What Were You Called Growing Up?

For those of us who grew up looking “different,” childhood and teenage years could be brutal. Kids (and sometimes even adults) never held back with their comments.

What were some of the names, insults, or backhanded “compliments” you heard about your looks growing up? Did any of them stick with you into adulthood?

Feel free to share your experiences—whether you laugh about them now or they still sting. How did you cope with it back then, and do you see it differently now?