Did you hit people in school

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Triangular_Trees
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25 Jul 2007, 11:37 pm

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Maybe they suspected that you have AS (or something) that makes you impulsive like that, and they felt like you couldn't help it. Did they say anything to you? Could you hear them OK?


My hearing is beyond excellent.

I don't recall hitting anyone prior to 8th or 9th grade so maybe that's why. I remember hitting Billy because he stepped on my feet almost every day as we were leaving Spanish class (realizing now that I was usually walking behind him this would have been my fault). The next day he came up to me in another class and told me if I hit him again he would go to the principal's office and report. In retrospect this seems kind of strange, because out of all the people I hit who didn't do anything to deserve it, Billy should have been the one most likely to hit me back.

Aside from slapping, I only ever truly hit one person hard. And he definately deserved it. He had been picking on me for years, but he just said soemthing utterly disgusting about my father and I, so I turned around and punched him in the eye, rubbing my fist over his eye - his eye was swollen for over a week, and he never said anything to me after that. He wouldn't go beyond telling how I made his eye puffy. This happened on the school bus, and while I got an assigned seat out of it, the bus driver never reported me to the school.



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28 Jul 2007, 3:19 pm

I did it near to five times. The reason was frustration, I was fed up with people pissing me off and teachers didn't do anything. I have never punished for my violent reactions, because, I was always untalkative and teachers didn't believe a shy girl could do that.



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28 Jul 2007, 3:41 pm

SapphoWoman wrote:
Triangular_Trees wrote:
i ws just diagnosed with asperger's a few weeks ago, but I've known I've had for about two years (when I first heard about it).

Recently its occured to me that I often hit people in high school - sometimes for good reason, but often for something like they were walking into the back of my feet as I walked down the hall, which was probably an accident. In the past few days its occured to me that no one ever hit me back, not one time. That seems kind of strange to me.


Maybe they suspected that you have AS (or something) that makes you impulsive like that, and they felt like you couldn't help it. Did they say anything to you? Could you hear them OK?


AS doesn't make people impulsive like that.


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28 Jul 2007, 11:06 pm

I sometimes hit kids if they provoked me.

I was never stupid enough to hit a teacher.



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29 Jul 2007, 1:14 am

I got kicked out of my first period class in summer school for hitting someone



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30 Jul 2007, 1:51 am

I got in fights on occasion. I won them all in fact, but it didn't make things any easier for me socially. If you beat up one of the really popular kids they have other ways to get to you besides physically. To be honest I wish I hit more kids just for the satisfaction of it, I can't get away with punching jerks in the adult world like I could have in school. Suspension, summer school, so what? None of that matters in the long run (If only I could go back in time and talk some sense into my younger self). I don't condone anyone currently in school now to start fighting allot, things were different in the days before the school shootings, it seems they take fighting much more seriously now (though not the bullying of coarse :roll: ).

One thing I never understood was why it was ok for people to mess with me as long as I took all of the abuse, but the second I fought back I was the bad guy, or the big bully. I had people bounce change off the back of my head and all types of violent crap, hit them back and I was the bad guy because I was "bigger". I guess I was expected to have the social skills to intimidate and scare people into backing off without hitting, or I was expected to take it "just because". Horse s**t.

I never hit a teacher but there were two who I would have liked to. Trust me, they deserved it.



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08 Aug 2007, 2:14 am

I had a guy jump me after school while wearing an arm cast.
I fought back any everyone yelled at me for "beating on a cripple" If you've ever been clocked upside the head with a cast you wouldn't believe it was a handicap in a fight.
The last time I ever hit someone in full anger was similar to your incident with someone messing with your feet while you were walking. I was walking up the stairs and a bully kept grabbing at my feet from behind. I turned and front kicked him in the gut to the bottom of the stairs.
It was a reflex and thats what scared me into never going back to martial arts class again.
Violence should never be a reflex. I can do without "skills" like that.



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10 Aug 2007, 3:18 pm

I did -- first year at an all-girls' high school, and every so often the other girls would put me under too much pressure.

Eventually they threatened to tell my parents, so I went and hid in the music rooms at lunchtimes instead.



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10 Aug 2007, 3:51 pm

In elementary school I hit people for not following the rules, like cutting in line (whether they cut me or not) and changing seats at lunch.



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11 Aug 2007, 3:24 pm

No. The worst I've ever done is grab and twist one girl's hand just hard enough to hurt (she was shoving my brother, otherwise I wouldn't have bothered). Or at least that's the worse I can remember doing (which isn't saying much - my memory is not good). Most people leave me alone; the few who haven't get the idea quickly. (I don't hit, but I'm not above implying that I will. For whatever reason, I can scare people. (I wouldn't be scared of me, but ok.))


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12 Aug 2007, 4:22 am

I used to hit people all the time because they deliberately wound me up and being violent is my automatic reaction. Strangely, I never really got in trouble for it, not even the time I threw a chair at someone.



26 Aug 2007, 3:38 pm

Yeah I hit kids in school for self defense.



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27 Aug 2007, 7:51 am

I wish I did hit people in school now looking back. :( No one would dare tear into my vulnerability then... back when I was soft and vulnerable... it was most unpleasant. But then the trouble is, one of the labels I was given in school was that I was called physically weak. I was afraid of my -lack of?- strength. Nowadays I know I have strength lol since I took up Tae Kwon Do... I work out a bit too - I'm certainly not weak. Not too strong but I have a good all-roundness I like to think, with my body. I can certainly defend myself from nasty people, but I seldom ever come across such folk nowadays so thus far, no need to hit anyone. But man oh man I'd get such a thrill if I hit someone if they were nasty to me nowadays. Just plainly kick their ass.

Although I'm certainly not an aggressor, it would take an awful lot of provoking. But no longer am I afraid if the worst comes to the worst.

I'd better not turn into a goose though - seriously, those creatures are too aggressive for their own good - there's bigger things out there that they shouldn't mess with. While I'm relatively unskilled in combat, I mustn't become a goose. :P


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06 Sep 2007, 9:41 pm

Preschool, 1-3 grade

I was put into DMR classes most of my life. Pretty much it was like, If you had a disability, you belong in DMR!

It was Hell, and I could have improved more if I wasn't.


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06 Sep 2007, 10:08 pm

my advice is hit the gym and work out, get bigger like I'm just starting to do now, and take some martial arts. I kill be getting into kick boxing, submissions grappling, and Okinawan Kempo :P Plus I know a little bit of tae kwon do, street fighting, and a few nifty tactics I learned from green berets and marines and lots of pressure points (I've studied anatomy).
It's important when training to find a sparring partner near your size and throw on some pads and beat each other senseless about at least twice a week. It'll build your experience and make you tougher, and more street savy.
Currently I am about 115 lbs because I just started, and I started at 110, meaning I have already gained 5 lbs. Take my advice, use weight gainers, eat a steady diet of meats, potatoes, pasta, peanut butter, and fast food (it's fatty but fat sticks much easier and can be molded into muscle). Get at least a good 6 hours of sleep every night.



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08 Sep 2007, 11:55 pm

Triangular_Trees wrote:
i ws just diagnosed with asperger's a few weeks ago, but I've known I've had for about two years (when I first heard about it).

Recently its occured to me that I often hit people in high school - sometimes for good reason, but often for something like they were walking into the back of my feet as I walked down the hall, which was probably an accident. In the past few days its occured to me that no one ever hit me back, not one time. That seems kind of strange to me.



I was in SEVERAL fights, from elementary school, all the way through high school. I went to
a small Suburban School in South Dallas Tx and my Dad was a Dallas Cop, so i never got
into any trouble for it.
I stopped fighting about 15 or so years ago when my older brother and i got into a big fight and
i hit em with a pool stick, it knocked him out but I thought i had killed him.
I realized i couldnt live with myself if i had ever killed anyone so.. that was the last
fight i was ever in.