me stronger. I realized that with people like that, and those who think they are superior or whatever, you have to have a "no care" attitude. People will try to bring you down and get under your skin and most of the time its just not worth it to give them a second of your time.