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I have been discriminated due to my outlook in many occasions of my life, starting in elementary school and continuing, although in a far lesser extent, until today.

When I was 7,8,9,10 and 11 years old, I was quite fat, and  so, many classmates bullied me and most of them rarely chose me to play in their team in the physical education classes.

One occasion in which I really felt bad, was when I said a ridiculous  thing in front of the physical education teacher and the whole class. After I said that, everyone laughed a lot, and took advantage of the situation to make fun of my physical (fat) appearence, and not only the classmates made fun of it, but also the teacher himself, as he said “ shrink the potbelly”.

In that moment, I felt very bad, as I thought teachers didn’t  make fun of students.

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Looking back, I'm glad I can say I've never been a victim of a direct discrimination. However, I've realized that there will always be people who will criticize you for the most idiotic reasons. They'll surprise you with their creativity to judge anything or anyone.

All I can say to people who have felt or regularly feel discriminated is for them to be confident, and never hide who they are or who they aim to be.

Also growing up in a culturally and racially diverse  family made me have no room for any kind of discrimination. I will always defend myself or anybody else that needs.

Raise your head.

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When I was younger, I used to be judged because of my body image. People used to tell me that I was too skinny, that I was not pretty enough.  One girl, that was popular, told one of my friends that I was very skinny and that I would never get anywere because of my appearence. At the time, I cried a lot... The most funny thing is that, the same girl came to me a few years later and told me I was pretty. I have learned that I shouldn't care about what people think about me, I am what I am and I know my worth.

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when I was litlle my mom left me hand holded with a mannequin just because she wanted to be alone in the clothes store.

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When I was younger I preferred being with boys and playing football with them and the boys that didn't know me made fun of me like "football is a sport for boys and not for you" or even "you're a girl, what do you know about football?" luckily I have some good friends that don't care about that. To add to this I'm not that typical girl with 'that' body, I mean, I dont' believe there is a perfect body but it seems that some people do and it hurt me in my childhood and I think that we start to allow these negative comments affect our self-esteem.

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I've suffered from multiple types of discrimination, most of the times due to my gender, body shape, clothing or general tastes and interests. These being the most common subjects among teenagers (and quite frankly, boring), I prefer to talk about a less common topic to be picked on these days: politics. I have indeed been discriminated or picked on for my political view and ideology. Thanks to my personality, these kinds of mockeries usually result in debating or even serious arguing, since I think we should be free to speak our minds.

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I have a situation in my life when I felt discriminated. I wanted to play football and I've been ignorated just because I'm a girl and girls don't play football or video games...which I do not agree with.

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I have felt discrimated many times because of my body.

Many girls have told me that they wished they were "as pretty as me" or that they had a "hot body like mine". I honestly hate to hear that. I always say "thank you" and smile but I'm not actually happy to hear that. Just because I have a "great" body doesn't mean that my life will be better because of it or that I have no insecurities. Well, most of the time I am a confident person but my insecurities are all because of the way I look. People in general just make me feel like my body is all that I can be. Most people I know don't really care about who I am as a person, they only care about the outside. Most people are only "friends" with me or thought I was interesting because my body caught their attention and not because I was actually interesting. Everytime I try to make new friends they always have second intentions.

People don't really take me seriously and that makes me really insecure about who I am. They just see me as a sexual object and not a real person with character.

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As a girl, there have been so many times where I felt I was looked down on or my voice wasn’t heard as I wanted it to be. However there has been a special occasion that always stood out to me, maybe because I was so young.

Let’s say I was 9, I was still in primary school. Me and my classmates were playing football, which was a rare sight because normally girls were never allowed by the boys to play alongside them. As the game went along something that broke the rules happened and at first it seemed like I was the only one who noticed it.  Now, I’m not an expert on football, but growing around 3 older brothers and my dad, I had some basic knowledge of it and I knew that what I had seen was not right.  So, logically I reported it to the “referee” who was watching us play because he couldn’t play himself. At first, he laughed it off but then when I repeated what happened he said he didn’t believe me and told me to shut up or I’d be kicked out. I was a girl, how could I possibly know anything about football? Luckily a boy who also saw the foul came in my defence and supported what I was saying.

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Yes, I already  felt discriminated sometimes.  But mostly because my chin is slightly different.  It's just an aesthetic stuff but sometimes it bothers me a lot.
It hurts me the negative reviews of others but personally I do not feel comfortable with it either....and this is what really matters!

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Have You Ever Been/ Felt Discriminated?

Yes, when I was a teen other guys would call me names simply because I did not like playing football.
Of course I did not enjoy playing football since I was a pretty bad player, so I would always imagine that, even if I joined my friends simply to please them...then they would criticise me for not playing properly anyway!
I always tried to avoid asking other people to play games that I knew they didn't like, why did they always picked on me!?!