Bullies and the Like

[tay120n64]

On the topic of bullies, I find it rather interesting that I have not once ever gotten my ass kicked.

I was unpopular, a smart-ass, extremely weird, not very athletic, somewhat feminine, a smart-ass, and easy to pick on. Sure I did get made fun of a fair deal, but never outright bullied. Maybe people in Arkansas are all talk?

Although, there was one time when I was around 8 that this one guy, who was two years older and nearly twice my frail, little size and who had a bad habit of picking on me and my friends at the apartment complex, finally pissed me off enough that I confronted him. To be honest, I don't remember the situation at all. I remember walking up to him and walking away, but my friends told me that I completely kicked his ass. Regardless, he didn't mess with any of us anymore.

I guess it just goes to show not to mess with the little guy?

[SoulBlazerFan]

I was also unathletic, quiet, weird, ect. I was also bullied somewhat, not only by bullies but also by people I know well, people that called me friends, hell, even family. I was an easy target.

The only person I ever got into a fight with was my brother, and, while I don't remember it, my friend told me I once decked him in the face.

However, I remember once in the third grade, several students surrounded me, and one of them tripped me and I fell into a pile of mud. That was pretty upsetting.

I've always believed bullies are bullies because their life in someway sucks, either home life, maybe they were picked on themselves and had to put that pain on someone else, or they're closet homosexuals who are too embarassed with themselves to be who they really are. It's a show, trying to pretend to be more masculine than they really are.

Let me just say I'm not homophobic, the only reason I'm only saying that is because two kids that used to pick on me both turned out to be homosexual in the end, so I feel that's part of the reason they picked on others- to try and hide who they really were.

[Freedan]

Beware the little ones, for they will fuck you up.

I never had a bullying problem growing up. I wasn't one of the most popular kids in grade school, but people generally liked me well enough.

In high school, I just had a small circle of friends, and was invisible to everyone else. But all the popular kids were assholes anyway, so I wouldn't want to be among them even if I had the choice.

I was lucky to never be bullied, but if someone had tried, dental surgery would be their new best friend.

[Jason Tandro]

I just got bullied by an entire forum.

We were talking about aborton. Some guy asked me if I was a virgin.

I said: "Actually I'm not a virgin because I was raped." and then continued with the debate.

He said: "You were raped? Like somebody put it in your butt, or you were drugged and conned into having vaginal sex with a woman?

And your religion keeps you very very blind to the world of responsible premarital sex, which people have every day. Do not make assumptions about "adult" decisions which you have never had to make. Speculating on such matters as if you're some sort of expert is actually a little insulting."

I blew up, because he was way too insensitive regarding this very personal detail about me, and somehow I ended up being the asshole.

Maybe I shouldn't have blown up, true, but only one person called him out.

[Mantaray]

initially it was just gossips i had to deal with. someone who tried to start telling people i was supposedly racist, which was after i didn't verbally answer her question about the subject. then another person decides to single me out through a lame rumor about me and actually made friends through the self-victimizing. couldn't talk to most upperclassmen after that. who told the underclassmen.

none of them ever approached me about it, actually O_o so, i know the starting detail, but im afraid to know what else people started saying afterwards.

[EverPhoenix]

tay120n64 wrote:

I was unpopular, a smart-ass, extremely weird, not very athletic, somewhat feminine, a smart-ass, and easy to pick on. Sure I did get made fun of a fair deal, but never outright bullied.

this suits my story quite well. i did get teased a bit (quite a bit), but never beaten up, really. although i do remember someone hitting me once or twice at school, but it was a fair exchange.

[inferiare]

Believe it or not, there was a time where I had no backbone. I wised up after I got bullied and smacked around. That was in 7th grade, I believe.

[Dark_Gaia]

hm yeah i was a big nerd at school. 6 foot 3 when i was 13 and soo lanky. the library was my sanctuary at lunchtime lol. but when i hit about 16 i started getting alot more solid n people stopped being how they were. maybe its cos they just grew up or they found me not an easy target anymore. i hated that school

[tay120n64]

It's kind of funny, because some people still think they can take advantage of me, but I've long since become the overconfident douchewagner I am today. When people tell me (not ask me) to do something I tend to respond with a hearty laugh or tell them jokingly to "fuck off and do it themselves".

I like to be helpful and kind, but I don't let people take advantage of me. It may stem back to seeing my mom always being taken advantage of (in fact I know it does). You can be the nice guy, but still not let people walk all over you. I like to think I practice that philosophy on a daily basis.

[Yet One More Idiot]

I was apparently a near-perfect bullying victim. I was bullied all the way through school - from reception class in primary, right through to my GCSEs in Year 11. Standard beatings (one-on-one, or ganged-up on), verbal abuse, destruction of personal property and schoolwork, the occasional mindgames (though not often, most of them were quite dumb in that regard), and threats that they'd come find me outside of school (the one thing that made me glad that the school I went to wasn't local to my home).

Through primary, there were three main kids who bullied me; each eventually got kicked out, only to be replaced with another bully; even worse, all three had been rejected from the other local primary schools for bullying, but were accepted to my school. Jermaine in reception and year 1 would beat me; Jemil in years 2 through 4 would sometimes get the rest of his gaang of mates in on it too. Venetia (yep, that's right, I was beaten by a girl) in years 5 and 6 was so FAT it was impossible to fight back (believe me, I tried). In secondary school, most of my registration group bullied me at various different times.

The only good thing is, the secondary I'd wanted to go to, I didn't because Venetia was sent there by her parents. My mates (who did go there - who were themselves ex-bullies who'd also been kicked out of that other primary school I mentioned, but actually reformed), told me that in year 9, Venetia got over-confident and got caught, and was expelled - publicly escorted out of the school buiulding during lunchtime by 3 of the senior teachers, past everyone, and dumped at the kerb to wait for her parents. O well.

[Flamez]

I was the small kid in primary school, and I was more interested in video games and 'girl' sports (swimming, yeah apparently its a girls sport) then the stuff 'men' played like football (AFL, not that junk you Americans and Europeans play ), because of this I was the target of bullying until middle school. By the 8th grade I was bigger then most kids, its amazing how fast bullying stops when you can deck someone in a few seconds.

Now I am studying education at university, I'm in my second year; one thing that I will not stand for in my class will be bullying, a repeat offender for bullying may find there grades slip no matter how good of an academic they are. Iv done a couple of practicums in schools now, and I have already seen the exact things that happened to me as a kid happen to others, it is something I will not tolerate when the kids are my students.

[psychokind]

I was always very popular, did sports, had tons of friends, my parents are upper middle-class and I started girls/drinking/smoking/coolstuff puberty at about 13 so I never got bullied, but bullied all the time. from primary school to high school, where I reached the peak together with my friends. I think I mentioned it before in a similar debate; we bullied classmembers into psychiatric treatment. even while in the army, I bullied others to not get bullied myself.

it stopped in university, where I had to make new friends very fast and realized my social networking doesn't benefit from bullying anymore.

[EverPhoenix]

psychokind wrote:

I was always very popular, did sports, had tons of friends, my parents are upper middle-class and I started girls/drinking/smoking/coolstuff puberty at about 13 so I never got bullied, but bullied all the time. from primary school to high school, where I reached the peak together with my friends. I think I mentioned it before in a similar debate; we bullied classmembers into psychiatric treatment. even while in the army, I bullied others to not get bullied myself. it stopped in university, where I had to make new friends very fast and realized my social networking doesn't benefit from bullying anymore.

you almost remind me of Light Yagami there

[Flamez]

EverPhoenix wrote:

psychokind wrote: I was always very popular, did sports, had tons of friends, my parents are upper middle-class and I started girls/drinking/smoking/coolstuff puberty at about 13 so I never got bullied, but bullied all the time. from primary school to high school, where I reached the peak together with my friends. I think I mentioned it before in a similar debate; we bullied classmembers into psychiatric treatment. even while in the army, I bullied others to not get bullied myself. it stopped in university, where I had to make new friends very fast and realized my social networking doesn't benefit from bullying anymore. you almost remind me of Light Yagami there

Dont tell him your real name or show him a picture of yourself!! Oh wait your on FB, your screwed!

[EverPhoenix]

Flamez wrote:

EverPhoenix wrote: psychokind wrote: I was always very popular, did sports, had tons of friends, my parents are upper middle-class and I started girls/drinking/smoking/coolstuff puberty at about 13 so I never got bullied, but bullied all the time. from primary school to high school, where I reached the peak together with my friends. I think I mentioned it before in a similar debate; we bullied classmembers into psychiatric treatment. even while in the army, I bullied others to not get bullied myself. it stopped in university, where I had to make new friends very fast and realized my social networking doesn't benefit from bullying anymore. you almost remind me of Light Yagami there Dont tell him your real name or show him a picture of yourself!! Oh wait your on FB, your screwed!

but he's not