I can't say I have ever been bullied as bad at what some Aspies here have faced. I was more so rejected a lot of times through school, especially at secondary school. The other girls in my class didn't really want me hanging around with them, even if they didn't say it to me, I could still tell, by the way nobody hardly spoke to me. I just felt like the underdog at lot of the time, like I was just existing. I didn't want to just walk around on my own, so I didn't have the choice but to stick with other people, whether they wanted me or not. I just had to learn to ignore the fact that they don't like me, and just feel thankful that I wasn't badly bullied. It was still upsetting for me, though.
I remember there was this girl who had always been in my class from when I was 4 to when I was 16, and although she wasn't overpowering or even that loud or confident, everyone still seemed scared of her, and when she was absent from school, I was more popular. So I could see the pattern that was going on there, but I didn't want to say anything. This girl rejected me so many times, but always made herself look the nice, innocent one. She just absolutely hated me for some reason, even though she knew I had Asperger's. Then when my older brother kept on seeing me on my own at school, he felt upset for me, and thought that this girl was bullying me, so he went up to her one day and had a go at her and told her to be nice to his sister. She then turned into a little crybaby and kept on getting on to me after that, saying how he made her feel frightened and that he spoil her whole summer. I really do wish I had said ''yeah, well, you spoilt my whole school life, so now you have a taste of your own medicine, you selfish unempathetic b***h!'' But I didn't. I just had to be nice, and live in guilt for this b***h - even though she had basically been emotionally hurting me for years.
And then they say NTs are supposed to have empathy? NTs who bully us seem to lack it, because they can only feel how you felt when it backfires.
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