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What jackasses! That really sucks...I feel for you, honestly, I do. *hugs* heart

I've always been made fun of. Even my friends who read alot don't read as much as I do and they say, "Oh, look. Don't bug her now. She's pulled out her book!"

My classmates would say, "You're insane! How can you read that much?...I only read like, my school books for my assignments." Or "You started that book this morning? And you're almost done with it? You're crazy. Nobody reads that much!"

Yep. That's my story.

I'v actually had a book I was reading stolen from me, because the other people around simply didn't get reading.

Never did get it back for that matter...

Up until I moved halfway through high school, I was heckled by alomst everyone, including a few teachers.

Like my fifth grade teacher claimed that I had been reading books that were inapropriate for someone reading at the fifth grade level (by the time I reached his class, I was already reading at a twelveth grade leve at leastl). He repeatedly took my books away and refused to give them back until speaking with my parents.

Then in eighth grade I had a teacher who, until a principle and two counsilors intervened, had refused to give my books back even after speaking with my parents (this same teacher thought that if a student had her, they were too stupid to go to college).

My classmates never gave me too much of a problem until middle school, I was smart and caused them to think that I was stupid so that the would leave me alone so that I could read in peace.

My family gets it, however, at family gatherings, I am the one typically reading a fantasy novel or historical fiction to my cousins' children with them hanging on every word I say. My cousins loan or give me books, while my aunts and uncles give me gift certificates and gift cards to various book stores.

It's not the teasing I mind so much as the ignorant Beevis laugh that precludes it.

"Huh huh huh, I wonder what would happen if we stole it from her..."

I actually jumped over a cafeteria booth and beat up a good friend of mine for stealing a book...my face turned red and I told them I hoped they rotted in hell. I wouldn't speak to them for the rest of the day.

I was talking to the French teacher, and she told me that she told the class to translate the sentence "Some of my favorite novels are ____" and fill in the blank. But nobody could, and one girl asked if Cosmo counted.

I hate my classmates so much.

totally, all the time!! Everyone in my class has commented at least twice about my love of books, and some idiots like to amuse themselfs by stealing them, though i easily get them back with some sharp kicks and punching. Yes, I become violent when you take away my books. You don't want to see me go into withdrawal, wither. Not pretty.

I was never made fun of so much as considered an oddity. People seemed to love tracking how fast I'd finish a certain book (I finished gone with the wind in about two days) and they'd jibe me a little about that, but mostly it was just part of my personality. One of the guys I went to high school with that's in my Math 150 class now said something that perfectly explains how everybody always looked at me:
Robbie: So what did you get your boyfriend for Valentine's
Day?
Me: Oh, I got him his own copy of "Phantom" by Susan Kay. He's already read my copy three times in a row in the past week.
Robbie: O.O You two are a match made in heaven, aren't you?

People always like suggesting books for me to read next, lol.

When I was in grade school, people would time me to see how long it took me to read a page. ><

But honestly, I've not been picked on for reading since 8th grade.