Mmmm picked on, then I stood my ground as a kid twice my size bore down on me. He started laying into me and I laughed, just stood there laughing and taking it. No more trouble after that, am now good friends with those who used to pick on me. We're all at uni now.
were you ever bullied in school?
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Freshmen were open season at my school, but God help you if you go after a special ed kid, so my school was like yours in that aspect.Al-Bundy-da-G said:
I remember one guy picked on a kid with Down syndrome in the morning, and at lunch got his ass kicked and no one batted an eye. Then after school he went to the kid and apologized, and the guy was like a walking PSA towards messing with special ed kids.
Shame that that wasn't the standard for bullying in general at my school....
You can talk yourself up all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that I made all interactions bullies had with me enormously unpleasant. And that they left me all alone. Dumb or not, I don't think you would have taken me. NO ONE ELSE did, and I doubt you're all that special. (If someone attacked me physically, all I had to do was latch onto their ear and not stop screaming as loud as I could. Ten seconds later, scuffle ends in a draw.)Tanksie said:
I haven't read through all the posts yet, though I plan too. I know that most of you are angry at the people who did this to you. But I think one thing we should all take from this is that the simple fact we're all alive makes us stronger than the average person. I also hope that everyone can make this a lesson about how a few words can tear a person down and about holding a position of authority means not only watching over people, but protecting them too. how just hitting a child in the face can traumatize them for years to come.
yeah this usually works except i just disliked hurting people when i was a kid, now i will gladly gouge someones eyes out using my little finger. I only really had an issue from junior school to the first year of comprehensive then i moved and things got good, it was also there i discovered i have an amazing ability for dodging and distracting which has come in handy a few timesSuicida1 Midget said:
In year , I knew no one in my class so I tried to get attention and make friends, but I was also a bit of a nerd, so I was teased a bit. Eventually, everyone just found me funny and I made friends with a bunch of other nerds and now I'm a massive one.
Fortunately it was never physical because I'm taller than most people in my classes.
Fortunately it was never physical because I'm taller than most people in my classes.
I used to be bullied in grade school, then he took an elbow to the neck. Solved that real quickly. I was suspended for a few days, but he never messed with me again.
I was. For three years (13 - 15) in a rough town. Then I got sick and by the time I went back to school I was 18 and 6ft 2' I drank and I smoked.
I met them small men again and they had nothing to say to me. Not a word. Being bullied like that shaped me into the man I am today. I know I can look intimidating at times (big, shaved head and tattoos) but I always treat people with respect and consideration until they have proved to me that they should be treated otherwise and even then I do not bully people I dont like. I hate to see it happen. I could go into stories where I have defended and stopped people being bullied but that would be off tread.
Long story I was then I wasn't and now I hate it and can see no excuse for those that do it. It is also one of the major influences in my life that has made me the man I am today.
I met them small men again and they had nothing to say to me. Not a word. Being bullied like that shaped me into the man I am today. I know I can look intimidating at times (big, shaved head and tattoos) but I always treat people with respect and consideration until they have proved to me that they should be treated otherwise and even then I do not bully people I dont like. I hate to see it happen. I could go into stories where I have defended and stopped people being bullied but that would be off tread.
Long story I was then I wasn't and now I hate it and can see no excuse for those that do it. It is also one of the major influences in my life that has made me the man I am today.
Yeah I got bullied three times but for some strange reason I end up becoming friend with them (well except for one). Well ok one of them was genuie friendship but it was the first bully that I can't remember how we became friends.
I should state before hand that they didn't bully me physically well maybe except the first bully (he and his two gonns used to chase me around chool duing breaks). They just call me names and break my belongings.
I should state before hand that they didn't bully me physically well maybe except the first bully (he and his two gonns used to chase me around chool duing breaks). They just call me names and break my belongings.
I'm not gonna rip you a new one over this, but I totally understand what you're trying to say. For me, and I'm sure for everyone else too, it wasn't a plesant lesson to learn, and it did take years to understand that.Awsomeotaku said:
It did make me a stronger, mentally anyways, person, but it did take years to 'get over it' and move on, well kinda. I just think talking about bullying is a hot button and will get a lot of knee jerk reactions. But, I will say your post did make me smile because I was reading just a few of these posts and they were making me depressed.
I was popular in elementary school but I didn't know that I was only because I knew the popular kids and I only knew the popular kids because one was my little sister and the rest lived on block. As for middle school that really sucked I was picked on by the worst in the school I don't know why I minded my own business but I was marked constantly talked about threatened. Hit for no reason what so ever which really sucks because one of the bullies I knew in 6th grade and we were cool. As for high school I wasn't really bullied but I was a walking ghost nobody really paid attention to me I just went from class to class. But the real kicker is when I had to live early to move nobody had noticed I was gone for 3 weeks.
Pretty much all through my entire school life, although it softened up around my last few years of high school.
I guess it's true what they say, kids who like to prey on others tend to know something's off about kids who are different, even if it's not obvious. I used to get picked on all the time in elementary school, teased all the time, beaten up constantly, till I started fighting back.
The thing is, I didn't fight back with fists, I'd just grab them by the wrists/collar, and throw them till they decided they were too tired/hurt to keep trying to punch/kick me. They'd often go get their buddies to try to help them, I could easily keep doing this to a group of 4-5 thanks to a very early puberty, coupled with a hormonal imbalance that made me about 6 foot 2 at age 12.
Shitty part is that they'd end up with all the injuries, which made it appear I was the one doing the bullying, got in shit all the time... Yeah, blame it on the gentle giant... Well, that was until a teacher actually seen all this happen. Some little shit thought it would be a good idea to take a length of tree branch to my back, which he did. I grabbed it from him shortly after, brought it between his legs, and lifted him into the air... and about 3-4 yards behind me, he landed on his face, and chipped a tooth. By then, the teacher that witnessed this came over, the 3-4 other little shits scuttled off, and I tried to explain myself to her, she said she saw what happened, and that I was just defending myself, and she finally clued in that it was pretty much the same deal all along. The little shit was bawling his eyes out, and since his little friends had bailed prior, I had to carry the little shit back to the school nurse, had him over my shoulder the whole way, making sure he felt every bump on the way (as my shoulder was kinda lodged in his gut) After that, people tended to stop trying to pick fist-fights with me, although the verbal abuse continued.
Once I hit junior high school, it all started back up again, but much worse, the teasing had turned to bigoted hatred, the guys caught up to my size, and I couldn't throw them around anymore. I had even gotten beaten up by half a soccer team because I punched some ass in the shoulder after he threw a slush drink at me, my older sister came and scared them away. The next day, the whole lot of them were calling me gay, ******, and the like. I told them that they really can't afford to be doing that, considering the whole soccer team were these arrogant French immersion students, that most of the student body considered pretty queer to start with, and that it wasn't helping their case. Interestingly enough... that got them to stop for the most part. (Maybe that's why they were being bullies? Because they wanted to show some sort of masculinity?)
High school was mostly uneventful in regards to bullying, I became a pretty big loner, and everyone seemed to leave me alone.
Even out of school now, I get the occasional bit of hate mail from people wishing some pretty horrible things upon me, because I'm trans, and that seems to bother people in my backwards little conservative, overly-religious town.
Being a transsexual, I mostly look back at these losers as people who ganged up, and beat up girls, really makes them quite pathetic.
I guess it's true what they say, kids who like to prey on others tend to know something's off about kids who are different, even if it's not obvious. I used to get picked on all the time in elementary school, teased all the time, beaten up constantly, till I started fighting back.
The thing is, I didn't fight back with fists, I'd just grab them by the wrists/collar, and throw them till they decided they were too tired/hurt to keep trying to punch/kick me. They'd often go get their buddies to try to help them, I could easily keep doing this to a group of 4-5 thanks to a very early puberty, coupled with a hormonal imbalance that made me about 6 foot 2 at age 12.
Shitty part is that they'd end up with all the injuries, which made it appear I was the one doing the bullying, got in shit all the time... Yeah, blame it on the gentle giant... Well, that was until a teacher actually seen all this happen. Some little shit thought it would be a good idea to take a length of tree branch to my back, which he did. I grabbed it from him shortly after, brought it between his legs, and lifted him into the air... and about 3-4 yards behind me, he landed on his face, and chipped a tooth. By then, the teacher that witnessed this came over, the 3-4 other little shits scuttled off, and I tried to explain myself to her, she said she saw what happened, and that I was just defending myself, and she finally clued in that it was pretty much the same deal all along. The little shit was bawling his eyes out, and since his little friends had bailed prior, I had to carry the little shit back to the school nurse, had him over my shoulder the whole way, making sure he felt every bump on the way (as my shoulder was kinda lodged in his gut) After that, people tended to stop trying to pick fist-fights with me, although the verbal abuse continued.
Once I hit junior high school, it all started back up again, but much worse, the teasing had turned to bigoted hatred, the guys caught up to my size, and I couldn't throw them around anymore. I had even gotten beaten up by half a soccer team because I punched some ass in the shoulder after he threw a slush drink at me, my older sister came and scared them away. The next day, the whole lot of them were calling me gay, ******, and the like. I told them that they really can't afford to be doing that, considering the whole soccer team were these arrogant French immersion students, that most of the student body considered pretty queer to start with, and that it wasn't helping their case. Interestingly enough... that got them to stop for the most part. (Maybe that's why they were being bullies? Because they wanted to show some sort of masculinity?)
High school was mostly uneventful in regards to bullying, I became a pretty big loner, and everyone seemed to leave me alone.
Even out of school now, I get the occasional bit of hate mail from people wishing some pretty horrible things upon me, because I'm trans, and that seems to bother people in my backwards little conservative, overly-religious town.
Being a transsexual, I mostly look back at these losers as people who ganged up, and beat up girls, really makes them quite pathetic.
I was bullied throughout elementary school and junior high. I was never bullied physically ? it was all verbal and emotional bullying ? but it has, needless to say, left me with a lot of scars and issues that I am still dealing with.
I was picked on pretty bad in 6th grade but then I took up weight lifting and people left me alone for the most part after that. There was this one time in high school where somebody used to think messing with me was funny until I calmly told him that I've hated him for years and I wanted to kill him. After that he became MUCH nicer. Everybody else left me alone because I looked and acted like I was voted "most likely to shoot up his school".
I was also bullied by people who got away with it, all the time...I was in the same school for 16 years (it was a school that caters to all stages of education) and people would always find something to antagonize me for, well, it was mainly because I wouldn't join in with the rediculing of others, I never liked bullying people, and at my school you either bullied or you were bullied, with no middle groundjackpackage200 said:
I remember particularly my class when I was 12 and 13, I don't know if all kids do this but my class had this habit of singling out one person to pick on (it was me a disproportionate amount of times) and when it wasn't me it was either this guy who was morbidly obese due to a glandular problem or this girl with learning difficulties...very seldom was it anyone else
aside from anything else, why would you bully someone who can't defend themselves? I never understood that, (not that I couldn't defend myself but the other 2 sure as hell couldn't) and since I chose not to join in, I was every third target, I never gave them the satisfaction of responding but the one thing that really annoyed me was, that whenever they shifted targets from one of the other two to me or the other-other one, the person who it was previously was so glad to be out of the crosshairs that they would do 5 times as much bullying as the rest of the class
okay rant over
EDIT I should probably mention that I only ignored verbal abuse, anything physical and it would escalate, and I'd be the one that got into trouble because I'm the one they had any sort of expectations of (the teachers that is)