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During her youth, Beverly was known as quiet, shy, and socially awkward.

She was also very self-conscious about her bright red hair and at the age of thirteen, attempted to dye it dark with disastrous results.

She admits to Data later in the episode Offspring, that she was often ridiculed and unpopular in school and it had been very painful for her.

She also admits that it brought back painful memories of those years when she saw her son Wesley going through the same ridicule as a child.