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31 Mar 2012, 9:09 pm

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Children are, by nature, cruel little f****.

It's a sad thing, but that's life.


I had a wide mean streak in me when I was a kid.
Come to think of it I still do..... :D


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31 Mar 2012, 10:45 pm

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Children are, by nature, cruel little f****.

It's a sad thing, but that's life.


I had a wide mean streak in me when I was a kid.
Come to think of it I still do..... :D


That would be because you never grew up :P


I never intend to grow up.....



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01 Apr 2012, 9:13 pm

Two thirds? What the hell?

Try five sixths. Or eight ninths. Or so on and so forth. =P

Low levels of seratonin do not mix with normal-to-high levels of seratonin, thank you very much.



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02 Apr 2012, 12:03 am

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Two thirds? What the hell?

Try five sixths. Or eight ninths. Or so on and so forth. =P

Low levels of seratonin do not mix with normal-to-high levels of seratonin, thank you very much.


Kids with low levels of serotonin have Asperger's? Is that what you're saying?


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02 Apr 2012, 5:05 am

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Two thirds? What the hell?

Try five sixths. Or eight ninths. Or so on and so forth. =P

Low levels of seratonin do not mix with normal-to-high levels of seratonin, thank you very much.


Kids with low levels of serotonin have Asperger's? Is that what you're saying?


Other way around. People with Asperger's, Autism, Manic Depression, sometimes ADD or ADHD have low levels of serotonin, which makes them easy targets for other kids with normal to high levels of serotonin.

[You know, I hate my browser, because spell-check tells me both ways I could possibly spell serotonin are wrong some days, but other days tells me they're both right.]



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02 Apr 2012, 5:48 am

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Children are, by nature, cruel little f****.

It's a sad thing, but that's life.


Agreed, but the sadder thing is that at my school in England the teachers admired the bullies and disliked the victims. The bullies were all members of the school rugby team and were well thought of among the school staff. The weaklings who's lives were being made a misery buy these morons were seen as sissies and therefore fair game for the bullies.



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02 Apr 2012, 1:00 pm

piroflip wrote:
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Children are, by nature, cruel little f****.

It's a sad thing, but that's life.


Agreed, but the sadder thing is that at my school in England the teachers admired the bullies and disliked the victims. The bullies were all members of the school rugby team and were well thought of among the school staff. The weaklings who's lives were being made a misery buy these morons were seen as sissies and therefore fair game for the bullies.


What a bunch of as*holes. I mean the teachers.

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02 Apr 2012, 2:22 pm

LennytheWicked wrote:
Other way around. People with Asperger's, Autism, Manic Depression, sometimes ADD or ADHD have low levels of serotonin, which makes them easy targets for other kids with normal to high levels of serotonin.


LtW, I'm a little confused. You're saying that Autistics have lower levels of serotonin, yet the article you cited in this thread you posted...

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4522393 ... t=#4522393

...states:

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Fifty years ago, researchers discovered elevated levels of serotonin in the blood of children with autism.


That's saying they serotonin levels are higher, not lower.

Am I misunderstanding something?


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02 Apr 2012, 2:32 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
piroflip wrote:
abacacus wrote:
Children are, by nature, cruel little f****.

It's a sad thing, but that's life.


Agreed, but the sadder thing is that at my school in England the teachers admired the bullies and disliked the victims. The bullies were all members of the school rugby team and were well thought of among the school staff. The weaklings who's lives were being made a misery buy these morons were seen as sissies and therefore fair game for the bullies.


What a bunch of as*holes. I mean the teachers.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


It's not uncommon for some teachers to favor bullies.
In the business world, some managers love bullies that can channel their aggression toward progre$$.



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05 Apr 2012, 4:19 pm

They needed a study to figure this out? Out of the 10 or so people I have met that had some form of autism, and a few people with ADHD and other "disorders", only 1 had never told me about being bullied, and he might have been and just didn't want to talk about it...

Fortunately I wasn't bullied a lot so far, it seems the people that do that get bored and move on if the target is able to completely shut off and ignore whatever they are doing...

Raptor wrote:
abacacus wrote:
Raptor wrote:
abacacus wrote:
Children are, by nature, cruel little f****.

It's a sad thing, but that's life.


I had a wide mean streak in me when I was a kid.
Come to think of it I still do..... :D


That would be because you never grew up :P


I never intend to grow up.....

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is not. Growing up is also boring.



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05 Apr 2012, 5:15 pm

Teachers often hated me but kids were cool.



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06 Apr 2012, 10:55 am

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http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.aspx?Docid=663173 Accessed: 2012-03-30. Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/66YwtkTjO

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Nearly two-thirds of American children with autism have been bullied at some point in their lives, and these kids are bullied three times more often than their siblings without autism, a new survey finds.

Bullying occurs in every grade but is worst in grades five through eight, with 42 percent to 49 percent of students with autism spectrum disorders in those grades bullied, according to a survey of nearly 1,200 parents of children with autism aged 6 to 15.

The Interactive Autism Network (IAN), a project of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, conducted the survey.


Good luck finding ANYONE that hasn't been bullied in some form as a kid, autistic or not....


Yes but are most people bullied consistently through their childhood, even if they moved schools every year?


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06 Apr 2012, 11:40 am

Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
piroflip wrote:
abacacus wrote:
Children are, by nature, cruel little f****.

It's a sad thing, but that's life.


Agreed, but the sadder thing is that at my school in England the teachers admired the bullies and disliked the victims. The bullies were all members of the school rugby team and were well thought of among the school staff. The weaklings who's lives were being made a misery buy these morons were seen as sissies and therefore fair game for the bullies.


What a bunch of as*holes. I mean the teachers.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer


It's not uncommon for some teachers to favor bullies.
In the business world, some managers love bullies that can channel their aggression toward progre$$.


Yeah-- that was pretty much my story too. Still is.

The bullies are still winning. The Aspie is still losing.

Or, that's the way it would be if I did not, for the most part, simply refuse to compete. That's why I've pretty much stopped.

They're numerous, we're few. They're strong, we're weak. They're right, we're wrong, and if we try to do much of anything about it, we're whining and asking for special treatment (or being aggressive and in need of more medication).

Please pass the shovel. :roll: :twisted: :evil:


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06 Apr 2012, 12:13 pm

I just ordered a book from on here someone had advertised in their signature. It's about a 16 year old girl with AS and I could relate to how she tries to relate to her peers and they treat her bad. I am not sure if I would call it bullying because they were reacting to her unkindness. But the teacher did side with the kids making it all her fault. I felt sad for the girl and I suspect she isn't diagnosed so no one knows she has it. But I mean if the kids feel so hurt by her because she "leaves them out of everything" and doesn't hang out with them, why don't they invite her in their group and be with her and follow her around or try and talk to her? I am only judging by what I have read so far in the preview.



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07 Apr 2012, 2:55 pm

In other words, study finds that 90% of tigers have stripes.


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08 Apr 2012, 6:17 pm

I'm really glad people are talking about bullying now. Especially psychological bullying. When I was bullied as a kid, it was extreme psychological torment, for about 4 years, but back then (which wasn't even that long ago), psychological bullying wasn't even talked about. All my teachers were oblivious. My parents were oblivious. I was invisible. It was awful.

The good thing about this experience is that I'm now on the lookout for kids like me who are getting hurt and slipping under the radar. I can speak out against this now, and I know what I'm talking about. I can create a well-worded explanation as to why it is so wrong.

Once again, I'm so happy bullying is being seriously addressed as an issue nowadays.