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childhood memoirs, spc SPC: the nose
April 10, 2007 at 11:03 PM 
The cause of so much humiliation as a child. when i was about 9 years old a girl at school asked me why my nose looked like a strawberry..."it's all red and has dark spots all over it." i hadn't even considered what my nose looked like until that moment. Two years later i hit puberty and my body began to grow at different rates, first and foremost was my nose. so the strawberry got even bigger and began to take over my face. kids began to tease me for it. even after we moved 60 miles away, kids in the new city began to tease me for it.
WHY DO KIDS DO THIS???
making fun of personality quirks is one thing, but bodies? something that no one of that age can or should try to change? i became so self conscious. as if a move to a new city wasn't hard enough, i lost all of that beautiful self confidence that children have inherently.
so now, here is my nose. i think that i may have caught up with it. or maybe just emotionally grown into it. the pores are still big, the color is still different than the rest of my face; but somehow now it's mine, and it's all ok.
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Reader Comments (8)
your nose looks super cute to me : )
mine is thin and hawk like and big big big ;-)
I like your nose :)
Well I happen to think your nose is fabulous! Kids are so mean, aren't they? I was teased a lot as a kiddo too. They called me a "dog". I guess that was the mid 80's way of calling someone ugly. Not nice, not nice at all. I was never like that, perhaps because I was always the brunt. My 12 year old son, Austin, has recently been teased about his forehead. A forehead of all things!? Silliness.
Thanks for visiting today! I like making new friends; especially those with pretty noses! :-)
Kids can be so cruel. It's like a "pack mentality" when they're in the school yard.
I gave my daughter an assignment when she hit about grade 3.
Every day at school, she does something nice for someone... from eating lunch with one of the kids who are bullied, to just saying hi to the overweight girl who gets relentlessly picked on.
I want to teach her NEVER to be the kid who knows it's wrong but stands there anyway and does nothing. I'm so proud of her!
And your nose is adorable!!
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kids are so mean, your nose is fantastic, and try and let all those horrible memories GOOOOOO. I have 'em too and it is so hard to just let em fly away - who ever thought, something somebody - some MEAN kid, said to us 20 years ago, we would still remember. it's so taking up space in our brains. I am gonna try and let mine go. you?
uh - I think you have a cute nose. I hate mine too, so join the club. But they're noses - they just aren't that cute as a body part.
I love the pic though!!
It's good to be alright with ourselves.... we all have our moments where we either admire our bodies and their differences or we carry our flaws around like they weigh so much.
thanks for all the sweetness you guys. as i've aged and had children, the world seems to grow so much smaller. little things like nose size and shape and color just don't matter any more. in fact your nose or any other distinguishing characteristics seems SO much cuter when you see it on your own "mini me." thanks for uplifting little ole me!