Poll: Bullying: Thoughts?

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Hybrid Sight

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I used to get bullied a lot. One time a kid was picking on me by slamming my locker shut every time I opened it. So I smashed is hand in the locker to the point where I broke all his fingers. After than no one made fun of me again.
 

Cowabungaa

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Oh it changed me, it changed a lot. Sadly not in the good "finally learn how to defend yourself and free yourself of the bullies reigns" way. O no, the opposite was true.

During elementary, I was chased like a rabbit every day after school. I wasn't so much physically hurt, sure they punched me in the face every now and then, but it was psychological bullying; making you do ridiculous things, making you say horrible things about other people so that they hate you, setting people up against you. Just singling you out, forcing you to the fringe, making you hated and alone.

Once I was chased all around the village once, then my 2 best and only 'friends' ratted me out. I was chased and cornered in a playground, threatened with a knife and left alone. My 2 'friends' just laughed at me and ran off, leaving me all alone. My teachers didn't help me, my parents didn't believe me, I had no-one.

That continued in high school. I was hoping that high school would change my life, that it'd finally meet people like me. I did not. The bullying was more subtle, just being ridiculed and always keeping pushed out of the group. Doesn't sound like much, but if you're constantly forced to be alone, you start to doubt yourself and if that keeps going on for long enough, say hello to an inferiority complex.

That loneliness did not strengthen me, it destroyed me. That was a decade ago, and I think I'm still affected by it. It's hard for me to make friends. That is, I chat up with people easily, but I can't really cross that acquaintance-friend border well, it's hard to actually go out with them, for example.

It's getting better though, I visited an old friend on New Year's Eve. Took me a lot of guts to actually go, but it was pretty nice.

So in the end, bullying slowed me down. It chased me into the shadows, and I'm only starting to emerge from them, realising that I lack a massive chunk of personal development. My inferiority complex still returns every now and then, I hope I can fix it forever some day.
 

Sion_Barzahd

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As a child i was always exceptionally tall, sometimes as much as twice the height of other students, combine that with early puberty and i was a perfect target for bullies.
One of which was the deputy head of my school! My school life was hell until i got into college.

OP: Yeah i think being bullies changes people, i mean i'm a self-conscious, bitter and cynical Sociophobic. If a person approaches me i'm instantly under the assumption they want to cause me some kind of pain.
Thats cause i was bullied so much as a kid i learned to never trust anyone.
 

Vaalkor

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I have never been bullied myself, but, in my school there were these cunts that would stroll around making trouble. They picked on a guy with quite serious learning difficulties. My form tutor was telling us about how they followed him into the bathroom, and when he went into a cubicle to do business they threw water over and shouted at him. They kicked down the door and it smashed him on the head, he went to hospital shortly after. I don't know what kind of punishment they got but they have left school now. I saw one of them speeding about on his crappy motorbike recently, and he almost crashed into a car, if only :p
 

Rhatar Khurin

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It can do, i guess it depends on the degree of it.

When i was in secondary school i was bullied by a group of about 5 people. Although they were never really violent towards me they would throw things at me and sometimes get me in a headlock as well as calling me names and such. Then one day i was called into the year heads office and was myself questioned about being a bully myself as apparently i had been seen in the playground pretend fighting with one of my actual friends (doing silly wrestling moves if i remember as WWF was big then), I said i was not bullying my friend, but told him that i myself was being bullied and named a couple of them.

From then on the bullying stopped and around a week later the "leader" of the bullies came over to me and said that he hadn't realised he had been bullying me and was just larking around and was very sorry. We actually over the next few months became quite good friends.
 

Apache2142

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I was never bullied from what i remember. But my brother was, it hasnt changed him much. The people which are bullied generally get built/buff when theyre older-thats the trend i see.
 

AgDr_ODST

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not so much physical but assholes making fun of my chosen name caused me to snap once or twice
 

pennington

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when i went to my new school i was bullied a lot
but after a few weeks it stoped and o started to make friends
 

Blake_iCE

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Year 5 and 6 I got bullied hardcore by basicly all of the kids.
How I Delt with it?
Told the main one to meet me at the park to "fight me".
When he got there I had a knife and told him that if he or his friends ever did anyhing to me again i'd debowl them. Sure did work!

And yes, I am permernently Fucked up because of the bullying I got.
 

Lullabye

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eh, it made me hate myself. I was always a pussy about being bullied. I feared that if I retaliated I would get into trouble. Then when I got the courage one day to finally stand up for my 13 year old self, I got into trouble from the kids spectating the fight. The lesson I learned? People are dicks.
 

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I gut punched a bully and shoryuken'd him while yelling SHORYUKEN, he never messed with me since. Gtanted, we were the same size, so this won't work with other people.
 

Skuffyshootster

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I get bullied a little, but who hasn't?

Hardly enough to contemplate suicide, but enough to make me hate every godforsaken person at my school.
 

Hollock

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We just had a Special hour long class about bullying at my school (11th grade, U.S). Apparently some Irish exchange student in the school the next town over killed herself because of bullying. We didn't really get much done. I've never really gotten bullied (outside of getting yelled at "nerd" a few times, but who gives a shit about that I am) but, I have helped people out when they got bullied before.
 

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MancalaManiac said:
We moved to a new town when I was five years old, and I had to go to a new school. Since the social groups at the new school had been established since kindergarten and since I was about a year younger than everyone else in my class, I was automatically the odd person out. What few friends I did make didn't stay my friends for long for fear of being labeled uncool by association. By age ten I had no friends whatsoever and everyone made fun of me, some even beat me up (not sure if this is a common experience for other girls). I remember coming home one particular afternoon and crying to my parents that everyone at school hated me, to which they replied, "What did you do? I mean, if everyone hates you, you must have done something wrong." My parents didn't help me, they blamed me for my problems, so I internalized everything. I was only ten years old the first time I tried to kill myself. Funny story, actually: I tried to slit my throat with the blade part of a pair of scissors. I wasn't entirely stupid about it though, I realized that the scissors might not be sharp enough to cut deep enough to hit a major vein or artery, so I inked up the sharp part of the scissors with a purple marker, hoping that at the very least I would die of ink-poisoning. I spent the next decade trying to off myself in various ways before finally giving up. Turns out I'm unbreakable. 8D
takes guts to admit that to someone, let alone an online forum you frequent.
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Floppertje

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hell yes! speaking from personal experience, being bullied by fcking EVERYONE (ok, almost everyone) absolutely destroys your self esteem.
when I was about 16 one of them, who I happended to hang out with, as one of his friends was a friend of mine, grew up(ish) and started wondering why he hated me. finding no reason, we became friends. he then boosted my self esteem and I learned to ignore fuckheads, make friends(or at least friendly acquaintances) with most of the rest of them. Then I went to Uni and everyone loves me here. and to my surprise, that's only slightly exaggerated.
so yes, it does and it works both ways.