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were you?

no i bullied the betas

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no, I was the respected loner

No, for a gay kid in the 80s I was very lucky.

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i was a gopher in the bully crowd, so i got spared from the worst of it

Mercilessly. And fighting back only made them want to antagonize me more.

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Nah, someone tried to once but I slapped him the face with trucks of my skateboard; got left alone after that.

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I felt like I was bullied more in middle and elementary school but maybe I was just used to it come high school. Or it's because I stopped hanging out with people.

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I was the person everyone rooted for. There is always bullying and jealousy sometimes.

Yes.

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never

we didn't have a lot of that at my school honestly

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kriztov1 posted...

No, for a gay kid in the 80s I was very lucky.

Ironically I got called the f word a lot but I dont think they actually thought I wasm just I was goth and wore eyeliner black lipstick and nail polish. By that point though i was decent at dishing insults right back

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Yes, but it stopped when I stepped up.

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Yep. People openly wished for me to die and said they would be happy if I did.

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Been bullied. Trying to dig yourself out of that hole is not easy. People who know me know my heart is always in the right place.

I don't recall there being much in the way of bullying at all when I was in school
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Some. And I also bullied some as well, but not much

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I got picked on sometimes, but bullying to me implies a lot worse than what I got.

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No, I never was. I was usually a bully, sometimes.

Nah, but I got into a lot of fights because my brother was. I hung out with and was among the skater/punk kids but I also played junior varsity and varsity ice hockey so I was good with the jocks too.

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Question to the bullies, what was going on in your heads when you did that? No judgement, i'm geniunely curious.

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I was a jock/nerd too. I was friends witht he jocks and nerds. I was the voice of reason between the two. People have gone crazy in this world. 90 percent of what goes on on the internet people could never do to my face.

Just a little bit. But being on the football team helped my popularity.
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no. the trick is to be friends with the football team.

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PMarth2002 posted...

Question to the bullies, what was going on in your heads when you did that? No judgement, i'm geniunely curious.

"This will make me look cool"

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PMarth2002 posted...

I got picked on sometimes, but bullying to me implies a lot worse than what I got.

This
Like I was involved in both sides of insults here and there but not in any habitual way

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PMarth2002 posted...

I got picked on sometimes, but bullying to me implies a lot worse than what I got.

i had a friend who literally got dumped in a trashcan and rolled down the hallway, that's what i'd call bullying...

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A little bit, but it stopped when I got good at roasting people

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monkmith posted...

i had a friend who literally got dumped in a trashcan and rolled down the hallway, that's what i'd call bullying...

Yikes. I think I was probably saved from that by virtue of my high school being an expensive private military school, the classes were small and there was some discipline going on there. And also having friends who were both (somewhat) more popular and bigger than me. It was mostly just insults and doing stuff to disrespect me, provoke some kind of reaction, or mess with my stuff.

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Plenty.

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nope.
i had relatives in my schools who were in the higher grades. tbh it was like a deterrent because an attack to one of us is an attack on all of us family & friends.

...like they were ride or die. we got shot at, our homes were shot up and all. my cousins house still has bullet holes in the brick wall of the front of their house

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One thing I've noticed if you are a genuinally nice person and innocent people are jealous of that. It says more about them. Some people are incredibly hypocritical that way too where they use that as an excuse to bully and ostracize. That's real ignorance. Some people aren't like that. There is real ignorance out there and there also isn't.

yes

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not that I'm aware of, no

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My high school had a bully who was 6'5" and 300 lbs at the age of 15, he'd regularly put kids in the emergency room. The school never touched him because he played football. I was only picked on at worst.

I was bullied pretty badly throughout middle school. The worst one actually groped me and mimed sex acts with me.

It's cool, though; he died alone of a heroin overdose.

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CRON posted...

I was bullied pretty badly throughout middle school. The worst one actually groped me and mimed sex acts with me.

It's cool, though; he died alone of a heroin overdose.

yeah seems middle school is the worst time, wonder why that is

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I dont wish death on people overly. People do all sorts of crazy shit becaues they were abused themselves. I smoke cigarettes. Never have abused anyone and know this. The entire reason i started smoking i remember it well i was being abused and i was like this is the dumbest thing im going to do and it was. It was there and i really could have said no at the time. It wasn't weakness either. I just didn't care overly. Wishing death on people is weak. I still think smoking is stupid. I deserve wy better but dealing with people is absurd sometimes and their weak behavior.

crash, were you bullied? i kinda agree with you. the responsibility is on the bully mostly, not bad parenting

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I agree in ways. The whole change their behavior thing. Why should they reap the rewards and go on to live great lives of things you already knew. There are shit people in this world. And that's how these people succeed. And they really never learn. They just become successful and happy and still do the same crap. Some people aren't so bad. They just make mistakes. It's how assholes succeed though. They put on a front. Victims get blamed. Its fake. Everyone has something to learn. Some people don't.

Pretty much every single day for about 4-5 years by the same group. On good days they'd just call me names or push me around. On bad days they'd hold me against a wall and punch me. Nobody did anything about it. Every time I went to the principal it was like it just got brushed off.

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Crash posted...

I was bullied, not as badly as other kids at my school though. I would happily see each of the people involved die of a heroin overdose. The world would objectively be a better place.

oh, but i've heard others say that most middle school bullies go on to be ok people and that it was just a phase of childhood, over half. I guess you don't believe that maybe

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Yes. It would start as soon as I entered the schoolyard, and end when I left.

Unfortunatly, every now and then, it would also follow me home.

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All the time. Got into fights a bunch too.

No wonder I eventually grew up to be resentful of others.

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One thing I've learned is no matter how successful people seem they are always missing something. Learn how to have fun and enjoy life and not put shallow status things on stuff. There are always going to be people who judge you wrongly and it's really their loss. Rich people can be so fake and image conscious. Boring even. Just look at what is going on. They are idiots forcing agendas on people when who cares.

bumpu

No. I was a shy fat kid who read all the time but I wasn't afraid to stand up for myself and I was head and shoulders above everybody else until later in high school when some others started catching up. I was breaking six feet tall in middle school. A few tried to target me over the years. Kid in elementary school got choke slammed into a wall. First day of middle school a tiny little jackass named Landrum was on the top row of the bleachers and kept kicking me in the back so I hopped down, popped him in the face, and yanked him off and to the ground hard. A few incidents like that and people decided to find easier targets.