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NOTE: For purposes of privacy, I am using my alias' last name "the Human" and not my actual.

First day of marching band season sophomore year, we were doing basic training, how to march properly and the like. One of the adults there looked at me for a good five seconds, and I could've sworn he sniffed me too. Then he gave me a dirty look and said, "You're a the Human, aren't you?"

Then I, creepily, no other way I could say it, replied, "Yes."

Then he, still with the strange look, said, "I can tell, because you all look the same."


I told that story to my mother, and that I've been dealing with this "ZOMG UR A THE HUMAN!" bull pretty much my entire school career. She told me that people always sneer the the Humans down, because we're a family of seven children and a single mother, and they expect us to be drug addicts or pregnant teenagers or anything malicious of the like.

What I want to tell everyone is that it's f*****g creepy to not be a celebrity and have so many people come up to you and think they know you simply because you had several siblings before you there. I am not my brother, and me and my siblings look nothing like each other (One example, I have light brown, wavy hair, while the rest have dark dark black, straight hair. Flipping scary how I'm still pointed out.). We do not look/act the same, now quit breathing down my neck, damn only child!

If anyone else has that problem, please put in your two cents. Hell, put in your two cents anyway.

Hi Stevo...Sorry to hear you were treated this way by an adult, let alone your peers! I grew up in a family of 6(was the second youngest) largely without a mother, as she passed away at a young age. Thankfully, we were not treated as you are but I remember clearly a family of 5 who were. They were ridiculed for a number of things beyond their control(eg their clothes(their family couldn't afford to buy uniforms), the fact that they all wore glasses. They were an interesting and as it turned out, very talented family. They wound up rallying together at breaktimes after the bullying turned physical. They started putting together their own lunchtime talent shows. They had great voices/harmony and wound up drawing large crowds.

All I can say is, stand proud as an individual Stevo. As you say, you are not your brothers etc, you are you. Your school years don't last forever, and hopefully, these days will be a distant memory when you're doing something great with your life. Your own attitude/personality should be the determining factor of how well-liked and respected you are.

well my mom married twice so i have alot of brothers and sisters, but we arent related all the way. i guess i do ok with large familys