how where you bullied

[spartan231490]

Physically, emotionally, pretty much everything. Things I'm glad I missed out on: Swirlies.
In high school, most of them grew up, and I grew up enough to not give a shit. Honestly, in the grand scheme of things I think that bullying made me a better person. It made me grow up and really think about a lot of things. It made me a stronger person.

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.

Thank you, god I hate that the world is turning bullying into the source of all evil. People, especially children, aren't as fragile as our society likes to believe. Don't believe me? Look up rights of passage and see what other cultures encourage or even force "children" to do, children who are fundamentally the same as our children.

 

[Epic_Mushroom]

Physically, emotionally, pretty much everything. Things I'm glad I missed out on: Swirlies.
In high school, most of them grew up, and I grew up enough to not give a shit. Honestly, in the grand scheme of things I think that bullying made me a better person. It made me grow up and really think about a lot of things. It made me a stronger person.

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.

Thank you, god I hate that the world is turning bullying into the source of all evil. People, especially children, aren't as fragile as our society likes to believe. Don't believe me? Look up rights of passage and see what other cultures encourage or even force "children" to do, children who are fundamentally the same as our children.

The main difference would be that those children were actually celebrated and given acknowledgement for passing these tests. Though I can see the positive side-effects of bullying, having been bullied for nine lovely years in a row, I'd say that it's not really worth it. Bullying exists and we must all learn how to cope with it, but actually hailing it as a means to advance growth in our young... No, I don't see that.

Personally, I don't remember much from that time, much of it's probably suppressed. I do remember ignoring them most of the time, and when they inconvenienced me I'd simply tell the teacher. I guess I should be glad to grow up in a country where one's ability at sports isn't valued over the way we treat our fellow human beings. That being said, I also remember being a bully to my younger brother. We're allright now, but there are so many thing that I regret. I see the damage in him, and I can't help wonder how much of that I did. Becoming an emotional amputee is hardly what I'd call a positive trait in anyone, but you're entitled to your own opinions, I guess. I just miss my brother.

 

[spartan231490]

Physically, emotionally, pretty much everything. Things I'm glad I missed out on: Swirlies.
In high school, most of them grew up, and I grew up enough to not give a shit. Honestly, in the grand scheme of things I think that bullying made me a better person. It made me grow up and really think about a lot of things. It made me a stronger person.

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.

Thank you, god I hate that the world is turning bullying into the source of all evil. People, especially children, aren't as fragile as our society likes to believe. Don't believe me? Look up rights of passage and see what other cultures encourage or even force "children" to do, children who are fundamentally the same as our children.

The main difference would be that those children were actually celebrated and given acknowledgement for passing these tests. Though I can see the positive side-effects of bullying, having been bullied for nine lovely years in a row, I'd say that it's not really worth it. Bullying exists and we must all learn how to cope with it, but actually hailing it as a means to advance growth in our young... No, I don't see that.

Personally, I don't remember much from that time, much of it's probably suppressed. I do remember ignoring them most of the time, and when they inconvenienced me I'd simply tell the teacher. I guess I should be glad to grow up in a country where one's ability at sports isn't valued over the way we treat our fellow human beings. That being said, I also remember being a bully to my younger brother. We're allright now, but there are so many thing that I regret. I see the damage in him, and I can't help wonder how much of that I did. Becoming an emotional amputee is hardly what I'd call a positive trait in anyone, but you're entitled to your own opinions, I guess. I just miss my brother.

I'm not an emotional amputee, I learned how to deal with my issues, not how to bury and ignore them. Never said that bullying should be supported, only that it's not as harmful as most people tend to think because children are more resilient than people believe, and that you can learn from being bullied, just like any other experience, good or bad.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

The usual stuff, making fun of me for being both smart and overweight. Nothing that hasn't happened to millions of kids fro decades. it stopped when I lost 50 pounds, gained 20 of muscle, and they learned I taught myself to disassemble an assault rifle.

 

[Wardnath]

Pre-primary - I got beaten up by the older students (read: years 4+, not even making this up), had my glasses ripped away from me and thrown across the place, got yelled at by the teacher (for which I can't fucking remember), and got excluded by my own age group.

Yeah... not fun.

Primary - Actually, primary wasn't too bad, really. In fact I'd even go so far as to say it was the best years of my life. O.O

High school - Got a lot of shit for my sexuality in there, to the point where I'd get sexually harassed and groped more times than I could count (This was by the straight males, mind you). Which led to me fighting against any certain thoughts that would come up for fear of giving them any more ammunition. Worst part? I've only just realised that I'm at least bisexual (I'm 19 now). I got harassed for it so badly that I never knew until now.

As to how I feel about that, well, I believe this sums it up fairly nicely.

 

[The Funslinger]

was pushed around throughout primary school, went to secondary school and three year tens (year seven being the youngest there, year 11 the oldest) said to someone in my year, they would give him a tenner to beat me up. He pushed me against the lockers and I kind of saw where life would go from there and punched him in the face. A year ten grabbed me and shouted "hey, you can't do that!" so I smashed him in the face with my elbow and ran like fuck.

Generally, it's my policy to talk back, then hit back when the physical abuse starts. E.G. Something that wasn't exactly bullying (but the guy is a cocky shit anyway, and feels up this girl I'm friends with no matter what she does.) Several of us were playing poker, and he stood behind me, silently reading out my cards to everyone, and they were like "quit it" and I said "stop doing that" so he clipped me on the head, and I didn't react for a moment, then suddenly elbowed him in the stomach. He scurried to the other side of the table and started bitching at me for ages. Hilarious... I think he gets at me because I'm quite small, he's the size of a gorilla (with other similarities) and nobody is scared of his height/weight.

Edit: The point I'm making, is don't establish yourself as an easy target. Even if you spend all your time after doing exactly the opposite, people at school only give a damn about your first impression.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I had an ass who sat next to me in band. He'd constantly rip my papers out of my binder, and sometimes in half. No exciting thing happened to me: told the principal, he got some detentions, he had to come to apologize to me, we switched seats in class.

 

[Togs]

Never really did, I was always one of the "weirdos" so the bullies really didnt know what ot make of me.
The odd few did try but I generally just laughed in their faces and walked away, which confused them no end.

 

[Plurralbles]

just teased with it getting worse because I didn't understand how to take it.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

I was bullied for years by people who were my "friends" and it has only really stopped within the last couple years. At lunch they would play a game in which I was non-existent and included me in it. I couldn't walk away because I had no one else to go to. At the end of the year everyone signed one anothers shirts. I recently found mine and just realised all the insults written on it. I was also called (and am still called) a "weirdo" and "******". On top of that people said I had nits and smelt bad (which made me very self conscious). Most of the time I never hit back, but sometimes I did and they usually left me alone after that.

 

[Sharps92]

Na, never bullied. Always had a good group of friends, and most of the people in my year at school I am pretty cool with. Sorry to change the general tone of the thread!

 

[Ickorus]

I first started getting people picking on me when I was in my first year of middle school, I was always defending this kid who was always being bullied and was a total wuss to boot and after a while I just ended up being one of the uncool kids and people pretty much just bullied me because it was the popular thing to do. I also had long hair which gave people ammunition for some truly terrible insults (Terrible = Crap in this case).

Anyways, after a while the kid who I spent several years defending and who led me into my predicament suddenly wasn't being picked on any more; he had had a growth spurt making him larger than most other students. When this occured he decided to turn on me, the ungrateful little shit, and of course others followed him turning even more people against me.

In the end some kid got physical with me and in my anger at the knowledge that my school being completely shit wouldn't do anything about the incident I contacted the police which got the boy expelled and got me a reasonable sum of money from him in compensation.

Nobody bothered me after that, I can't imagine why.

 

[Erecting a Sentry]

My mum and dad didn't but me designer expensive clothes. About it. Bullied fuck out of for it. Funny thing is I live a bigger, cleaner and fancier house them. Funny how it works out

 

[Mr Fixit]

I have red hair, need i say more?

 

[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.

Bro tip: pick up nearest telephone now and dial 911

Would have helped if the police weren't incompetent and weren't on their side.

 

[gxs]

Some guy wanted to pick on me in the eight grade because he was under the impression that (since we were both in our last year of school) he would get away with it. I punched him and became the school hero for a weak or so until people forgot.

I was not bullied otherwise.

 

[Armored Prayer]

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.

 

[PatrickXD]

I got bullied by some guy, during class he went too far. Now, I can live with insulting me, my parents and any other family member. He went and insulted my fucking dog.
So I threw a lab stool at him, hitting him in the head. He got a broken nose and some severe concussion from the fall mostly. I got off Scott Free, as I always do, by arguing with the teachers that my reasoning was valid and that I had warned them multiple times that if they didn't do something about it all, someone was going to get hurt.
That's the first and last personal experience with bullying for me.

 

[DarkenedWolfEye]

My sister was always a *****; telling me what to do, yelling at me or hitting me if I didn't do it. She claims she's sorry, and that she's changed now that she's twenty-one and moved out. But here's the REALLY funny part: she hasn't changed one tiny little goddamn bit. She's still a *****, and she still orders me around like I'm a pet and not a younger sibling - and even I wouldn't punch my cats for not answering my inane questions.
She even had the balls to start crying like I was the one being mean to her and then get our mother involved, blubbering theatrically like she was ten (I wouldn't even be surprised if it was just a performance for sympathy - ***** is a goddamn ACTRESS. Specializes in crying scenes). God DAMNIT, why do I have to have her in my life?
Also, I'm a bit of a werewolf nut - it's a passion of mine, and you'd be surprised how much ammunition this gives bored 8th grade motherfuckers. Following me around at recess while I was trying to talk to my one and only friend, screaming about how I have sex with wolves or howling at me. Sometimes they'd go so far as to wear fake furry ears and pretend to jerk off in front of me. Strangely, no teacher ever noticed. They got away with it all fucking year.
Yeah ... I'm still mad a year later, as you may be able to tell.

 

[Jharry5]

I didn't get bullied in primary school... secondary school, however, was another matter altogether.
There was one lad in my form who, for whatever reason, decided that he really didn't like me. (I was the shortest guy in the form, quiet, smart, always polite to teachers and had a weird sense of humour. Maybe that's why.) Cue years of name-calling (which, at the time, I couldn't really handle), throwing things at me (not always when the teacher's back was turned) and, whenever he got bored during breaks/lunchtime, hunting me down and beating me up, just for shits and giggles.
The worst example of this was when his friends dragged me into the football court (basically, a fenced of patch of gravel with football nets up) and watched him beat me senseless whilst they watched and cheered like it was the world's most one-sided UFC cage match or something.
Yeah... eventually, he lost interest. Funnily enough, it was around the time that we started our GCSE's, where my marks stood in complete opposition to that thing he'd told me repeatedly over the years; that I was 'worthless'...