Current Events > Were any of you guys bullied back when you were in school?

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No I was an anti-bully, mostly because my brother has some sever learning disabilities and he would be relentlessly picked on so I had to kick a lot of asses and that just naturally evolved to me sticking for everyone that got picked on.

UT1999 posted...

what about that one dude who used to be your friend, you saw him around, right?

In high school? Nope. In fact I don't know if I ever met him after graduating grade school. And I made another, nerdier friend. We were never as close but at least what I had with my second friend was genuine.

As for my third grade "best friend," I have no idea what happened to him. And I don't really care either. I don't hate him or anything, I mean we were kids and I do understand it. If I bumped into him we would probably just exchange cordial, slightly awkward greetings and that would be it. Maybe he changed. If he bacame a good person and he's happy, good for him I guess. Although if I found out he was the type who betrayed people around him I sure wouldn't be surprised.

action52 posted...

In high school? Nope. In fact I don't know if I ever met him after graduating grade school. And I made another, nerdier friend. We were never as close but at least what I had with my second friend was genuine.

As for my third grade "best friend," I have no idea what happened to him. And I don't really care either. I don't hate him or anything, I mean we were kids and I do understand it. If I bumped into him we would probably just exchange cordial, slightly awkward greetings and that would be it. Maybe he changed. If he bacame a good person and he's happy, good for him I guess. Although if I found out he was the type who betrayed people around him I sure wouldn't be surprised.

supposedly that is extremely common though, one friend leaves to join the in crowd, happened a little to me too.

Not physically but was called names often. There was this one girl in high school who made it her personal project to put me down every day, and for some reason every semester I was "lucky" enough to end up in at least one class with her, even though I was a high level student and she wasn't close to that. I know they say forgive and forget but screw that I seriously hope her adult life was one tragedy after another. I did nothing to her to make her hate me and she still treated me like shit 24/7.

I also have a memory of my second year in high school. Because the class was so big there were a few super un-cool kids who were actually below me in the social strata.

In the free period after lunch I was hanging out in the gym, sitting on the bleachers, and one of them was shooting baskets and just REALLY bad at it, I mean making a real fool of himself, just watching him made me cringe a little. A bunch of other kids were making fun of him, and I thought of joining in... then pictured myself doing that, being no better than the kids who had bullied me. And even though he was an annoying little shit who had never been remotely nice to me, I knew I never wanted to be someone who picked on those weaker than me. I just walked away.

I was no hero. I sure wasn't brave enough to stick up for him. But I wasn't going to join in on kicking him when he was down.

UT1999 posted...

supposedly that is extremely common though, one friend leaves to join the in crowd, happened a little to me too.

Oh yeah, I know it is. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Nah, 9th grade some people were jealous so they tried to be tough and it just made me laugh.

I was always one of the more popular ones, other than others being jealous never really had any issues.

In kindergarten then in 6th grad. I joined the football team in 7th and all but one of my bullies played offense as running backs or recievers. I was a defensive end so guess who I got to hit everyday after school. Well one other did play same position as me but I guess his ego took a blow when I took his first string spot. Coach would only put him in specific plays where he was better at a certain thing than me. Him and I became training partners in wrestling afterwards and he was pretty chill

It was the quarterback of the team who told me to start standing up for myself and that's just how I chose to do it so I wouldn't get in trouble.

The other bullied started back up in high school when I no longer played football but I had grown some balls by then and would dish it back at him and the vice principal turned a blind eye cause he knew which one of us was the actual bully.

He said that he wished he could just give us both a set of boxing gloves and let us fight it out. That woulda been a poor idea though I've never been much of a fighter.

Handful of times I was on the receiving end of bullying behaviour in school. (Rumours, gossip and intimidation)

Looking back I was more of a little shit. So a lot of the stuff I said, took part in was definitely not OK.

BDSMKane posted...

Bullied is a fairly broad term, but Im usually more surprised (and doubtful) of people who werent. Kids are cruel, and will pick on anyone for anything.

Yes, I was, from first grade until the end. I did fight back once in fifth, but otherwise I was just a recipient.

Yeah sadly maybe true. You think most of those mean kids turned into ok adults, idk

I was a bully in elementary school for a year, which sucks because it was only toward a kid whose parents owned/managed a convenience store near my home that we all got along with. They absolutely loved me and I don't know why I was a piece of shit to him. I like to think it was the toxicity from a couple step-cousins that convinced me to do it, but it's still my fault for being that way.

Middle school was nothing special, but I was technically "bullied" in high school sophomore year by couple racist kids. Some guy shared the same name as me, so he and his friends would casually try throwing slurs at me or say things like, "hurr, wut are u listening 2, gospel music???" because I always had a portable CD player on me. That assumption stemming from me being black, lol. Their words. Never bothered me; thought it was stupid.