My father used sarcasm on a regular basis to inflict damage. If you said anything about it, well, he was "only teasing". Inflicted pain is more like.
I wasn't especially pretty, but I was bright, as I suspect you were, and only in certain situations was I comfortably socially with my peers. I had much more interaction with adults. Visiting school friends was made onerous (lots of hoops to jump before it could happen) by a nervous/controlling mom who couldn't drive.
I bloomed in college. I wasn't necessarily the odd one out there. I discovered the SCA & fandom, and then I really wasn't the odd one out. I fit in very well.
Maybe the first baby was the wrong one? I can't remember how quickly my son's eyes when from steel grey to brown. My sister's hair lost its curl when she was 7 or so, and my mom attributed hers having lost curl to meds taken when pregnant with my siser. Mine is losing its curl now, as silver comes in more thickly amongst the black. Of course, NOW I am at peace with curly hair and I don't have it unaided any more!
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I wasn't especially pretty, but I was bright, as I suspect you were, and only in certain situations was I comfortably socially with my peers. I had much more interaction with adults. Visiting school friends was made onerous (lots of hoops to jump before it could happen) by a nervous/controlling mom who couldn't drive.
I bloomed in college. I wasn't necessarily the odd one out there. I discovered the SCA & fandom, and then I really wasn't the odd one out. I fit in very well.
Maybe the first baby was the wrong one? I can't remember how quickly my son's eyes when from steel grey to brown. My sister's hair lost its curl when she was 7 or so, and my mom attributed hers having lost curl to meds taken when pregnant with my siser. Mine is losing its curl now, as silver comes in more thickly amongst the black. Of course, NOW I am at peace with curly hair and I don't have it unaided any more!