Yes. I had a learned disability. My classmates were cruel. They acted like I had a contagious disease & nobody ever wanted to be my partner. I remember when I was paired with this boy (who was class president) & he had a meltdown in class that he didn't want to be paired with " a stupid person"....he kept saying it over & over. The teacher was clearly uncomfortable, but he let the boy continue to go on & on. I never felt so terrible & embarrassed in my school life. My "friends" who were in class didn't even stick up for me. That hurt even more. My younger self handled that incident well & I'm so proud of her. I remember being determined to prove my asshole partner/classmates wrong. I studied the material like crazy, had my hand up for almost every question & answered them all correctly. I walked away with an A! He kept his mouth shut. Fast forward to the future, I graduated college with honors. I heard through the grapevine that some of my old classmates were surprised by that. They still (as adults) have the mentality that if one has a disability, then they must be stupid. It's incredibly sad & I hope they raise their children to be better than that, but I'm not counting on it.

If it happens at work, you contact human resources, and if it happens anywhere else in life you record it and you report it to someone, if someone’s harassing you, you get a restraining order, if they are harassing you online, you block and delete them, everyone has an opinion, everyone isn’t always nice, can you tell him to kiss your ass, can you call the cops if you need to if you feel like you’re in a hostile environment, you don’t feel safe, you carry keys between your fingers, pepper spray, you do what you Gotta do to feel safe. You avoid the people who have nothing nice to say with you because clearly they’re not your friends, and you don’t back down, or you contact the authorities or boss or Human Resources or just avoid them all together. Or get yourself a friend with a smart mouth if you don’t have the guts to say it yourself.