how where you bullied

[SulfuricDonut]

I've never been assaulted or openly insulted, and I don't know if this is even considered bullying but I'll explain anyway.

Considering that I am very shy and am uncomfortable talking to people, the popular talkative girls sometimes would talk to me incessantly just to make me uncomfortable, knowing that I would never actually respond.
(There is no possibility that they actually wanted to talk to me, as I am a very good judge of character and I can tell when people are mocking me. I know how to tell when somebody actually wants to speak with me.)

I found this the worst way I've ever been made fun of because if someone openly insults me then I can be very quick to think up a scathing remark to send back at them, however I have no defence against this form of mocking as such hostile retaliation is rather uncalled for.

 

[Levi93]

Well living in the UK and having long hair made me a target for chavs and other similar scumbags whilst in school >_>

 

[higgs20]

I didn't.

 

[AnarchyUK]

All through my primary + secondary school life pretty much, injury, insults, isolation. Problem only got worse as pretty much the entire year seperated themselves from me in an effort to not be bullied themselves.

Oh and the school I was in gave me detentions for getting beaten up, (I live in England where our ridiculous system allows the parents of the children who in normal society would be in jail for 3 months or so for what they've done to avoid any punishment at all) and of course no help at all.

So yea, pretty much the worst thing was the isolation socially.

Well living in the UK and having long hair made me a target for chavs and other similar scumbags whilst in school >_>

Pretty much the same as this... Had friends in year 7 and 8, but after a massive friend argument we all went our seperate ways, and I ended up friendless and spending my breaks and lunches in the school library by myself. It was weird though as I was part sports teams and had a few very good friends outside of school but in school I was a social pariah. Constantly called 'Gay' for my longish, unkept hair and beaten up or threatened to be beaten up by most of the school nearly everyday, and it was by everyone, hell even the 'new' guys whenever they arrived were higher than me, socially. Girls would pick on me, and make up shit that I was insulting them, or coming onto them, etc, and they would make the testosterone bigots who gravitate towards them beat me up. At first I tried going to teachers (Never worked, as it was always my word against 5+ others), Then I tried fighting back (lost badly everytime) and eventually I just stopped caring about life and just let them use me as a punching bag.

Then GCSEs finished, and I went on a school trip to China (which honestly beforehand i was dreading) and met not only my bestfriend (who still is my bestfriend now) and my first girlfriend. So that when I went back to school for A levels (was combined school and A level department for me) nobody understood this sudden new person who had appeared (in their eyes anyway, personally i was still the social inept weirdo i've always felt like)

Still get 'bullied' now by the same assholes from yr 7-11, but I shit you not they do it while wearing McDonalds outfits... Funny and cliché I know, but 100% true.


Off topic: Woo first post

 

[Zaverexus]

Middle School was terrible because I had been a bit overprotected prior to that and didn't know about things like sex, drugs, and profanity. I learned quickly, but in the time it took to figure everything out I was teased, laughed at, awkward, and miserable. A couple of people threatened violence but only one guy actually tried anything and only got me in a hold, which the teachers so kindly ignored.
But socially awkward miserable phase of life being long over, I'm cynical and tough enough to take care of myself and now knowledgeable enough not to miss these things.
Naivete defeated.

 

[Canid117]

Once got jumped by some guy in class, he ended up trying to suffocate me by holding me by the neck, he probably didn't count on survival instinct kicking in, he let go when I bit him hard enough. Got called into the principal office and told I could have been arrested for violence but that quickly went away when I pointed out that the only way he could get bit that way would be if he was killing me.

How the flying fuck were you in trouble? Were the witnesses all terrified or something?

 

[InnerRebellion]

Well, I was shown a picture of me being tied to a tree, with a shotgun shoved against my back.

Then, teachers began emotionally abusing me. Screaming at me, insulting me, locking me in an isolated room for hours on end, denying me lunch and not letting me go home when everyone else did.

What the fuck?! Are you serious man?!?!?!

Indeed I am, unfortunately.

 

[Dragonpit]

After senselessly showing off in front of the kids in my 3rd grade class, they did not take well to me. For two years after that, all I had to look forward to was much loneliness as they out of their way to spread malicious and mostly false rumors about to keep other people away. (That wasn't all there was to the incident that sparked the bullying, but that was pretty much how it started.)

 

[Levi93]

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Welcome to the escapist! I'm supposed to tell you to stay out of the basement or something like that, I never really understood it myself.

 

[wrightguy0]

ah, how we go forth into that tempest toss'd hell and come out on the other end in any functioning order is beyond me but then again my time in school has left me barely functioning, i got it for twelve years, miserable i got it for being odd, for being a loner, for being small, fat, smart, slow, in middle school i became "the Garbage can" i had people tossing their trash at me up until grade 9, some twats stole my math book one day, these were terrible kids, they drove our normally easy going math teacher into such a frenzy that he transferred to another school the next year, this crap came back in grade 11 too, when they tossed a full water bottle at my head, now i hate people, i just cant's get used to being around others, i flinch when people touch me, i've been left a scarred, cynical man

 

[Bravo 21]

Eh, I stood up for myself, got beat up, took my revenge and beat those people up, was great fun, this younger generation needs to kinda toughen up in my eyes (granted Im 25 but I cant help to see this younger generation being emotionally weaker) Its called sucking it up in the end. quote]
I have to agree, bullies usually pick on the weakest links, so if you can prove youself stronger, or more menacing usually dissuades them. At 15, it seems to be working so far.

 

[OrokuSaki]

High School, because that's "rough for everyone" except of course all the dicks in your high school with their magical perfect lives of course.

I understand the tenderness you face with this issue, and for good reason too - but just because someone isn't bullied in high school doesn't mean they have a perfect life or must be a dick.

That is true, but I'm more referring to the ones who WERE dicks and somehow that never came back to bite them. The ones who had a different boyfriend/girlfriend every other day and were never plagued with vengeance or STDs.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Oddly, I should have been bullied, but never was. I'm your archetypal introvert nerd who also has cerebral palsy. I was trolled some but never truly bullied. By high school everyone had grown up. I was in AP classes so I was around the people who rolled their eyes at bullies. I guess I got lucky. Hell, I think people thought I was off limits for some reason. People who tried got berated by someone passing by.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

After kindergarten, I wasn't. I stood up for myself, kids learned I wasn't worth the physical pain that resulted from bullying.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Apparently I was too sensitive and nice compared to everybody else so I became the main target. Latter it was less bullying and more surrounded by ignorant people. We were all fucking monsters in middle school.

Oddly though in our senior year we all looked at each other and apologized for all the bulling we did to each other. Then everybody in our grade either became friends or became neutral. By then I was already serving half days in another school, so I never got bullied again and was more happier.

Something....happens to us in middle school. I noticed that the peak trolling I got was in that time. Looking at other posts there are similar stories. Why are we so heartless in 6th-8th grade?

 

[redisforever]

Why are we so heartless in 6th-8th grade?

Most would say hormones, but I think it's more to do with the fact that we spend our childhoods looking up to the popular people, and since they tend to terrorize the less popular people, we think that it's ok to follow in their footsteps.

 

[Hollock]

I was never really bullied. Got called "A fucking nerd" twice. Mostly I just kinda hung out with one guy (though he's been works all the time and it's been like that since he was 13) and people left me alone. I go to a really small school and have known the people forever. That probably helps (the people who called me a nerd [pretty acurate title] weren't from round here). I would defend people when they got bullied (that's how I made my first friend).

 

[Jekken6]

verbal abuse is common, but it's funny, because it's stupid, unoriginal crap.

never get physical abuse sine i'm physically bigger than quite a few people.

 

[Aetera]

This one guy always insulted and taunted me in high school whenever he saw me, and some hicks threw eggs at my friends and I in the cafeteria once. They didn't get in any trouble, either. I managed to get out of high school with out TOO much of a bother, though. At college, quite a few times I've heard bros call me a dyke when I walk by. Nothing too bad, I guess, all things considered.