This article is based on the AskReddit question “What’s a genuinely hurtful comment you can’t forget?” these stories are heartbreaking.
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1. I’ve always loved singing. Karaoke, musical theatre, alone in the house, it’s all pretty great. Once I was in a play where I had to sing a particularly difficult song and I was straining from the effort of practicing it again and again. The director of the play then says in front of the whole room, “You’re a great singer, but boy do you look ugly when you sing.” I don’t think I’ve sung in front of a crowd since.
cheesyla
2. I was in elementary school and a bunch of kids (maybe 20) were playing tag at recess. The girl who’s “it” races by me and I’m running away and yelling and laughing along with everyone else. She stops, looks directly at me, and says “I’m not chasing you.” and runs off. It was the first time anyone went out of their way to single me out and make me feel like crap.
tryallthescience
3. Moments after everyone found out that my brother had lost his battle to cancer my mom looked me in the eyes and asked me, “Why couldn’t it have been you instead?”
I’ve replayed that moment in my head every day for the past 8 years.
AccioTARDIS10
4. I can still remember what the room looked like when she said it. My dad and I were sitting on the floor at the foot of the bed and his arm was around me. My mom was standing in the doorway with that look in her eye that told me rationality was out the window for the rest of the “conversation.” And she said, “You’re absolutely horrible. A waste. I wish you had [cut] never been born. You’re just like your father.”
She left and I cried. You feel like an adult at 18, but in that moment I felt like a kid again – crying into dad’s shoulder again, asking why she hates me again, and thinking myself the devil incarnate again. That was the first time I asked him why he married her. He said, “I don’t know. I really don’t. But I’d suffer through it again to end up with you kids.”
Thank God I’m more like my father.
poofacedlemur
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5. My ex who I just recently broke up with told me that I should get back with my other ex and “have another child, hopefully the same thing happens”, this is in reference to us having our first child die in my arms.
acudadactyl
6. When I was kid my parents couldn’t afford to buy me new shoes, so I always wore hand me downs from my cousins or shoes from the thrift store. I remember one day they took me to an outlet store to buy my first pair of sneakers that were brand new.
I was so happy and I couldn’t wait to wear them to school. That Monday I wore them proudly and one of the first people to notice was this guy Miguel. He loved bullying me, especially about me being poor. The first thing he said to me was, “Nice new, old shoes. I had a pair of those last year.”
It wasn’t the meanest thing he ever said to me, but it hurt a lot. The excitement and pride I felt for sporting my first pair of new sneakers went away and spent the rest of the day trying not to cry.
-eDgAR-
7. In a rather dark time in my life, someone said, “You’re so awkward. No wonder nobody likes you.” All of my insecurities were confirmed in that moment.
flaming-firefly
8. I am similar in age to a cousin of mine, my aunt used this to compare every little detail of our lives to each other. I was the undesirable one and my cousin was the intelligent one.
I’ll never forget the day she made us both stand next to each other. She was going to compare our ‘heights’ but instead threw so many insults at me that I cried for hours in the bathroom. Whilst insulting me, she is there talking about how much better my cousin is and my mum even agreed with her. That hurt a lot.
purplellamas
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9. I tried too hard to please my parents as a kid. When I was about 25 there was a family conversation that ended up covering how/why I didn’t make much money (I was a newspaper reporter). When someone made reference to my master’s degree my mother said in a disgusted voice, “What a waste. Nothing ever hurt me more, and ever since I have not cared what anyone else thinks of me.
Quasy1999
10. My mother and I had a big falling out. She text me a whole lot of nasty things, but the one that hurt the most was –
“You guys Will make the best family ever can’t wait to see your kids awwww so cute. If you can have any! Lol”
This was a little while after my fiance was diagnosed with Ovarian cancer and we were unsure of what would have to happen.
This Two years ago and we have not spoken since, even walking past each other in the street like total strangers.
Happy Ending – literally typing this at the hospital as my partner gets ready to feed our One week old baby girl, and we are all prepped to go home Tomorrow.
Tionek
11. “Just go live with dad because no one here cares about you or wants you around” Said to me by my little brother during a very messy divorce. We are passed it now but man, that hurt.
bgatty1
12. When I was in 6th grade I was in a group of about 10 girls and they all went back and forth telling me everything they hated about me, and they’d exaggeratedly imitate some of the weird things I’d do (I’m autistic) until I ran away crying.
Another time I was in the break room and my coworker just looked at me and told me “your glasses look bad on you they make you look ugly.” She had thin light blond hair that she always pulled back really tight and a large forehead so I pointed it out in return. She wore her hair down after that.
MandolinCrow
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13. “You’re kind of boring.”
I mean, I’m fine with it now since I’ve realized that I like reading, and I honestly feel like if I’ve got nothing to say then I just won’t say anything, so I guess I am boring. But at the time it hurt pretty bad.
Pen_Namay
14. In high school I didn’t really have many friends, well by the end I had a small group . Anyways it was the Friday before Easter break and I was super excited about the upcoming week off, I was going to stay up late and watch TV to my hearts content. So I was on the school bus just waiting for my stop, I used to sit with a bunch of kids who were all friends, they would include me in their conversations but never made any attempt to include me in anything beyond that. They got off one or two stops before me and as they gathering up their stuff to get off, one of the kids turns to me and says “Since I know you’re not going to leave your house during vacation I’ll just wish you a Happy Easte now”. All his friends laughed themselves silly as they filed off and I could only stand there knowing he was 100% correct. Needless to say it cast a pall over my vacation.
TonyT074
15. My abusive ex would always say things like No one will ever truly love you. I mean, look at you”. He said/did some pretty messed up things, but this always stayed with me. I’ve moved on. Happily married now. But there are still times I get ready for work, look in the mirror, and hear those words. I immediately have to look away.
DatNopers
16. I came out to my mom when I was in the 8th grade. My girlfriend at the time had told her mom, who disapproved and threatened to tell my mom. I figured my mom would rather hear it from her own daughter.
Anyway, I come out to her which was incredibly difficult and she looks at me and asks “is it because boys don’t find you attractive? Is that why you like girls?” I guess it’s pretty tame compared to some of the stuff in here but it’s stuck with me ever since. I have never been able to see myself as anything other than ugly after that.
alextr0n
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17. 3rd or 4th Grade. I was the weird, socially awkward kid. Somehow almost everyone in my class got together and wrote me notes, they each passed to me as I sat on my desk and even formed a line telling me how horrible I was, they hate me, they dont like me.
A repeat of that made it in senior year. Different classmates. The yearbook committee made sure to make a mockery of my profile in our yearbook.
Sweetragnarok
18. I was a very tomboyish little daddy’s girl growing up. Once while drunk and angry my mom told me, “The reason your Dad and I decided to have your sister was so that I could have a daughter.”
That one stung.
nottaclevername
19. In Primary school I was in the infants class, so I was about 4/5 years old. As any child at that age does, all they want is a friend or friends to play with and when you have some, you think you’re doing pretty well!
Unfortunately for me, the teacher had us doing a song about friendship and there were some dance moves that ended in a point gesture towards someone who you deemed to be your friend.
I pointed at an old friend of mine, she shook her head and pointed at someone else. No one else pointed at me, only I did.
Might not seem that bad now but as a little 4/5 year old, I was crushed.
Ellka_Holim
20. “You’re easily forgotten”. It was said to me by my best friend after I was the only one in my class not invited to a pool party. I guess she thought that was a better alternative to my classmates not liking me.
almondjoy12
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21. Once in my house I had my closest friends over and we were playing video games as per usual. Then one of the ‘group readers’ decides we should order pizza but to his house which is a 5 minute walk away. I was last to walk out of the room because I was tidying up after everyone. My friend turns to me and says “you can’t come, I don’t want you in my house.
Thatartisticguy
22. I’ve got two.
When I was about 12 some guy shoved me into a seat on the school bus. He sat next to me and spent the entire 40 minute ride laying on top of me (trapping me) and whispering, “you’re the ugliest girl at school” over and over. When some other guy asked what was going on, I started crying and said what happened. He looked at me and said, “well he’s right, ugly girl.” I didn’t talk to anyone at school for months, which didn’t help my social situation.
The other one was when I was in high school. My father came home incredibly drunk and told me I may not be his child. When I was still upset the next day, he yelled at me for disturbing his hangover and called me whiny.
Goodbyepuppy92
23. When I was getting a promotion in the military.
“I tried to fight this, and get you kicked out but I don’t have enough justification to not promote you.”
Yup, my supervisor sure made me feel great. Then again, that entire sentence sums up my entire time in the military. Worst decision I ever made.
Lost_in_costco
24. I was 8 or 9 and waiting to cross the street to go to a fair that sets up across the street from my Uncle’s house every year. I was excited, as I really love the rides. My mom took the pause as an opportunity to grab a handful of my stomach and say “No funnel cake for you tonight, big girl.” It stuck with me 14+ years later.
lizagna39
25. “Hey you wanna come to lunch with us?” “Uhh” [I say as I look for a clock to see what time it is] “Never mind you’re a worthless human being.” hangs up phone.
warhawk106
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