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madokie

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27. As a kid suffering with anxiety I was bullied

Thu May 10, 2012, 01:36 PM

May 2012

somewhere around the 3rd or 4th grade I decided I didn't like this so the first chance I got my bully to myself I whipped his sorry ass. At the time our bathrooms at school were outhouses and I had to go for number 1 and as I was buttoning my pants in walks the bully. He never knew what hit him as I was on him like stink on shit. Needless to say I wasn't bothered by him any more. I left him laying on the ground crying and when he came back to the class room his ol head looked like someone had kicked the living shit out of him. My hands were all red and I noticed the teacher take note of all that but she never said a thing to either of us. I actually surprised myself that I had that in me. Since then when I see someone being bullied I go after the bully with the same intensity I went after my own bully.

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Have you ever been bullied? [View all] cynatnite May 2012 OP

Starting from about 4th grade rox63 May 2012 #1

Nothing that could remotely be considered bullying, but.... northoftheborder May 2012 #2

As a fat gay kid SoutherDem May 2012 #3

So many bullies called me gay, that it was assumed. Schoolwide. WingDinger May 2012 #4

I took it until they started on my friends. lapislzi May 2012 #5

I was the nerdy autistic kid who was constantly emotionally bullied and humiliated. Odin2005 May 2012 #6

YES invictus May 2012 #7

Teased, yes. Bullied?... KansDem May 2012 #8

Only a few times. I fought back, and it stopped. MineralMan May 2012 #9

You must have gone to a kinder, gentler school system than I Rittermeister May 2012 #33

Same here DiverDave May 2012 #102

Teased until I cried....not sure if that would be called bullying livetohike May 2012 #10

Um, that was 'bullying' in my book and I'm sorry you had to put with it - n/t coalition_unwilling May 2012 #43

Thanks livetohike May 2012 #59

I could write a book about parents (father) who dismissed my coalition_unwilling May 2012 #67

Thank you livetohike May 2012 #74

Yup that is nadinbrzezinski May 2012 #51

Uber-Smart, shy, chubby redhead here ... Myrina May 2012 #72

I'm sorry XanaDUer May 2012 #88

Yes,I was bullied Flashmann May 2012 #11

I was a fat kid and always was teased. I tried to blend in and not speak up. I had 1 or 2 friends southernyankeebelle May 2012 #12

Was bullied from 6th grade through my freshman year in high school. Then I, too, snapped and coalition_unwilling May 2012 #13

Oh yes meeksgeek May 2012 #14

Yes. Many times. Zorra May 2012 #15

Yes get the red out May 2012 #16

Yes, I was a fat kid Worried senior May 2012 #17

There was one year a group tried to bully me. jobycom May 2012 #18

Many times, but I always fought back even if the bully was older and a lot taller aint_no_life_nowhere May 2012 #19

Same here. Nobody bothered me again after I came back a couple years later and decked two of them. leveymg May 2012 #20

Shortest kid in class = easy target for bullies. Speck Tater May 2012 #21

It took me a long time to like him after that song. n/t cynatnite May 2012 #22

Is it too late to tell you Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2012 #92

I know, but i'm a short person and I was 12 at the time.... cynatnite May 2012 #101

I was the skinny girl with eyeglasses and weird hand-me-down clothes LiberalEsto May 2012 #23

I was the fat girl with the glasses and the thrift store clothes rox63 May 2012 #24

Yes and I fought back. zappaman May 2012 #25

From 4th grade up... Behind the Aegis May 2012 #26

As a kid suffering with anxiety I was bullied madokie May 2012 #27

Yes. My parents were well educated and so they spoke "proper" English, not the local dialect.. truebrit71 May 2012 #28

Unfortunately, yes. Tracer May 2012 #29

I don't take crap from anybody. davsand May 2012 #30

Me too! RedCappedBandit May 2012 #38

A couple of years ago I had a guy in my office who called me a harelip. davsand May 2012 #45

Yes tabbycat31 May 2012 #31

None of us will ever forget. n/t cynatnite May 2012 #32

I have a theory.... unkachuck May 2012 #34

So, bullying is just fine. Well, you're wrong. radicalliberal May 2012 #76

"Pure baloney." unkachuck May 2012 #96

Yep, for being too smart, too pretty, too different. MrSlayer May 2012 #35

Yes I have jorno67 May 2012 #36

No but there were attempts. mmonk May 2012 #37

Yes. Very geeky. treestar May 2012 #39

yes, i was verbally bullied a lot. Scout May 2012 #40

Yep. Started fighting back. Edweird May 2012 #41

I broke a bully's nose once...in high school. AsahinaKimi May 2012 #47

when I was six or seven rufus dog May 2012 #42

I was called ugly, nose, fairy and queer magical thyme May 2012 #44

Daily Marrah_G May 2012 #46

yes. it lives with you forever. ibegurpard May 2012 #48

No. One guy tried to an asshole to me the first week at a new high school, but I fucked his shit up Ikonoklast May 2012 #49

The too-smart shy kid with the coke bottle glasses LadyHawkAZ May 2012 #50

Yup...all the way to High school when I changed schools nadinbrzezinski May 2012 #52

Yes. DevonRex May 2012 #53

By a teacher in high school who, without my knowledge, shared a story I wrote with LibDemAlways May 2012 #54

This message was self-deleted by its author devilgrrl May 2012 #55

Nothing too major JonLP24 May 2012 #56

My daughter was being bullied by a girl a school cherish44 May 2012 #57

Yes, I went to a private school with kids whose parents had lots of money Raine May 2012 #58

Yes - I was the fat kid, but I also bullied nadine_mn May 2012 #60

I was small for my age and wore 2nd hand clothes annonymous May 2012 #61

Yes. And the interesting thing is, Chorophyll May 2012 #62

Even though the things I did are beyond statutes of limitations, I cannot post them slackmaster May 2012 #63

Yup but it helped make me who I am today... Cave_Johnson May 2012 #64

So you think you would not be who you are because someone bullied you? cynatnite May 2012 #66

I know I wouldn't be... Cave_Johnson May 2012 #71

When I fought back against a kid who was bullying me deutsey May 2012 #65

How many DUers know that "fighting back" these days means you are expelled from school? riderinthestorm May 2012 #68

Yeah, more and more schools are explicitly forbidding self-defense Posteritatis May 2012 #80

My niece carries pepper spray to school. She's been mercilessly bullied her entire school career riderinthestorm May 2012 #91

+1000. HughBeaumont May 2012 #93

Riding the school bus was horrible. Lars39 May 2012 #69

YES, as a teenager and I still remember the name of the bully. nt mfcorey1 May 2012 #70

Yes, starting in the 1st grade (nt) varelse May 2012 #73

7th and 8th grade were pure Hell . . . tilsammans May 2012 #75

But not by children, to speak of. Control-Z May 2012 #77

Yes - through quite a few phases of my life. Initech May 2012 #78

I was a nerdy late bloomer two years younger than her classmates. LeftyMom May 2012 #79

Yes. At 14, four older boys beat me senseless. cliffordu May 2012 #81

Yes. All throughout my school years, up until college. Jamaal510 May 2012 #82

Yes. Wasn't fun. Wasn't scarred. Saw it as a passage. Skip Intro May 2012 #83

Because it's just that easy, right? (nt) Posteritatis May 2012 #87

Oh, in HS, constantly. HughBeaumont May 2012 #84

In 10th grade, the worst year of school for me. Jennicut May 2012 #85

I was the tallest kid all through elementary school blueamy66 May 2012 #86

Sure. I was a skinny, new kid in school. I was picked on nearly every day. nt Ilsa May 2012 #89

Yeah - not very much, but I have been. Dash87 May 2012 #90

a tiny bit. about age 10, a larger girl focused on me for some reason, would push & hit me. one day Liberal_in_LA May 2012 #94

Yep... K & R !!! WillyT May 2012 #95

No (nt) bigwillq May 2012 #97

Everyone has at some point BrownianNotion May 2012 #98

Yes, but at least once in my life I was the bully. I was also an idiot at the time. jwirr May 2012 #99

Yeah, I was bullied. Oddly enough, I actually became friends with him. sakabatou May 2012 #100

Yes. Iggo May 2012 #103

Can't really say Xyzse May 2012 #104

In freaking college of all places. ieoeja May 2012 #105

Yes Jack Rabbit May 2012 #106

Nope. And, I Wasn't A Bully Either ProfessorGAC May 2012 #107

My freshman year at the private high school that I went to for two years Tommy_Carcetti May 2012 #108

Started in the 7th grade Mad-in-Mo May 2012 #109