Bullying

[Paddin]

Some advice I have for if you are in a physical confrontation:

Weird them out

For example, I was walking home late one night, and these two chavs started talking smack to me, so I pointed at a nearby wall and said "That wall is four foot high". They stared at me confused for a second until I then said "The temperature is below 4 degrees tonight". They figured I was mentally retarded or something. Even if the person does know you and knows you are not weird in the head, confusion is a really good way of covering anger. It usually means that instead of punching you in the face, the person just threatens you and tries to get away from you as soon as possible.

Obviously, take this advice with a degree of common sense. If the group is about 6 people big and are really tough and arent just trying to act big, it probably wont do much good

 

[Aesir23]

Now I'm in a smaller school that is a branch off of the aforementioned highschool. We are only 17 kids but are so tight-knit. It's nice that everyone thinks that we are a school for "troubled" kids. Because of that, nobody really bothers us.

People have the same opinion of my current school as well, we're labelled as the troubled kids. Though our numbers are a bit higher, somewhere around the 25 mark if you only count the students there and not the people in the adult education program and the kids in the various daycare rooms.

 

[shushine]

I just pimped slaped my bullies and called them my ***** and they basically left me alone.

 

[SpaceSpork]

i remember i was in 3rd grade and this kid was messing with me so i went home put a huge rock in my bookbag, and the next day when he tried messing with me i smashed him up side the head a good 5 times with it, i never even saw that kid again. probably got brain damage.

in 7th grade this kid was flicking me with a comb on picture day so i grabbed his head and slammed it as hard as i could into the gym's bleachers. after words when i got suspended my parents got me a puppy and $50 for standing up for myself.

So you conflict rudeness with violence?
Personally, I think that's almost as bad as if you beat up some socially awkward kid.

OT: I have a friend who is spontaneously violent, and slightly mentally damaged. EVERYONE teases him. You'd think they'd be smarter, him being SPONTANEOUSLY VIOLENT AND ALL.
Personally, I've only been bullied once by this asshole named Carter. Eventually, he kicked me in the Sorcerer's Stones, and I, writhing in pain, got 'im too. Self-defense.

However, Gintoki, I found this as self-defense, but I don't think it's self-defense if you slam someone's head against the bleachers.

 

[MEEBO17]

bullying is very sad but not much of it goes on where i live

 

[Paddin]

Ive only been bullied once properly in my life, and that was in year 4, when I was about 8 - 9. The kid kept punching me and tormenting me, so I told my mum, who told the teachers. Next thing I know, hes being really nice to me, and he lends me some of his best pokemon toys. Luckily the next week he got expelled for god-knows-what, and to this day I have his pokemon toys. That'll teach that sneaky shit

i remember i was in 3rd grade and this kid was messing with me so i went home put a huge rock in my bookbag, and the next day when he tried messing with me i smashed him up side the head a good 5 times with it, i never even saw that kid again. probably got brain damage.

in 7th grade this kid was flicking me with a comb on picture day so i grabbed his head and slammed it as hard as i could into the gym's bleachers. after words when i got suspended my parents got me a puppy and $50 for standing up for myself.

Erm.. wow. I think you have more problems than the bullies themselves. Although what those people did to you was bad, you took it waaayyy too far. I mean, Jesus, thats psychopathic. And you were encouraged?

 

[Gimelbub]

I was bullied so much from second to sixth grade that I became a home-schooled shut-in for two years. I am now back in school and good friends with most of them. Odd, isn't it?

 

[PrimoThePro]

I am considered a bully... but it's not what you think... HEAR ME OUT!
When I was a wee lad, nought 7 years old, I was picked on. When I turned 12, however, I got big. I beat my bully up roundly. My rage at my tormentor turned to rage at all tormentors. One of my nicknames was Colossus. I would take every bully I saw, and teach them a lesson. It always ended badly for me (suspensions for bloodying people up and whatnot), but everyone else noticed the bullies seemed to change their ways. Not all the time, but sometimes. Sometimes.

 

[Stryc9]

I caught varying levels of shit all through school, right up until the week before graduation. I got my fair share of name calling, the people pretending to be my friends for a laugh and so on. This is why I have very few friends now and the people that I am friends with are really close friends, I like it that way.

I also used to have a really short temper which led one of the bitchier teachers in my middle school to pretty much force me into anger management classes which kept me from beating the shit out of other students on a nearly daily basis.

 

[Mr.Gompers]

I got bullied in the 6th grade, and unfortunately the teacher in the class I was getting bullied in was racist in favor of the bully, and so she never did anything about it. One day I finally snapped and had be pulled (literally) from the class. Then one of the counselors at our school was able to resolve the situation. Though if the teacher hadn't dragged me out of there, I would have done my damn best to kill the bastard.

 

[DSEZ]

i was bullied pretty bad when i first moved to america (i moved from italy) and i didnt speak english that well up until about 5th grade i moved to america when i was in 3rd grade (im now in 9th grade) i was really in a bad mood one day and this guy kept calling me names or something i dont remember that much but i jumped over my desk and beat the hell out of the kid for about 5 mins and teacher didnt do much

now i have 4 years experience of muay thai and 5 years of wrestling and now i stick up for people as much as i can pick on me as much as you want you fuck with my friends or any girl i will make sure you end up in a hospital

 

[twostripe]

people use to try to bully me all the time because im small but my brother taught me how to fight
i think it builds character to some degree kids need to know how to defend themselves

 

[viking97]

and jumping off a bridge is ceratinly the way to deal with it. sorry if i seem unsensitive but wouldn't it be easier to bring a switchblade to school or something? anything but jumping off a bridge!

 

[Paddin]

and jumping off a bridge is ceratinly the way to deal with it. sorry if i seem unsensitive but wouldn't it be easier to bring a switchblade to school or something? anything but jumping off a bridge!

You would make a very good school counsellor y'know

 

[Aanorith]

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LONG STORY ABOUT MY OWN EXPERIENCE WITH BULLYING. ON STOPPING SKIP TO BOTTOM.
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I was bullied for roughly 8 years since the age of 5. I was the fat kid. I've bin insulted more times then I can count, ran home from school crying, bin beating, kicked, thrown in the mud. My parents talked with the school, with the parents of the bullies but it never stopped.

It was difficult. I was a very.. "small" person. Very quiet, socially awkward and so on. The bullying wasn't constant. Sometimes intense and sometimes normal life I guess. But always the fear of being jumped in and after school. A good friend of mine who I recently became friends with (back then many years ago) noticed that one of my bullies were a good friend of his and he was outraged. He basically said that the bully damn well treat me with respect or he would punch his face in.

The bully reluctantly agreed and assumed a role of protecting me instead. Ironicly, he taught me to stand up for myself. He was a tough guy sure, but he basically told me to stop being a pussy and grow a pair.

Thats when I realized besides my new-found protector. I was the biggest guy in school. One year later with intense listening to death and black metal, a change of clothing and dyed black hair I myself turned into a protector. He and I basically went around school and made it damn clear you don't pick on anyone unless your looking for a fight.

It may sound stupid, still id like to look back and think to myself we made some people feel abit better about themselves. It still pains me all the shit I had to take when I was a kid. I still live in the same place I grew up and ocasionally run into some of my old bullies. I don't think ill ever be able to get over that grudge.

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It kills me to hear and see other victims of bullying. The emotional scars stays with you. I don't know if ill ever be rid of mine. And suicide. The only thing I feel for those resonsible is hate. I wish them nothing but agony and guilt for the rest of thier lives.

 

[stone0042]

I'm in what I guess what you would call the popular crowd, so I don't really get bullied. Pisses me off when people do it though, I usually tell people to cut the shit when they bully, especially weaker and younger kids. Thankfully, I'm the second biggest kid in my school,so no one really gives me any shit

 

[Sinisterair]

Well ive always been bullied on in like middle school and even now ( im the goth kid) but im nice and i usually dont get into fights....unless its a pompus asshole who needs to get his ass whooped! ima juinor so nowadays its rare that people fuck with me just cuz around freshy yr i hada subsantoil growth spurt and now im like 6'2 and i weigh 180, im generally happy but i do have a terrible temper and i have NO tolerance for bully dipshits and even last week some guy punched me in the face because im the goth kid so i punched him back and slammed a door into his head.......thank god that teacher likes me and the marks are covered by hs hair lol, and yeah ive thought about suicide....i was like 7th grade so looking back i think i was retarted but now it doesnt bother me if someone says shit........=D

 

[WrathofthePenguin]

Only time I was ever bullied was early on, maybe 3-5 years old. Neighbor was an ass, made fun of my weight. Kicked him in the stomach so hard he held himself in the middle of the street crying till his ma carried him inside.
Never bothered me again
Ain't never let ne1 bother me again
Sucks but really the only way to get people to stop is to stand up for yourself, generally violently