Did You Escape Not Being Bullied At School

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We moved so all of the kids there were new and they didn't know me when I was little so they didn't know me as that person and plus we lived in a small town so bullying stands out more. Less kids, the teachers and school principal aren't so overwhelmed. No matter how much you change as a person, kids will always know you as that person and not see the new you so the move is what made me escape it. I had a fresh start and I had a full time aide in school until my Junior year. I remember my therapist telling me in high school that my reason for not being bullied was because I had better social skills. So did they just all of a sudden get better over the summer in 7th grade when we did the move?

Edit: Whoops misunderstood the question. I was bullied until we moved.

I don't remember much being bullied by other kids, for some reason. Maybe they were verbally bullying me and I didn't notice or pick up on their cues. I was abused by adults, but that's not the same as bullying from peers.

It's entirely likely that I just didn't notice or responded too passively if they tried to physically get me.

I was bullied a little bit but nothing too severe, though for the record I was something of a problem child at that age and drew negative attention to myself, and quite an obnoxious as*hole (long story but my parents made me go to a private Christian school, and that that time in my life I felt religion was BS and wanted to be in public school, so I went out of my way to be intentionally disruptive, sometimes doing a "parody" of a religious person), or doing things just to mess with people's minds.

I also did some mild bullying myself to my brother and 1 or 2 other kids, but nothing beyond the verbal teasing. (Also had some other conduct issues at that age and eventually got kicked out of school, after I falsely reported to authorities that an Asian foreign exchange student who had been a dick to me was going to pull a school shooting like the Virginia tech shooter).

Well I was a dumb kid and I wanted to be kicked out of that fundamentalist Christian private school anyway, so I got my wish.

(And in fairness, the kid did say "he would kill me" and had been suspended before for joking about "pulling a Virginia tech", but I basically knew he was BSing and didn't really believe he was going to do it when I reported him).

I was bullied pretty severely, especially in middle school. Being selectively mute didn't help things either.

He shouldn't be joking like that anyway and saying "I will kill you" is considered a threat and taken seriously. You can't say it anymore without the risk of getting arrested for a threat.

I've never gotten bullied in the traditional "stuffed in a locker" sense. But verbally yes.

Being the social ret*d that I am, I had the nerve to ask why people were mean to me.

And someone told me "Honestly, you are just so easy to pick on."

I'm also one who only escaped bullying when my family moved, and I got to go to a new middle school and high school from where the bullies attended. By then, I had my niche of friends among the other band geeks who were more accepting than others would have been. There were a couple of people who hated me when they realized my mom was their 8th grade English teacher who expected people to actually work for a good grade, but they were slackers and trouble makers in high school anyway. I wouldn't call that bullying because we just ignored each other the entire time. Eventually, one of those troublemakers got transferred to another high school in the district because they were caught shoplifting on a band trip to Disneyland where we got to stay at the park until closing after our performance.

Nice wait to own the bully

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I was kicked out of a fundamentalist christian private school to.

If it weren't for my mom volunteering for my church group in Sunday School, I might have gotten my whole family kicked out of our church for my anti god talk due to my lack of awareness about how strong religion is and how offensive it is to say "God isn't real" and how it's not possible to die and become a god and so on. So my mom would make my comments religiously correct, get it

I was bullied horribly, both verbally and physically. I thought it would get better in college, but it didn't. I still get harassed nearly every day I have classes. Luckily, I only have classes two days a week. I get called the "R" word a lot and it bothers me a lot. I don't mind people calling me "fat" or "ugly" but I find the "R" word incredibly offensive, personally.

A peak bulling period was between 5th and 9th grade. Mostly verbal, I was called various homophobic slurs and "k*e" a lot. People would purposely trip me up at times. The other peak bullying period was the first 2 years of college, gaslighting type stuff. They took money from me knowing I would report it and get my roommate seemingly falsely accused. For two nights in row somebody gunned thier car at me full speed swerving away at last second. When I reported it they laughed and I was told to stop making crazy stuff up if I wanted to stay in school.

But I escaped bieng physically beaten up, or having my face drowned in a toilet. Most importantly I escaped any type of abuse at home for which I consider myself very fortunate, especially since it was the '60's and '70's.