The LIKEME® Organization

About the time I started the 3rd grade, I felt different from the other girls. My tomboy look was beginning to show and I knew that I liked the way girls/women “carried” themselves. It was then that I began to seek girls like me. I’m 43 now, and I’m still seeking.

It was about that time too that I was introduced to prejudice and bullies. I experienced it from teachers and children. I know it’s taught, because I had not felt that before. Children said things to me that only adults could have told them. It’s the only way they could have known. Children are taught at home to be prejudice. Parents say things in front of their children … the child repeats at school. Children are programmed.

• A bully is insecure, so they look for those that seem insecure too.
• A bully, too, looks for “likeme”.
• A bully is jealous.
• A bully is being bullied at home, school … by someone, so they want others to feel what they feel.
• A bully has mental issues.

It’s about parents, teachers, those around the child … the child looks up to, … being role models. It’s about the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Don’t give the bully a chance to bully. Children/teenagers need to be supervised.

My 4th grade teacher told me, “You are nothing but a tomboy!” I remember the look on her face. I was sitting in my desk, she was looking down at me, and she made me feel less. She made me feel that it was wrong. She said it in front of the entire class. She broke my heart. Not because i am a lesbian … but because I am simply a person, I go out of my way to make sure that i consider others feelings. I want to be fair and open minded. So my broken heart was not in vain.