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Kyuubi4269 posted...

What hugbox country did you grow up in?

I'm more going off of my experience working with kids, which I did for several years. Again, in my experience, the most violent ones tend to be from broken homes (disregarding the kids who had genuine mental or behavioural issues); it's much rarer for a kid from a good home to be physically violent (though they can certainly bully and be minorly violent, those are the ones who are more likely to wilt if faced with someone who actually fights back).

I was never physically bullied when I was a kid; I've been doing martial arts my entire life, and I started when I was six years old, which had the dual effect of not only teaching me how to fight but also giving me a fair amount of confidence and a generally calm demeanour when it came to conflict (physical or otherwise). The latter was far more beneficial than the former in terms of defending myself; I would never rise to bait and insults didn't bother me, so even though I was a frequent target for verbal abuse (being a quiet loner kid tends to attract that), almost none of the local bullies ever got physical with me because I didn't give them a reason to. On the rare occasions they did (probably less than five times total across my entire grade school life), I always gave a good accounting of myself - it's possible that gave me a reputation of, as some people have put it in this topic, "someone not to be fucked with" but I highly doubt it.
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