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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever been bullied? [View all]ieoeja
(9,748 posts)105. In freaking college of all places.
My general reaction was, "you've got to be kidding me?!?" But they kept it up for months til I lost my sanity one evening.
Last day of my freshman year I learned that my general reaction was most everybody else's reaction too. They could not conceive of college freshmen behaving in this fashion. Graduating senior told me that day the only reason nobody stepped in to do anything was that everybody thought I was a grad student and decided to defer to me as their elder.
Actually, I don't think the bullying was that mysterious. The lead bully was named "Gay". I'm assuming he decided to pick a target for bullying to preempt any bullying of himself. Which I can understand. Still rather childish.
When I was younger there was a neighborhood guy who certainly beleives he bullied me. He'd tell me to do this or that, I would refuse, he'd knock me down, I'd get up and start questioning him about the whole bullying thing. I have never understood the rationale behind it and was curious. This was repeated quite frequently over the years, sometimes I would even initiate the encounters because I really was trying to understand his thinking. The incidents would always end with him running away from me because I was so weird.
Many years later he ran into me in a bar. Started bragging about how he "terrorized" me when we were kids. I finally shrugged and said, "yeah, you were a real bad ass when you were 15 and I was 10; don't suppose you'd like to give it a go now, would you?" He was laughed out of the bar.
Bragging about being a teenage bully? There are some people I just will never understand.
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I was the nerdy autistic kid who was constantly emotionally bullied and humiliated.
Odin2005
May 2012
#6
Um, that was 'bullying' in my book and I'm sorry you had to put with it - n/t
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#43
I was a fat kid and always was teased. I tried to blend in and not speak up. I had 1 or 2 friends
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#12
Was bullied from 6th grade through my freshman year in high school. Then I, too, snapped and
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#13
Many times, but I always fought back even if the bully was older and a lot taller
aint_no_life_nowhere
May 2012
#19
Same here. Nobody bothered me again after I came back a couple years later and decked two of them.
leveymg
May 2012
#20
Yes. My parents were well educated and so they spoke "proper" English, not the local dialect..
truebrit71
May 2012
#28
No. One guy tried to an asshole to me the first week at a new high school, but I fucked his shit up
Ikonoklast
May 2012
#49
By a teacher in high school who, without my knowledge, shared a story I wrote with
LibDemAlways
May 2012
#54
Even though the things I did are beyond statutes of limitations, I cannot post them
slackmaster
May 2012
#63
How many DUers know that "fighting back" these days means you are expelled from school?
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#68
My niece carries pepper spray to school. She's been mercilessly bullied her entire school career
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#91
a tiny bit. about age 10, a larger girl focused on me for some reason, would push & hit me. one day
Liberal_in_LA
May 2012
#94
Yes, but at least once in my life I was the bully. I was also an idiot at the time.
jwirr
May 2012
#99
My freshman year at the private high school that I went to for two years
Tommy_Carcetti
May 2012
#108