Effects of Bullying Last Into Adulthood, Study Finds

[magical thyme]

63. you of course always have the option of putting me on ignore

and I do apologize if my posts raised your elevated bp, and am sorry that you have high bp. I was quite serious, and not trying to be smug, about my bp. It really did remain quite low.

I wrote a lengthy reply for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that you are writing lengthy, apparently declarative posts in this thread, which is a topic of interest to me and so attracted my attention. If you read my more recent reply to you, you will understand why.

Also, I am at home alone and lonely, so seeking "conversation" of sorts with humans, while simultaneiously avoiding chores that I don't feel like doing. I also felt you deserved a lengthy reply that explained my position, you wrote some snarky comments that merited a like response, and so on. My lengthy response to your math snark was to pat myself on the back a bit. I went through a 2-year clinical science program with the intention of continuing on, but my math skills were not adequate to compensate for human resources blatant lies to a classmate and to me about the real salary range for the local jobs, nor were they adequate to compensate for the university's blatant lies about local job placement. Since I got very little in return for my new degree, I at least like to remind myself that I did quite well in school, in a very earnest, yet naive way.

I would remind you that Jefferson was writing, "The Declaration of Independence" which gave clear context to what he was writing. Likewise, *now* I know that you were expressing your opinion. That was not clear in any of your posts except one.

One confusion within this thread is switching back and forth between discussing bullying as a crime versus discussing bullying on DU. They are two different discussions and it's hard to keep the topics separated within each individual post.

Lastly, before you put me on ignore, I see citing a source or including a qualifier simply as providing context for the reader. It helps readers to understand where you are coming from. Often when people go to the trouble to write extensively on the topic, they want people to read and understand their writing.

That is all. Now you can feel free to put me on ignore. Certainly I have put a few people on ignore who do succeed in raising my bp. I think you may be the first to put me on, but don't know for sure. Nobody has announced it to me before!

Please do try to enjoy the rest of your day. Again, I am sorry about your BP and, as I wrote in my last post, for all that you have suffered. As I wrote there, I can understand some of your suffering, although my experience of physical bullying came from my (now estranged) immediate family.