In third and fourth grade, kids often called me nicknames like "smurf," "smurf" (smurf because of the "Smurfs" movies, those little blue creatures that were sort of goblins), and countless other nicknames that made me feel bad, because they didn't call me affectionately, but rather to make fun of my physical appearance for not being as tall as the others.
As I grew up, these taunts intensified. When I entered high school, I was 14 and exactly One meter fifty (my current height). As I became a teenager, my classmates, like me, increased their comments. They no longer called me "dwarf," but instead frequently called me "floor bump," a very colloquial phrase here to refer to someone of very short stature. The expression usually carries an offensive tone, but it could often be used jokingly among friends, but I didn't feel like it was my friends saying those things to me, laughing and making fun of me.
Now that I'm 22, I don't mind if they call me dwarf, ugly, or anything else, hahaha. I actually love it when people tell me I'm small because I think the best perfumes come in small bottles, hahaha.
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