Hey Pandas, What's The Most Discriminating Thing That Has Happened To You? (Closed)

When I moved out from my parents, I was living frugally so that I can save money. I took the bus to get to work because it was only one ride away from my apartment, plus it was cheaper. When a coworker, whose workstation was beside mine, found out, she gasped as if she saw something so gross. From then on she acted all superior and started bullying me.

When I was little, a girl refused to call me by my preferred name, which I had told her a thousand times. Then she got fed up that I didn’t call her by a weird nickname that I had never heard her say. She also broke school rules a lot.

I dont know if this is discrimination so i will leave it to you to decide. I went to the doctors about giving up smoking and she was explaining what smoking does to you and one of HER comments in the conversation was" Us women don't like it soft we like it hard!" I could've died of embarrassment!

I was not allowed to bring my bag into a museum when I was wearing pride gear, because “queer people are dangerous” or something.

I'm still in high-school, we have two choice technology or ag for a elective so I chose ag (agricultural work) there is only two girls in the class myself and my friend. I often get touched and told I dunno what I'm talking about because I'm a female or told to go make sandwiches. They tell me a lot of stereo typical things. I would quit but I really am interested in Ag. Also what I said about being touched I told the counselor and they gave him a warning. Sure he wouldn't do it again but that funny part is that I went with 6 other girls he has been harassing.

I'm Native in Canada. I have been yelled at to leave stores before b/c I'm an Indian (yes, I used that word deliberately). No questions, not nicely like in the movie Pretty Woman, straight up 'Get out of here, we don't want Indians in here!" Or " Why are you in here, Indians don't special treatment in my store, get out!" and not just once or twice. I would say a solid 10x in my life.

Not me but a friend of mine wasn’t let in a restaurant with her girlfriend (she’s bi)

I worked in the automotive repair industry for 40 years. I was an automobile repair technician and retired in 2000. I don't think there is enough paper in the world to write down 40 years worth of the discriminating, demeaning, ignorant and pathetic things that were said to me during the course of my career. But here are a few choice ones:

Why aren't you at home cooking dinner for your husband, raising a baby?

Does your daddy own this shop or what?

You KNOW you're gonna have to get your hands dirty to do this job, don't you?

Who'd you blow to get this job?

Oh, isn't that cute! A girl mechanic! I bet you have pink tools!

I’m genderfluid born female. I’m in 8th grade and I wear skirts and stuff. When I was in 6th grade, I was wearing a skirt and a crop top to school. I was talking to my friend/love interest at his lunch table. He had a bunch of these douche bag friends and when I got up to walk back to my table, his friend said “I wanna f**k you in the butt.” And another one said “nice t*ts” I walked away with a burning face. Not only that, but anyone who knew us knew that we’re crushing big time on each other. It really hurts, yk? It didn’t get better either. In 7th grade was called a sl*t, wh*re, stuff like that. They aren’t wrong, but I don’t need to here that from anyone.

I was shot at because I did not share the same beliefs as someone else. Thankfully those days are (mostly) over and I can visit family without running the risk of being killed.
I was told I couldn't play netball for the school because I was a boy. After I complained to the local papers they agreed to let me play, but in an effort to put me off, they said I would have to play in the school's team kit, which included a skirt. I played! We won! The other team complained that it was unfair that there was a boy playing because I was a lot bigger than the girls. They got the win!
Whenever I visited my friends house his family always made fun of him and me (mostly him though), because I was white, they called him 'traitor' a lot, and I was 'Casper' or his 'milk boy'.

I am an Asian and was staying in a foreign country. Was just casually walking on a street and a car passed by throwing half-filled coke from kfc at me.

Was only 19 that time and cried that night.

i got made fun of for holding hands with my best friend in second grade.
WE WERE BEST FRIENDS
WE WERE SECOND GRADERS
A TEACHER MADE FUN OF US
THE FREAKING TEACHER SAID TO OTHER STUDENTS TO “KEEP AWAY” AND THAT THE OTHER KIDS MIGHT “CATCH IT”
at the time i thought she thought i was sick, so i said “i’m healthy teacher? why are you saying this?” and she just said “you’re sick in another way”
i hated that teacher. me and my best friend switched classes after that. teacher got fired.

went over to play 4 square and was told it was girls only, went and told a teacher and they didn't care, so I started a "boys only" 4 square group and got suspended for it

A few years back I had some pretty buck teeth. It was really obvious. I was at school and some kid ran into me and I almost fell over so I asked him to apologise and he started mocking how my teeth looked and said what I’d said in a really stupid voice

I am a bariatric patient. We sometimes have things like a twisted bowel or even gallbladder problems. I also have 4 discs in my neck that are screwed due to all the lifting I've done over the years. (I worked in Hospitality / Entertainment so band gear, kegs, etc.) and from that my neurosurgeon (for my neck) back in the day, gave me oxycodone (which I haven't taken in ages because I hate the itch and ect.) No for the story... Mind you I'm 60 at the time. I get this wrenching pain in my upper stomach and go to the ER. I mean WRENCHING... They did pretty much nothing. I sat there on the gurney for like 5 hours. Pain went away. Heck, kidney stone pain (I've had that too!) goes away after they pass. I say if they aren't going to even look at me, I may as well leave. The head nurse was more than happy to sign me out. As I was leaving, she made a comment like "see, they always leave if you make it futile for them. I had no clue what she meant by that remark but realized when I got home and looked at my chart (literally called "MyChart" it says that I am a former opioid abuser!! (No, it was given by a neuro and controlled) She basically deduced without anything that I was just a drug seeker. 3 months later I sat in agony, puking and white as a sheet and the wife drives me to hospital where they discovered I had actually passed a gallstone down the bile duct and it sent me into pancreatitis near killing me. I spent 5 days in the hospital one of which I watched my Eagles win the superbowl. I was asked if I ever had this before. I told them what happened and was told that had they done something, they would have caught it before it started to travel. (It was a tiny one) I made them remove that entry about opioid abuse. They also had me down as having "tobacco abuse" and it's funny, I may smoke one cigarette a week. 60, near non-smoker, rare drinker, tested negative for all drugs, and do have conditions where extreme pain is possible but no oxy etc. Opioid Abuse... Makes ya sound like a freakin' heroin addict. Don't even know where they got that info from. Idiots! Lucky I didn't sue them.

In fourth grade i was playing basketball with not really my friends but anyway i got told they wouldn't pass the ball to me because i was short

I was told by my college professor that because I’m White, Christian and Male that I should go to the Christian University down the street.

I've always been a very ethical, hardworking employee: I don't take personal calls or surf at work, I'm always on time and willing to stay late if needed, I work hard, learn as much as possible and volunteer to help my coworkers with their workload when I have mine under control. I always aim to be polite, professional and approachable. I don't like gossip and don't play office politics. I should be the most employable person in the world, right?

Nope. Over a ten year period, I went from most valuable employee to fired or getting a trumped-up layoff from every single job I got, after getting glowing reviews every quarter for work well done. After each dismissal, I learned from my former teammates I've been fired for reasons that nave nothing whatsoever to do with job performance: 1. having young children, 2. not being a Christian, 3. not being Jewish, 4. because I was married and the other person in line for layoff was single, 5. because of my age (if you're not in your 20s or 30s, you have Alzheimers or don't know how to use or are uncomfortable with technology, right?); and 6. Because I'm overweight; BTW, overweight people, regardless of their job performance, always get a reputation for being lazy and stupid; I've heard this said about multiple overweight people in many jobs.

Many of these firings caught me by surprise. When I was young, single and had a nice figure, my performance was always recognized in the office. These days, I assume that no matter how hard I work, and no matter how much praise they heap on me for my performance, they will fire me.

In my GCSE year (last obligatory year of schooling) I was told by the career advisory team, 'due to your learning difficulty, it would be unlikely to successes past GCSE level'. I have moderate dyslexia and had been heinously under supported throughout my entire schooling. I worked incredibly hard and was achieving average to good results. So, I promptly ignored them, refused to go to anymore meetings or respond to letters/e-mails. I proceeded to gain; 4 Advanced-levels in chemistry, biology, mathematics and sociology, a Bachelors degree (education based) and then a post-degree qualification. I now support children with learning difficulties and love seeing them shine.

So, yeah, a learning difficulty / difference does not define a person's potential.