Me @ismeris 8 years old
Greetings dear fellow @galenkp here my answer, to such an interesting topic as it is the differences of each individual.
Once in life, I felt different, when I was a child, between 6 and 9 years old, until that time I was a confident and cheerful child, with a beautiful family, mom, dad and six siblings.
But everything changed when my older brother let my dad down by refusing to study what he wanted, instead, my brother decided to go live with his girlfriend, this infuriated my father so much that he decided to leave us, his departure affected us too much, especially my mom, who fell into great sadness, I also felt devastated, just like my siblings.
My younger sister and me
It was then when I began to feel low self-esteem, as never before, I felt ugly, especially because of my curly or bad hair, plus the boyish haircut they gave me, at school, the kids made fun of me, I cried for many years because of that, I felt alone and unprotected.
With time, I managed to overcome the absence of my father, I understood that he would not return and that I had to move forward, I also had to help my mother to move forward, so I decided not to cry anymore, I took new strength, thank God, and everything changed.
Today strong as my hair
I got to the point of being respected at school and everywhere, I never again allowed anything or anyone to affect me, today, I teach that same thing to my children, to not allow anything to stop them or make them feel less.
Today I understood that the blows are our best teacher.
Thanks for the proposal, see you next time.
Own pictures, from my family album, taken with my 17p techno camon phone.