It's your 11th birthday, you're trying to assert yourself as no longer a child, but a pre-teen now, and your mom gets you a bunch of childish gifts.
[[Give them to your brother.|hand-me downs]]
[[Freak out|worst birthday ever]]
You throw all your gifts away, lash out and start yelling about how this has been the "worst birthday ever."
[[party's over]]
You bottle up your feeling and pretend to like the gifts, desecrating them later in privateYou decide that it's time to grow up and be mature; a birthday is not just about the gifts, after all.You focus on the cake and hand your gifts down to your little brother.
[[big bully]]Your party ends, all your guests leave and your mother starts crying.
[[attone]]
[[avoid]]You calm yourself down, apologize to your mother and spend the next month helping out around the house and trying to make it up to her.
[[you encounter a bully at school the next day|fight for your right]]You go to your room for the night and refuse to acknowledge the situation, ever.
[[emo]]As time goes on, you continue to comfort reat and end up gaining a normal but significant ammount of weight. This results in your schoolmates bullying you.
[[fight for your right]]
[[ignorance is bliss]]You decide to fight back against the bullies, and your weight gives you an advantage. You start getting into physical fights.
[[caught fighting]]
[[bully]]You ignore the bullies at school and continue to bottle up your emotions and cope with them in unhealthy ways.
[[emo]]You get caught fighting and are suspended from school.
[[my office]]You meet with your parents and the school guidance counsellor to talk about your "anger issues." Your family can't afford a therapist so they decide to send you to a kickboxing class instead.
[[kick your box]]You start working out your issues in kickboxing class, which eventually leads to you losing the weight from comfort eating over the years. Things seem normal.
[[edgy teens]]
[[fitspo]]You meet some edgy teens at your kickboxing class and they invite you to hang out with them.You of course go, because they're cool and older than you.You start to become obsessive about your body image and working out. You over do it, and are now attending the gym every day for three hours outside of kickboxing class.Eventually you graduate from middle school with deep emotional scars. You now find it extremely difficult to form healthy interpersonal relationships or regulate your own self-esteem.You become so good at fighting that eventually, you are the bully, not the bullied.
[[emo]]