Sometimes even having an identical twin isn’t enough to stop bullying…

Anonymous

So I’ve been getting bullied since third grade. In third grade, kids would tease me because I would always try to make everyone happy. If someone wanted me to make them a bracelet, I would. I kind of went a bit overboard with doing everything and anything to please others. In second grade, I teased my identical twin sister about her glasses on picture day. I’m not sure I understood how rude that was, but it impacted her a lot. She never wore her glasses again and now she finally got contacts. I’ll never forgive myself for that, and honestly the glasses looked good on her to be honest. Fourth grade and fifth grade went very well and there was no major bullying. When sixth grade arrived, that’s when it really started. One of my best friends, C, had moved to a different school, even with my twin sister there. That just made it harder to make friends, because everyone thought ‘she already has a friend, her twin’. My two best friends, B + A we’re still with me though which was good (they were my twin’s best friends too). One day in math class, a girl named S decided to ‘ask’ (sarcastically) if I wanted to go shopping with her and her friends at the mall (she was pretty ‘popular’). I said no, because I don’t even like shopping in general. She then went on to ask me what stores I like to shop at. I decided it would be funny to say ‘Justice’, since everyone thinks it’s babyish. She then asked me what size I am, and I’m not the skinniest, so I decided to lie and say size 20 to be funny. She searched up on the justice website and found that there actually was a size 20, which she thought was hilarious. They then went on for the rest of the year, tormenting me about Justice and going to the mall with them. The next year, 7th grade, went pretty well rather than the fact that in December, I started getting very self conscious about my body odor. Everyone would hold their noses and it got to the point where I would have crying fits in the middle of class. This year, 8th grade, has just begun and it has already come to a turning point. The same girl, S, from sixth grade comes back in the picture. My twin sister and I made a very dumb decision today and decided to switch classes, the whole day had gone well, until I went to her spanish class. The table I was supposed to sit at was S and her other mean friend M. The last person at the table was a childhood friend of my mine, ST. I expected ST to talk to me the whole time, but instead she just ignored me and started talking with S and M. I decided to tell them that I switched classes today, not like it would matter because there was a substitute. S and M were actually being decent and asking me questions about my sister and I. They were pretty nice, until they asked ST ‘are you wearing a bra’ and she said ‘no’ (in a funny voice, because she was wearing a bra). They then started laughing and then said ‘Oh A (me) needs one’. S thought it would be funny to pretend to pull her bra off and M was laughing her head off saying ‘oh my gosh, she’s taking her bra off’, S said ‘well she needs it, I’m just trying to help’ (in a funny voice). I said ‘actually I’m wearing a sports bra’ after like three minutes because I couldn’t handle it anymore. S then asked me ‘do you like your sisters classes better than your classes?’ and I answered ‘No, because you keep talking to me’. S then said ‘okay, then shut up’. The whole time, ST, stood there laughing with them. I decided I’d had enough of it and I said ‘pweease’ in the weird voice right back at them. They thought that was so hilarious, they tried to make me imitate them again the whole time. At the end of class, ST looked at me with disgust and embarrassment (embarrassed that she ever knew me). I came home today and immediately told my twin sister and my mom what happened.