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I got bullied severely and it bothered me very much-I was a big kid had a not very common name and was asy to make fun of and I used to get my hair cut real short and it wasn't the style so I got bullied for that

I was always getting bullied. And yes it was very upsetting to me. Even as an adult I'm still bullied and picked on, not physically but verbally now.

I'd have to possess the brain of a sandwich if bullying didn't bother me.

You need an option for both. Sometimes it bothered me and other times it didn't. It depended a lot on who was doing the bullying and what they were picking on. Picking on my height NEVER bothered me, ever. I mean, I'm freakishly short and I can't change it. But if people picked on my weight it brought on deep feelings of anger, embarassment and shame. I'm guessing because weight is something that I could control and therefore it would be my fault if my weight were outside the normal range. Also it bothered me less if it was another loser picking on me, that is just pathetic. But when it was a cool kid it would bother me more because they really should have had better things to spend their time on than picking on me!

Now that I'm an adult I can see those views are a little weird, but that is just what I thought when I was a kid in school.

Yes, in fact I STILL relive the bullying almost every other day and am at the point where I might have to seek professional help: at 29 no less. Anyone who says that "everyone" gets bullied of so full of BS. If everyone went through what I did, the suicide and murder rates would be beyond any measurements.

It's not so much the bullying that bothers me as the fact NOBODY even tried to stand up for me, especially by "friends". I learned when the going gets tough most people will either cower or turn on you. When you are told almost daily that nobody wants you to live you start to believe them. The only plus side is that cameras were not common back then but people still tried to take pictures of the humiliations that were done to me.

Just today I had to head home because I had the overwhelming urge to attack a former bully so yes, you could say it bothers me.

I wonder who said it didn't bother them and why.

That's what I was wondering

What really bothered me this year was being bullied by a teacher. I actually refused to talk to her. She really embarrassed me and picked on me during class. She also refused to give me extra time and instead gave me a "shortened" version that had the easier questions excluded.

One teacher at my first secondary school, before I changed schools, it was a supply teacher, and she called me a thalidomide, just because that's apparently what my name meant.
I was humiliated.
My dad took me out of that school for that, because the school refused to do anything about the teacher.

I was bullied by a teacher when I was in the 3rd grade. Instead of giving me time out in the corner he started slapping me upside my head and a bobby pin went in my ear causing profuse bleeding. I was rushed to the hospital for surgery and the teacher got fired. In fact his teaching career was over completely over that.

I don't understand why teachers find it necessary to bully kids. This happens to often.

A lot of them join the profession because they get access to kids to pick on.

I was bullied awfully and tried to commit suicide because of it. I left school early and even now a few years on I'm still not over it.

I was bullied alot until 3rd grade when I kicked the crap out of him after that just occasional fights but I was never afraid again.
All of it stopped by the time I was in high school.

I was bullied at summer camp and all throughout middle school. I have attempted suicide and self-injured while at school to avoid being in class. I dont really know why I was bullied but I think it has something to do with not having friends or talking. The worst experiences were a boy holding a lighter to my hair while we were suppose to be watching a movie (I was deathly afraid of fire at the time) and this one boy grabbing at my butt. Or having food thrown at me.

When I went to high school all the bullying stopped. But I didn't make friends till the 11th grade.

I was teased. Bullying makes me think of physical violence and that kind of thing. I was just verbally harrassed. The class ret*d. The resident crazy.

But it didn't bother me that much. In fact, I kind of liked it. It gave me an excuse to not even try to fit in, which I told myself I didn't want to do anyway (maybe as a coping mechanism).

My teachers felt sorry for me, and this too I enjoyed. They gave me special privileges and let me do whatever I wanted because I was so pathetic. Like, once a boy in class started making fun of my backwardness in math and I threw the chalkboard eraser at him. The teacher dressed him down for teasing me but said nothing about my retaliation--even after he started whining about it. Hilarious.

Once I got to high school, I was too weird to make fun of. The other kids started pitying me at that point. Which was fine with me.

My therapist is constantly trying to get me to admit that I was traumatized by all the name-calling. It DID have some effect on my self-esteem, but not enough to make it a major issue. Especially 30+ years after the fact. I've always been more bothered by how I see myself than how other people see me.

I was bullied during school, mainly in first grade still remember the kid that stole things from me, physically and verbally abused me at the end of the school year I cracked, beat him up and don't regret it. The school didn't take bullying seriously either, where I live it wasn't acknowledged until several years ago. By the time I was in fourth grade, my parents had us move to a different school where I wasn't bullied anymore.