Since this seems to be a popular topic, has anybody else been a victim of bullying in the past? Or, heaven forbid, now? I'm just curious, as I can't remember a time when I wasn't.

I have. In high school and in every other grade I was majorly bullied. I hate it so much. No one deserves to suffer like that.

I am right now. I'm going through a tough time but I will stay strong and keep my cool!

I was in elementary school, but now in high school, I am now taller than alot of the people...also helps I have a tired face that looks like I am severly mad at people.

From 3rd grade to 7th grade. Then it stopped cuz I made some friends who nobody wanted to mess with. So it was virtually nonexistent by the end of that year.

9th and maybe part of tenth. First was by an upperclassman deciding to call me a faggot constantly during pe for no reason. Eventually stopped after I flipped after being pushed to far.
Second was by a guy, possibly a lil retarded (literally), in my own grade who decided it would be a good idea to for no reason kick me from behind. Not sure why, was creepy as fuck. Went on for about a month, maybe more, before I had it and had a lil, rather embarrassing powwow with him. My head hurts. Not sure why. More of a, holy fuck im in a daze i might die, hurt.

I've been bullied since birth by my brother :V After that, the second I went into first grade I got bullied, and it continued on until now. I don't really care, though, probably because I'm used to it.

o -o I got bullied in the fourth and fifth grade, and perhaps the second. In the fourth grade it was like a double..thing, since there were two seperate bullies bullying me which included a clique queen and I think two girls (I don't remember much it might have just been the clique queen). Then in the fifth grade those two girls started bullying me again, calling me a stalker and other names (completely useless terms) and even calling me out to start teasing me and insulting me, I cried a lot that year. However right now, the bullying I've been through doesn't really sound as hurtful as being invisible to all my friends. I don't know about you guys though.

I'm usually bullied by random guys at lunch saying that I'm a slut, easy, stupid, etc. just because I'm blonde. Also, my friend Alex (who I had turned down when he asked me out because we're too young) always makes fun of me, saying that I'll never get a boyfriend, I'm a bad singer/dancer, etc.,I usually just ignore it or smile at them and admire their stupidity, sometimes saying stuff like "Oh good for you!Picking on a poor, mildly unsocial,otaku girl!It must boost your self-esteem so much, I'm so happy for you!" or "Hahaha!How funny! Rumors are so amusing to listen to, human nature is so interesting!", it's fun to confuse them.

I was bullied all the way through primary and up to the last year of secondary school. It stopped when I stabbed someone in the hand with a fork (I drew blood, it was awesome) because people thought I was too crazy to mess with. I had constantly been advised to 'turn the other cheek' and not fight them for whatever stupid reason. Which turned about to be terrible advice since I've now got permanent psychological scarring that prevents me from trusting people, They got to do whatever they wanted for years and still probably do.

But hey, it's fine now. I'm a functional member of society and everything :P

i was bullied in 7th grade...went all shizuo on that asshole and threw a chair at him.

well im now in 7th grade and yes im bullied. ive been called a slut, bitch, whore etc. for no reason... im constantly teased by many people but im never sure if they are just joking or really saying it to me. i dont really have any good true friends to hang out with or talk to so most of my time i spend alone.

>>12 That happened to me in November, when I was bullied by a teen mom (the irony). I've been bullied by many, and the lines for truth and fiction are blurred too. Friends have even turned into bullies for me.

But now, I have people in the band by my side, forever friends. People like Anubis (she's my real life friend) remind me this constantly. If you are lonely at school, go to the band/music room, everybody there is nice, usually. Online, you can just talk to me :) <3

awwww! thanks and im sorry that that happened to you :( but im glad that you have people there for you now!! and thanks for the advice i plan on using it! <3

Well, dear Twitch, I know how you feel. I went to kindergarten through 3rd grade on a military base in Japan, I never had to worry about being bullied. When I moved to Arizona in 4th I experienced my first bully. She didn't like anyone who was better at something than her, and I was faster, speed was something she prided herself in. She tried to push me around but realized quickly that it turned others against her.

In 5th grade I moved to my present location. I was the new girl. Once again I encountered a bully. At this point I was still a nice, sweet girl. She preyed on the weak, which definitely described me at the time. I was shunned by my fellow musicians for being better than them (I'd been playing more than a year, they'd just picked up instruments weeks before), my band director threatened to kick me out of band. I made it through the year and left the people who bullied me behind, unfortunately, I left behind the few friends I had too.
I met a girl named Amanda. I ignored the signs that she was a bitch, I thought she was my friend, I felt special. She befriended me at the end of 6th grade. No one else would be friends with her at this point because of some horrible stuff she did. I listened to her side (like the idiot I was) and let her into my heart. She made the next two years of my life a living hell. At first she would do small things, ask me to do favors for her. It was nothing bad, just things that left me thinking she didn't really like me. When I stood up for myself she showed her true colors. She attempted to turn our friends against me. Most of them didn't, but they still hung out with her. Amanda is what you would call a sociopath, she doesn't have a conscience. Sociopaths don't like people who can think for themselves. If you don't follow them like a dog then they will do their best to make it so you can never threaten their position. I refused to follow her any longer. I finally realized that everything she did to put me down and make me think less of myself really was what I thought it was. She was trying to break my confidence and make me submit. I'm glad I didn't. I'm a stronger person for knowing her. I'm also a total bitch. But I only turn that side on people who threaten my friends, or those who can't think for themselves.

I thought things would be better in high-school, but they haven't been, not always. As a freshman and sophomore, upperclassmen have looked down on me, even when I have proved I am just as good as they are. I can out-preform them in a class and they will still nitpick at my faults. I had next to no friends freshman year. Sophomore year things got better, I was making friends and people stopped seeing me as a freshman. There was a group that bullied me all the way through chemistry class. They led me to have a complete breakdown in that class one day because they wouldn't stop throwing things at me. The student teacher who was in charge did nothing. I'm not even sure who it was, they would only do it when my back was turned. In the same class one kid would purposely turn up the evil-high-powered-sink to get me wet and then blame me, he even spilled acid on me once.

This year, I have many friends, but I hardly ever show myself to them. I always feel like I have to be happy and upbeat, and when I'm not I'm showing someone that you can't push me around. But that's not entirely true. While most people don't bother me there are a few that seem to make it their mission to break me down. The clarinet section leader hates me. I don't know why, but he makes it obvious, giving me looks and making comments. I don't want to say anything because a lot of my friends like him. I'm a bit socially awkward so I make perfect fodder for the popular kids, especially one that sits behind me in 3rd block. I know I'm not popular and I know not everyone likes me, but I'd like to have reasons as to why they hate me.

For now I just act like I don't care. I have plenty of people who love me and many people who bother me will be graduating next year. I will be as happy as I can for now and just count down the days till I will be rid of them.

Never had to worry about bullies much. Last kid who tried to mess with me was back in sixth grade. He started apouting some shit about my family and friends, and I ended up putting a nice big dent in one of the lockers with his head. Since then I've developed a bit of a reputation amongst those who would try and do me physical or emotional harm.

But, that is not to say that I'm a loose cannon type of guy. I'm actually very laid back and easy to get along with, but that kid had been pestering me for months and I just snapped. Since then I've taken to getting rid of someone else's bullies. I can't friggin' stand seeing someone in distress. When I do I go primal, I get loud and, heaven forbid, physical.

In short: I hate bullies. No one has the right to make others feel like dirt. No one.

>>16, It's kinda hard when the guy is twice your size, a foot taller, and only makes vague insults. I feel like I'm not justified and not quite equipped to handle that.

>>17 I'm not saying my approach is the right thing to do(quite frankly I'm ashamed I loose like I did) it was just how I handled it. See, I was the one twice his size and a foot taller(I'm a walking tank). I should have known better. But by no means listen to my rantings, you might have an easier time taking the more... diplomatic approach.

>>17 Also, give me the chance and I'll clean his clock. Just give the word >:D.

>>18, oh, I've used violence when it suited me. Not my proudest moment either.

Yeah I have been a victim of bullying back when I was in elementary and sort of in middle school. But now that I'm in high school I don't have to deal with bullies. I mean yeah there are some people there that do act like jerks though they don't necessarily bully me and, as far as I know, anybody else. The bullying I experienced as a little kid was mainly verbal and only once or twice did I get physically bullied. Also I got rejected a lot to play with the girls in my class to the point where I sometimes hung out with girls a year younger than me.

i was and am still builled in school for my first 7 years in primary it was ether me geting insulted so much i try to kick someones teeth in(which thay allways just ran away laughing or Friends would stop me). or thay fire bits and pices thay'd find on the floor of the school bus.But as i've hit secondary school i think most of them just grew up or got afrade of me when i hit 6ft 10. some still through things at me on the bus but im used of it by now, it's not like thay're goning to give up.

>>23 Holy fuck. Is it even possible to be that tall? You wouldn't fit through a doorway, hun.

>>24 I know a guy who is, no shitting, 7'5". Dude is a beast.

>>25, My great aunt married someone that tall. he like to say he was 6' 17"

I was bullied in elementary school...physically, by other boys. It was annoying and at times I would've cried without anyone noticing...I always wondered why they bullied me, and later in life realized that it was because I was the smartest kid in my grade. Would I dumb myself down to stop their bullying? No. I was also bullied in 6th and 7th grade but it wasn't as bad. In 8th grade I was bullied by a 6th or 7th grader, I don't remember, but the thing was that he failed 2 grades and was actually older than I was...so yeah. By high school everyone became mature and I became more bold in my actions and words. I smiled a lot and always had a stern face unless I was spoken to, which was when I would smile and be friendly. At this point I had a plethora of friends so no one really wanted to mess with me either, they had no reason to. More importantly, I was among the smartest in my grade, and at my school knowledge could very well be called power. Well, that, combined with a good amount of social skills. Basically, if you're smart and have friends, bullies can't touch you...but I guess it also helped that I'm tall for an Asian...and well, I'm Asian so the stereotype of martial arts comes into play too..haha.

>>27 No offense, but you totally seem like the archetype who would be bullied... Did you ever stop to think that it was you're superiority complex that got you bullied? You totally come off as one of those, 'smarter than thou' douches... Which piss me off, however you're asian, so it could very well be true, regardless, you still sound like a douche.

In hindsight, saying 'No offense' doesn't really mean anything if I purposefully offend you, huh? Well... it was worth a shot.

I've never gotten bullied, however I did bully kids when I was younger... I had an inferiority complex, I would take out my anger on the kids that looked down on me, the complex of mine actually led to an anger issue I had in middle school through early high school. However I took up boxing, and I've been able to control my anger quite easily ever since... I've effectively lengthened my fuse ten-fold.

Do I regret bullying those kids? Yeah, because in a way, I'm sure they were like me too... I shouldn't have expressed my anger violently, but hell, kids do stupid shit... I'm just glad I reconciled with nearly everyone later on, and I'm glad I didn't really hurt anyone physically or emotionally long term...

>>28 That's very true though, and I admit that I have been and still AM an arrogant person...pertaining to my smarts and other talents at least, because those are the only things that I got going to me.

What's weird though is that back when I was bullied, people described me as the most modest and nicest person in the grade, and in retrospect, I feel as though I really was (again, BACK then. It may sound arrogant of me to say that but for the sake of testimonials, it's true.) So why would they bully me anyway? All I did was my schoolwork and such and still had friends and such. The bullies would actually ask me for my homework just to copy it and when I refused...well, obviously shit went down.

So I don't think it was my superiority complex that ever got me bullied...yeah, that definitely wasn't it. Sometimes I feel as though it was because I came off as too much of a pushover. It was only up until when I actually STARTED becoming more arrogant and developing this 'smarter than thou' mindset that I STOPPED getting bullied.

My bad if I sounded douchey, I just tried to keep my story as honest as possible, even if it meant coming off sounding like an asshole, haha.

Ugh. I'm not bullied now (because I'm not such a softie and I actually stick up for myself now, haha) but I was bullied pretty much every year, from kindergarten all the way through freshman year.

In elementary school it was over stupid crap. I was the only 4th grader who had to wear a "real" bra. Oh gosh the teasing never ended about that. Plus I was really quiet. And I was the tallest girl in my grade. So I looked really clunky.

Middle school, I had the freaking ugliest haircut ever. I was still quiet, and people always pick on the quiet kids. Had other girls rip up my drawings, scribble on them, whatever. I had a guy rip my homework up and put a ketchup packet on my seat so it looked like I had my period. Again, stupid crap.

Freshman year was the worst. You name it, I had it thrown at my head. Half-eaten food, paper, marbles, paint.... Let's see. Had someone smear my entry for the school's chalk mural contest, my lunch got stolen on several occasions, many soccer balls to the face... ah prep school.
The thing that stands out the most was at the very beginning of freshman year. At orientation I invited all my friends to my birthday party. They all said yes, so we bought everything for the party. Then the day before my party, every single person called me and said they couldn't show up. The reason why? My friend (who RSVP'd) was having a surprise birthday party for her dog. Yes, her dog.
So I was upset, and I tried to talk it out with them. The girl's mom called me on the phone and cussed me out, telling me it was my fault. Her MOM called me a liar, a bitch, and many other things. And all my friends believed her mom over me, and that's when the bullying started.

But at the same time, freshman year was my best year, because I found myself and I rose above the bullying. Now I'm almost out of high school, haven't really been bullied since. At this point, if someone doesn't like me, too freaking bad. I've learned to stand up for myself and not give a crap what people think.

>>30, Way to rise above. Seriously, if people treated you like that they weren't your friends, I hope you have better ones now.

>>31 Thanks :) And yes, I have much better friends now.
You know, I've seen these girls after all this happened, and they haven't changed. They still spread rumors, but I go to a different school so I really don't care. I know the truth, and the people I really trust know it as well.

Now if anybody tries to bully me, I honestly just shrug it off. And I'm teaching my sister to do the same, because she's bullied just like I was. But she's so much more of a trooper than I was, haha.
Long reply is long. I always get so wordy when I start talking XD

I was bullied when I younger after I moved. The reason was I guess cause I had no friends and I always wore dark clothing and sometimes boy clothing, and how red my would turn when I got embarrassed. I had been tripped and beat up a few times but then someone started hanging out with me and the bullying stopped being violent and just went to people being rude to me. But now I have lots of friends who hang out with me that are cool and in sports so people might say things about me but if they do, me and my friends never hear them.

get friends to join the dollars and have a group to scare the bleep out of them.

>>34, haha, that's what I've done with Twitch, we got her to start sitting at our table at lunch so we can scare people away. It helps that she's a freshman and almost everyone who sits at our table is a junior. You don't mess with her without messing with me. And you don't want to mess with me.

>>35 I used to do that all the time with some of my now very close friends. I made it a personal mission to collect the socially awkward and the stepped on while in school. Because when you're a freshman who has a senior friend, who also happens to be one scary looking person, it makes everything go a hell of a lot smoother. More power to ya.

>>36, lower-classmen are so much fun. If you can find the freshmen who aren't busy being annoying they are some of the most interesting people in high school. And I know having upperclassmen for friends helps, I just chose the wrong ones my freshman year(damned jackasses).

Yeah, my year has been pretty interesting, being the youngest in a lot of things. In my band class, I'm the only freshman even. So of course, the beginning of the year sucked.

The section leader and the oaf who sat next to me (both senior guys) decided to point out I was in the wrong territory and should run back to my little prissy freshman class, an impossibility because I'd auditioned and got in. I filled out an add/drop form and walked down to the guidance office, though broke down in tears. A trumpet girl helped me at first, because I thought all clarinets were scary (Anubis included)

Months later, I have a strong bond with my class, and lots of friends. The oaf and the section leader don't pick on me anymore (since I made the top band in the area) and I have a junior who plays bass clarinet and has adopted me as her own. She's AnubisTheMuse, and she's just as scary as I thought. And I love her anyway XD

>>38, Aw, love you too, Twitch. By section leader do you mean T or S? (not using full names) I can see either of them doing it, I would guess by "oaf" you mean our other bass clarinet player.

Our trumpet girls are pretty cool. The one thing I can't believe is that you would thing Char was scary. She's one of the least scary people I know.

I was bullied from elementary school until my last 3 months of middle school. It stopped because we had to move and, from what my friends told me, I looked a little intimidating and they really didn't expect me to act the way I do.

>>39 T, and you guessed the oaf XD I assume you agree. And I did think Char was scary- she was a (gasp!) upperclassmen! And spoke to scarier people!

>>41, Yeah, he can be a bit of a jerk, I hated him most of freshman year and nearly all of Sophomore year. I'm fine with him now, but the other one, he's become a huge jerk. Don't worry about trying to earn their respect, they're not worth it. The oaf, well he doesn't know how to interact with people at all, not sticking up for him, he's called me a lesbian (don't have problems with them, but I'm not one), the girl who is first in our class and idiot for mentioning there's a country called Prussia, and done numerous other jackass things.

You have us now. Oh, sorry for today, I still feel like a horrible person, I'll be more careful next time.

Twitch, if you're still on I'm making a chat.

I dealt with bullies a LOT in the past. I mean, i'm different ok? I has multiple surgeries done on my right ear which deformed it sort of and people liked to joke about it. I have an enlarged mastoid cavity (ear canal), so what?

I delt with bullying through most of my childhood either by other kids or my elder sister. They (as in kids at school) cooled it after i sent two of the to the correction school for robbing me and another for punching me in the face. I guess they didn't expect me to also tell them of when i was put face to face with them. The punching was just because I was white which i guess is why I hate racism.

Fourth grade was pretty bad because i had a growth on my back. Lets just say my teacher sent quiet a few kids to the office.
My sister is just a normal bully, i don't know if she ever realizes it but she is.

I've had my incident of bulling, when I was in the first grade some boys in my class were making fun of me cause I couldn't speak English well and I wasn't white like mostly everyone in the school(btw it was a private school)and the only people who weren't white was me and my cousins but they didn't get bullied cause they were already locals there and I wasn't so after some teacher-student intervention and whatnot they stopped bulling me.

Ironically enough I became friends with those kids since we had sports and stuff in common back then. From then on I didn't care when people made fun of my race I took it with pride and remarked that my culture's food tastes better or that its way healthier than what they were eating or whatever I came up with.

i've been minerly sexualy herasd by a guy in fifth grade and a rumor was spread about me by a seventh grader (or someone i have suspistions about) when i moved saying i was a boyfriend stealing whore who only made friends to get to their boyfriends and i honestly lost alot of good friends from it.

In fifth grade a rumor went around that I made fun of one of my good friends brother (who was handicapped) and a lot of my "friends" started to talk smack, about me. around sixth grade some kid crossed the line and I knocked his block off. flash forward to eighth grade, the same kid started causing more ruckus, so i had to clock him and two of his friends, once se were in high school he told some girl i have known since I was little that I called her a slut, I finally was able to rock him in front of a lot of the kids in my grade, after that none seemed to mess with me, that and because I became friends with the wrong crowd early, but that's a whole different story.

>>45 >>46 >>47 wow

Haha I was bullied since 1st grade through 4th grade and a little of preschool and a few days ago .... just because i backed up a 16 year old girl..... but its all good now
(and by my laugh i ment to life at what i've been through)

I was bullied through out 6th grade and most of 7th grade. Now i don't deal with bullies except for the occasional moron.

I'm proud to say I'm not being bullied at all right now. Either the people are beginning to accept me, or Anubis beat the heck out of people. Most likely both *sees Anubis emerge with corpses, looking for a place to hide them and point evidence to the bullies*

There are these 4 retards that bully me and the school doesn't even give a shit =.= even though they've stolen my dsi on multiple occasions.

i am just because im different

>>52, I don't need to look for places to bury them, I always need more fertilizer for my flowers. How do you think they grow so big?

>>53, Find someone who is on your side. If the school won't do anything about it then go over their heads, try the school board, the superintendent, someone high up like that. Try personally complaining to the principal, but don't be whiny, act mature and use big words.

>>55 Oh yeah, I forgot about the fertilizer XD See, people need an upperclassmen to "make fertilizer" out of morons. Don't be scared of upperclassmen, they make the best sisters/friends/hitmen.

Jyrda

I've had ppl tell me to kill my self

people franked me for bringing a two headed knife to school. They thought it was a funny joke. IT WAS NOT FUNNY AT ALL!!!

I guess I've been bullied throughout all the time I've been in school. I mean, you could say that. People have called me names, ostracized me, and generally done their best to make me feel like shit since I started kindergarten. And it never helped that I was a full year younger than some of my classmates.

Over the years, I've gotten used to name-calling for the most part, even embracing it sometimes (or pretending to). It's way worse though now; people come and seek me out just to insult me. There's a guy who waits at my locker at the end of the school day every single day just so that he can call me a "fucking ugly cunt." And if I'm not at my locker, he finds me in the halls. I can't escape at all, because I have three classes with him. The words don't even offend me, but the fact that he goes to so much effort to seek me out and insult me bothers me. Surprisingly enough, I don't do anything to deserve this daily vilification. Otherwise, I couldn't really object.

Besides being called names, I've of course been ostracized and left out many times 'cause of my...well, my weirdness. When I was in first grade, my only friend was my neighbor, who was five years my senior and had severe autism. That lasted until third grade, when my only friend was three years older than I was and drank alcohol. After that, I got some more, ah, appropriate friends, but I never really got close to them; they weren't people I hung out with after school much or anything. Since then, not much has changed. My friends were and are always transient and superficial, and I don't make new friends easily.

And I've been sexually harassed a few times since middle school. I can't fathom why, but it's happened nonetheless. When I was in seventh grade, there was an eighth grade guy in my gym class who was always trying to coerce me into doing physical things that..well..I didn't want to do. Even now, when my friends tickle me, their hands tend to wander...

But I never really counted much of that stuff as bullying. I think far too much qualifies as bullying nowadays... It used to be that you were being bullied if you were beat up or sexually harassed or something. Name-calling didn't count. And I don't think it should—making fun of or insulting someone doesn't really fall under the definition of bullying (bully: a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker.). It's iffy at best. I mean, come on. If you extend the definition of "bullying" to jeers and insults as well, pretty much everyone has been bullied at some point.

amazing guy. are you sure he doesn't like you? i mean he gives out extra effort for you to notice him.

anyways, if you're weird, deal with it. enjoy the feeling of uniqueness that it brings. if you can't join them then beat them. if you can't be stereotypical, then be different. and ...did i say deal with it?

>>63
Are you being sarcastic?

I was never bullied, fed someone with my fist when he didn't give me back my eraser when I was in Kindergarten.

But everyone did have fun calling all the months with my first name during elementary. Or made a sentence with my last name. Even the teachers did...started to get old after a while.

They got scared of me in high school, considering I had a very strict atmosphere around me. Creeped them out.

me happier when i'm alone

Yes. Thats why Im homeschooled. An example was middle school. For some reason, someone spread a stupid rumor that i scratched my butt or something. 90% of the class would publicly ignore me and bully me right in my face in front of the teacher. The teacher couldn't really do anything since they weren't physical. It drove me nuts. That was 6th grade. Homeschooled ever since. Im in 9th now.

i dont let bullies bullie

Yea but I'm the kid that fights the bullies for bullieing