Have you been bullied before?
 

Hi guys, just want to ask if you may have experienced the worst case in childhood life. Bullied.

Somehow being bullied by my "friends" in my youth gave a very deep impact to me up to now. I feel like every friends that I've met is not really a friends. In my mind I keep thinking that they will go sometimes because they are not really a friend. I fear that people will think bad about me if I'm talk this and that. Overall, I feel myself being totally imperfect and not worthed as friend, though my friends keep telling me that's not true.

of course there is worse than that... but I want to hear your story too.

Sure, I was pushed around and teased for a plethora of reasons ranging from the obvious, like a funny last name, to the bizzare, like I just happened to be the nearest target. I don't think any kid has gone through school and not been bullied. However, by the time I was in High School, it mostly stopped and I wasn't even offended by people's remarks. I just took it in stride. Oh, you called me a fucking pussy. Ouch.

If anything, being insulted earlier in life made me a little tougher to verbal abuse during those years. No kid is going to be emotionally hurt by these remarks on their own unless they have other problems to live with. We grow up, find out that name calling and pushing is hardly a crisis, and move on.

I wasn't really picked on all that much, but your occasionally bully in elemetary that wanted to act bad ass and have a rage against the machine or something. It's pretty much stopped now, but my friends still joke around with me and stuff with insults about how fat I am. I don't really take it lightly but I try converting my anger into a laughter feeling.

I wasn't bullied anymore after I got contact lenses and boobs, but before that, was I ever. I was basically the skinniest, ugliest, most-boyish looking kid ever. I had coke-bottle glasses, super short hair, the works...and most of the girls hated me, for some reason.

I blame my hideousness.

Anyway, as soon as I grew out of that ugly, awkward stage I must have gotten more self-confidence and developed a "Don't f--k with me" attitude, because the bullying stopped completely and I actually turned out to be semi-popular.

One thing I learned about human nature: If you allow people to run all over you, they will.

When I was in elementary school, a few attempted to bully me. I guess they figured it wasn't worth it because I was too much of a loner. Other than that, people didn't really mess with me.

Yeah, one guy in my then group of "friends" used to bully me and it worked. The rest of my friends at the time seemed to be alright except when he was around, but when he was the rest of them would tend to stir it up even if they didn't always get involved themselves. It didn't exactly help that I had no control of my emotions as a kid and used to cry about everything no matter how hard I'd try to stop it from happening.

Anyway I put up with that for a year or so, but one of my best friends (who I'd known since I was like 4) had already been forced out of our group by that one guy, so when I'd finally had enough I went into my best mate's new group of friends and everything was much better after that. Since then I've been much happier and I can take things more lightly now and not just start crying over everything (seriously, I can't understand why I was like that because the whole time I was just trying to stop it). And since I went to uni I've actually been really popular with the friends I made here.

There's always some pompous asshat that seeks attention more than anything. I got bullied a couple times, but dealt with it according, and usually they just backed off after realizing it wasn't worth the effort.

In elementary school, I was bullied. Nothing too serious, just a chase here or a threat there. However, due to my my choices of schools after elementary school, this has petered off. I imagine it's the same with many people.

Oh man, I was the one that beat up kids like all of you. Hahaha what a surprise! XD (JK)

umm never bullied, just made fun of.

I wasn't bullied too much, except for some rather troublesome times. I got a lot of racist abuse in general when I was ten and younger. People flinging shit at me (no, really) and calling me names. Some american kid in one of my schools was a known bully and an abject retard, he once punched me in the face. People would call me "fish-lips" and stuff like that. Then I hit puberty, and for some strange reason no one even tried to fuck with me anymore.

I was bullied a little bit... actually a lot but I didnt really call it "bullying".

It sorta stopped when I starting talking back to whoever was saying/doing stuff and then I'd cause just a lot more trouble >.>

My worst time during childhood is when my friends discriminate me as "sissy" because my face, my attitude seems not as boyish as them. The result... I almost questioning whether I am a man or woman... it's really tough time, but somehow I manage to pass it, and I become strong person till now.

I hope no one of you experienced what I feel it's so damn hurt that you might wish to die.

I remember being picked on in elementary school by a few of the boys because I managed to make high grades on the assignments. We all managed to graduate high school together and we forgot those days ever happened.

I was also the first to get braces at my elementary school. I think only one other person in my class had them, but I was teased for about a year. I wasn't really affected by it though, since during middle school, everyone had braces except me.

Gee, who hasn't been bullied before. I've got so many stories about my encounters with bullies, I could probably write a novel. I'll see if I can find my old post from another forum about some of the bullies I've met.

When I was living in Detroit in middle and elementary school, I definitely had severe run-ins with bullying, all starting with my being very short, and then extending to my braininess. Fortunately (and I use this term lighty) there were no tolerance policies on any violence, so I never had to deal with anything physical; however the subtle verbal assaults and badgering still got to me.
I can definitely say that it had a large impact on my life. However, I have learned how to get past most of those problems that were left over from that period, and am getting along with life just fine.

I was never personally bullied cause I was always part of the "cool" crowd. I never bullied anyone either however some of my friends did. I was secretly friends with some of the "nerds" and "loosers" though so it always made me feel bad but it was awesome being popular and always having a girlfriend in highschool. Actually that all changed halfway through tenth grade but that's for another thread.

Anyway, in my opinion bullying is a horrible thing and it has obvious negative effects on people and can add to someone depression and as has been seen in the pass can be a contribuating factor in someone choosing suicide as "a way out". D:

I just don't think I could ever cause someone who didn't deserve it that kind of mental or possibly physical pain without feeling guilty about it afterwords.

I was always on the short end of the stick so yes, I can personally tell you bullying stories from grade 1 to grade 12. Sad really.

Even though I try to forget it all, sometimes the bad memories come back.

When I was 9 years old, I got bullied around alot. By my friends, by people from other classes. Just by god damn everyone. I think i was bullied around because i was the quieter one. I was so shy. It was embarrassing for me to speak a word.

I was bullied nearly 7 years then. Because i didnt get any louder.

Then when I was 16 years old, i finally woke up due to events in my life who changed my point of view entirely. And now i experience that i slowly become the one who bullies people around myself. And that is very saddening but i think it is inevitable that you bully back if you have been bullied in your childhood. But oh well

I was bullied as a kid because of my nerdiness, well, actually, I didn't really remember why I was bullied, but I was.

But then, I fought back, and they didn't dare mess with me again, since one of them got sent to hospital because of an injury.

Oh i've been bullied a shit load in the past. It hasn't been so bad over the past few years though which is good. I seem to get bullied alot for being ginger. Because obviously, having ginger hair is like THE funninest thing ever to most people. I've also been bullied for being too 'fat' because i'm not like a size 8. Just all the usual crap really.

Jeez...if you had any idea how much time and money I spend to make my hair ginger.

It's cool the way you say "ginger hair" instead of "red hair." I think I'm going to borrow that.

I was bullied a little, for being an immigrant.

Who gives a shit though.

Eh, I guess it depends on the person when it comes to how to respond.

I never had any trouble with it...

I was bullied in primary school for being fat I got told to go on slimfast, but the funny thing about that was the people picking on me were the same size if not just a little bigger then me. I also got picked on for developing breasts in year 4(9yrs old) and for starting my period in year 5 (10yrs old) all before even hitting teenage years. I also got picked on because of my name, because it's not common and I'm the only one in my area with this name. It sucked and it got carried on into high school. But it eventually died down and I got over it. I was wary of the new friends I met at first because I thought they were just wanting dirt on me to use when and if they bullied me but it never happend and I got some really good friends out of it.

Meh, most children get shit from other students at one time or another. Deal with it, it will make you stronger in the end.

I got some shit in middle school but that went away in high school when I lost 50lbs and grew 4". BTW lifting weights never hurts either.

Back when I was a wee tyke I got bullied for being black. I was in this expatriate-only school in Saudi Arabia full of mostly Brits plus a smattering of other Europeans and some Americana, so yeah, I stood out like whoa. The bullying usually consisted of them ganging up on me and call me blacky, brownie, things of that nature, or picking fights with me and all that. But it was hardly as dramatic as I'd like to be able to make it sound. Kids at that age are just dumb. *shrugs*