Poll: Were you bullied as a child?

[DalekJaas]

never got bullied, was really never a bully, may have made the occassional joke or two behind someones back, but too cowardly to outward verbally assualt someone.

 

[darkless]

Yup all the time right up until I cracked some guy's ribs.

 

[Scarecrow38]

Did anyone ever find that a lot of these people were more sociable by themselves? It's almost as if they can't bear to be alone. Or I could be wrong.

Yeah I reckon you're right about them being better when alone. Which is almost more sickening because it means they take people down a peg for no real reason.

 

[Trivun]

I was bullied by a guy in Year 10 (that's UK grade system for 14-15 years old), who pretended he was a friend in earlier years. He got his comeuppance when we had a huge drugs bust in school in my Year group, this guy was a dealer of cannabis and would have got away scot free if I hadn't found out what he was doing. Needless to say he ended up a bum and now I'm at university while he is probably in a crack den somewhere stoned half to death.

In Sixth Form as well, when I was a prefect (we were all made prefects during our final year), I got a load of stick from a kid in Year 9 (so 4 years younger than me). The idiot wouldn't stop bugging me, and of course in my old school we could give punishments by forcing the kids to write out the school motto in Latin over and over again on a sheet of paper, also known as giving out lines (lines have no relation to the above story). Usual punishment was 2 sides of lines, which would take about an hour to write. This kid refused to do them when I gave him the punishment, so when he came to the Sixth Form common room to give them to me in the end (where he shouldn't have been anyway) the douche didn't care about the lesson he should of learnt and carried on being a cockbag. After about 5 of my friends turned up as well as the kid's tutor, he ended up writing about 15 sides for all six of us. Needless to say he didn't bother us again.

 

[Sarcastic Chimp]

Hmm I was bullied for a while in the last couple of years of primary school and the first year or so of secondary school.

Primary consisted of being called a Bastard by a lot of peoplle after my parents got divorced. People didn't seem to get that I wasn't "illegitimate" because my parent's marriage was done with, but thats that. I was also the smartest chap in my year at primary school (only 30 kids to a year then so not difficult) and I got some stick for that. Never fought back in primary though.

Secondary was a different matter though. I had put on a bit of weight during the transistion between the two and that become a point of focus, but also helped me find a solution. Anytime anybody said anything to me I'd agree and give myself far worse than what they had managed. This tends to leave bullies pretty speechless due to fact they are invaraiably thick. Once that bit was out of the way, you dole out the verbal abuse to them. Now because you've taken away anything they could come back with people tend to remember the fact that the bully got verbally screwed without saying much in return and forget how you got them to that point in the first place.

I things get physical I found the best way to deal was to just toy with them, put them in armlocks and the like and make sure that they and anyone watching knows you could finish it at any moment. Usually the humiliation got them to back off and I actually built a reputation as someone who could handle himself despite not getting into what I would consider a real fight through secondary.

In the end its all about image. Create the image that you can give back twice what you receive and people tend to bother you less.

I say worse things about myself as well. My school is one of those schools where you get a "Ur mum" joke slung at you every 5 minutes. They don't catch on that i say worse things then them and i don't care.

 

[Ctrl-Alt-Elite]

Hrm.... i did at one point in when i was about 12 in 1st year until one day about halfway through the year some guy rly pissed me off he hit me in the back of knees with a wooden spoon(dont ask) when i was walking home i turned around and mauled him took 2 adults to pull me off him... he didnt come to school for a week and even when he did he didnt come near me needless to say im now in 3rd year and nobody bothers me or my friendsthe guy i mauled i acually get along with pretty well now

 

[pearl_dragon]

I don't remember much of life before the age of 7, but I know I had lots of friends (judging from the birthday photos lol). But once my mum and dad got divorced when i was 7 and we moved to my mum's old village, life got tough for me bully-wise. It wasn't so bad in primary school because i was the "weird" kid, which for some reason was cool! Unfortunately, the teachers didn't like me because i wasn't from the village. retarded i know. They tried to get me sent to a special school, they'd accuse me of stealing, breaking things, cheating. You name it. in the end, my parents had to go to court to stop them from sending me to this special school, but during which the teachers made up all kinds of lies, like i was retarded, i was a problem child and my father had abused me (which is a massive lie). In the end, it took a clever quack guy who asked me some really smart questions, who told them that i was very bright and i simply was confused and missed my dad. They still made my last year there hell though, by isolating me from everyone and making me answer questions out of books instead of teaching me properly, which is why i can't do division or multiplication for shit.

My 1st high school did the exact same crap, since the primary school had 'warned' them about me, so they proceeded to treat me like a complete idiot. I was always in detention for ANYTHING, even if i was simply defending myself against bullies (a simple "shut up" would get me put down for detention). Bullies didn't bother me because it was always one-on-one and i always seemed to win.

However, after a year, we moved to a town and that's when the REAL shit hit the fan at my 2nd high school. I got instantly labelled as the "weird freak" and for the 1st time was physically bullied as well as verbally. It was never one-on-one, i always had a whole goddamm gang on me, telling me i was ugly, thick, etc etc. one person even said they hoped my mum died of cancer (she had breast cancer at the time). Although the teachers were great and treated me as an actual intelligent person, those 4 years were the most soul-destroying of my life.

It's because of those 4 years that i have no self-esteem, and despite being 26 (almost 27) now, i still don't see myself as beautiful or smart. I always doubt myself, especially when i hang out with people (i always wonder if they're just being nice to me). I have few friends since i'm so socially awkward nowadays and i have terrible luck with men.

Bullies ruin lives as far as i'm concerned.

 

[Mr.Banaynay]

In the third grade this kid made fun of me every day.On the day before he moved i punched him in the nose and made him cry >:]
Revenge is sweet.......

 

[John Stalvern]

I can really only recall one time when I was really bullied in kindergarten. The kid was also at least three years older than me, so you could tell he probably couldn't hold his own anywhere else.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

Glasses, ginger hair, braces, good at school work, bad at sport. I never stood a chance.