Have you ever been bullied or harassed?

[Neb]

There's quite a bit so I'll sum it up by grade.

5th: Threatened to have my hand sliced with a hand stapler.
6th: Shoved into a water fountain and got a sixth month long bruise.
8th: Got yelled "no" by my crush's friends until I started to get auditory hallucinations of them saying it to me.
9th: Called a POS and had all the chairs at my table removed because I looked at couple the wrong way.
10th: Namecalling and insults were hurled at me three times a week. (Autist, idiot, fat, gross)
11th: Pictures of me were uploaded online with nasty captions. I also got glares and smirks from my former classmates.

The last three years were at the same school. I got so tired of the abuse that I left. No regrets so far.

 

[Amy May]

my entire time in school consisted of me being bullied and becoming an all around general target.

In elementary school, i spent almost every recess sitting in front of the principal's office because i'm one of those people that don't put up with that crap and fight back. xD
... then someone how "I" became the bully for being bullied and defending myself (including bodily harm :/ ).
... got worse through middle school then decided was much better to be a complete loner through high school which i still don't regret.

I don't pay much attention to it now.. too old to care, at least when it comes to me.

 

[TY]

Been bullied for over 15 years, mainly in elementary and middle school which made school a living hell for me but in the end I now make jokes about myself literally almost all the time as if i'd talk myself down.

No one really did anything against it during those times, pretty much was on my own and I'm not really someone that can stand up on my own back then, especially not against the rest of the school :'v

 

[Aslan]

Briefly, in primary school and preschool. I can't remember what it was about now but I think it was over the fact that I'd tend to hang out with boys and not girls, so some girls would get really snarky about it? It isn't a big deal to me now that I think about it but I remember that at the time it definitely did bother me a lot. I also remember in preschool that these 3 kids would chase me around, but honestly we were all 4 at the time so I barely remember any of it.

In high school, only by one person and its more or less died down. This was more so in 7th grade, but I hated her and I still do to an extent. She would make hurtful comments that were about personal issues she had no business in? And she would always put you down, even if you did nothing or said nothing to her? Don't know what her problem was but yikes I hope that our paths don't cross after high school

But yeah I think now looking back on it - I've been pretty lucky in that I don't feel too deeply impacted by bullying. When I was younger, it definitely impacted me a lot more but I feel like I've coped with it OK and now I don't think about it. The only person who has left a long-lasting impact on me would be the last person I mentioned but even now I've just learnt to be like alright then... internally and move on if things do happen.

 

[Homeskulled Kid]

Lord, no. If anyone had tried it, from when I was four feet tall to how I am now, then they would have gotten the royal shit kicked out of them. I used to long for someone to pick a fight with me just so I could retaliate and unleash all of this pent-up ferocity which has been chewing me up since I was conceived. Still do, really, and I know for a fact that I'd be good at it. Good pain threshold. Can get out of clinches. Can generally fuck things up.

Physically strong, fierce, perpetually pissed-off, I'd make a genuinely wonderful bully. That is not a life choice I'd ever undergo, nor have I ever in any serious, non-joking capacity. My brief stint as a twenty-four carat asshole doesn't qualify. I despair to think about all of those bastards and bitches who spend their lives trying to cut others down. They're wastes of space, not worth the hatred and will inevitably die in a proverbial hole.

Out there, in the real world, I'd be ripe for mockery. My memory is abysmal, I'm the slowest learner in creation and I don't know how to do anything practical. I'm damn lucky that I was protected from society's wrath, and when you hear about the antics of some children and teenagers... its enough to make you shiver. And I also know that you can't just break someone's face when they hassle you, which sucks.

When I was a bit younger, people always acted like I should have been hurled in the deep end with everyone else. They sort of glorified it, almost. Well, fuck the deep end! The shallows are good. The shallows are fantastic. The shallows give your chance a mind to develop in an environment of purity and intelligent company, and then you go into the deep end once you're fully developed and not open to terrible influences.

Why send a kid to school when all that waits them there is subjugation, torment, outdated learning systems, predators, losers, bullies, illicit substances, venereal diseases and morons? And now they're rife with porn-addicted teenagers who pressure hell and heaven into acts that even the most die-hard Kamasutra patrons are afraid to try. Technology has only made things harder for them. Social media is a knife now. Only handle it with oven gloves and sports tape.

To those that survived bullying and the system in all of its toxicity, I salute you. You're fucking incredible. To those who didn't, that's life and the attempt is to your credit.

Wow. This turned into quite a diatribe, and not one free of swearing, either. Not too off topic, I'm hoping. I'll finish it off with a suitably fevered footnote:

Fuck the system and fuck its envoys. God bless all of the people who defy them, survive them, and are still human when they emerge.