.aijamayrock and katelyn_ohashi both experienced bullying at a young age. Here's how they found self-love. ❤️
. They're both young women; they're both creatives ; they both are imperfect, they admit, but have learned to find happiness.
Aija was bullied from the time she was 8 years old to age 16. She had a lisp and a stutter and, she said during a shared panel with Katelyn,"my classmates would tell me to kill myself and that my life was worth nothing." This persisted, and when it wasn't happening at school, it was happening online. She was body shamed and picked on for whatever the kids could think of — acne, hairy legs, you name it — and it even followed Aija when she moved to California at 13.
Katelyn, too, was bullied at a young age in gymnastics. She was at the top of her game, a tremendously talented athlete. But, as we've written about in the past,and became increasingly unhappy."Most of the bullying I experienced was from my coaches and that's when I experienced my unhappiness in the sport," Katelyn said."I was told that it looked like I had swallowed an elephant and I looked like a pig. I was compared to a bird that was too big to fly.
Katelyn said,"I think we're always told to fit into this box and do what other people expect of us andwhat other people expect of us. What I've learned is that to really be successful is to love every single thing you do and to find joy in that, and I had to be really honest with myself and finally, for the first time, ask myself what it is that makes me happy." She added,"We're the biggest people we can invest in.
Aija admitted that she's still finding her confidence and her self-love:"It's a lifelong journey. I do think that the more I've found writing and performing and my love for storytelling, the more I've found that love for myself." So, her advice? Uncover what you're passionate about — what feeds your soul. It's these things that will get you through dark times and help build you up as a person.
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