#microinsult

I once overheard someone say that depression is a rich white woman thing. As a young depressed Latina women, I was very offended.

In high school, I was part of yearbook and I had to go around the school during class to get interviews from other students. Whenever I would walk around with my white classmates, no one would ever question us. If I walked with someone that was either black or Hispanic, we would almost always get stopped by security. Sometimes, teachers wouldn't believe that we had permission from the yearbook adviser and had to go through a lot of trouble to prove that we were just doing our schoolwork. We had an ongoing joke that we had to have "the designated white person" when we went to get interviews. Now that I think about it, it's not all that funny.

I constantly have people talk about me in Spanish thinking I can't understand them because I don't "look Latina". Of course, I do understand them and most of the time, I let them know

In high school, my counselor told me I shouldn't take two AP classes at the same time. Even though my previous grades were really good, she still insisted that I couldn't handle the course load. She told me that AP Spanish Language was the only class I could probably handle. I decided to ignore her advice and I got the credit for both classes.

When I was in the 8th grade I had to decide what classes to take for high school. My teacher had recommended I be put in the lower science class offered, so I went in to talk to her about why. I wanted to be in the higher level science class. When I asked her about it, she said that science goes a lot with math and those who take a higher level science are in higher level math. I then told her I was in the highest level math I could be. She then apologized for assuming I wasn't, but I was still very offended

My uncle told me that it didn't matter what I chose my major to be as long as I found a man who could support me

One time in middle school a classmate of mine told me I couldn't be Latina because I have dark skin. He then proceeded to tell me that I should stop trying to be special.

Someone once said to me 'what is the point of being latina if you can't even dance?'