What was you're bullying experiances?
I have had many bullying experiances throughout school or in high school and I am going to share one of them with you because this one happened most recently and I don't know why but a lot of people say that I am a really easy target and easy to manipulate. I am 17 and that I know I keep making these post but I would like to know has anyone ever said tha they where smarter than you? I was in a class and there was this one kid who was really mean to me and every time that I have a slow reaction time he would say "Dude! you're so slow" or "Oh my god are you really that slow" and I would keep getting offended by that person and what he would say. He also thinks that he is better than me and would say to me "Dude! I'm smarter than you!" and I am like "Why?" and he said "Because you're so slow" and I just get really offended by what he said. Also I hate it when he trys to grade my paper because every time he does that and I would get a answer wrong he would flip out and act like it is such a big deal. He would go "DUDE!! THIS IS SO WRONG OH MY GOD!!" and he would erase my work and do the whole thing all over again.I don't have that class with him anymore because of my low grades and I have not seen him for months but now when I see him he is for some reason really nice to me and I don't know why. He would act like it never happened and that he was just a nice person. I don't know why but I got a lot of people who where mean to me and where just plain rude. I did nothing wrong to deserve this and I feel bad about this. What was you're bullying problem like in high school or in school?
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I was made fun of by my whole entire class. People made fun of the faces I made which were unintentional and also said I never took showers. My teachers never did anything either and one even told my mom that I came to school with dirty clothes. But it was actually because I had favorite clothes I was comfortable in, I wold wear them more than once... and they had a stain on them. It was hard for me growing up with this especially when there was a down syndrome/mentally challenged girl on my eigth grade class once. I had the bad end of the stick and everyone treated me like the reject for my autistic behaviors.
I got in trouble alot for things that students claim I did but was mostly either defensive for them antagonizing me or possibly because I had yelled at them. I got in trouble for things they were encouraging me to react to. It was bad because it really halted my education and sometimes I wish I could just go back and start again.
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Because of how jumpy I was people would yell and lunge at me from the periphery of my sight or from behind.
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I remember in freshman year of college, 2 weeks after the events at Virginia Tech, there was someone who spraypainted on the walls things like "I'm gonna make Virginia Tech look like a pillow fight" and my friends would jokingly ask me if I did it. After a while, it got to the point where I just raised my voice and told them it's not funny. They stopped laughing. I was really irked because all the other people who said that were idiots anyway, but some of the guys on the basketball team that I respected were saying that, and it was making me mad. At least I wasn't formally accused of it.
I was actually the bully most times. :\ I had the insane idea that being popukar led to happinesd. I succeeded too.
But then I realized that my popularity was built off the suffering of others. I withdrew one day and lost pretty much everybody except this one guy who knew I wasn't really so mean. He was my best friend for a long time. He moved to Rome though.
I'm currently made fun of at times, but I always ignore it. After all, I'm a genius. Can't let idiots bring me down to their level.
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I don't remember getting bullied at primary school; our class got on very well and the headteacher wouldn't tolerate bullying and we all knew it.
But, the kids that stayed near to me made my life hell. The girl next door would play with me quite well, then a friend would come. They'd say they were going somewhere for a few minutes and would be back. I used to wait and wait and they never came back. One time I was playing with a few kids and we were walking along a wall, like tightrope walkers. Someone said we needed a pole for balance. I said that I'd ask my mum if she had something we could use. My mum gave me a broom handle and I went running back to the others. They saw me and ran away screaming and told one of the their mums that I was trying to hit them with the pole. She came out shouting at me. I was a very gentle child and it would never have occurred to me to hit anyone, never mind with a weapon, and they all knew it. They must have come up with this scheme while I was away.
High school was awful, especially the 3rd year. I sat next to a boy in a few classes and he teased me constantly, right under the teacher's nose. Then, in the 5th year, I made the mistake of asking my parents if I could go to Russia on the school trip and they immediately agreed. The whole week I was there, I just wanted to get home. I don't think I did anything to upset anyone, but they just enjoyed laughing at me and they all seemed to become evil, even the ones I thought were nice. I remember one girl (who had been a kind of friend) chewing a mouthful of food, spitting it out onto her fork, then putting it on my plate. Then another girl wanted some bread, but the bread in the basket was finished. I had some on my side plate and offered it to her. She said she didn't want it because it had been near me. She then proceeded to tell everyone that I was about to cry.
Don't let anyone tell you that school is the happiest days of your life.
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Geez where do I start, Being chased home by over 40 kids and beaten up on a neighbours doorstep whilst I frantically knocked on the door to no avail.
Being hit in time to the music by the teacher conducting the school orchestra, why? My class'mates' had decided it would be fun to pull my bag apart, rip my jumper off me, remove my shoes and socks and pass it all amongst each other. So my punishment for trying to regain my possessions was to be hauled down to the front with the conducting teacher and in full view of the whole school and teachers, have him humiliate me in the above fashion.
Those are the two standouts, my life at school was sheer hell, much taunting and many beatings.
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Middle school and high school were hell for me.
My brother was popular, and we were in a small school. That didn't help. Sometimes some of my brother's friends would make really snide comments to me, so I'd refuse to respond. Then they'd call me a b***h.
I startle easily, and a few people knew that, so they'd come up behind me and poke me in the side to make me jump. The ones who did that were actually nice to me, other than that. So I tried to ignore it and not get mad, but every once in awhile, I'd get pissed off and yell at them. Then they'd get mad at me and not talk to me for awhile.
I got made fun of as the depressed kid. People always asked me why I didn't just start wearing black and become a goth, since I walked around all day not smiling.
Because of all this, plus sleep problems, I skipped a lot of school. I always got good grades, was in the giften program, and had no other behavior issues. The teachers also knew that I had mental health issues. So they basically let me kind of slide on my attendence at school. That pissed other kids off, so when I was actually there, they'd make comments like, "So you decided to show up today, huh?" That just made me dread school even more, which made me more prone to skipping class.
High school sucks big time. Don't ever believe anyone who says that these are the best years of your life. I was told that, too. It's total BS. It gets better once you're out.
Another thing that I hate is that a lot of kids like to defend me for some reason and it makes me feel weak whenever someone plays a mind game or teases me when I think that they are joking they would say "Don't pick on him!!" and for some reason I get really offended whenever someone says this to me or trys to stand up for me and I don't know why.
I was the quiet type in school and people use to look at me as if i was stuck up or just made fun of me and laugh at me. There were girls that stuck gum in my hair and ths one boy use to sit behind me and blow on my hair. I use to be by myself on the playground and didn't want anyone to notice i was alone so they would make fun of me more. Some girls would give me their lunch money and tell me to buy them food they wanted it was awful how school was. I quit school too because of social issues and academic problems it seemed like an easy way out.
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Well I never faced anything all that physical except when I was in fourth grade and a couple of boys kept trying to trip me and push me and such when I was trying to walk back in from recess and for whatever reason a couple girls who where not particularly mean to me but not exactly friendly towards me most of the time either eventually got them to stop...what possesed them to do that to a girl I don't know. And going back a little earlier my first experiance in a school setting involved being humilated and ostricized by the teacher, in first grade my teacher did not like me and I had some unhealthy relationships with students....like a girl I was friends with who ended up stealing some of my sisters stuff when she came over to my house. And then more recently back in 2006 when I was in 10th grade a girl who was usually mean to me told me during a lock down that she was suprised I was not the psycho with the gun.....and afterwards when school resumed I might has well have been because that is sort of how I was treated with no one talking to me and kind of pretending I did not exist. other then that I have been called a freak, retarted, stupid, dumb and a number of other things. There are lots more instances I could think of, probably even some I don't really remember.
During this whole ordeal of my childhood I thought it would get better, and eventually all of that would be in my past....I did not realise it would do any lasting damage.
I was bullied for most of my school life. ~I don't think I really told my parents about it though, as they didn't seem to know, and don't believe me when I tell them I was. I was chased into toilets, kicked, called things, people would block the seat next to them if I went to sit down, so I had trouble finding seats in class. It did impact me a great deal, I now realise. I was mocked, and mostly everyone turned against me except for a few who seemed to be more tolerant of my differences. I am thankful for them. I was used a lot also, then turned on, because I was naive and liked giving things to people who gladly took the things then became nasty once they had gotten them. I remember one Christmas, I had gone to great effort to give a few girls gifts and they had put together this box of empty sweet wrappers ... I didn't even show I was hurt, and thanked them and acted grateful.
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I was severely bullied in junior high school. People would beat me up. They would put gum on my hair. They would throw wads of paper and tape them over and over again until they are like rocks and throw it at my face. One time a bully jabbed a pen into my ribs and bruised my ribs. The school constantly blamed me and even suspended me once because I reacted. I don't think the bullies got any punishment. I would be made fun of daily. I would fear going to school. I had several breakdowns including depressive and psychotic ones. I even ended up in the mental hospital before and went afterwards to a special school that is meant for people with mental disorders. I hated that school because you are not allowed to have friends. I was bullied most of my life but in junior high and then being an adult out of school once again but this time cyber bullying. I was bullied on at least 5 different websites at the same time including believe it or not this very website. I was having a hard time during the time I was being attacked. They destroyed every part that made me good. They attacked my art. They put my personal information without my permission. They all claimed I was faking my illnesses for attention. The reason why it looked like that is because I had a reaction to a pill. Instead of helping my psychotic symptoms it made it worse and that was one of the rare side effects listed. I acted bizarrely. For example, I would speak or write incoherently one moment and then write beautifully the next. I had worse times of day. Then my delusions were extremely bizarre. I won't get into them here to start it up again. In fact they were so bizarre that it tipped them off that it looked like I was faking because they said no one can believe that kind of thing. The thing is I did believe it for a short period of time. A few weeks or months. I just present weirdly. Also their excuse and the main one for bullying me was the fact that I mentioned the dose of the pill that I took and had a bad reaction to and it turned out it is an extremely low dose of that particular pill. So they said I wasn't taking any pill because I was faking for attention. It WAS a low dose of that pill but I couldn't think of this before that I could have just shown them a picture of that bottle with my name crossed out. If they saw that I was in fact taking pills and having that bad reaction I wouldn't have been bullied on so many sites and they would have been more understanding. The worst of these sites was schizophrenia.com. Here was the second worst. On the cyber bullying is that it was the moderators that ganged up on me and basically banned me from that site for life. Then others joined them and ripped me apart and conducted research on how bad of a person I am. I came close to committing suicide around that time. I don't even remember how I got past that. One person claimed that "I was the craziest person in the world." i remember the cyber bullying more than the junior high school bullying because the cyber bullying took place more recently while the other is around 15 years ago. Recently in the past few years this site has become better. It was in 2009 that was hell here and the other sites.
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One bully punched me in the stomach when I was a lot younger, pretty hard and it really hurt. Nobody really liked him though he hit a girl before and the whole class ganged up on him. I felt kind-of bad for him because I heard one of his parents had died.
Someone who tripped me, I nearly got in a fight with until a teacher came around the corner.
My best friend during most of my school life, was practically a pathological liar, and he cheated on so many girls & always acted super over-the-top random... saying things like "only dead fish go with the flow". But now I realize I got quite a bit of sympathy just for being his friend... because some people liked me but just really hated him.