MightyMorphin wrote:
Did it bother you whilst you were being bullied? Were you very upset and sometimes got very angry?
I was bullied very badly at school. I was quiet. I didn't involve myself with other kids because I didn't even know how to talk to people, and this bullying was from year 3 (age 7) until I left school at the end of year 11 (age 16) and it stressed me a lot. I got very angry that in year 6 (age 10) I was ordered by my school to have anger management classes (which didn't work) and still found myself often getting angry, especially when trying to do my work, and kids would interrupt me and take my book and pen away and such.
Into secondary school I was still walking out of class crying and screaming sometimes. I was embarrassed by it, but it bothered me more the bullying and the torture from the kids.
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Year 1 (age 5): (outside of school incident) On the first day of a Summer basketball club a teenager got a basketball and threw it right at my head; I was knocked over instantly and a giant lump had formed on my head, from where the ball had connected with my face...and YES as expected, I was upset, though I still don't know why he did it.
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Year 2 (age 6): Was being bullied, but due to my poor social skills, I didn't notice. That time in my life, I wasn't upset about it.
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Year 5 (age 9): When training for the first time with the school football team, a boy came up to me, pulled my trousers down, and ran off. I felt violated then, and still do now.
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Years 7-8 (aged 11-12): 1. In my opinion and in many other's, the smartest girl in the entire school was my best friend for these two years, but then started to bully me by calling me names and making me hate myself. (It's quite possible that she's on the Autism Spectrum though, as she fits the proverbial 'textbook definition' of AS/HFA.
2. The typical high school/class bullies; they used to make me do their classwork, they teased me about my appearance and used to call me "geek", "teacher's pet" etc. I used to cry a lot through these years.
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Years 10-11 (aged 14-16): I call this "subtle class bullying"; this is when my own peers would laugh or poke fun at me, or ridicule my intelligence i.e. if I raised my hand in class to answer a question or say something, people would tease me because they thought that I was too smart and was upstaging them. This upset me, so much that I told my parents. However, my dad basically said that it was my own fault, and that I needed to stop provoking that sort of reaction from my classmates; he told to stop putting my hand up and answering questions in class...LUCKY, huh?
(sarcasm intended)