However,that's no reason to tease or bully the kid.The kids who are doing that should be spoken to and,if necessary,punished by their parents.
When I was a kid (many,*many* years ago) there was a girl in our class who had some kind or orthopedic or muscular condition (polio,perhaps?) which made her walk funny and which required her to use those clunky looking "cripple" crutches...the type that "Timmy" uses in South Park.We used to tease her badly.I think back on that now and am very much ashamed and I hope that I (we,actually) didn't cause her any lasting emotional harm.If someone had sat me down and explained how wrong it was I might have stopped...even back then I had something that at least resembled a conscience and a sense of empathy.
News flash to you. I have seen his picture too. The kid can not help how he looks, and while not handsome, he sure is not ugly.
‘even back then I had something that at least resembled a conscience and a sense of empathy.’
yes, along with the pack instinct, the desire to fit in so as to achieve a sort of false safety...it is very common, and leads to much abhorrent behavior from us...
“ugly... he looks very weird”.
From my understanding, he had a brain tumor removed and that is part of the scarring/unusual appearance.