Shared by G from Mumbai.
Inspiration: Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man
“I was a small and skinny boy with a pale, unhealthy complexion, feminine eyes and long eyelashes. All bones. Always on the first bench or in the front row and first in all the lines. I was the one who fainted during exercises in the hot sun and the last in any running race.
Nicknames came naturally. The boys thought that I had feminine features and often teased me. “Delicate Darling” later shortened to DD stuck.
When we all grew up and some of the boys sprouted Adam’s Apples and shot up. That’s when the taunts changed. “You will need a ladder to kiss your girlfriend. How will you satisfy your wife? What you have is just a “tickler”. A little thing smaller than your thumb that feels like tiny prick, sometimes like a feather.”
So a new nickname was born: Tickler.”
