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In reply to the discussion: Have you ever been bullied? [View all]Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)As a full grown man, I'm 5'3" and didn't weigh 100 lbs until after I turned 18.
I'd say it started on the first day of kindergarten when I learned a bunch of new words: shrimp, small fry, midget, runt . . . they were all directed at me with disdain. Needless to say, I didn't like any of these new words.
Physical bullying was less frequent, but it happened. A kid who sat next to me in second grade thought it was good fun to sharpen his pencil and stick it in my back or just pound my on the head. The teacher would solve the problem by getting me to move over one seat, since the bully was seated in the aisle. That got me far enough away from him not to be bothered, but it left me feeling that, since I was the one asked to move, I was the one who did something wrong.