Poll of the Day > At some point you have to let go of the bullying you endured in 1st grade...

(+) Yeah! (+)

Right...?

yes

Of course: you are who you are and there are a million people both better and worse than you in relation to any specific insecurity you may have. The fact that a bully chose to tease you related to a perceived weakness of yours (while possibly quite painful at the time) really says nothing about you - it just highlights a weakness of the bully's. You are who you are either way.

I do find it interesting that a first-grade bully could still be memorable years later. Usually bullies don't really get good at what they're doing until years later (although I suppose an older kid could have been bullying you).

My more painful memories are from 5-8th grades.

I wasn't bullied in 1st grade. I was quite popular.

I did get bullied for a couple years in middle school, but I got over it relatively quickly because I grew up to be a 6'3" psychopath and the bullies backed off. And then I bullied other people in high school.

My school system never really had a ton of the "traditional" cliques you see on TV. No one gave a shit about sports so we didn't really have popular jocks or cheerleaders, and most of our smart kids had social skills so they didn't really act like nerds. We had a few metal head kids but no one cared, we had a few skateborders but they weren't seen as being super-cool or anything. All of which meant most people were relatively chill and it was fairly easy to make friends and be popular unless you had crippling anxiety issues or weird hygiene issues or you were one of the 2-3 nerds who didn't quite seem to know how to act human.

Between TTRPGs and CCGs and running track and having a pretty good sense of humor I always had a pretty easy time making friends and being fairly high in the popularity pecking order. I was never going to win Homecoming King or anything, but I also wasn't going to get soda dumped on my head like the one weird little toad boy who was in our class for a few years.

Never. I will have my revenge

I wasn't bullied in 1st grade... and neither was anyone else, cuz what 1st grader even has any form of impetus

Bullying started in grade 4 and ended in Grade 6 for me

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Never. I will have my revenge

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Lokarin posted...

I wasn't bullied in 1st grade... and neither was anyone else, cuz what 1st grader even has any form of impetus

Bullying started in grade 4 and ended in Grade 6 for me

Kids in 1st grade used the c-word on me.

Given the fact that you and your bullies were little kids, it would make sense to do so. To not would be childish and immature.

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Bruh, I was merely sharing my experience... obviously everyone's matters equally

I honestly only remember a couple instances from school, even though I know it happened way more then that.

Kid had just moved and didn't know anyone. I was nice to him and became friends after a short time. Then he realized that he would be "liked" if he made fun of and abused me. I remember it started around 3rd grade and stopped around 5th, probably because he moved away.

Only other thing I remember is getting annoyed at my bully in 8th grade and punching him in the face and breaking his nose. He then retaliated by punching me in the face, and I laughed at him. Then he punched me again harder and I laughed harder. By that time, we got pulled into the principle's office. I got away with no punishment, he was out for a few days to get his nose fixed, and that was pretty much the last time I ever got bullied. Funny enough, we were friends all through high school after it.

Lokarin posted...

I wasn't bullied in 1st grade... and neither was anyone else, cuz what 1st grader even has any form of impetus

Kids got bullied in kindergarten in my school for being ambiguously brown and for being left-handed.

Kids are absolute shits. They don't need a reason to hate.

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That's how I state everything tho!

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you mean like every time I say anything here :D

I dont really remember any of my bullies. I know I had some but it was mostly overshadowed by being at home.

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Yes.

...where is this going?

doshindude posted...

...where is this going?

Solid Sonic topic

I wasn't bullied in 1st grade. I was quite popular.

I did get bullied for a couple years in middle school, but I got over it relatively quickly because I grew up to be a 6'3" psychopath and the bullies backed off. And then I bullied other people in high school.

My school system never really had a ton of the "traditional" cliques you see on TV. No one gave a shit about sports so we didn't really have popular jocks or cheerleaders, and most of our smart kids had social skills so they didn't really act like nerds. We had a few metal head kids but no one cared, we had a few skateborders but they weren't seen as being super-cool or anything. All of which meant most people were relatively chill and it was fairly easy to make friends and be popular unless you had crippling anxiety issues or weird hygiene issues or you were one of the 2-3 nerds who didn't quite seem to know how to act human.

Between TTRPGs and CCGs and running track and having a pretty good sense of humor I always had a pretty easy time making friends and being fairly high in the popularity pecking order. I was never going to win Homecoming King or anything, but I also wasn't going to get soda dumped on my head like the one weird little toad boy who was in our class for a few years.

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Oh, I have. I havent let go of the around 12 years after that.