KimJ wrote:
Not all NTs are bullies and it seems that the worst Bullies are themselves victims of bullying in their family and/or suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The "little red head" that bullied me was instructed to behave that way by her mom and was brainwashed to look and act a certain way. She developed eating disorders as a child (ironically she was a factor in my own eating disorder) and died in her teens in a alcohol-related car crash (she was the driver). Another bully stopped and we became friends, she had massive family problems that later drove a wedge between us again.
I can (now) forgive a bully, I can't forgive a sheep.
Sheep follow the rest of the herd/do whatever the sheperd gets them to do.
In this case, "the little red head" was a sheep in following her mum's instructions to bully you , who was playing the part of sheperd. Yet you can forgive her but not a sheep when they are in fact, the same thing?
The past is no excuse for how you behave today. It may be a reason but it's not an excuse. Besides which, anyone can allege convincingly to have family problems.