Yeh, most of the bullying I experienced in Primary School came from the fact that I was Asian, smart and not into the "cool" stuff. I was also nerdy.
In high school, however, no one picked on me. Sure there was the occasional verbal assault but nothing much. I kept thinking, "I'll be in an office collecting your tax while you clean my toilets" or something like that. Strangely though, I managed to get out of these occasional verbal assaults.
It was one day when my Sony fanboy friends were bagging Nintendo. Now, I'm not a Nintendo fanboy but their reasons for hating Nintendo were ridiculous. And because I owned a Nintendo system (the 64) they started bagging me. Although I could usually bite my anger for some reason I smashed one of the guys' face and he went to hospital.
The next day, the "Big Bully" of the year level came and had a chat with me: "You wanna join us?" Thankfully I was smart enough to say no, which also stopped the bullying.
Keeping a low profile with people knowing the true extent of your anger helps... but obviously it'll get people expelled so don't do what I did. Luckily I never had any record of bad behaviour so my school let me go and they suspended the guy I smashed

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Jam it back in, in the dark.