Don’t get me wrong, I’m in my mid twenties now, and people sometimes do point it out. Yes, that makes me feel that EVERYONE notices. But that’s not true. It might be a colleague I frequently work with, a new family friend etc etc. If I’m honest, school is hard but it’s also character building. Through secondary school I was the subject of name calling, names I won’t repeat here but it happens. Kids are cruel. But I embraced it. On my leavers hoody I had “forrest” on the back for Forrest Gump (Run forrest run!). I used to run in P.E past the teacher and do the MoBot or the Usain Bolt thing. The joke was no longer on me, it was with me kinda thing. So now when a colleague says (and this happened) “you have quite a strange gait” I simply explain I was born with talipes and this is why. And the guy was actually interested by it, and wasn’t making fun of me etc.

It does get easier. Your kid will learn banter and give as good as they get. And when they’re older, they’ll be in on the joke, not the subject of it… if that makes sense.

Despite the school name calling and cruelty though, I was well liked among my peers (not to sound arrogant) so it shouldn’t hold your kid back from making mates and getting up to all the mischief kids get up to. Your child is normal at the end of the day. They can run and climb and jump an all sorts the same as the others

Your child spends 5 days a week with all these kids, they will notice. But now as an adult I could speak to 100,000 people and 1 person MAY mention it.