Ever Been Bullied? If So, How Did You React?

[tobytobetobe]

used to be verbally and physically the latter stopped first as steroids helped with that and general people mocking me i either ignored laughed it off or came back with something much more funny in some ways its helped me a lot on my path to become a comedian as i would not be nearly as witty if i didnt have the experiences. Either way as long as noone touches me i honestly couldnt care if the worst thing that happens to me in a day is some bloke says something mean to me then i will generally be in quite a good mood

 

[volcanblade]

Throughout elementary school and into middle school. It never particularly bothered me, but it was a pain at times becasue he lived across from a good friend of mine. One day he followed us when we went down to the river by my friend's house and was harrassing us. My friend left to find a spot to throw stuff at him and I walked back quiety with him behind me taunting me. It didn't faze me until he started bad mouthing my friend at which point I whipped around punched him and gave him a glare (when I get pissed and glare at someone it terrifies them, my friend neearly wet himself when I did that to him). He never bothered either of us after that and always looked a bit on edge whenever he saw me.

 

[marcus905]

I've been bullied many times when in elementary and middle school up to 8th grade without reacting but just reporting the bullying to my parents.
I was bullied for the same reasons as the majority: I was smarter than the average, not very sociable and a bit fat.

Well, anyways I had little problems as each time a new guy tried to bully me my mother, who ironically was a bully in her youth, called the other kids' parents and that solved everything, except with two guys.

The first guy bullied me more verbally than physically and the parent calling routine went through twice with no effect on him whatsoever (I think he bullied his parents too). The first day he tried to attack me physically however I fought back and 'stabbed' his hands with my nails, with the net effect of a scar and damaged tendons. After that he became mild as a puppy.

The second one actually stopped after the second call, but a couple years ago (I'm 20, btw) he tried to bully me when in company of his friends because he was participating in a competition where I was a judge.
After my persistent indifference to his verbal attacks he went closer and closer still trying. The moment he was a foot away from me insulting me and going with a your mom joke I exploded. I started to shout against him *VERY* loud insulting him and, when I (6', 234lbs) went closer as he (5'9, approx 180lbs) was backing up with the blankest stare you could imagine, he started to go away, slowly at first but always faster saying that I don't want to mess with him blah blah, with me following.
After that he started to run and his friends held me while he ran away. Then they, recognizing that he'd been an asshole, tried to calm me down and convince me that it was not a big deal.
He doesn't talk to me very much except one time when with some friends he tried to say that he didn't chicken out that time and me diplomatically saying that we didn't actually fight, but that he abandoned first the field to avoid it. He didn't reply.

When I grew up, however, I became more and more cynical yet sociable and this made me into the popular ones. I have never bullied anyone, anyways, and nobody tried to bully me when in high school because my friends are almost the same size as me and they are more aggressive than I am.
At the same time I've grown an interest in martial arts and became a good jujutsuka, getting soon a black belt.

As for what I do when bullied, first I try to cool the situation off, then, if that doesn't work I ignore them. If for some reason they get to piss me off, well, I stand up and fight and damn the consequences.

 

[Freeze_L]

i can think of 5 pepole who can attest that i am very good in a fight. they can attest because i kicked their asses.
I am normally very nice and calm, i believe the term a big geeky panda bear has been used to describe me on many occasions. I am very patient with idiots, but when pushed to far i snap not only emotional but physically.

They thought they had me crying because they hurt me, i was crying because they pissed me of to the point of tears. Then i moved onto hit the one closest to me, still on a bike, with my cheap skateboard. I grabbed the leader of the group by what little hair he had, and pulled down while i swept across with my foot. before he finished impacting the ground i turned around and hit the other one with the back of my fist, he hit the ground hard. I kicked the last one to the ground. "If you ever hear someone tell you that they don't want to hurt you when you hit them, run away." I screamed at them. They never did bother me again.

I got picked on before by other pepole and generally i just ignore them until they leave. i have a very long fuse, but you better remember that the fuse is attached to something. It helps to have 4-5 years of karate training to back up you up.

 

[Crazyshak48]

It was always verbal bullying for me. I was always the big guy, so very few people were bold enough to pick fights with me. However, I'm the quiet, shy guy, so throughout elementary school and middle school, I was a popular target (mostly due to my weight). High school was okay until my senior year. However, that one's rather touchy, so lets not go there.

At the time, I responded by enjoying the few good friends I did have, playing on the computer, and just trying to do well at my classes so I could GTFO. At school, I would use my size as an asset, and try to scare off potential bullies with a fair degree of success. I've got a temper too, and I occasionally ended up yelling at the top of my deep, rumbling voice at some of them. Very effective. Got one bully to stop riding the bus permanently.

As for my long term solution, I finished school even when I was given the option of an early out, got my degrees, got my job, lost sixty pounds, and got my life in good order. Now I can look at all those dead-end jocks and dirtbags who tried to torment me back then and simply give them all the finger.

 

[Harkwell]

I did get bullied, but he dropped out and is probably working at some shity fast food joint so it sucks to be him haha. I let him go and he eventually started ignoring me more and more.

Now I believe in karma (I'm an agnostic), and never has it proven truer to me when he dropped out. I later found out he's working a shitty job and his dad was just as much of a jerk as him, hah, runs in the family.

 

[hurfdurp]

The thing that comes to my mind first occurred in High School of course. A bunch of kids sitting behind me actually balled up paper and threw it at the back of my head. I was just so dazed by the after school special-ness of it all, that I just got really stiff and red-faced. Pretty much how I deal with any kind of conflict.

 

[Riobux]

I was bullied a lot growing up, ever since I got into secondary school I was basically always attacked. The problems caused by said bullying still persist today, things like anxiety (includes some bouts of being over-whelmed with anxiety), shyness and pessimism.

 

[twcblaze]

Spoiler

Worked until high school, where I met this annoying little twerp named Devin...

My name is Devin... It's a good thing I've never had my head smashed in lockers....

strangely enough, he was the first Devin I'd ever met, so the name kinda stuck with me

 

[Jark212]

Ya, middle school was hell for me, I tried to ignore it while secretly plotting to destroy my bully, lucky I never carried out my plan...

In high school no one fucked with me, I was the quiet possibly postal kid who was good friends with the gothic suspect postal kids so everyone wanted to be on good terms with me, and I had a really awesome set of friends who I still chat with now that I moved to Colorado...

 

[Elhueno]

Yeap bullied here for about 4 years...

All through primary school really. In the end they started getting too physical while I was waiting for the bus. I just so happened to have a big stick, the kind you pick up when you go on a long walk.

I got pushed around, walked around the corner away from the crowd and teachers, they followed. One more push and I swung with that big ass stick and ended up giving 2/3 of them severe concussions. the third ran to get the teachers. I got into some shit for it but was well worth it, from that day forward, anyone that has attempted to bully me has either had their insults shot down or severe pain inflicted upon them. I don't like doing it, but hell, I don't want to see anyone else get bullied like I did.

 

[TheTim]

never been bullied

but i wouldn't put up with that shit if i was.

 

[Eatbrainz]

I don't get bullied because i don't take that bollocks, for example, my reaction to "Give me your lunch money" etc. would be something like "Piss off, if you ever ask me that again i'll smash your teeth on the door handle, you fucking little blonde-haired wanker!" "No seriously, give me your money. now." "*cracks knuckles* Your in fucking trouble, mate."

 

[breadlord]

Oh the stories that I have had.

All throughout elementary school, i was always the weakest and dumbest kid in the class. Everyday I would cry for some dumb reason, or if the kids would chuckle at me i would bawl.

Then middle school came around, and I was getting smarter. Thus, with my balls dropping, I knew how to handle some stuff. I only majorly cried at big stuff, like getting in trouble or getting a friend in trouble. The only big thing was that in 8th grade, some kid punched my in the jaw, I almost cried, but my eyes were dripping and I was fighting it off.

So then High School came around, I wasn't as smart as I am today, but i didn't really get into major tro- well, i never got into trouble. Until 2010 rolled around. It was around April, and my comments about a girl got to her boyfriend, which he thought he was a tough guy, and that his friends would also beat me up if he did. They never touched me. I ignored that couple, and his friends.

He's a small part of my junior high school year: I was in Outdoor track, and I was playfully pushing a freshman around. (As in, ha ha, your a freshie and i'm not . Nothing too bad) So then, let's call him Snuffaluvagus, says out loud, "Oh Walter, your so cool..pushing a freshman around." I blatantly looked back at him and stared at him while he wasn't looking, and I quickly turned around. I guess, because I wasn't looking at him, looked back at me and showed a sign of disgust. Which then he proclaimed, in a whining manner, "He ignored me again." And walked out of the room.

So....yeah. I was able to handle myself.

 

[Mrkittycat]

Bullied throughout elementary school. Then 6th and 7th grade. They bullied me for mostly being overweight, and I'll admit. I was pretty sensitive because of the bullying. Anyway, On the last day of school at 7th grade, the kid bullying me was sitting in the bus seat right ahead of me. He was calling me names, (Fatfuck was his favorite) and slapping my head. He got to the point of hitting me with his folder. Hurt like a *****. When it was my stop, he continued to hit me, so I stood up like I was walking to the front of the bus, and with the speed of a tiger, lunged at him, pounded his balls as hard as I could twice, and walked away. I haven't been bullied since, and am actually quite popular due to my sense of humor.

 

[DSEZ]

when i was little i had a very heavy italian accent and this kid hassled me about it everyday (i was in 3rd grade) and one day it just got to me i punch in over a desk and he never looked my way again

 

[blueman221]

I've been bullied through most of my time at school, I'm a senior in high school and have just stopped being bullied. Though it took alot of work. I beat up the local school bully after years of him bullying me without doing anything. And I nearly choked someone with his own belt after he called me a fag and tried to do some gay fake strip tease thing(I personaly don't see how that joke was supposed to work out in his favor but whatever). But people finaly have stopped harasing me, to bad it took me this long to figure out how to make them shut up.

 

[vivalahelvig]

there was a douche in class....so i stabbed him. felt good.