Eleanor Neale
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She was already picked on a little bit in primary school, although I wouldn't say it was like bullying.
To be fair, I don't know, I wasn't there.
But like the sources say that it was just more like teasing in primary school because Anna was always tall for her age and tall for a girl in general.
When she was 14 years old, she was five foot eight.
And to put that into perspective, I'm 22 and I'm five foot four.
My sister's 30 and she's like five foot.
So, I mean, she was a very tall girl, was Anna.
I say she was five foot eight by the time she was 14.
I don't actually know how tall she was at 11 when she was getting picked on for her height.
Probably taller than the other girls anyway.
Anna really didn't like her height because it made her different.
It made her stand out from everyone else and she really didn't like standing out.
She didn't have a lot of self-confidence, probably from the teasing and being picked on and stuff.
She had a very hard time socialising, she was quite socially awkward and so she didn't make friends very well.
She... I don't know, she really struggled in school, to be honest.
She just looked vulnerable.
Like she looked like she lacked confidence.
And you know what kids are like in school as well.
They can like smell the fear and the anxiety in other kids and then they pick on them once.
But there was also the fact that Anna was so desperate for friendship because like I said, she struggled socially and with making friends and she wanted friends so bad.