For two decades, I’ve been living in a family where people tease and try to annoy eachother, and of course stupid me can’t seem to get it through my thick skull that this teasing is a JOKE. A simple joke, and I get so mad at it, and it makes people see me as weak and want to tease me even more. I get so peeved over simple noises (like the kind of durr sound you’d use to say someone is well… stupid.) and get overly angry when I’m told I have a pea head, or when I get called Riddler from Batman, or called a baby regularly. How. Can. I. Stop. Taking. This. Seriously??? I’m like an angry little toddler since I can’t handle being called silly nicknames. How can I increase my confidence and stop acting like a darned newborn?
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I used to be like this. Then I realized (assuming your family is like mine) that my family means no malice. Of course you draw the line somewhere and your feelings are valid— sometimes things can get taken too far. I tease one of my cousin’s a lot because I like getting a reaction out of him. He was told by his dad that no one in life is going to be “mean” to him the way I am (which, when I tease him I make it blatantly obvious because a lot of the teasing I do is completely illogical, and ever since my cousin was born in 2016 I have nicknames for every cousin after that i.e stinky butt, turdpedo, poopy).
But if you know you can’t really take the teasing, be straight up with them that you don’t like it. I learned from a former YouTuber that if you’re trying to say something, you say it with your chest out and with confidence. Like you gotta really make it plain that you don’t like it.