Anonymous wrote:This is kind of a weird thread. I'm a red head and yes of course there was teasing! Some of it was fun but some of it was also cruel. It continued through high school. In fact, as I walked across the stage to pick up my high school diploma, I remember the bully (a 6'3 football player who is now a SVP for a large bank) who yelled, "Fireballlll!" I laugh about it now but it was mortifying at the time. I think it's just part of being a red head--makes us more resilient.
Oh and I'm in my 40s and lived all over the US and abroad. It happened everywhere I went although I didn't attend private school.