Did You Escape Not Being Bullied At School

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It has become apparent to me that most people with ASD were bullied at school usually for being different and being a soft target. Is there anyone who escaped being bullied , if so why do you think that was? I don't mean the odd occasionaly run in with a bully as I'm sure everyone has experienced that.

I escaped a lot of bullying because I started homeschooling in 6th grade. I got bullied by the neighborhood boys because I was the only girl on the street until they got interested in girls.

Wow, "Did you escape not being bullied at school" is doing my head in.
If you escaped not being bullied, then you were bullied, right?
Or is it just me?
Meh.
I'll shut up now.

Mebbe.

wanna make something of it?

nah, i wasn't really bullied that much at school.
they mocked me plenty but i was so dull i literally bored the bullies away.

I made it through school without being bullied, sadly I think I'm in the minority among WP members on that one. I was actually in the popular crowd at school, albeit a very reserved member. I think I evaded bullying because I even at that age I had a strong sense of self. I had reconciled with the fact that I was different from other people (at the time I didn't know it was ASD), and I was pretty secure in myself, my abilities especially. The odd time somebody would say something to me in a bullying way, I just didn't take it on. I would give them a look and say something dry, just to let them know that they didn't mean enough to me to hurt me. That probably sounds quite arrogant, but it's definitely one of the benefits of my detachment from others. It hurts when I can't connect and I want to, but it spares me from the judgement of people who want me to feel bad about myself.

My dad bullied me, and it worked because I cared about his opinion of me. He still has bullying behaviour but these days I find I have less respect for him, so it doesn't hurt as much.

I was bullied here and there by other kids with autism. I remember couple of occasions where two low fuctioning kids got ganged up on for verbal torment. They had a normally nonverbal girl screaming "LEAVE ME ALONE!". But for the most part there's not been too much for me or others.

I was bullied a moderate-to-severe amount.

I got beat up a few times, but never badly.

I used to be chased home by a certain gang of kids after school.

I was called "ret*d" quite a bit; sometimes, I would be followed, with kids saying "ret*d." One time, some kid wanted to shake my hand after following me around. I tore is ligaments. My mother was pissed because of the doctor bill.

I was not bullied in school. The elementary school I went to was odd because you had to test to get into it. While it was a gifted type school, looking back on it it is clear to me now that many of the kids there had quirks. Perhaps it was the general quirkiness of kids that kinda made us more tolerant of those things in each other. I dunno. I don't recall anyone being bullied in my class during elementary school... though I may well have simply been oblivious to it. I dunno.

In middle school I hung out with what might be called bad kids. I was a bad kid. I think maybe my reputation might have intimidated people or maybe my appearance did. I dunno. I have been told I come across as scary sometimes. I never cared what people thought about me either, so that probably helped. I didn't have a normal high school experience at all, so that likely also helped facilitate no bullying... I got thrown out of one school and my parents put me in a conservative christian high school before they threw me out my jr. year. I know for a fact a lot of the kids at the jesus school were scared of/intimidated by me. I busted my locker neighbor talking about me one day. That was comedy gold. But I ended up in adult ed to actually graduate so... yeah... the adult ed experience was more focused on actual school work and not the social aspect of it all. We were all too busy working and living life to be bothered with that kind of nonsense.

Oh, yes, even by my teachers ... until news of my joining a Taekwondo class in my junior-high school after hours was shared with others. I thought the reactions were funny. After all, I didn't join the class to defend myself (though that was a pleasant bonus). I was interested in it as a kind of life-size chess game.

I sorta did because I was a huge guy. I also knew how to smooth talk my way out of certain situations instead of stupidly digging myself deeper.

Not too many 6 foot 5, 250 lb. guys get bullied LOL

Yeah a lot of the bullying stopped when I was 14 or 15 because I grew into a big person, which certainly helps in the world of young males. Wasn't a tough guy but bullies tend to be scared of people who might fight back. After then it became more subtle such as being rejected from social groups and little insults that I didn't pick up on at that age.

Obviouly since realising I may have ASD I've been delving into my past looking for clues. I don't remember being bullied in school ( maybe 1 or 2 incidents ). I think I was big kid for my age which may of warned off bullies but I was also part of a large bunch of kids who played football at lunchtime. The people I called friends were academically clever (nerds or geeks) and I felt I fitted in with them but I saw school work as boring and did the bare minimum and never applied myself.

I escaped bullying only at university. I guess it stopped there because I finally was with other students sharing about the same interests. Looks like social life becomes quite a bit easier when you're a student in STEM, compared with being lost in the middle of a bunch of teens obsessed with pop songs, sex, fashion and popularity.