Study Reveals Why "Nerds" Get Bullied

[skyfire_freckles]

My problem isn't my inability to pick up on social cues. I just can't think on my feet. Proactive conversations require the ability to interject, devise fluid sentences on the snap of a finger, and the ability to instantly organize and prioritize your thoughts. None of which I can do with split-second timing.

This!

I have a low wits score and the confused flaw.

Or maybe I got picked on for making roleplaying references in casual conversation...

 

[leviathanmisha]

As a former victim of bullying, it's most often a problem on the end of the aggressor. I was bullied cause unlike other girls in my elementary school, I'd rather play video games or read a book all day. I was once beat up by a 4th grader while I was in the second grade cause I bumped into him. Let me just tell you I didn't stay a victim for long...I learned to whoop some major ass by the time I was 11. But the bullying caused me to become a shut-in at some point...I didn't have a real friend until Junior High and every time I went outside, I checked to make sure no one was following me. It took almost 5 years, but I've stopped looking over my shoulder every five seconds, I don't flip when someone touches me, I can keep my anger at a healthy level and not rip someone's head off, and I'm not afraid to go to school anymore.

But yeah, the 10% is bull, it's much higher, but not all victims come forward and seek out about it and it's a real problem. In my old town, teachers just sat to one side and let it happen. Hell, sometime teachers joined in on it!

So maybe it's time to stop looking at the victim and look closer at the aggressor, cause 99% of the time, that's where you problem lies.

 

[deleted_scifidownbeat]

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[Cid Silverwing]

10%?

I smell Creationist propaganda.

 

[lacktheknack]

At least 99% of school-age kids will experience some form of bullying during their lifetime,

Fix'd.

 

[Archemetis]

Back in school I had every ability to be social, unfortunately in today's world being "social"
or "popular" in school goes hand-in-hand with:

Taking drugs, treating people like shit/or just plain beating the shit out of them in large groups, being an arsehole and more often than not being drunk...(which I guess is kinda covered by drugs)

I know that's not always the case, but in the schools I went to that was exactly the case.
I'm sorry I didn't want to be a drunken, foul-mouthed little fuck-face who's just as ready to punch someone in the face for being different then they are to roll up a fat one and get fucking wankered whilst drinking piss pour home-brand cider that they had to scrounge money from people to buy...
Not forgetting that when they scrounge money from people, if the people don't hand it over they either get the shit kicked out of them or referred to as "Pikeys"
Proving once again that all the drugs and alcohol that never gets the chance to exit their systems is definitely making what was left of their brains rot away and ooze out during their coke-induced fucking nosebleeds...

So really, was it a case of I didn't know how to be 'social' or was it a case of I didn't want to be a violent tosser with no fucking sense left in him?


Maybe they should do a study on that?

[EDIT]:

Upon Reflection, apologies if my language in this post offends anyone...
It really just gets me angry when people try to explain why I suffered needlessly throughout my school career by saying it was my fault for not speaking up...

 

[lacktheknack]

10%?

I smell Creationist propaganda.

That was strange and uncalled for. Why creationist? I find that creationists tend to think the worst of society, and thus, think of higher bullying rates...

 

[RussetRanger]

I'd say people get bullied because people are mostly stupid as well as assholes. I kinda feel like news at 11 on this article. There isn't a justification for bullying.

Put it in the right way and I concur. Bullies are idiots.

 

[vento 231]

So that's whats wrong with me......

 

[Beardly]

I really hate how this study explicitly states that any kid who gets bullied is somehow doing something that makes people not like them.

Step 2 of their 5 step process to help your kid is to have them "identify their mistake".

When I was in elementary school there was a kid that liked to call me Tubbs and punch me in the stomach. Apparently I offended him somehow.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Huh.


I always thought it was because they were weaker.

Smaller.

Looked different.

I mean, mental activities does it to, but really, I doubt thats what most bullies think about before they bully someone.

 

[Archemetis]

Huh.


I always thought it was because they were weaker.

Smaller.

Looked different.

I mean, mental activities does it to, but really, I doubt thats what most bullies think about before they bully someone.

Really fair point...
I mean the most I got before being bullied in school was "What are you looking at?"
Not, "Excuse me, mate but I'm afraid you failed to read my non-verbal facial-cues, I think this means me and my five friends are going to have to belittle you and publicly beat you as an example for the others, hope you don't mind?"

The part I can't seem to get my head around right now is, to be the kind of people who're conducting studies, the majority of them most of been through some kind of bullying, surely they're aware that there's not CAUSE of it.

 

[Kije]

Im not saying it was easy but you know, when I was in middle school, we tried the "kick his ass" method. I have to say, It paid off. Only needed to do it once.

Oh yeah, always let them get the first shot in.

 

[lem_is_cool]

I thought Simpsons explained it to be pheromones, all you have to do is make them wear nose plugs.

 

[Arbitrary Cidin]

Nerd studies? Why would this be relevant news for gamers?
Just what are you getting at, Tom?

 

[Lonan]

It's not 10%, it's 100%. We've done this all the time in my classes, it's 100%, even for the huge kids.