Growing Up

Richard Rieser: Being ‘Objectionable’

Richard was born in 1948 in London. He attended private mainstream primary schools and then went to his local mainstream secondary school and on to university.

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Here Richard describes his self-esteem issues as a young person.

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I had this self harming that I did quite a lot, because I didn’t like myself. And I didn’t think anybody else would like me, so I made myself objectionable. And so even when girls said, 'yeah, I’ll go out with you', then I did something at the end of it where it always went wrong.

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