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Comments:
Andrea
2007-12-24 10:24:14
Oh Lisa...this just made my heart hurt. Sixth-grade girls are EVIL. I was ostracized by most of my sixth grade class for months because two girls thought I was using one of their friends to be popular. I'll never forget the day that started either...
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lj lindhurst
2007-12-24 11:07:48
oh, girl--you are not alone! I too was ostracized--starting around Grade 4 through the sixth grade. It wasn't anything that I did, though--it was because of my mother. My mother was so crazy/evil, and such a disruptive influence in our small town (and at the school), that the teachers would routinely make fun of me (and my sister and brother) openly about it. Which in turn lead to the other kids doing it. Which lead to... well you know. Going deep in my head. Reading. Writing. Drawing. Listening to Pink Floyd The Wall over and over and over again. And eventually withdrawing to an irrevocable extent. So yeah--I hear you! but anyway, HOPE YOU HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! you don't know it, but you have been a big inspiration to me this year...
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julie
2007-12-26 08:49:29
When I was in 6th grade, likewise inspired by Harriet, I took a spiral notebook and wrote constantly. Already considered wierd, when my notebook was stolen & read, it merely confirmed their opinion. And humiliated me. But - like you, it also helped define who I was. And while I stopped carrying a notebook with me, I continued writing through my college years. And am now considering starting again.
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Jess
2007-12-28 14:09:08
I used to wear fake glasses just like Harriet. I loved that book too. I was pretty ostracized as well, um, just for being me. A dork. Then in high school, I was known as "The Dyke" because I told my english teacher (in class) that just because someone was gay, it didn't mean they had AIDS and that he shouldn't call then "fags" (seriously). That was a hard 2 years. People would literally yell "DYKE!" at me as I walked down the street.
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mumma
2007-12-29 19:30:28
Good for you...you finally put it all into words after all these years. I wish I had such an outlet for my own feelings/guilt over that situation. Still cannot comprehend how it happened and often have felt that somehow, somewhere those little (w)itches would "get theirs." Alas, tho' we like to think that happens like in books and movies, it doesn't. People do things and go on with their lives as if their actions have no effect on others. Those girls have gone on and not one of them or their mothers ever made any attempt to express any regret over the pain they caused. I still shake my head in puzzlement, unable to grasp their total imcomprehension and lack of compassion.
A defining moment for you? That does not even begin to describe that event. Oh, and by the way, I destroyed all those class pictures...
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