re: Were you bullied growing up?

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not unlike 99% of OT'ers

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That was high school. Now, unlike the OT, I am 6'3" and flabby and not in shape at all

No, I've pretty much excelled in all aspects of life.

I don't know where the line is really drawn between being "picked on" and being "bullied".

I had a few people who picked on me. In elementary school there was this one kid who was bigger than me would mess with me sometimes. I honestly don't even remember what he would do, I just remember him generally being a dick. Anyway, I pushed him from behind, head first into the monkey bars once and he didn't mess with me again after that.

I had these two kids try to frick with me before school once when I was in 8th grade. I guess they were sophomores or something, anyway I told them that I had an older brother who was a senior and they didn't talk to me again after that.

I feel kinda bad about how we treated this one kid in high school, but he didn't help himself. He was just an awkward kid, and he was very sensitive. He would say stupid shite, and when we would joke about what he said he would just shut down. I tried to help him be more 'normal' many times, but he was just a strange cat and was 'stuck' being weird I suppose. It continued even after high school.

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Yea I understand it happening years later and can see that. I’m talking about a dude being a bully, gets hit, instead of fighting just leaves, and then decides to be a friend. All I’ve ever seen is one of the 2 beat the shite out of each other and hate each other’s guts till they graduate.

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Now we had lots of fights where guys would fight , usually over a girl, and then be bros after. But I don't recall a full on bully kicking the shite out of a person until the person finally hit them back and then the bully being all "oh snap this guy is cool, friend now" Seems a bit much.

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Well done.

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Thank you. Had to be protective of the weak

There were a few that bullied, would punch you in the stomach, take food from your lunch plate, etc. And the teachers and principal would do nothing -- until you fought back. "Yeah that bully doesn't know any better, but you do." Which was complete BS. I'm glad the tide is turning, my daughter's school encourages kids to speak up if they see someone bullied, and the POS kid doing it is punished, often expelled.

Note - while I don't condone the teasing, I do see it as a different level from someone physically hurting another person and/or stealing or destroying their things.

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Now, unlike the OT, I am 6'3" and flabby and not in shape at all

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I was no different than any normal kid, I got teased at times and I teased others. People didn't mess with me too much, just some of the hood rat thugs at school. When I stood my ground, they backed off and left me alone.

There was one kid in my class that rode the buss with me as well. Poor kid was constantly picked on, I mean daily. Kids weren't trying to fight him or anything, but I swear he got off the bus 3 days a week crying. Looking back, I feel bad about the role I played in it at times. He turned out pretty fricked up, though I can't say it's because of the constant harassment. But it very well could have played a part.
In all honesty, I wouldn't have been surprised if I'd heard he killed himself or something terrible like that. Had he grown a set and taken an arse kicking or punched someone in the throat, I'm sure a lot of it would have subsided.

I know now that if someone treated my kid they way he was, I'd be at the school ringing heads. However, my kid wouldn't stand there and let that happen either.

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Nope. One thing I always remember from a kid was this one time I was sitting on the ground waiting for my school bus. I see what I think is my bus coming so I stand up and put my backpack on. The bus zooms past me as some kids start laughing and one yells GENIUS! at me. I wanted to kill that kid. That’s as close as I come.

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We were bullied by our bus driver. He HATED my dad, and therefor us.

In this area the school bus stops at each individual house to pick up student because well some houses are quite far from each other. Anyway in the winter time if people's kid would stay in the house until the bus stopped if they lived close enough to see the bus stop from their house. Our house was about 30 feet from the road. That son of a bitch would NEVER stop if we weren't out waiting. Other kids he would stop and honk . our house he would fly by if we weren't at a minimum in the yard on our way to the stop.

Now the back story. In 6th grade I was a bit of a trouble maker on the bus, and this jerk off bus driver would make me come sit on the steps of the bus and get on and off every time we stopped. Well in the little town we lived in there were like 10 stops in a one mile stretch, he would drive with the door open and me sitting on the steps.

Told my dad about that , and he came unglued waited for the bus one morning had a talk with the bus driver, it happened again he called the super intendenet and told him unless he wanted his arse kicked he better put a stop to that.

This guy was a total jerk off, he once made fun of a little Down Syndrome' kid who rode the bus with us and the kids older brother kicked the shite out of the old man for his trouble.

He once made a girl cry because he accused her of using her tits to make guys fight over her on the bus (she did , but a bus driver probably shouldn't be making such comments) HER dad ended up waiting on the bus to stop at their house one morning and the bus driver physically pushed this guy off the bus as he was trying to find out why the guy was talking about his 17 year old daughter's tits.

The school eventually got tired of this guy's shenanigans and fired him.