u/AlyciaJanelle

I was a new kid at a school in first grade. There was a girl that had greasy hair and likely had a rough home life. Some kids told me not to go near her because she had cooties. I remember thinking, “Just because she has an illness doesn’t mean she should be excluded.”

So I sat with her at lunch. She immediately snapped at me asking, “What do you want?”

In that moment I realized that cooties meant that she was mean.

(Edit: obviously that’s not what it means.)