When did bullying begin for you?

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Childhood memories are unreliable, but probably starting in mid-primary school. You know, when you start talking about tanks, nuclear-powered ballistic submarines etc while others are into cartoons...

Secondary school was when it was gruelling, as the bullies branched out in verbal ones as well...

Public pre-school, age 5.

I think the bullying started when I moved to Melbourne from Hobart Tasmania, I would've been in grade 3 when it all started it didn't stop all the way through primary school, not so much at the special school although there were one or two rough and ready types who bullied people, one particular girl who ended up working in the same factory I worked at, I found out later the people who worked in her section didn't like her as she picked on some of them.

Age 4, 1970, Stephen Gressman, Neighbourhood bully.

By 1985, I was laying in my room, and I just said to the Universe...

"Stephen, I know why you did what you did, and I totally forgive you for it".

I can remember this very clearly. It began when I was aged 8 in the school setting (by other 8 year olds). At home - more accurately the place I slept - it was a constant from age 5 and it escalated over the next seven years becoming increasingly vicious over time as the primary culprit had learned there were no consequences to his brutal behaviour (the opposite in fact). His mother combined turning a blind eye with buying him treats as special rewards. The bullying at 'home' was the result of very disturbing family psychopathology (thank God I wasn't born into that family, that was at least one lucky break I guess) though I think the bullying at school would have happened in any event, due to my then unknown HFA status, annoying ability to score 99% in every test without appearing to try..

Kindergarten was a deception, but I adapted. When going to some extralessons before skipping first schoolyear, when going home after that, I got attacked by an older girl. First week at that school, there was a fight and headmaster asked who started, all girls pointed at me. He took me inside the school knowing it wasn't me.
I didn't like all the things my mother put me up for, extra physical ed, what I hated already, the Ph ed teacher I suppose bullied me, in not helping at all in the beginning, so those lesson were crying sessions, which gave me the name cry-baby.

With my sister, and then on from anyone else I interacted with/was around. So, since the beginning (other than my mother that is).

High school was the worst.

I felt bullied from the time I was a toddler (by my mother, particularly)

"Technical" bullying started when I was in first grade. I probably was bullied before then--but I was too oblivious to notice.

It got pretty bad in junior high and somewhat in high school. By senior year in high school, I was bullied less because I started not reacting to the bullying.

After that, one co-worker where I worked as an order-picker when I was 18. Threatened to "kick my butt" after work. Never happened.

I've had people try to get slick with me at work subsequently. Not technically "bullying," though.

i never had the negative experience that so many people refer to as "bullying".
i have been not taken seriously and laughed at very often in my childhood, but i learned how to craft peoples perceptions so they laughed at aspects of me that i designed for them to laugh at, so i guess i remained in control.

i was stupid in a way that exceeded their expectations of my potential stupidity, and it drove them into fits of hysterical laughter, and the teachers all looked on at me with pity...but i had the last laugh every time because it all happened as i thought it would.


it is fun to be stupid in ways that most people never could imagine, and bully's that like to deride stupidity will orgasm over the delights i have for them that only i have the capacity to create. they are always the audience, and the smarter ones among them sometimes come to that conclusion as well.

so i was never bullied in the sense that i was impinged by it, but i attracted it as a means to just play games.

people never try to take you on physically if they truly think deep down that you are smarter than them. they are too scared as to what may surprise them.

For me it started as young as I can remember but I was fortunate enough to be one of the biggest toughest kids right up until high school, people tried but quickly worked out I would take it for a while then beat the piss out of them with no warning, I would actually witness bullying and step in when I saw people taking others money, I would not allow it, at high school I was average size and it was bad from the start early in year 9 I was lured to a quiet place by my "best friend" of the previous year and he beat me really badly, he must have punched me 30 times and jumped on my head and kicked me on the ground atleast 50 times he was twice my size it only stopped when a passing older student pulled him off, it ruined my life I had just been tested as having an iq of 185, diagnosed aspie and was off the charts in maths and applying for a scholarship to a top school, I was too afraid to return to scool and ended up working as a butcher, I get called names and treated badly in almost every workplace and can never get very far in most situations.

Since 1st grade, similar to kraftiekortie I was probably bullied before that but didn't notice. I actually didn't know I was bullied until this year when my teacher told my father. I then compared how people treated me throughout the years and came to the conclusion that I must have been bullied since at least first grade.

Bullies are complicated creatures. There is some sort of mentality with them that I simply don't understand.

I began getting bullied in public school around 3rd grade. Still dont understand why i was bullied exactly. Sister was the one who mostly bullied me through high school.

I can't remember when I started getting bullied. It started with my siblings and assorted cousins, and went from there.