Pamela Camassa, former model and showgirl who has participated in numerous talent shows including Dancing with the stars, Tale and what show and Amici Celebrities, tells OK Health and Wellness his experience with bullying. Here is his story.
Pamela Camassa: “In adolescence I had problems with bullying”
I am a shy person, I always have been. Today it may not seem possible, given the work I do, but those who have always known me know well how much I had to work on myself and on this strong character component of mine. If I think back to the years of my adolescence, then, I can say with certainty that reluctance, embarrassment and a sense of modesty were really elements that immediately jumped in the eyes of anyone who met me. Imagine adding, to this character trait, an early development of the body (at 14 I was already five feet tall, just to name one) et voilà, here’s what triggered my problems with bullying.
My experience dates back to the first two years of high school and it was my physical appearance that triggered the abuses. Before starting my accounting studies, I had participated in the national Girl That is to say competition, winning it, and the news had circulated. So on the first day of school, during recess, I found almost all the students out of the classroom. Among the curious were both peers and older boys and girls. It must have been envy, or stupidity, or perhaps simply anger towards a newly arrived who, despite not having intended, had catalyzed the interest of older boys, the fact is that some girls of the third and fourth have started to target me.
Victim of a group of bullies
Fortunately, during the lessons I was calm, I was well integrated in the class and got along well with everyone. The problem arose during recess, when, after leaving the classroom with other classmates, I walked through the corridors or went out into the courtyard. The group of bullies he waited for me to arrive to gather, then they began to point at me, to chatter with each other, to exchange jokes and giggle, they gave me poisonous glances. Being the object of those morbid and negative attentions made me curl up even more, I tried to hide and avoid the glances, but it was impossible.
Then one day they decided to go from words to deeds: I had just gone out into the courtyard to enjoy the break in peace when, suddenly, chalks fell on my head. I raised my eyes and saw them looking out the window: they were laughing at me, they were making fun of me in front of everyone. Needless to say, although I have always enjoyed going to school and being with my classmates, after these episodes I began to manifest discomfort: starting with anxiety, and then I was pervaded by a set of strange emotions that were affecting my life. .
Pamela Camassa: “I was the one who felt unsuitable and out of place”
At home I never said anything, partly out of modesty, partly because it didn’t seem appropriate to put my parents on the alert. To make matters worse, the bus ride also took place. Every day there was a small group of big boys who, as soon as they got on, began to bombard me with vulgar comments, winks, heavy jokes. At 14, the first thing you think is that you are wrong, not them. The precocious development, the height, the already “woman’s” features … I was certain that I was somehow unsuitable and out of the chorus.
And that’s why I became aware of the need to do something. So I wrote a letter to my religion teacher: an extraordinary woman, very intelligent, whom I felt I could trust. She took me aside and spoke to me, explaining that there was nothing wrong with me. He told me to let it go and not to pay too much attention, that everything would work out.
You have to talk and report to get out
I don’t know if she was the one who intervened, but things got better and stopped altogether when those girls completed their studies and only the peers remained at school, with whom I never had any problems. I am aware that mine was a mild and less severe experience than others, where al psychological bullying sometimes even some form of physical violence is added, but I would like this message to pass through: certain behaviors, even if not particularly serious, must always be forcefully denounced, because by keeping quiet you are victims twice. We must get help, leaning on adult figures, whom we trust.
Pamela Camassa
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