This post is too easy for me. In elementary school all the way to about the end of my Freshman year i always wore glasses, had longer hair, and was even skinnier and whiter than i am now.
I went to a public elementary school and during that time i was in the advanced classes which meant i left normal math and science class to go to the advanced ones everyday. Kids would always ask me for help with their work and how to do things just based off that assumption and how i looked. I remember one time in particular this one older kid was skipping by me and called me four-eyes. I was confused for a little bit but then i realized he was talking about how i wore glasses and obviously, i was hurt. In middle school i started going to private school and thats when kids started stereotyping me as a nerd, but i don't really know if that counts because i really was. I played World of Warcraft and other online games, made websites, and played on the computer pretty much exclusively.
In high school is when it really set in. Freshman year i had grown my hair even more since middle school so i looked exactly like a stereotypical man of the internet. I would get made fun of a lot and had lots of self confidence issues. Everyone assumed i was boring and just another loser nerd.
Around the end of freshman year i was sick of being stereotyped so i stopped wearing my glasses as much and tried to be more outgoing. Sophomore year i went out for sports and ended up breaking out of my previously attached stereotype. I began working out at the end of sophomore year and have been continuing that since. As of now i still feel like i belong to that cast of stereotypes somewhat. Being automatically labeled feels terrible and it is an unfortunate part of society that we all face every day.
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