See I don't feel that. If anything, bullying itself kinda taught me how pointless revenge is. I give as good as I get now, but it's not for revenge, it's cuz people only fuck with easy targets.silverleaf81 said:
how where you bullied
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Quite a bit of verbal abuse, as I was really emotionally unstable in middle school.
No one actually tried to hit me though, considering how I was bigger than most of the teachers.
No one actually tried to hit me though, considering how I was bigger than most of the teachers.
I love the assumption here that most of us have been bullied at some point or other...
I'm genuinely sorry to hear that. You're easily one of the friendliest internet randomers I've run into, and yet you've been through so much shit (for want of a better word)
The joys of being the short, geeky, slightly reclusive guy at school. It became a game in my last couple of years at school for some of the others in my year to see who could put me in a bin in the shortest time. Some of that group who didn't fancy physical bullying turned to treating me like a child instead, right down to telling me off if I acted out of tune with their ideas of what I should be doing i.e. standing up for myself in any way.
And courtesy of it being a posh private school, it seems to be assumed that someone in every year will be picked on mercilessly, so the teachers mostly turned a blind eye provided nothing got damaged.
Yeah, people will have been through worse, but several years of having other people attempt to repress every flair of individuality you have isn't hugely healthy. Hence the depression that it took 2 years of university, a few months of counselling, and a course of anti-depressants for me to get rid of.
...This is why I don't usually talk about my time at school. Bad memories.
And here I was going to say something similar regarding my parents' divorce...Aylaine said:Mostly emotionally. After my parents died, I became very unsure of myself and a bit out of place to most people. That typically lead to the popular girls teasing me for being sensitive, or causing problems for me whenever I was alone. It became much easier when I started hanging out with my best friends (thank god for lunch switches) though.
I'm genuinely sorry to hear that. You're easily one of the friendliest internet randomers I've run into, and yet you've been through so much shit (for want of a better word)
The joys of being the short, geeky, slightly reclusive guy at school. It became a game in my last couple of years at school for some of the others in my year to see who could put me in a bin in the shortest time. Some of that group who didn't fancy physical bullying turned to treating me like a child instead, right down to telling me off if I acted out of tune with their ideas of what I should be doing i.e. standing up for myself in any way.
And courtesy of it being a posh private school, it seems to be assumed that someone in every year will be picked on mercilessly, so the teachers mostly turned a blind eye provided nothing got damaged.
Yeah, people will have been through worse, but several years of having other people attempt to repress every flair of individuality you have isn't hugely healthy. Hence the depression that it took 2 years of university, a few months of counselling, and a course of anti-depressants for me to get rid of.
...This is why I don't usually talk about my time at school. Bad memories.
This is what i keep talking about. I was bullied in year 5 & 6, and it was all verbal, but it made me feel like shit. But by year 7 i learned to grow up and deal with it, and that made me stronger and better as a person. Most people keep saying that people shouldn't have to be bullied at all, and we should protect them, but no. Let them learn how to handle judgement, and abuse, because that's what the real world is like.spartan231490 said:
I was bullied emotionally, mostly. I was excluded from cliques, people talked about me as if they were talking behind my back all the while I was listening, I was called names, I was teased for my sexual orientation and hobbies... Once I got my health report from the nurse stolen and read aloud in front of other students while I was held at bay so I couldn't get it back.
Bullying is abuse of status and power. Status and power should not be abused and people shouldn't have to be subjected to it, preferably never but espcially not at a young age.InfiniteSingularity said:
I was pretty small in school, I hit my growth spurt a little late. People tried to bully me a few times but never succeeded. Why? I took my brother's advice who had been bullied. Don't let them. Stand up to them, fight. Even if you lose, you don't make it easy. I fought back and won. No one expected the little guy to beat the bully. So I got respect and they stopped bothering me and the people I hung out with. And we stuck together more. A good buddy who you know will have your back is a good thing to have.
Even losing, if you fight you gain respect. And most bullies bully because they don't get resistance. Of course this was about 13 years ago people had the courage to use their fists to fight and not knives and guns..
I don't know how it can go on without someone doing something. I mean, if I had a kid who was getting bullied and the normal attempts to stop it didn't help I'd brick their windows and mess up their car with a note that says control your damn kid. Eye for an eye, bitches.
Even losing, if you fight you gain respect. And most bullies bully because they don't get resistance. Of course this was about 13 years ago people had the courage to use their fists to fight and not knives and guns..
I don't know how it can go on without someone doing something. I mean, if I had a kid who was getting bullied and the normal attempts to stop it didn't help I'd brick their windows and mess up their car with a note that says control your damn kid. Eye for an eye, bitches.
Although I was bullied in primary school with several cases of insults and one case of 5 vs 1 fight (which wasn't much of a fight, as it was me being slightly injured before they got bored and walked off), it died down alot when I got to high school. This was probably because I changed schools, but still...
Well I got beat up, taunted, insulted, had my work destroyed, others took credit for what I did, I was framed for what others did, there was a murder attempt and several death-threats and also a few years where everyone shunned me.
Good thing my mother didn't tell me I had aspergers though. Not knowing what was wrong with me was a huge help. :l
Good thing my mother didn't tell me I had aspergers though. Not knowing what was wrong with me was a huge help. :l
I wasn't bullied much, the occasional dispute happened but I held my own in battles of wit and brawn(started losing fights after 6th grade though due to my size). That combined with my complete disassociation of social activities made it so people really couldn't hate me for anything.
You mean "were." Regardless, I wasn't really bullied that much. I've always been the "cool" nerd/geek. The smart guy into computers who hangs out with people reasonably high on the social scale due to having friends from that class of people before the ostracising kicked in. Plus all the guys in my highschool are friends. We all speak to each other, it's the girls who are absolute bitches.
Meh, the past is the past - a little bit of bullying's easy to get over with a small amount of time. But thanks anyway.Aylaine said:It's helped me become a strong, determined person though. So I think it was just a rougher then normal life lesson I had to learn there. But thank you for the kind words. <3J03bot said:
That's just horrible. I see stuff like that stereotyped, and deep down I know it happens in some places. It's really a shame too. No one deserves that kind of treatment, especially in those life changing years where they are going to school and maturing both physically and mentally. I'm very sincerest sorry to hear that.
*hugs*
*returns hug*
I was never really bullied, sure there were jackasses who thought it would be hilarious to make fun of the fat kid but I just ignored them and they went away. I was actually more of the protector type, because I was "in" with the popular crowd (result of being a football player) as well as the more nerdy groups so I would always try to stop shit from happening, it even worked sometimes. I just didn't think that some deserved to be made fun of by the others so I tried to prevent it from happening in the first place.
I was overall ignored by my classmates since pre-school. Apparently, even though everyone had a tv at that age, I was the only person who used it to watch Spider-Man, X-men, and Power Rangers. And THAT began my magical schooling where I was told I had "Jonathan germs" and was avoided like the plague. Since second grade I was beat up until 4th grade when I became 2nd tallest in the class and could defend myself. I got into fights until 7th grade where the abuse became girls waaaaaay out of my league (I was fat) asking me out just for the fun of laughing regardless of what my answer was. This all being augmented by my mother vicariously living through me and forcing my to study for all my tests and do my homework, checking it, and making me re-do it if I was wrong.
I now have a giant wall of text and I'm not even going to bother going on with 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. But what I will say is I was probably the only one who graduated with their virginity, and I hated High School.
I now have a giant wall of text and I'm not even going to bother going on with 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. But what I will say is I was probably the only one who graduated with their virginity, and I hated High School.
