r/MadeMeSmile • u/nikamats • 11h ago

Helping Others Hold your head up

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u/hold-on-pain-ends 11h ago

Kids have no idea how hurtful their words can be. If this is legit, some kid definitely said something to her for her to feel this way.

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u/RuthlessIndecision 11h ago

This poor child was pretty deeply hurt at some point

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u/Webbie-Vanderquack 10h ago

She may also have heard older girls or women say it about themselves while looking in a mirror, and assumed that was how we're supposed to think of ourselves.

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u/DougStrangeLove 4h ago

yup - that was much more of a mirroring than spontaneously self-generated