Harassment and bullying in COLLEGE

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Nice to finally hear back from you after you sounded so very desperate,

After reading your most recent post, fast, I am beginning to think you are simply a Drama Queen and everything that is happening to you has been caused by you.

By the way, sleeping with the faculty, very bad idea, divorced or not, for you and the faculty member.

I have a friend who is the union rep for her faculty at her college, she has to tell the faculty every semester, don't grade and screw in the same semester.

Sad but true.

Your most recent post is very confusing to read, and for me, I am done offering you advice. Good luck with your life kiddo.

I'm sorry this is happening to you. If it helps any your not a lone. That is the only thing I feel Like i understand in my lab class.

I was harassed by a couple girls in a university. I was hospital-bound over it...but not before reporting them to the discrimination department and they had to answer to the dean of the college, likely their parents were informed as well. Eventually admitted to it and were going to give me a phony apology which I declined.

Sad thing is, these girls probably didn't learn their lesson and were just mad they got caught.

Anyway, situations like this are why I literally hardly ever leave the house. Can't deal with harassment. Was pointed at and laughed at by some ugly customer service girl and her boss at a supermarket today.

God made it impossible for me to blend in...and frankly, I'm glad, because who's to say if I was some "normal" looking/acting person I wouldn't be one of those jerks.

@PaintingDiva: What?? The last thing I want is attention, I'm tired of being paranoid and having everyones attention on me. Drama queens are intentionally manipulative to get attention, I never intended on people focusing on me, I want to be *left alone*
I *never* have emotional outbursts in public however I have *professors* that do, I can't handle people watching me like I'm in some melodrama play, I will leave before it gets worse. I never cried in public, I never tore peoples crap down in public, I never said a god damn word in public, all i did was make damn art.

I cannot handle this level of emotional drama, i am tired of being sensitive to it, my anger is just the overflow of what I cannot release in a productive way.

I really do not want to come off as a drama queen, I'm just sick of blaming myself for everything. I *never* approached that teacher for anything except help in class however he approached me *several times* with obvious intention. And I admit it was tempting, but in the end I did not do it, and currently I have *0* contact with this teacher.

This looks really bad I can't believe what a horrible person I've become... I went from nobody to the incarnation of the Devil... I apologize....

@LostUndergrad9090: Thank you. I am just looking for some way to deal with this and not become a broken record in my mind and then outwardly show defensiveness/hostility... I am not looking for a lawsuit or to blackmail people like they did to me I just need some damn advice: find an appropriate coping mechanism or drop the hell out

You seem to be paranoid and interpreting slights against you when none was probably intended. If you reacted towards these perceived slights, people will scorn you because they dislike your hurtful accusations, ontop of the actual slights. If you just... left everyone alone and stopped reacting to their taunts... they'll probably leave you alone, eventually.

You should carry a small tape recorder and hand it in to the office once the tape is recorded over.

I do not scorn you for what you've done; if I did I would have to scorn myself as well because I've done similar things--in Grad School, no less. Fortunately I did have one friend there who helped me through the mess even if she didn't understand what it was all about, and their psychological drivel bounced right off. What happened to me, in many ways, was not as awful as what happened to you, and I'm so, so sorry you got hurt for it.

When I was an undergrad the things that really hurt happened, and if I'd understood just how my own idiotic behavior caused it all I could have avoided it. I won't get into that, there was an element in it of my being clingy for the same reason you stated.

I hope you can get help. A teacher should not be allowed to Iet things like that happen or act in the way she did. She sounds very immature and unprofessional herself. If I were you I would try to get legal advice too; this sounds like there might be at least collegic codes being broken here.

Dear OP, I re-read your original post and the follow up posts. I still have trouble following your narrative but I get the part where you said you rebuffed the faculty member's sexual overtures. Good for you. At my college, the art faculty was notorious for having affairs with their students, they are probably still at it despite all the laws in place now.

Are you talking about art critique when you say others are slamming your work? Or something else? I hated art critique because it was mostly other students blathering on pointlessly, I never took anyone's comments seriously. I still recall one person's comment of, 'red is a headache color'. Oh really? It still makes me laugh when I think about it.

I hope you get counseling either on or off campus and have some kind of support system in place. Of course all that has happened is grist for the mill for your art process. Use it that way if you like, it could be cathartic and some great art. If the faculty member persists in pursuing you and his ex wife is still making you miserable, report them both to the Dean of Faculty asap and if you get no satisfaction there, move up the ladder or hire a lawyer.

OP are you in America? Its not your fault, Americans are some of the few people who don't tend to grow out of bullying. Why do you think most of the research for autism comes out of the UK. You will find a couple of good people here but most of the people in this country will gladly destroy another person to show dominance. You might want to consider being a foreign exchange student, as I am considering.

(I was bullied in college too)