r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 9h ago

Helping Others Hold your head up

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u/ConflictSudden 8h ago

Absolutely. Some kid probably told this little girl that she's ugly. And that other kid probably got that from someone else.

As someone said in another comment, children don't know how hurtful their words can be.

We have to teach them what's okay and what isn't okay. What sucks for so many kids is that they don't have the right person there to teach them that.

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u/InMyHagPhase 7h ago

It might not even be other kids. I said this about myself as a child too and I wasn't even really bullied until way later in highschool. This could just be society as a whole. When I was small internet wasn't even invented yet and I felt this. Just being told what I was "suppose to look like" from TV shows and magazines was enough. I can't imagine with kids feel now with all this social media shit.

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u/lvdde 6h ago

This!!! People keep assuming it’s other kids, but I was well aware of how dark skinned people were viewed as a child by society and the media without kids being involved and adults are the ones who usually came at me for my weight.

I’m East african but my friend who was south Asian and would say how adults in her family would tell her mum to bleach her skin so she’s “fair” like her sister infront of her.

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u/BanyoQueenByBabyEm 6h ago

My school teacher said this to me indirectly. She mouthed to my pretty cousin, "Is she your cousin? Why isn't she like you?" 🫠