Are you bullied for being worse at something than others

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I am... since I'm quite slow a kid called Joshua(who has difficulties like me and uses an alphasmart like me)
called me a pig... and a geek ... because I used an alphasmart when he uses one too... and then I claimes 'you use one too!' and he says 'yeah but not as much as you! He thinks he's taller than me and because Rikaya(who happens to be the tallest in the class and just taller than me says he is... and I say that I've always been tallest... even since Year 3... so he says we can settle it with a race... how's that help... he's just using my weaknesses to get what he wants... and as far as I'm concerned he doesn't have any weaknesses
A. He thinks he's taller than me...
B. Because he knows he's faster than me
C. He knows he's stronger than me and is prepared to get into a fight
D. He's older than me
*takes a few seconds to calm down*
Got any advice... My friend was trying to calm me down but he was using the 'loser!' symbol behind him...

Anyone here that says NO is probably a liar! YEP, I have been ridiculed for being worse at something than someone else. WHO CARES!?!?!? USUALLY it is something MEANINGLESS, and I am better tha they are in more worthwhile things.

So what do YOU care?

If he was a lot taller, WHO CARES!?!? Sometimes I wished I was 4 feet taller, but I USUALLY wish I was about 6" shorter. I am about 6'(1.8M) tall, which is supposedly just over average for a male.

If he was older, WHO CARES?!?!? Sometimes I wished I was 40 years older(so I would just live like a millionare and DIE), but now I wish I was 20 years younger.

If he was stronger, WHO CARES?

As for you being slower? What about reliability and intelligence? Those are often more important than speed!

The three most common reasons for being teased are: being good at something, being bad at something, and being different.

and if those are not present, they will usually make up a reason to tease u. difference was the reason i copped it so much .

I've never exactly been bullied in the harshes sense of the word. But I've always been excluded because I'm not as social and funny as others. I had a friend once who treated me really badly. Like poked me and ridiculed me and hit me. But he was the only person who talked to me (guess my intelligence impressed him) and I didn't know what friendship really was...

When I was growing up, I noticed some people could be as dumb as dirt and not get teased for it, but others, like me, who were smart and happened to be different from others, were teased mercilessly, usually by the stupid ones.

I got bullied for not being good at sport -- especially by teachers. But mostly because I sometimes moved kind of strangely, or talked strangely, or did weird things, or was just different. (I think this is similar to some of the stuff from above.)

I get bullied because quite alot of the time everyone is playing 'tag/it' so I decide to play and they all start winding me up... saying things like 'loser!' or(my name is Ben) 'BIG BEN STRIKES 10!' at me meaning that I get angry really easily... so...It never helps...

I used to get bullied all the time by the jocks in school. Now they're all working construction in the same little town, and I, in the meantime, have seen the world. HAH!
(Well, a hell of a lot more of it than they've seen.)

Roger Bannister was ridiculed for all of these things: being too good at something (academics), bad at something (sports, except for running, which wasn't popular at his school), and being different. His interests were far more mature and advanced than those of other boys his age. He conquered his difficulties and became an outstanding miler and later a physician. His story inspires me. I haven't yet conquered all my difficulties, but I'm working on it.