Your story about the guidance counselor is terrible. A guidance counselor, of anyone at the school, should be the one who assures you that brand-name fashion does not define your value as a person. "Just buy the right clothes so people stop bullying you," sounds like a line from Clueless Authority Figure #2 in a TV sitcom.
Not fitting in for lack of spendy, brand-name clothes was one of my experiences, too. It just didn't make the cut for my list above. And yeah, I'm not at all surprised it failed in the way you experienced. Those shallow little shits in high school and jr. high actually go pretty deep with their judge-y shallowness.
If these resonate with you, definitely click through the link to Buzzfeed (or find the thread on Reddit) if you haven't already. I highlighted just 4 of the rules that resonated with me. There were at least 5 more reflecting experiences I had growing up, including us kids being eligible for subsidized school lunches but my parents refusing out of pride to apply, plus numerous others I could imagine having being true for me if my family had been poorer.
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Not fitting in for lack of spendy, brand-name clothes was one of my experiences, too. It just didn't make the cut for my list above. And yeah, I'm not at all surprised it failed in the way you experienced. Those shallow little shits in high school and jr. high actually go pretty deep with their judge-y shallowness.
If these resonate with you, definitely click through the link to Buzzfeed (or find the thread on Reddit) if you haven't already. I highlighted just 4 of the rules that resonated with me. There were at least 5 more reflecting experiences I had growing up, including us kids being eligible for subsidized school lunches but my parents refusing out of pride to apply, plus numerous others I could imagine having being true for me if my family had been poorer.