I also learned someone was pretty bullied hard as young and its effects them till this day (I also been a lot of bullied and I know that feelings) and I feel bad for that person cuz that person is my world.
I also learned someone was pretty bullied hard as young and its effects them till this day (I also been a lot of bullied and I know that feelings) and I feel bad for that person cuz that person is my world.
I do believe I’m having a stroke.
Glad I’m not then only one smelling burnt toast after reading that jumbled mess of a post.
++man Without the proper supports , it absolutely destroys you long term. I was bullied heavily in grade school and well into adulthood. Dealing with it in therapy now but it robbed me of my youth. It robbed me of a lot of things.
I have a paranoia that everybody is staring at me and judging me for how ugly I look, but other than that I’m great.
I’m 36. I’ve been in relationships and even was married at one point.
I was bullied a lot growing up, both for being overweight (but still athletic, wtf i know) and too smart (also wtf). It doesn’t really affect me now, but between that, being sexually abused by an older male friend growing up, and having endured a couple taxing relationships, my confidence is not always the best.
I was bullied a lot growing up, mainly because I didn’t like fighting. Bullies pray on a person who doesn’t want to fight more. When my parents divorced and I moved with my mum, I started high school in a different area, the bullying became worse. I moved back to my dad’s so I could at least be around friends, and the bullying resumed. I eventually got pushed to the point where I was forced to fight, I can fight when pushed to. Slowly, after every fight, more and more bullying stopped.
I still have a lot of mental health problems linked to that bullying, especially that first year of high school. That first year was less bullying and more torture.
Yes, but I was lucky enough to learn how to deal with the bullying when I was younger and come to terms with it throughout my teenage years and turn it into a positive, so I didn’t carry too much baggage into adulthood. I was lucky to have parents who backed me up at the right time.
Last time I was bullied was in 6th grade. I ended up fighting my bully on the playground after school one day and we respected each other after that. I didn’t care that he was bigger, I was just so mad that he was being so annoying to me. Two retarded boys wrestling and flailing around in the sand until we were both tired. He wasn’t such a bad kid. Just troubled at home.
Another kid got in the habit of stealing my lunch money so I threw him down a flight of stairs and he never did it again. I realize that could have gone really badly, but he wasn’t seriously injured.
If my kid ever got bullied I’d tell them to fight back and show them you aren’t easy prey. So what if you get suspended a few days. Don’t throw them off stairs like I did but most other ways of fighting back aren’t that dangerous in the overall scheme of things.
For people who had to endure a long and repeated pattern of heavy bullying, I think finding ways to build up your sense of self-worth and confidence can help you overcome that. Build yourself up physically as well. It’s similar to the effect of having abusive parents. Bullies bully you at school. Abusive parents bully you at home.
I was bullied as a kindergartner – walking in to school in the morning was traumatic. Our family’s babysitter was the sister of a neighborhood “capo” in Chicago in the early 1960s. My parents asked her if her brother could help. The bullying stopped instantly.