Yeah, I was bullied to hell and back from primary school all the way to college (That's high school for you Americans....). Weight, glasses, preferred video games to rugby, the whole shebang. One day while I was hanging out with a group of mates, we got into the talk about bullying. The head of our little gang (Not really a gang, and not really the head.) was a real badass. His brother had a party and some kids from school he didn't like tried to crash it. He literally kicked them off the porch.
One day we were talking, and I was telling him about the shit from school I was suffering and he said "Dude...you are bigger than these cunts. Why are you taking this shit from them?" And that was all. Next day at school, when some kid made a joke about my weight, I threw him against a wall, fist crushing his throat and gave him a very throaty scream about how I did not appreciate his comments. Yeah, got suspended for a week, but from that day onwards, was never picked in. A few tried, but thy were solved pretty easily. Then I learnt martial arts (Wing Chun) and that helped when a few people tried to 'take me down a notch' (Whatever the hell that meant). The next couple of years of college were rather comfortable. Grew up, gained job, more friends, girlfriend/partner and laugh when I look at these guys that used to say I was worth shit and I'm managing a massive storeroom with thirteen employees under me and they're still working at McDonalds cleaning toilets, not even burger flipping. So much satisfaction.