Question:Have you ever been a victim of bullies?

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Not really. I've always been taller and stronger than most of my peers.

I was bullied in my first years of Secondary school (when I was about 11 up until 13)- they used to make me do their classwork and homework. Also, when I was in Year 2 (when I was about 6 years old); there were these really popular girls in my class and I thought they were my friends, but my poor social skills and failure to understand social cues had given me the wrong impression; it was only until I told my mother when she asked how my day was that I realized their true intentions (they directly told me that they were going to make perfume out of rubbish from the bin and mud etc, to make me smell bad). Also, when I was in Year 5 (when I was 9 years old) I was playing football (soccer) on a grassy field and a boy from the class above ran up to me and pulled my trousers down from behind.

..it's probably VERY likely that many Aspies have experienced bullying. For those of you that have, I'm so sorry that you had to go through that. NO ONE deserves to be a victim...people can be SO mean!

I was almost dropped headfirst into a trashcan by a kid at my church when I was 8. Since then no one's messed with me though, possibly because of my height and natural scowl.

Up until ninth grade, I had meltdowns (not sure of they're typical of aspire so I'll explain: basically a mental seizure. I start crying or screaming and shaking and sometimes I'll get violent and sometimes I'll hit myself and they're just horrible and I will start repeating things over and over) nearly daily. Most people either ignored me, or were mean to me. In eighth grade, it was especially horrible. I had a meltdown every single day in second period, and sometimes in other periods. In my advanced drama class though I was sort of the class pet. I went to a mental hospital for two different one and a half week periods. The second time, when I got back, my drama class had made a welcome back poster. In the summer between eighth and ninth grade, I started a new medication (I've been on it ever since) that worked wonders. In ninth grade, I started to get a few actual friends my own age. I started a club at school, a writing club, and in December of ninth grade I started at a theatre near my house (I've been in theatre my while life, but not this theater) and I've been there for two years. I didn't get a single office referral (versus near daily before high school) in my entire ninth grade year, or the first semester of tenth grade. The second semester (right now) I started being homeschooled. I'll be graduating in June. In 9&10th grade I had a few friends, but at the theatre... Everyone. Freaking. Adores. Me. Since starting homeschool, I've been socializing more too because several of my friends are homeschooled. So... Yeah... [/ramble]

I had my share of bullying, which got intense in middle school (Grade 6 was bad, Grades 7 and 9 were HELL, but oddly enough Grade 8 wasn't so bad). I moved around to various schools, more than most kids, b/c of my dad's work. I got shut in janitor closets, had a group of idiots play catch with my gym shorts, had the books kicked out from under my arm while walking (in grade 9...on several occasions) - dealt with plenty of sarcasm, which I usually caught, but would have rather been oblivious to. After Grade 9 I resolved NEVER to take gym class again. The comment I got most frequently was "I don't understand how you can be so smart, yet so stupid."

In my early 20s, I unfortunately still got some bullying including at college/university; these two stereotypical jock guys that I'd run into at house parties, on campus, clubs etc would mock me that I must be gay and one of them sarcastically told me that he wanted to get it on with me. This happened even after he saw me chatting with females in a bar. One of those guys is a teacher today, btw, and I wouldn't be a tad surprised if he bullies anyone who even slightly appears on the spectrum in his classes, the intolerant imbecile.

I'm fairly big now and it shows that I've worked out, so that definitely mitigates any bullying confrontations.

I had that problem for a long time. Eventually if I just avoided them, fosused on school work, and didn't react to them they started to leave me alone, but it still happens everyonce in a while.

I am frequently bullied by my classmates. They laugh at me, make unpleasant comments, throw things at me, mock my behaviour etc.

Yeah! Verbal, emotional and physical! mostly verbal. I get called disgusting and weirid. [both good weirdo and bad!! !) I might update later... =/ Bullying sucks!! !

People try and annoy me, insult me etc, usually behind my back. Nobody really tries to start on me directly anymore because although these days I dont get into fights, I'm very strong and quite tough, and as a bully once put it to a friend of mine "pushing him is like poking a bear"

Yes - And that is as far as I will go into it.

Does online bullying count? I had people find out my real name and home phone number and they harassed and called my family. They also trolled my (now deleted) livejournal and had a long forum thread dedicated to discussing me and what a horrible human being I supposedly was.

Ironically, the only real bullying I got in school was from a teacher in the 6th grade! When I was growing up (90s) people started becoming more sensitive toward bullying, plus my dad was a well known teacher who was friends with lots of people and the then superintendent. This 6th grade teacher made my life hell, she made me cry frequently and even accused me of cheating! I was so happy to be done with the 6th grade because of her.

I haven't been physically bullied since the 8th Grade.

Got verbally bullied and cyber bullied in the 10 grade. Also, my locker's lock has been popped open a month ago. Good thing there was nothing but trash at the time.

I've been fairly lucky when it comes to bullying, I've only had about two experiences.

In year 6 my best friend of 6 years realized that I wasn't "cool" and literally overnight she went from being my best friend to my worst enemy. She would insult me in class and especially in PE (I actually did suck at it though). So I became friends with a hearing impared girl and some other people but then my hearing impared friend got bullied as well so I didn't feel too bad because I had someone else in the same boat as me.

In year 7 I had three friends but the rest of the class spent the year teasing me about my lisp (even the teacher made a joke once).
Thinking back on those years I remember how unhappy I was but thanks to playing the violin I managed to pull through.

Generally I think I've being able to avoid a lot of bullying because I keep to myself alot. I don't bother anyone, so no one bothers me.