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This isn't terribly serious, but it also has a point. It is how we saw ourselves when we were children.
There is this organization that is making dolls and teddy bears for kids with physical differences. A child missing a leg got one with his prosthetic leg. (Same design on the leg too.) One missing an arm gets one with the same prosthetic arm. They even have some with little walkers.
Now, I remember what I thought was different about me when I was little. Actually, that was what was different about me when I was little. I never thought of myself as little, because I always looked like someone three grades above what I was. I was the biggest kid in class. I was the biggest person in the class starting somewhere between 3rd and 5th grade, because I was even taller than my teachers by then. (My 6th, 7th, and 8th grade teachers were taller than I was sometimes.) I was the tallest student until 10th grade, when the boys finally caught up and passed me in size.
I remember sitting quietly at a table once waiting for Mom to get finished her shift. (She was taking over for the lunch lady that day in the Catholic school, and for some reason first graders had half a day, but everyone else didn't.) Three nuns walked by and I heard one of them say, "Aw, isn't she cute?" You know the tone. Only used by adults and usually aimed at a toddler or baby. I was shocked, because I didn't think I was cute. I was too big for cute. I could have been a fourth grader. And everyone knows fourth graders are such big kids they can't be cute. lol
So what teddy bear would have fit my thought of who I was back then? One of those 6-foot tall bears that hog up the whole sofa.
What teddy bear would have fit you when you were little and you were sure you were different from anyone else?
There is this organization that is making dolls and teddy bears for kids with physical differences. A child missing a leg got one with his prosthetic leg. (Same design on the leg too.) One missing an arm gets one with the same prosthetic arm. They even have some with little walkers.
Now, I remember what I thought was different about me when I was little. Actually, that was what was different about me when I was little. I never thought of myself as little, because I always looked like someone three grades above what I was. I was the biggest kid in class. I was the biggest person in the class starting somewhere between 3rd and 5th grade, because I was even taller than my teachers by then. (My 6th, 7th, and 8th grade teachers were taller than I was sometimes.) I was the tallest student until 10th grade, when the boys finally caught up and passed me in size.
I remember sitting quietly at a table once waiting for Mom to get finished her shift. (She was taking over for the lunch lady that day in the Catholic school, and for some reason first graders had half a day, but everyone else didn't.) Three nuns walked by and I heard one of them say, "Aw, isn't she cute?" You know the tone. Only used by adults and usually aimed at a toddler or baby. I was shocked, because I didn't think I was cute. I was too big for cute. I could have been a fourth grader. And everyone knows fourth graders are such big kids they can't be cute. lol
So what teddy bear would have fit my thought of who I was back then? One of those 6-foot tall bears that hog up the whole sofa.
What teddy bear would have fit you when you were little and you were sure you were different from anyone else?
