Monday, Nov. 04, 2002
Lisa, 13 years old
"There is so much peer pressure. I mean, not with drugs or cigarettes or anything, but with the fact that everybody has to look the same.
You wake up in the morning and go, 'If I wear this, will I get made fun of? Will I be criticized, or will I be judged differently than everybody else because I'm not wearing something that everybody else is?' You have to be really careful in order to get people's attention in the right way.
Everybody's got to make fun of somebody else. People make fun of me all the time because I'm overweight. It's just something you try to hide from, I guess. You don't want other people to see."