My Siblings and Cousins Bullied Me My Whole Life for Being Adopted–They Never Thought the Day Would Come When I’d Be the One Laughing

I poured myself into school, fuelled by a desperate need to escape, to prove them wrong. Not just wrong about me, but wrong about everything.

“I’ll show them,” I’d whisper to myself, curled up in my bed, tears silently tracing paths down my cheeks. “One day, I’ll be so successful, so untouchable, they’ll choke on their continue reading …