Stop bullying awarness...

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What do you think of the recent awarness to stop bullying? I think its a good idea for some but when I was bullied, the teachers always said, "oh well she is causing it because she makes faces or because she does this or that". I mean I've read where autistic children always tell teachers but teachers don't seem aware of the child's behavior and that they can't help what they do.

http://www.autismkey.com/bullying-of-sp ... oblematic/

Like this for example... for us its much more common because we are different. We do things that NT students find odd and not normal and we get teased for it. The teachers often don't understand that we can't help it. They don't educate students enough about students with ASDs.

It's more common for people with special needs to be made fun of because they are different and they function differently than what a normal student does. I often made strange facial expressions in school and I always stimmed with my hands. Kids made fun of me for this and often times I also get in trouble with the teachers for self-defense. For me, self-defense was all I had such as pushing a student away or covering their mouth from blurting that I liked someone. It got to the point where kids were saying I never took showers because I wore the same thing everyday... but I did because it was a comfort and sensory thing. I was bullied so much that I would have meltdowns.

Teachers never even did anything. I constantly had to switch schools because the bullying was so bad and switching schools on;y seemed to make it worse for me. It got better once high school came, even though I was still crying to my parents to come get me at the nurse's office. It's like I often felt like they were bullying me because I wasn't getting the help I needed. I had trouble expressing myself and showing them those needs. Growing up with emotional abuse in school. made me agoraphobic... which is a fear of panic attacks/meltdowns in public and not being able to escape.

So, how about you? What do you think of stop bullying awareness? Do you think they should be more aware too of the ones with special needs as well?

If I reported bullying, I would be told that I was not being bullied. I was told that it was friendly teasing and ribbing and I was being way too sensitive. So I just ended up blaming myself for it.

School is a place for learning and not emotional destruction.

Exactly the same here.

I was bullied every day by people that I didn't even know who they were. Now I understand that people just feel entitled to treat you badly because you are a 'weirdo' but I hated myself so much and went into cutting and having an eating disorder as well as depression.
I have permanent physical scars, including a dent in my skull where my head was slammed repeatedly into the corner of a brick wall.

More than anything I blame the adults, teachers and school counsellors who did nothing. It was easier for them to pick on me because I couldn't defend myself and they didn't understand or know how to deal with me either. I was singled out for all kinds of treatment that I now recognise as abusive 'for my own good' such as being punished for not fitting in with others and constantly told I had to change if I expected to be treated differently.

I became a very sad and angry person. To this day I do not feel comfortable in any sort of social environment, and as I have posted somewhere else around here I have still been bullied as an adult as well. I only stopped being physically intimidated and assaulted on a daily basis when I started violently defending myself and carrying a knife for protection. I used to fantasise about being able to get a gun (we don't have guns in Australia much) and finally not being made worthless by other people, that was how I used to see it.

No matter how much I hated those people for the pain and humiliation they put me through I hated myself even more. Bullying is a disgusting crime and should be severely punished. How dare society brand us as wrong or defective when it tolerates such revolting inhuman behaviour.

Well my entire life before I graduated from highschool was a mixture of mental abuse from students and teachers, yes I even got bullied by some teachers and isolation, in highschool I was not picked on so much just more ignored like I did not exist or something which is also hard to deal with because you know no one really gives a crap about you.

I've been bullied well into middle age, but it all started when I was very young. Sometimes kids were actually encouraged to bully me by their parents (physical abuse). During elementary school, I was bullied by boys & girls. It was both physical & verbal harrassment. Sometimes it was a single bully, other times I was attacked by groups of children. It happened on school grounds, in the classroom, as well as the journey to & from school all the way through high school. Some were older (even teachers participated), some were younger, some were the same age as me. The only common denominator was "I was at fault, & brought it on myself." The bullies were popular & never did anything wrong. No one ever tried to teach me what I was doing to cause the bullying...nothing has changed. I prefer not being around other people due to lack of trust of other human beings & social anxiety brought on by the abuse.

School is supposed to be a safe learning environment. What I learned in school was a mix of social anxiety & fear of being attacked. I learned very different lessons from my peers. They learned about reading, writing, math, science, etc. I was more focused on getting through each day without getting hurt, sometimes I was successful, other times I was not. I had to have outside help to learn my lessons, there just wasn't enough energy for me to focus on actual school work. There were no safe places for me in school. It happened to me nearly everyday. I seldom got a break. Sometimes my anxiety was so bad, I'd throw up during the day. When I was in 4th grade, my doctor said I was headed for a stomach ulser, & pushed my mom to put me on a bland diet. No one thought twice about my physical symptoms being a manifestation of the anxiety caused from the bullying. Those are not a normal part of the everyday curriculum for the majority of children.

The bullying definitely needs to stop. If it leaves lasting physical or psychological affects, causes severe anxiety, or fear, those are all ingredients that don't make for a pleasant learning or life experience.

Tomboy

i got a friend who has a charity for to stop bullying. he's been on CNN and visited schools and had events and stuff...

Bullying awareness

ASAN bullies autism awareness by calling autism isolation awareness to help people isolated as a stigma. That's what I call an advanced type of bullying. The problem with it is this kind of bully people are afraid to stand up to. When the bullied becomes the bully?

As far as autistics are concerned I bet the bullies are actually snitches that report to the teachers all the odd behaviors of the autistics.

School is a place for learning how to fit in.